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                                  THE
                           BOOK REVIEW DIGEST
                          [ANNUAL CUMULATION]
                               VOLUME II
                  BOOK REVIEWS OF 1906 IN ONE ALPHABET


                      DESCRIPTIVE NOTES WRITTEN BY
                         JUSTINA LEAVITT WILSON

                          DIGEST OF REVIEWS BY
                        CLARA ELIZABETH FANNING


                              MINNEAPOLIS
                        THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
                                  1906

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                                CONTENTS


 Preface
 Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
 Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
    Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines
   A
   B
   C
   D
   E
   F
   G
   H
   I
   J
   K
   L
   M
   N
   O
   P
   Q
   R
   S
   T
   U
   V
   W
   Y
   Z




                                PREFACE.


This volume is the second annual cumulation of the Book Review Digest.
In the main it includes the books of 1906 that have been commented upon
by the best critics. It aims, on the one hand, to record truthfully the
scope, character and subject content of books as they appear, and, on
the other, to supplement this descriptive information from month to
month with excerpts culled from the best current criticism appearing in
forty-five English and American magazines which make a prominent feature
of book reviews, thus furnishing to the librarian and bookseller a basis
for the evaluation of books.

Frequently the best reviews of a book appear during the year following
its publication, so in this volume will be found supplementary excerpts
relating to books which were entered in the 1905 annual.

It will also be observed that a number of entries include only the
descriptive note. These titles look to the year 1907 to furnish the
material for appraisal, and excerpts will be published in current
numbers of the Digest as fast as reviews appear.

                                                            THE EDITORS.

                  *       *       *       *       *

During the first year of the Cumulative Book Review Digest’s existence
the question of its being entered as second class matter was pending. It
was finally ruled out on account of the cumulative idea. So the second
year a new name and a new plan which would meet the postal requirements
cut off the recognition of the first volume, and the Book Review Digest
was launched as volume one. Now that the post office ruling has been
reversed, the present volume may take its place chronologically as
volume two of our series.

                                                         THE PUBLISHERS.




          Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made


 Acad.—Academy. $4. Southampton St., Strand, London, W. C.
 Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review. $4. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
 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. Bream’s Buildings, Chancery Lane, E. C., London.
 Atlan.—Atlantic Monthly. $4. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 4 Park St.,
    Boston, Mass.
 Bib World.—Biblical World. $2. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
 Bookm.—Bookman. $2. Dodd, Mead & Co., 372 5th Ave., N. Y.
 Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. $5. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
 Cath. World.—Catholic World. $3. 120–122 W. 60th St., New York.
 Critic—Merged into Putnam’s on October 1, 1906.
 Dial.—Dial. $2. Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill.
 Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., Columbia
    University, N. Y.
 El. School T.—Elementary School Teacher. $1.50. University of Chicago
    Press, Chicago.
 Eng. Hist. R.—English Historical Review. $6. Longmans, Green, and Co.,
    39 Paternoster Row, London, E. C.
 Engin. N.—Engineering News. $5. 220 Broadway, New York.
 Forum.—Forum, $2. Forum Publishing Co., 123 E. 23d St., N. Y.
 Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. $3. Williams & Norgate, London.
 Ind.—Independent. $2. 130 Fulton St., N. Y.
 Int. J. Ethics.—International Journal of Ethics. $2.50. 1415 Locust
    St., Philadelphia.
 Int. Studio.—International Studio. $5. John Lane, 67 5th Av., N. Y.
 J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
 J. Philos.—Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods.
    $3. Science Press, Lancaster, Pa.
 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. $6.25. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
 N. Y. Times.—New York Times Saturday Review, New York.
 Outlook.—Outlook. $3. Outlook Co., 287 4th Ave., New York.
 Philos. R.—Philosophical Review. $3. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
 Phys. R.—Physical Review. $5. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
 Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $3. Ginn & Co., 29 Beacon
    St., Boston.
 Psychol. Bull.—Psychological Bulletin. $2. 41 North Queen St.,
    Lancaster, Pa.
 Pub. Opin.—Public Opinion. Merged July 7, 1906 with the Literary
    Digest.
 Putnam’s—Putnam’s Monthly and the Critic. $3. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 27 &
    29 W. 23rd 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. $7.50. 33 Southampton St., Strand, 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. $7.50. 1 Wellington St., Strand, London.
 Yale R.—Yale Review. $3. 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.

  =No book previously noticed= has its descriptive note reprinted. Books
    noticed for the first time this month have descriptive note which is
    set off from excerpts by a dash.

                  *       *       *       *       *

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.




                           Book Review Digest
             Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
    Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines




                                   A


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

    + + =Ind.= 59: 1347. D. 7, ’05. 120w.


=Abbott, G. F.= Through India with the prince. *$3.50. Longmans.

  As special correspondent for the Calcutta Statesman, Mr. Abbott
  accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales on their recent tour
  thru’ India. The author gives the route of the royal party making the
  description interesting with receptions and fêtes; he records
  observations socially and politically; he “touches on every imaginable
  topic that India offers to a writer.” (Dial.) “Disposed to be
  epigrammatic, sarcastic, and ironical, in epigram he is sometimes
  betrayed into excess.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style is, as the French say, ‘tortured,’ or, in other words,
  there is some straining after effect. We are, nevertheless, able to
  commend Mr. Abbott’s volume: and his photographs are among the best of
  the many good Indian photographs we have seen.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 478. Ap. 21. 810w.

  “The want of descriptive power and the too pronounced personal note
  are the two blemishes that detract from the main value of the book,
  which is found in the writer’s comments and observations on the
  political status of India.” H. E. Coblentz.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 362. Je. 1, ’06. 580w.

  “Mr. Abbott made lively use of his exceptional opportunities and shows
  himself to be a man of, at any rate, independent judgment.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 870w.

  “He has not written daily newspaper ‘stories,’ but a book that will
  quite probably endure.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 342. My. 26, ’06. 160w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 260w.

  “He had opportunities of seeing pageants, and we allow that he has a
  gift for describing them. But where is his call to deal with the
  ‘serious problems of British rule?’”

      – =Spec.= 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 250w.


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

  “The book is a valuable one for the modern ministry. It is full of
  reality, of suggestion, and of inspiration.” J. M. English.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 384. Ap. ’06. 830w.

  “The book is characterized by keen analysis, comprehensive thought,
  practical interest, and by vigorous and clean-cut expression.” E. A.
  Hanley.

    + + =Bib. World.= 27: 394. My. ’06. 350w.

    + – =Cath. World.= 82: 556. Ja. ’06. 210w.


=Acton, Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st baron.= Lord Acton
and his circle; ed. by Abbot [Francis Aidan] Gasquet. *$4.50. Longmans.

  The letters of Lord Acton render a direct service in throwing light on
  a personality little known and little understood. “With the exception
  of a few letters written to Mr. Wetherell, all those here published
  were addressed to Richard Simpson, one of the most brilliant though
  least famous of the Oxford converts to Rome, and they are all
  concerned with the conduct of ‘The rambler,’ ‘The home and foreign
  review,’ and the other periodicals which occupied the energetic youth
  of Acton.... We see in the letters how thoroughly Acton was imbued
  with the principle of growth in religious thought.... We get a series
  of interesting glances into European and Papal politics before either
  Bismarck had won his laurels or the Pope had lost his crown.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It may be said of the letters as a whole that they will possess most
  importance to the liberal section of English Catholics, for whom,
  indeed, the book seems to have been written.”

      + =Acad.= 71: 301. S. 29, ’06. 1530w.

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 472. O. 20. 1510w.

  “On the whole the picture of Lord Acton as it appears in this volume
  is a very favorable one.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 84: 401. D. ’06. 1560w.

  “Attractively edited.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “The letters contained in the present volume are of surpassing
  interest.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 3. O. 13, ’06. 1310w.

  “The editor has done his work of annotating the letters and explaining
  the allusions admirably; and it could not have been an easy task.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 621. O. 27, ’06. 1200w.


=Adams, Andy.= Cattle brands. †$1.50. Houghton.

  Life on the frontier in the eighties is vividly portrayed in the
  fourteen stories which Mr. Adams, “a veteran cowboy,” has included in
  this volume. These are tales “of the desperado; of man-to-man
  difficulties; of queer characters; the adventures of the cowboy in the
  field of politics, the capture of outlaws by rangers; and the ransom
  of rich rancheros who have been kidnapped.” Some titles are: Drifting
  North, Bad Medicine, A winter round-up, A college vagabond, The double
  trail, Rangering, and The story of a poker steer.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “These stories are somewhat slight in texture, more suited to the
  ephemeral needs of a magazine than a bound volume, but they have a
  ring of sincerity about them and an insight into essentials.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 577. Je. 16, ’06. 280w.

  “To many people they will seem more enjoyable than the longer stories
  by Mr. Adams. Their merit lies wholly in the obvious truth to life of
  the scenes.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “The new book will seem to most readers too much like an echo of ‘The
  log of a cowboy’ to allow of its producing the same effect of
  sincerity.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 570w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    – + =North American.= 183: 120. Jl. ’06. 200w.


=Adams, Frederick Upham.= Bottom of the well. †$1.50. Dillingham.

  The capture of a smuggling craft by a revenue cutter off the Jamaica
  coast brings into view the hero of Mr. Adams’ story, a lad of twelve,
  the charge of the smugglers. Once separated from them, he is adopted
  and educated by a titled Englishman. From England the scene shifts to
  New York where young Stanley Deane espouses the cause of some much
  abused strikers whose plans brew within the four walls of the “Well.”
  He is convicted of murder, but cleared of the charge when the supposed
  victim dramatically appears and reads a serious lecture to the
  supporters of a police system that “makes justice a market place for
  the employment of incompetence and the enriching of pettifoggers.”


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

  “In one respect this volume is superior to the first. It indicates
  with care the reason for attributing newspaper letters and other
  papers to Adams. Little more if anything can be demanded. The notes
  are numerous and helpful.” A. C. McLaughlin.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 910. Jl. ’06. 1010w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Mr. Cushing has followed Wells too closely, and has not made such a
  careful, critical study of the contributions to journals as to give
  his decision the requisite weight.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 55. Jl. 19, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)


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

  “The ground covered has not been well covered in any other text book.
  The scope of this book is unusually broad.” John Cummings.

    + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 396. Je. ’06. 1360w.


=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.

  “Will be likely to hold its own for several generations.”

  + + + =Acad.= 70: 617. Je. 30, ’06. 220w.

  “Is brightly and sympathetically written.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 372. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “Is for a person visiting the gallery who has a fair general knowledge
  of art, one who would like to be guided by impressionistic criticism
  rather than by accepted scientific connoisseurship.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 300w.

    + – =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.


=Adler, Elkan Nathan.= About Hebrew manuscripts. *$2.50. Oxford.

  Nine detached pieces compose this group: Some missing chapters of Ben
  Sira; An ancient bookseller’s catalogue; Professor Blau on the Bible
  as a book; A letter of Menasseh Ben Israel; Jewish literature and the
  diaspora; The humours of Hebrew mss.; The romance of Hebrew printing:
  and Zur jüdisch-persischen litteratur, by Prof. Bacher.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Much of his work is, of course, tentative: but he at the same time
  provides very useful material for further study.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 666. Je. 2. 230w.

  “To the true book worm, to the man who loves ‘erudition’ for its own
  sake without looking very deep for the substantial contents of rare
  prints or manuscripts, this work will be welcome.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 21. Ja. 4, ’06. 580w.


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

  “In fact Dr. Adler does not mean quite what he says. His theory
  followed logically would lead us all into a moral Nirvana.” Edward
  Fuller.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 214. Mr. ’06. 170w.

  “Four popular addresses which are very readable and elevating in
  tone.” E. L. Norton.

    + + =J. Philos.= 3: 413. Jl. 19, ’06. 1600w.


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

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

        =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 130w.


=Aflalo, Moussa.= Truth about Morocco; an indictment of the British
foreign office; with introd. by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. *$2. Lane.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 41. Ja. 20, ’06. 90w.


=Agnus, Orme, pseud. (John C. Higginbotham).= Sarah Tuldon. [+]75c.
Little.

  A popular edition of a 1904 book. Sarah Tuldon, an English peasant
  girl, is the type of heroine which one expects to find in historical
  novels, but her spirit, energy, good commonsense and generosity are
  directed towards leavening sordid conditions among the laboring
  classes. She is self-reared from most unpromising surroundings, and
  thru never-wearying perseverance reaches a position of self-command
  and generalship in her community.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Its greatest claim to importance lies in the artistic and sympathetic
  treatment the author has given the subject.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 326. My. 19, ’06. 150w.


=Ainger, Alfred.= Lectures and essays. 2v. *$5. Macmillan.

  Canon Ainger, “of blessed memory, never forgot in the pulpit that he
  was a man of letters, or out of it that he was a clergyman.” In these
  volumes, he “ranges over a wide field, from Chaucer to Tennyson,
  giving five lectures and two essays to Shakespeare, and writing also
  of Swift, Cowper, Burns, Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Charles Lamb,
  Dickens, of children’s books, of actors, modern plays, conversation,
  of wit, and of euphuism.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The saving grace in Canon Ainger was his appreciation of perfect
  language. In his critical estimates we think he very often wandered
  wide.”

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 1220. N. 25, ’05. 1250w.

  “Had the Royal institution lectures been omitted, our judgment might
  have been much more favourable.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 289. Mr. 10. 2180w.

  “That the author has found the secret of charm in literature no one
  who is familiar with his genial and sympathetic work on Lamb needs to
  be reminded.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 100w.

  “The two volumes are likely to find contented readers best among those
  who look for a discussion of style and obvious quality rather than
  verbal felicities and critical niceties.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 687. Mr. 22, ’06. 350w.

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 415. D. 1, ’05. 1010w.

  “The two volumes will not take rank as permanent additions to the
  literature of the English essay, but they form most agreeable
  reading.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 324. F. 10, ’06. 210w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 80w.

  “Sanity and sympathy is the keynote of these essays.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 100: 781. D. 16, ’05. 1570w

  “It is, indeed, no small merit in a writer when he expresses his most
  subtle thought with the lucidity, ease, and completeness that are to
  be found here.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 118. Ja. 27, ’06. 1570w.


=Alden, Raymond MacDonald.= Knights of the silver shield; with il. by
Katharine H. Greenland. †$1.25. Bobbs.

  Out of such ingredients as castles, knights, giants, palaces and
  fairies, the author has fashioned a story for little people abounding
  in good deeds and true.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.


=Aldin, Cecil Charles Windsor.= Gay dog; pictured by Cecil Aldin.
†$1.50. Dutton.

  Mr. Aldin’s “gay dog” is a bull terrier owned by an actress. And the
  creature is as veritable a bit of canine irresponsibility and
  pomposity as one could imagine. He indulges in the fun-loving,
  care-free pursuits of his mistress, gets into scrapes, and is finally
  sent into the country to recuperate. His dog-philosophy is this: “Some
  dogs are too readily imposed upon—not I.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “No display of cleverness quite compensates for unsuitability in
  choice of subject-matter.”

      – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 30w.

  “The text is poor, but Mr. Aldin’s drawings have some spirit.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ’05. 60w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 870. D. 9, ’05. 150w.

  “This year of a dog’s life is very amusing.”

      + =Spec.= 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ’05. 50w.


=Aldington, Mrs. A. E.= Love letters that caused a divorce. [+]75c.
Dillingham.

  The title is quite self-explanatory of the contents of the book. A
  series of letters which at first intend no harm, grow to the
  proportion of Platonic missives, and later become the unlicensed
  love-letters that cause a separation.


=Aldis, Janet.= Madame Geoffrin, her salon and her times. **$2.75.
Putnam.

  From the journals and letters of friends have been gathered the
  interesting phases of a unique salonist’s life. Madame Geoffrin was “a
  homely bourgeoise without rank and connections,” yet able to draw
  about her kings and princes, dukes and maréchals, in short, the
  literary, artistic and social lights of all Europe. Aside from being
  simply a diversion, the book sets forth much economic and social
  history of the latter half of the eighteenth century.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The central story is well enough told, though in rather a rambling
  manner.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 282. Mr. 24, ’06. 670w.

  “The scraps of information of which it is made up are of exactly the
  right kind. We cannot commend the style of the book, which is
  unpleasantly jerky.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 71. Ja. 20. 1340w.

  “A most interesting volume.”

    + + =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ’05. 100w.

  “It is an extremely vivacious and interesting throng of men and women
  that pass before us in the pages. The author is an amiable and
  communicative cicerone.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 236. Ap. 1, ’06. 510w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 40. Jl. 5, ’06. 660w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 45. F. 9, ’06. 1060w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 270w.

  “The volume is remarkably crisp and concise in its treatment of
  material which in many hands would have remained an incoherent medley,
  and, what is of prime importance in a work of this kind, its clever
  and sprightly pages slacken to no dull word.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 30. Ja. 20, ’06. 1250w.

  “It is bright, easy, extremely anecdotal, and studded with
  word-miniatures of the notables of the day.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 210w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 402. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.

  “An interesting and readable book.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 303. F. 24. ’06. 1820w.


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

  “The book furnishes a very helpful aid to the study of Wagner’s great
  tetralogy.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 97. F. 1, ’06. 40w.

  “An analysis which in completeness and usefulness surpasses those of
  his predecessors.”

    + + =Nation.= 81: 504. D. 21, ’05. 60w.

  “Particularly useful to students is the second part of this little
  book.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 260w.

  “For general use this guide is most convenient.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 90w.


=Alexander, De Alva Stanwood.= Political history of the state of New
York. 2v. ea. *$2.50. Holt.

  Volume 1, (1774–1832) follows the movements of political parties in
  New York from 1777, when the state constitution was drawn up, to 1832
  and the formation of the Whig party. Volume 2, (1833–1861) takes up
  the story and carries it down thru the formation of the republican
  party in 1854, to the crippling of the Weed machine in 1861. The
  causes of fractional divisions during these years are carefully
  traced, and the subtle methods by which such men as George Clinton,
  Hamilton, Burr, De Witt Clinton, Van Buren, Seymour and Thurlow Weed
  achieved leadership and in succession ordered the political course of
  the Empire state receive detailed analyses.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “These volumes will have small value for the special student of New
  York politics, but they are capable of rendering a real service to the
  general reader until the time when a more thorough and comprehensive
  study of this subject shall appear.”

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 152. O. ’06. 960w.

  “In this limited field Mr. Alexander writes with vigor, and shows
  generally a sound judgment which partly atones for his tendency to
  hero-worship and his lack of research.” Theodore Clarke Smith.

  + + – =Atlan.= 98: 703. N. ’06. 120w.

  “The author has contrived so well to adorn the necessary political
  facts with items in personal biography, that the chronicle rises to a
  place somewhere in the domain of masterpieces.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 429. S. 29, ’06. 280w.

  “What Mr. Alexander has done is to give an interesting, although,
  perhaps, a too uncritical account of political leaders and events in a
  field of American history that was practically unoccupied. To the
  reader, who has hitherto found it impossible to get anything like a
  general idea of early New York politics in a single work, the volumes
  should prove a boon.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 351. O. 25, ’06. 1090w.

  “Mr. Alexander is very successful in conducting the reader through the
  mazes of New York politics.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 540. S. 1, ’06. 230w.

  “In the main, Mr. Alexander has succeeded well in presenting the
  personalities that have figured conspicuously in New York’s history.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 220w.


=Alexander, Eleanor.= Lady of the well. †$1.50. Longmans.

  “This novel is a romantic story of Guelf and Ghibelline, of troubadour
  and queen of beauty. The Emperor Frederick II., grandson of
  Barbarossa, is the central figure, and the troubadour, Bernart, is
  very properly the hero. There is a great deal of real romance in the
  book, and the clash of arms and perilous adventures which occur in it
  are very much more lifelike than is usual in works of this
  kind.”—Spec.

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  “It is a pretty story, gracefully written, as such a story should be;
  but a little nebulous, as is the troubadour himself.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 503. My. 26, ’06. 180w.

  “Miss Alexander writes with distinction, and her book may be
  recommended as a quiet and artistic piece of work.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 300w.

  “Just the proper amount of realism and humor to make a pretty and
  fairly plausible tale.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 273. Ap. 28, ’06. 420w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.

  “A picturesque piece of work in many ways, but the style is stiff and
  affected and at times careless and slipshod.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 100w.

  “The beginning of the story certainly drags a little. The book is
  altogether an extremely successful attempt to portray an exceedingly
  difficult subject, and we may congratulate the author on the mediaevel
  atmosphere which she has contrived to impart into her story.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 676. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.


=Alexander, Grace.= Judith. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  Camden, Ohio, in the days of the Omnibus bill furnishes the setting
  for this romance. The principal actors in the little drama, which is
  barely saved from being a tragedy, are the following: Stephen Waters,
  a stalwart young minister; Judith La Monde who is to be sacrificed
  matrimonially to atone for her mother’s wrong done to the fiancé’s
  father; Abel Troop, the colorless but altogether good youth, for whom
  Judith is making her sacrifice; and a group of town’s people who lend
  a social and political atmosphere to the story. Judith’s battle
  between conscience and heart’s desire is waged valiantly and her
  patience has its reward.

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  “The story shows painstaking effort and some skill in handling, but it
  lacks the subtle power and imaginative grasp that mark a novel of the
  first rank.”

    + – =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 200w.

  “A volume that is not devoid of merit.”

      + =Bookm.= 23: 640. Ag. ’06. 230w.

  “Some of the scenes are well done, and the characters stand out with a
  good degree of boldness.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 100w.

  Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.

      – =Ind.= 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 140w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 229. Ap. 7, ’06. 620w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.


=Alexander, Hartley Burr.= Poetry and the individual: an analysis of the
imaginative life in relation to the creative spirit in man and nature.
**$1.50. Putnam.

  “If it be necessary to analyze the reason for the expression of
  thought in poetry, then Dr. Alexander has done a useful thing. If not,
  he has at least done an interesting thing, in tracing from a
  philosophical standpoint the evolution of poetry since its earliest
  manifestation.” (Pub. Opin.) The question is dealt with under the
  general subjects: Impulse and song, Evolution of poetic spirit, The
  worth of life. The universal and the individual, The imagination,
  Aesthetic expression, Beauty and personality, and Nature and poetic
  mood.

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  “His style impresses me as surprisingly inconsistent. It is both
  brilliant and stilted, fluent and awkward. The book is admirable for
  its sympathetic and sure apprehension of the present age (its
  individualism, introspection and courageous faith) and for a
  captivating string of poetry and eloquence which pervades the whole.”
  Ralph Barton Perry.

  + + – =J. Philos.= 3: 439. Ag. 2, ’06. 1740w.

  “Doubtless many will question the validity of his logical process at
  various points, and a still larger number will find it extremely
  difficult to read his pages with confident grasp of his meaning, for
  it is not the habit of the day to carry such discussions quite as far
  beneath the surface as he has presumed to go.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 537. Je. 28, ’06. 1010w.

  “It is a well-ordered and well-reasoned treatment.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 381. Je. 16, ’06. 1090w.

  “The book is not unusual at all, but shows care in its preparation,
  and somewhat more interesting than this, an actual love for the
  subject.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 542. Ap. 28, ’06. 90w.


=Alexander, J. H.= Elementary electrical engineering in theory and
practice. $2. Van Nostrand.

  A class book for junior and senior students and working electricians.
  The volume is fully illustrated.

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  “It is difficult to find much in this book to recommend.”

      – =Nature.= 74: 488. S. 13, ’06. 180w.


=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.

  “Her translation is in excellent English, and reads like an original;
  she has given us an altogether delightful book.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 436. My. 5, ’06. 540w.

  “Mrs. Alexander ... has discharged the translator’s task very
  faithfully and gracefully.”

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 832. Mr. ’06. 280w.

        =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 30w.

  “As a whole, the book will undoubtedly appeal to a limited and
  definite class of readers, but the legends are picturesque enough to
  make a casual dipping into the treasures of the book decidedly
  pleasurable. The English rendering of the text is simple and
  graceful.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 200w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 105. F. 17, ’06. 160w.


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

  “It is, indeed a ‘primer’ with all a primer’s defects and merits; a
  text of so great skill in presentation that it may be trusted pretty
  nearly to teach itself; of surpassing snap and go; of perfect mastery
  in technique of exposition; of consistent actuality and concreteness
  of method: of interest almost rivaling a storybook.” H. J. Davenport.

  + + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 126. F. ’06. 90w.


=Alger, George William.= Moral overstrain. **$1. Houghton.

  “Eight essays dealing with the moral aspects of modern business and
  law.... The writer ... who is a New York lawyer, discusses ‘graft’,
  the influence of corporate wealth, the irresponsible use of money, and
  the man with the ‘muck-rake.’”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the flood of, to say the least, ill-judged revelation with which
  the magazines are being flooded at the present time such calm reviews
  as these are of the greatest benefit as a needed antidote.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 180w.

  “One feature of the book which recommends it is that in almost every
  case the lawyer-author has a remedy to suggest for the evil he
  exposes.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 250w.

  “Any American citizen will be benefited by reading the eight essays.
  They are sane without being commonplace, and interesting without being
  sensational.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1225. My. 24, ’06. 110w.

  “They are vigorous in thought, and written in a nervous and virile
  English.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 286. Je. 2, ’06. 80w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 50w.


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

  “It is still the only book on the subject and serves its purpose well
  as an indispensable book of reference.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 140w.


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

  “It is a pretty and poetic book, perhaps without much substance, but
  all the better for its delicacy of touch and feeling.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 35. Ja. 20, ’06. 1250w.

  “Mr. Allen’s fancy is tenderly delicate, and entirely free from
  sentimentality.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 170w.


=Allen, Philip Loring.= America’s awakening: the triumph of
righteousness in high places. **$1.25. Revell.

  An optimistic view of America’s reviving ideals in business and
  politics. “This book is an attempt to catch, while the subject is
  still close and living, some of the spirit and accomplishment of this
  revival. Dealing, as it must with movements only half worked out and
  men still active in the same fields, it cannot pretend to be in any
  sense critical or final. Yet it does hope to make the citizen who
  reads it a little better acquainted with some of the personalities and
  some of the forces most prominent in this remarkable period.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He does not hold a brief for any reformer or any fad. The novelty and
  assured interest of Mr. Allen’s book lie chiefly, of course, in his
  interpretation of events.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 1120w.

  “A readable and suggestive little work.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 190w.


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

  “May be of some service to the reader who wishes to get a little
  knowledge of a big subject in a short time and with little effort: it
  is a short cut to learning.”

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 459. Ja. ’06. 80w.


=Ambler, Sara Ellmaker.= Dear old home. †$1.50. Little.

  A happy wholesome story for young boys and girls. Two city children
  spend the summer with their grandmother in an Amish settlement of
  Pennsylvania. The story records the pranks and sports of these
  youngsters aided by two Pennsylvania Dutch children.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 735. N. 10. ’06. 80w.


=Amelung, Walter, and Holtzinger, Heinrich.= Museums and ruins of Rome;
ed. by Mrs. S. Arthur Strong. 2v. *$3. Dutton.

  Each of these volumes gives a “synthetic and comprehensive view” of
  the subject with which it deals. “The plan of the work is very simple.
  Beginning with the Vatican, the student is taken through the papal
  collections, the municipal collections, and the national collections,
  the text describing and characterizing the masterpieces, with
  sufficient biographical data relating to the sculptors, with succinct
  but clear accounts of the character of the work, and descriptions
  which enable the reader to fasten his attention on special
  characteristics with the enforcement of a profusion of illustrations.”
  (Outlook.) A short bibliography prefaces each volume.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Altogether, these little books are without their match, and no one
  should go to Rome without them.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 290w.

  “This manual, however, is not calculated to please the ordinary
  visitor to Rome, nor the student of Roman antiquities in general, on
  account of its bias in favour of one class of specialists.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 400. Mr. 31. 870w.

  “It is very evident that our author has given us the latest and best
  theories as to the different works of art.” James C. Egbert.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 335. My. ’06. 960w.

  “The volume becomes quite a liberal education in the history of
  antique sculpture, which is made more thorough by its historic index
  in the concluding chapter.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 40. Jl. 16, ’06. 190w.

        =Ind.= 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 50w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 265. Jl. 27, ’06. 630w.

  “Amelung’s knowledge and experience are broad and solid, his
  perception keen, and his writing vigorous yet pleasant. The
  translation represents him as worthily as perhaps any translation of a
  book of æsthetic as well as historic criticism could reproduce its
  original.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 56. Jl. 19, ’06. 190w.

  “Gives the traveler a convenient and suggestive guide for his rambles
  about the Roman capital.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 100w.

  “A convenient work.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 170w.

  “Probably the best compendium yet produced of the art treasures of the
  mother city of the world.”

  + + + =Sat. R.= 101: 796. Je. 23, ’06. 130w.

  “The idea embodied in these volumes is an excellent one, and it is,
  upon the whole, carried out with a large measure of success. Some
  points, however, invite criticism. Dr. Amelung’s verdicts on ancient
  sculptors are not free from that dogmatism which is the besetting sin
  of German archæologists.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 465. Mr. 24, ’06. 990w.


American Jewish yearbook, 5667. Sept. 20, 1906, to Sept. 8, 1907; ed. by
Henrietta Szold. 75c. Jewish pub.

  The eighth issue of this yearbook. Among the new features are a table
  of the time of sunrise and sunset, and the beginning of dawn and the
  end of twilight for six northern latitudes, on three days of each
  month of the solar year; two new lists including respectively a record
  of the United States during the current year and notable articles
  appearing in the Jewish press and thru secular mediums, and notably a
  table of Jewish massacres in Russia during the period “whose entrance
  and exit are guarded by Kishineff and Bialystok as blood stained
  sentinels.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 40w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 110w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 80w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 70w.


=Ames, V. B.= Matrimonial primer; with pictorial matrimonial mathematics
and decorations by Gordon Ross. **$1.50. Elder.

        =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 60w.


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

  “Accurate investigation of personalities, epochs and eras, and warm
  appreciation, expressed in highly rhetorical terms, of Japanese art
  characterize this informing volume.”

    + + =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ’05. 90w.

  “This little book tells us things we desire to know about a
  fascinating subject.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 398. D. 8, ’06. 80w.


=Anderson, Asher.= Congregational faith and practice: principles,
polity, benevolent societies, institutions. *5c. Pilgrim press.

  A little pamphlet for pastors and church workers.


=Anderson, Sir Robert.= Sidelights on the home rule movement. *$3.
Dutton.

  “Sir Robert Anderson’s ‘Side lights on the home rule movement’ is
  emphatically a controversy-breeding book. It contains the
  recollections of the well-known British secret service official so far
  as they pertain to his activity in connection with Fenianism and later
  aspects of Irish agitation, and it may also be described in large part
  a scathing criticism of the Irish sections of Mr. Morley’s ‘Life of
  Gladstone,’ which Sir Robert attacks as the work of a romanticist
  rather than a historian.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =Ind.= 61: 824. O. 4, ’06. 260w.

  “It has fallen to the lot of hardly any other man in our time to have
  so intimate a knowledge of the darker aspects of Irish Separatist
  politics as Sir Robert Anderson.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 189. My. 25, ’06. 1180w.

  “It will be difficult for most readers who are not of his immediate
  social or political circle to see any advantage that can result from
  the publication.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 300w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 529. O. 27, ’06. 330w.

  “Apart from these personal interests, the book has an undoubted
  historical value as a contribution to our knowledge of the events with
  which it mainly deals. Especially interesting are the chapters on the
  Fenian movement, the dynamite campaign, and the much too historic
  Clerkwell explosion.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 84. Jl. 21, ’06. 1170w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 904. Je. 9, ’06. 2080w.


=Anderson, Wilbert L.= Country town; with introd. by Josiah Strong.
**$1. Baker.

  Dr. Strong says “The author has faith in the country town, and is able
  to render a reason for the faith that is in him.” Mr. Anderson
  maintains that the great drift from the country to the city will only
  benefit the rural districts, for there will be left an enduring
  residuum with the stout heart that battles with problems of
  civilization and advancement. He says “that there is no scientific
  reason for the popular notion that the rural population is under a
  fatality of evil. The future depends almost wholly upon the power of
  environment—upon education, upon commerce, upon evangelization, upon
  participation in the great movements of the age.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This study of existing conditions will be found valuable even by
  those who do not agree with all the conclusions reached.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 120w.

  “Though he cites numerous authorities, he writes in the graceful style
  of the essayist.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 21. Jl. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “It is involved in style; is loaded with quotations and citations
  having no particular bearing on the case, full of repetition, and not
  clear in its manner of reaching conclusions, which are, however, sane
  ones.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1163. My. 17, ’06. 280w.

  “The most serious criticism that can be advanced against it is that
  the author carries the argument from evolution to an extreme in
  conducting a sociological inquiry along biological lines. To be
  commended for its readableness as well as for the sanity and
  fair-mindedness.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 340w.

  “Extremely interesting and informing work.” Edward Cary.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 142. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.

  “Mr. Anderson is an optimist where optimism is rare.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.


Andreas and The fates of the apostles: two Anglo-Saxon narrative poems;
ed. with introd., notes, and glossary by G: Philip Krapp. *$2. Ginn.

  This volume in “The Albion series of Anglo-Saxon and middle English
  poetry,” contains all the material essential to a thoro study of these
  two poems. The text of both poems is based upon Wülker’s Codex
  Verallensis and the variant readings present a full history of the
  textual criticism of the works. A comprehensive introduction discusses
  the Vercelli manuscript, the sources of the poems, their history, and
  their authorship. The volume is fully annotated and contains a
  classified bibliography and a glossary.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Altogether, this much-needed edition is one of the most scholarly
  contributions that have been made in recent times to the illustration
  of Old English literature.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 155. Ag. 11. 1390w.


=Andrews, Arthur Lynn=, ed. Specimens of discourse. *60c. Holt.

  A miscellaneous collection of specimens chosen with the object of
  teaching a student to present near-at-hand occurrences in clear
  English. The introduction gives a variety of themes, analyses them,
  and shows how to elaborate various types of composition, as
  description, narration and exposition.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Bookm.= 22: 643. F. ’06. 100w.

        =Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 60w.

        =School R.= 14: 232. Mr. ’06. 60w.


=Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman (Mrs. William S. Andrews).= Bob and the
guides; il. by F. C. Yohn, A. B. Frost and others. †$1.50. Scribner.

  A book of ten Canadian hunting stories with Bob, a small boy, for the
  hero. In each he gives in boyish fashion some camping adventure,
  admitting that he gets “big words mixed sometimes unconscientiously.”
  but having a “noble ear for general picturesqueness.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Can be read aloud and out of doors, two severe tests for a book.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1372. Je. 7, ’06. 370w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 290w.


=Angus, S.= Sources of the first ten books of Augustine’s De Civitate
Dei. $1. Univ. library, Princeton, N. J.

  A three-part thesis which treats “Literary sources of Augustine.”
  “Annotations on books i-x,” and “Augustine’s knowledge of Greek.”


=Annandale, Nelson.= Faroes and Iceland; with 24 il. and an appendix on
the Celtic pony, by F. H. A. Marshall. *$1.50. Oxford.

  “Is pleasant reading. He might with advantage have given a little more
  time to contemporary Icelandic literature before printing his
  censures: he is too ready to cry ‘All is barren,’ and hardly
  appreciates the variety of life, the mixture of old fashions and
  modern culture in that wonderful country. Some of his statements may
  be flatly contradicted by other travellers, who have found better
  entertainment there and little of the squalor which seems to have
  beset Mr. Annandale.” W. P. Ker.

    + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 191. Ja. ’06. 580w.


=Anstruther, Elizabeth.= Complete beauty book. **$1.25. Appleton.

  “Beauty is a matter of health, dress, and winsomeness,” the author
  declares in her introduction, and she follows her assertion with
  sensible advice upon the care of the body, a detailed plea for fresh
  air, exercise, and cold water, with some additional counsel upon
  clothes and conduct. The skin, diet, digestion, the hair, the hands,
  feet, and teeth, fatness and thinness and charm of manner are treated
  in successive chapters.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “With the utmost good sense and simplicity, we are told just how to
  keep well and to be beautiful.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 880w.


Arbiter in council: a collection of papers on war, peace and
arbitration. *$2.50. Macmillan.

  “Is there any reason to hope that right ever will be ready? This is
  the question which the ‘Arbiter in council’ essays to answer. In form,
  the work is a series of colloquies initiated by a veteran Liberal, a
  disciple of Bright and of Cobden, and a lifelong advocate of peace and
  arbitration.” (Lond. Times.) The subjects discussed, one for every day
  during a week, are the causes and consequences of war, modern warfare,
  private war and the duel, cruelty, the federation of the world,
  arbitration, the political economy of war and Christianity and war.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The scheme is a well-imagined one and the discussions are full of
  interest, information and suggestion. Nevertheless the result is far
  from satisfactory. The book is pervaded throughout by the assumption
  more or less openly avowed that war is always and everywhere a wrong
  thing—not merely that most wars are wrong, and that many wars are
  wicked: and the several parties to the discussion are all too much of
  the same way of thinking.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 114. Mr. 30, ’06. 2520w.

  “As a summary of all that is to be said on the subject, thrown into a
  readable form, the book is well done; nevertheless, after reading it
  there is left in the mind of the reader the perhaps unavoidable
  feeling that it is an old story.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 354. O. 25, ’06. 910w.

      – =Sat. R.= 102: 306. S. 8, ’06. 310w.

  “A clever piece of special pleading rather than a serious contribution
  to political thought.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 711. My. ’06. 1950w.


=Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of=: autobiography and
memoirs; ed. by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll. 2v. *$10. Dutton.

  In his autobiography the Duke of Argyll sketches a “long career filled
  with notable activities. Acceding to the title very young and
  unexpectedly ... he was of a serious and energetic bent. Early called
  to share in the government, he was a member of several cabinets....
  For years he was an enthusiastic follower of Gladstone, but broke with
  him on the land question and Home rule; but their personal friendship
  remained unimpaired. Yet his chief distinction was as a controversial
  writer. He had considerable scientific attainments. From early life an
  eager naturalist ... and was practically skilled in geology. He read
  widely in science, too, and being, as he innocently observes,
  ‘inclined to question rather than to harbor doubt’ he ‘took most
  naturally to religion and theology.’” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His biography was well worth writing; though it might have been
  advantageously condensed into half the size.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 565. Je. 16, ’06. 1530w.

  “The Duke might have curbed his pen to advantage.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 755. Je. 23. 1970w.

  + + – =Blackwood’s.= 180: 343. S. ’06. 3530w.

  “It differs in two particulars from most British biographies. It deals
  with political and social life in Scotland as well as in England; and
  more than any biography of recent times, except perhaps that of Earl
  Granville, it deals with life almost exclusively from an aristocratic
  point of view.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 454. Ag. 23, ’06. 1390w.

  “Has an interest and a value little below Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone’
  in the brightness of the light which it throws on the English history
  of its time.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 40w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 197. Je. 1, ’06. 3540w.

    + – =Nation.= 83: 60. Jl. 19, ’06. 1030w.

  “The chapters which follow the autobiography give a most inadequate
  picture of what the Duke was in his prime and of what he did. The
  chapter on his science is particularly disappointing.”

  + + – =Nature.= 74: 437. Ag. 30, ’06. 3880w.

  “The various kinds of interest that belong to the memoirs of a
  statesman, relating great events in which he has a borne a part, and
  the chronicles of a recluse, of a naturalist watching the lower lives
  about him, belong to these volumes.” Montgomery Schuyler.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 481. Ag. 4, ’06. 1340w.

  “To the biographical library these volumes will be a valuable
  addition. Will be interesting as a biography to the reader who is
  versed in the art of judicious skipping, and valuable as a
  contribution to the history of the nineteenth century.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 220w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 110w.

  “The Duke of Argyll’s literary gift was considerable, as is shown, not
  only by his speeches, but by his descriptive criticism of the great
  men by whom he was surrounded.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 790. Je. 23, ’06. 2080w.

  “It is full of interest, and displays almost on every page a love and
  knowledge of nature which add to its charm.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 945. Je. 16, ’06. 1420w.


=Armitage, Albert B.= Two years in the Antarctic. $5. Longmans.

  A personal narrative of the British Antarctic expedition to which Dr.
  Nansen contributes a preface.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Those who have studied Captain Scott’s weighty volumes may skim with
  some amusement and interest Lieutenant Armitage’s lighter pages.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 440. D. 15, ’05. 390w.

  “He is a good narrator and carries the reader along with a warmth that
  is surprising in such a chilly subject.” Stephen Chalmers.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 922. D. 30, ’05. 1210w.

  “Mr. Armitage supplies some points of detail which supplement Captain
  Scott’s narrative.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 726. D. 2, ’05. 200w.


=Armour, John P.= Edenindia: a tale of adventure. †$1.50. Dillingham.

  Edenindia is a Utopian realm into which an airship drops the hero of
  this tale, Victor Bonnivard. Jilted by a heartless maiden, and weary
  of life at best, it touches his vanity to be called to join the king’s
  counsellors and family of state. Edenindia is a socialistic kingdom
  whose inhabitants have been kept in ignorance of any other people.
  Ennui finally compels young Victor to elope with the king’s daughter.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His imagination, if bold, is rather heavy and lumbering in its gait.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 737. O. 28, ’05. 170w.


=Armour, Jonathan Ogden-.= Packers, the private car lines and the
people. $1.50. Altemus.

  In which Mr. Armour defends the packers. He tells of the conditions
  that brought the private car-line into existence and what it has
  accomplished to facilitate traffic and to improve the business
  situation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Armour is not a stylist; but he knows how to put his arguments
  clearly and effectively.”

      + =Cath. World.= 84: 407. D. ’06. 220w.

  “The book is vigorously written, and probably must be regarded as the
  authoritative reply of the packers, by one of their most eminent
  representatives, to the accusations brought against them. It is an
  able plea in defense and avoidance. As such the careful student of the
  problem will find it valuable. He will not find it conclusive.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 1006. Ag. 25, ’06. 190w.

  “Mr. Armour writes in a rather bitter tone.”

      – =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 220w.

        =Spec.= 97: 372. S. 15, ’06. 110w.


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

      + =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 80w.

  “Has already come to be justly regarded as a standard biography.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21, ’06. 100w.


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

  “A meritorious contribution to museum literature.” Royal Cortissoz.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 282. F. ’06. 70w.

  “The volume is perhaps the best contribution to the critical study of
  Dutch painting since the publication of ‘Les maîtres d’autrefois.’ It
  is something new in the literature of art. Its criticism is fresh and
  stimulating.”

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 128. F. 16, ’06. 460w.


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

  “Excellent critical life.” Royal Cortissoz.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 273. F. ’06. 70w.

  “His whole aim seems to be to belittle and disparage Sir Joshua as a
  man, and as a result to lessen the potentiality of his art.” Charles
  Henry Hart.

      – =Dial.= 40: 226. Ap. 1, ’06. 1160w.

  “It is probably the best book that has yet been written about Sir
  Joshua.... His presentment of Reynolds’s character is, perhaps, more
  just than the pæans of the hero worshippers; and his critical opinions
  on Reynolds’s art are worthy of the most careful attention.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 459. F. 22, ’06. 130w.


=Armstrong, William Jackson.= Heroes of defeat. $3. Clarke, R.

  Six heroes who thru no fault of bravery failed to attain their hoped
  for success “are here described with all the vivid and picturesque
  power of a Froude, a Macaulay or a Hugo.” (Arena.) They are Schamyl,
  the soldier priest and hero of Caucasus; Abdel Kader, the Sultan of
  Algeria who for fifteen years kept France from any stronghold in
  Algeria; Scanderbeg, the Albanian who saved Europe from the Turk’s
  dominion; Tecumseh, our own Shawnoe hero; Vercingetorix, King of Gaul,
  who fought against Julius Caesar; and Kosiuszko, the hero of Polish
  freedom.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a real acquisition to our literature, a work of permanent
  value.”

  + + + =Arena.= 35: 326. Mr. ’06. 2500w.

  “Mr. Armstrong tells the story of all these with some skill, though
  his style is considerably marred by flights that suggest stump
  oratory.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 110w.


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

  “Priscilla’s adventures are a shade too preposterous for genuine
  enjoyment.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 110w.

  “The most charming extravaganza imaginable.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 410w.

  “A gentle cynicism, which we fancy a little mellower, and a style a
  little riper than in the earlier books, leave a pleasant fragrance in
  the memory, when the strange experience ends, precisely as it should.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 167. Ja. 18, ’06. 370w.

  “‘Priscilla’ is an unworthy successor to ‘Elizabeth,’ though she will
  be probably quite as popular.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 110w.

  “The strength of the book lies in its faithful picture of the contrast
  of two modes of life, brought on this occasion sharply together—a true
  comedy-motive when, as in this case, both are adequately understood.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1039. D. 16, ’05. 1130w.


=Arnold, Matthew.= Sohrab and Rustum: ed. for schools and general use by
W. P. Trent and W. T. Brewster. *25c. Ginn.

  Supplied with an accurate text, footnotes and an introduction, this
  poem is offered to the general reader by way of preparation for the
  study of Arnold no less than to the preparatory school student.


=Arthur, Richard.= Ten thousand miles in a yacht. **$2. Dutton.

  A narrative which follows the incidents of the celebrated cruise made
  by Commodore E. C. Benedict’s yacht among the West Indies and up the
  Amazon in the winter of 1904–5. The author and also Mr. Ivins who
  contributes the introduction were among the eleven cruisers. The
  volume contains numerous illustrations from photographs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Some readers may wish that the author and the introductory writer had
  exchanged places.” H. E. Coblentz.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 361. Je. 1, ’06. 410w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 50w.

  “A singularly naïve narrative it is.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 256. Ap. 21, ’06. 960w.

  “A slight but readable account of quite an unusual cruise.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 93. My. 12, ’06. 110w.

  “Mr. Arthur has a knack of telling his experiences pleasantly.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 70w.


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

  Reviewed by Munroe Smith.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 162. Mr. ’06. 970w.


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

  “An example of judicial and balanced argument.” Charles Richmond
  Henderson.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 260w.


=Aspinwall, Alicia.= Story of Marie de Rozel—Huguenot. *75c. Dutton.

  The wife of Marie de Rozel’s great-greatgrandson has written the true
  story of this brave little Huguenot maid and what befell her in the
  days when the people of her faith were persecuted in Catholic France.
  It is a pretty little tale and the author has given it to us
  unembellished, just as it came to her out of the dim past.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not quite so interesting as it should be, considering the material.”

    – + =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 60w.


=Asser, Bishop of Sherbourne.= Life of King Alfred, trans. from the text
of Stevenson’s edition, with notes, by Albert S. Cook. *50c. Ginn.

  The Bishop of Sherbourne’s quaint contemporary account of England’s
  greatest king is here given in a form which will appeal to students in
  schools and colleges as well as to the general reader. The Latin text,
  thru the critical labors of Stevenson, has been cleared of many
  Elizabethan interpolations, and the present translation is accurate
  and well annotated.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Presents in convenient form a valuable document whose authenticity is
  now generally conceded.”

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 732. Ap. ’06. 50w.

  “The advantages which Professor Cook’s translation enjoys over
  previous ones is due mainly to the fact that he has been able to use
  the results of the investigations of these two scholars [Plummer and
  Stevenson.]”

      + =Nation.= 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 190w.


=Aston, W. G.= Shinto: the way of the gods. *$2. Longmans.

  Forty years of research and study in Japanese literature, language and
  history have provided material for this treatise. It is “chiefly
  intended as a repertory, for the use of students, of the more
  significant facts of Shinto, the old native religion of Japan before
  the introduction of Chinese learning and Buddhism.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Henry Preserved Smith.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 703. O. ’06. 300w.

  “So attractively written that the reader hardly appreciates at once
  the amount of learning, Eastern and Western, which it implies.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 602. My. 19. 1270w.

  “In his arrangement of the book, with its abundant translation of
  ancient text and ritual, all well indexed, we have just what the
  volume professes to be—a handbook for the study of Shinto.” William
  Elliot Griffis.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 255. Ap. 16. ’06. 1280w.

  “This master of facts is very modest in theory and generalization.
  This is ‘the’ book on Shinto. There is no other.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 341. F. 8, ’06. 590w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 14w.

  “It is the one complete monograph on Shinto.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 20. Jl. 5, ’06. 1270w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 140w.

  “No part of his subject has escaped his notice, and his materials are
  arranged in a logical sequence which makes them clear even to a casual
  reader. But the book is not for casual readers.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 401. Mr. 31, ’06. 880w.


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

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 793. D. 9. 320w.

  “Incidentally points a moral, if she cannot be said always to adorn
  her tale.” G. W. Adams.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 368. D. ’05. 820w.

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

    + – =Critic.= 47: 510. D. ’05. 190w.

  “The book possesses its author’s characteristic faults of hardness and
  exaggeration; it is almost destitute of sympathy and moderation, while
  of the unusual virtues of bold plot and suspended creation that we
  have come to associate with Mrs. Atherton’s name, it has scant
  measure.”

      – =Reader.= 7: 228. Ja. ’06. 280w.

  “The book as a whole is rather too suggestive of the pages of a
  guide-book; but if slight, the story is amusing, and is written with
  Mrs. Atherton’s usual vivacity.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 100w.


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

  “It attempts to cover the whole field, history, geography, commerce,
  government, religion and the characteristics of the people. The last
  is probably the most important part of the book, because in Filipino
  psychology lies the problem, and this is the hardest part of the book
  to write, and it is a part upon which the author’s experience should
  enable him to make a real contribution.” J. Russell Smith.

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 242. Ja. ’06. 360w.

  “This is a wholesome, stimulating, enjoyable book, the ripe fruit of
  an earnest worker, a lover of ideals, yet a master of facts. It is a
  real illuminator of the theme treated.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 160w.

  “This latter section is by far the most valuable portion of the work,
  for here the writer has apparently felt at liberty to speak with
  somewhat less restraint than elsewhere, and to give expression to his
  own views. The book as a whole, especially in its earlier portions,
  gives the impression of having often been read before, and follows
  with minute care the official view at almost every point.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 48. Ja. 16, ’06. 490w.

  “Is both valuable and interesting where it presents the author’s own
  observations and opinions, but is often inaccurate where sources of
  encyclopaedic and historic information which should now be discarded
  have been relied upon in the work of compilation.”

    + – =Ind.= 59: 1540. D. 28, ’05. 60w.

  “This is one of the most interesting of the many books which have been
  published on the new possession of the United States. This book is
  indeed a manual of its subject.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 470. O. 6, ’06. 220w.


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

  “Professor Atkinson has been exceptionally fortunate in accomplishing
  a very difficult piece of work. The studies have been carefully
  prepared and this scientific survey of the botanical field will be
  widely appreciated.” Carlton C. Curtis.

  + + + =Educ.= R. 31: 211. F. ’06. 780w.


=Atlay, J. B.= Victorian chancellors. 2v. v. 1. *$4. Little.

  “Mr. Atlay purposes to deal in two volumes with the careers of the
  Lords Chancellors during the reign of Queen Victoria. The first volume
  contains the memoirs of Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham
  and Lord Truro.... Mr. Atlay’s work is extremely interesting whether
  he is writing of men about whom there are voluminous biographies too
  cumbrous to be read pleasantly, or of men such as Lord Cottenham and
  Lord Truro about whom he has had to collect data for himself.... Lord
  Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham have been much written about; but Mr.
  Atlay has used information either not open to Lord Campbell or used by
  him invidiously; and as to Lord Lyndhurst especially he corrects
  Campbell’s unfair sketch following Sir Theodore Martin’s biography.”
  (Sat. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To measure two men so dissimilar in character, opinion and
  temperament as Lyndhurst and Brougham, with an equal hand is no small
  achievement, and Mr. Atlay deserves all the commendation that we can
  give him.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 327. Ap. 7, ’06. 1760w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “This volume is lively and entertaining, well compiled from a variety
  of authentic sources, and as regards Lyndhurst and Brougham much more
  trustworthy than the rather spiteful and far from accurate biographies
  which the late Lord Campbell wrote of his two contemporaries.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 141. Ap. 20, ’06. 690w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Mr. Atlay. though neither a subtle thinker nor a masterly writer,
  does provide his readers with a clear, sensible, and, above all, an
  honest narrative of the career of the men whose lives he undertakes to
  write.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 514. Je. 21, ’06. 2470w. (Review of v. 1.)

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 475. Jl. 28, ’06. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.)

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 762. Je. 16, ’06. (Review of v. 1.)

  “To lawyer, politician, student of manners, and lover of good stories
  alike his book will furnish the best of entertainment.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 619. Ap. 21, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Aubin, Eugene.= Morocco of to-day. *$2. Dutton.

  “M. Eugene Aubin is a French observer of Morocco, with the gift of
  precise, delicate, sympathetic appreciation. This he is able to
  convert into words, and the result is a very good book.... There are
  ... some exceptionally good chapters, notably that on Du Hamara, in
  which Moroccan warfare is described.... The author describes many
  places, institutions, and customs, together with some of the internal
  incidents of the years 1902–3, but he does not deal with international
  questions save for a few trade statistics.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His descriptions are vivid; the information he supplies is lucidly
  set forth, and upon the whole remarkably trustworthy. The number of
  equally informative English books about Morocco is extremely small.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 480. Ap. 21, 370w.

  “Without doubt this book contains more information about modern
  Morocco than any other book to be obtained. To many M. Aubin’s
  explanations of the Sultan’s life and position will be in the nature
  of a revelation.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 283. S. ’06. 240w.

        =Ind.= 61: 215. Jl. 26, ’06. 150w.

  “It suffers from a certain unevenness. The translation is fair and
  contains few slips.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 518. Je. 21, ’06. 500w.

  “An excellent translation.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 815. Ag. 4, ’06. 100w.

  “A scholarly work.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 80w.

  “It is the most complete book of its kind upon the subject, of
  to-day.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 791. Je. 23, ’06. 1400w.


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

        =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 583. Jl. ’06. 20w.

  “An ingenious but useless addition to the already extensive literature
  based on the desire to interpret the book of Daniel as literal
  predictions of dates and events far in the future.”

      – =Bib. World.= 27: 319. Ap. ’06. 30w.


=Audubon, John Woodhouse.= Audubon’s western journal: 1849–1850. *$3.
Clark, A. H.

  This is a manuscript record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an
  overland journey thru Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of
  California. There is a biographical memoir by Maria R. Audubon,
  daughter of the diarist, and an introduction, notes and index by Frank
  Heywood Hodder.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Persons interested in early California history will find here some
  descriptions of the conditions in the early days really worth
  reading.” Edwin E. Sparks.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 151. O. ’06. 410w.

  Reviewed by Theodore Clarke Smith.

      + =Atlan.= 98: 703. N. ’06. 90w.

  “On the whole, the volume leaves nothing to be wished for, either in
  the editor’s or the publisher’s field.”

  + + + =Dial.= 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 310w.

        =Nation.= 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 140w.

  “The journal is of very great interest, and admirably edited.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 357. Je. 2, ’06. 110w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 120w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 120w.

        =Sat. R.= 101: 762. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.


=Austin, Alfred (Lamia, pseud.).= Door of humility. *$1.50. Macmillan.

  A poem of 57 cantos in which a poet “is perplexed in youth with some
  obvious theological doubts, and his lady refuses him till he comes to
  a better frame of mind. He straightway proceeds upon a kind of grand
  tour, which gives him the opportunity to describe elaborately
  Switzerland, Rome, Greece, and other places. After much trite
  metaphysical speculation he arrives at a sort of solution, and returns
  home.... Humility, the poem, teaches, is the only gateway to truth.”
  (Spec.)

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  “Mr. Austin has read his ‘In memoriam’ too lovingly, and, in his poem,
  at least, has not been able to rid himself of the domination of the
  great mind and to stand on his own feet. This result is rendered the
  more conspicuous and deplorable by the thick sowing of the text with
  phrases that can only be described as journalistic.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 349. Ap. 14, ’06. 1260w.

  “The philosophy and its sentimental setting are patiently planned on
  the Tennysonian model, but unhappily it is not enough to succeed a
  poet in order to be successful in imitating him.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 663. Je. 2. 840w.

        =Ind.= 61: 455. Ag. 23, ’06. 750w.

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 124. Ap. 6, ’06. 970w.

  “The piece is as a whole marked by a suavity and a kind of thin
  dignity, though not seldom there is a lapse into banality.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 144. Ag. 16, ’06. 290w.

  “The most obvious excellence of Mr. Austin’s work is its metrical
  purity in the matter of rhythm he never offends. But his excellence is
  bought at the price of his liberty.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 960w.

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 557. My. 5, ’06. 930w.

  “We have no wish to be unkind to a writer who is so transparently
  ingenuous and well-meaning, and we readily admit that he is not
  without his felicities.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 756. My. 12, ’06. 180w.


=Austin, Louis Frederic.= Points of view; ed, with prefatory note by
Clarence Rook. **$1.50. Lane.

  Essays selected from the author’s contributions to London newspapers
  compose this volume. Such subjects are treated as Sir Henry Irving,
  America at Oxford, Men and modes. Logic for women. Motor cars and
  nervous systems, A famine in books, etc. “Mr. Rook’s prefatory note
  contains an impressive idea of Mr. Austin’s strenuous life. It is,
  indeed, ironical that a man should be strenuous in chatting with his
  pen; but it is also tragic.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The papers collected in this memorial volume are fresh, witty, and
  shallow in the sparkling way of champagne.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 270w.

  “There are in fact, few writers nowadays who can write this kind of
  essay, and fewer still who can make their own writing, on the whole,
  so much worth while as Mr. Austin.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 470w.


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

  “The finished play appears to us possessed of acting possibilities.
  Besides being liberally endowed with no small measure of beauty in
  poetic figure and expression.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 230w.

  “The workmanship throughout is excellent, with vigorous lines,
  pictorial imagery, and ease of movement.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 310w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + – =North American.= 182: 755. My. ’06. 290w.


=Austin, Mrs. Mary Hunter.= The flock; il. by E. Boyd Smith. **$2.
Houghton.

  Mrs. Austin’s flock is a literal flock of sheep. “This is a sort of
  epic of the sheep pastures. She begins with a sort of New Englandish
  landmark, the year of the Boston massacre, which was also the year
  Daniel Boone moved into the West east of the Mississippi, but the
  country of her pasture is the Pacific slope, where she has lived among
  the herders and their woolly charges. Mrs. Austin tells of the work of
  these herders in the mountain valleys, in rain and drought, of the
  shearing baile, of the dogs, of the struggle for the control of the
  feeding grounds. She tells how the wild beasts come down upon the fold
  or the grazing flock, and how the sheep are protected by the faithful
  shepherds. There are stories, too, of individual shepherds who have
  had adventures, an account of a particular old California sheep range,
  and a chapter on ‘The sheep and the forest reserves.’” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The poetic temperament which so well fits Mrs. Austin for writing
  stories of the West has been of equal advantage to her in telling of
  the shepherd-life with ‘its background of wild beauty, mixed romance,
  and unaffected savagery.’” May Estelle Cook.

      + =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06, 290w.

  “The charm of the whole lies in three qualities: the novelty and
  interest of the subject, the picturesque texture of the author’s mind,
  and in a style which is both cultivated and racy, and adapted to
  conveying her unusual sense of beauty.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 489. D. 6, ’06. 720w.

  “As a matter of fact the sheep are only an excuse for an outdoor book
  which takes on a certain pastoral stamp because of them, but rejoices
  chiefly in the open—the free earth, the sun, and the wind.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 190w.


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

  “A not too probable Spanish-American romance gaining color from a
  picturesque setting.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 49. Ja. ’06. 20w.


=Avary, Myrta Lockett.= Dixie, after the war. **$2.75. Doubleday.

  A new picture of the period of reconstruction in the South drawn by
  one who has made a first-hand study of her subject. “The book is the
  aftermath of defeat described in poignant words, in sorrow rather than
  in anger, and without a trace of bitterness.” (Lit. D.) “Mrs. Avary
  sets forth in a serio-comic way the blunders and even the corruption
  incident to military dictatorship, and in the course of the volume
  throws many side-lights on what most Northerners now admit to have
  been the serious mistake of reconstruction policy.” (R. of Rs.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Probably about all we can reasonably expect in the way of fairness
  and soberness, in dealing with the reconstruction period, has been
  done in the volume under review. The book is written in a lively
  anecdotal style; the author has a keen sense of humor and a profound
  conception of the value of a good story.” Walter L. Fleming.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 274. N. 1, ’06. 1840w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 360w.

  “A little judicious pruning, a little more care for style, a little
  more regard for accuracy in historical detail, would have made of this
  a really good book.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 307. O. 11, ’06. 510w.

  “As a collection of anecdotes and observations the book may be found
  entertaining, but it should not profess, as it does, to be an
  exposition of social conditions in the South.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 605. S. 29, ’06. 310w.

  “It vividly brings before the reader the way Southern men and women
  felt and talked in a most trying period.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 288. S. 29, ’06. 190w.

  “An unusually vivid portrayal of the actual social conditions in the
  South during the years immediately succeeding the fall of Richmond.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 130w.


=Avery, Elroy McKendree.= History of the United States and its people.
In 15 vol. ea. *$6.25. Burrows.

  “A history that reflects and epitomizes the verified historic data of
  our preceding historians, and that is of special worth in that
  accuracy has been made the crowning aim of both author and
  publishers.”

  + + + =Arena.= 35: 554. My. ’06. 1260w. (Review of v. 2.)

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 157. Ag. 11. 810w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “What is lacking is precisely the quality which makes Mr. Channing’s
  book noteworthy,—the impression of personality and individual
  authority.” Theodore Clarke Smith.

  + + – =Atlan.= 98: 706. N. ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  + + + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 383. Ap. ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and
          2.)

    + + =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “In spite of a few trivial errors in the matters of date and the like,
  this second volume is in the highest degree satisfactory.”

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 331. My. 16, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Excellently adapted for the public for which it is designed.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 1281. My. 31, ’06. 1030w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Maintains in general the level of its predecessor, and in some
  important respects shows improvement.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 470. Je. 7, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 2.)

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 510w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Throughout is evident the master desire for accuracy and
  impartiality, and both have been attained to a really remarkable
  degree.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “As to the text of this history, while it has had the benefit of
  readings and suggestions by many historical experts, it retains the
  great advantage of a continuous narrative written by a single hand,
  and thus adhering to a well-proportioned scheme.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. 1, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Ayer, Mary Allette.= Joys of friendship. **$1. Lee.

  A companion volume to the author’s “Daily cheer year book.” The
  extracts are arranged under the following sub-headings: The love of
  friendship, Companionship, Sympathy, Influence, Immortality of
  friendship, and The Divine friendship.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ’05. 60w.

  “A book of this character, however, loses much through lack of an
  author’s index.”

    + – =Ind.= 59: 1544. D. 28, ’05. 40w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 676. O. 14, ’05. 100w.


=Ayres, S. G.= Complete index to the Expositor’s Bible, topical and
textual. *$1. Armstrong.

  “First, as to its general design, it undertakes to exhibit each book
  both in its general teaching and in the specific teaching of its
  several sections. Next, as to the school of criticism represented, it
  is composite, some of its volumes representing the older and others,
  especially in some Old Testament books, the newer school. The present
  ‘Index’ is by subjects, texts, and authors quoted; there are, for
  instance, forty-eight citations from Renan. The accompanying
  Introductions present an appreciative and discriminating review of the
  progress and general results of Biblical criticism up to the present
  time.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Seems to be quite adequate.”

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 1222. N. 25, ’05. 60w.

  “This ‘Index’ is very full and will be of great value to all users of
  the ‘Expositor’s Bible’.”

    + + =Bib. World.= 26: 398. N. ’05. 40w.

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 234. S. 23, ’05. 100w.


                                   B


=Babelon, Ernest.= Manual of oriental antiquities. New ed., with a
chapter on the Recent discoveries at Susa. **$2.50. Putnam.

  A reprint of Everett’s translation of Babelon’s work with a chapter
  which includes M. de Morgan’s discoveries in Susa. He “gives a
  chronology of the ruins according to recent discoveries, and describes
  the principles of building, stone sculpture, bronze metal work,
  jewelry, and the industrial arts. The region described in this chapter
  has hitherto been almost unknown.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 85. S. ’06. 480w.

  “This added chapter only makes more evident the need of a revision or
  rewriting of the whole work.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 84. Jl. 26, ’06. 910w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 520w.


=Bacheller, Irving (Addison).= Silas Strong, emperor of the woods.
†$1.50. Harper.

  A strong plea for the preservation of our forests. The author says “It
  is in no sense a literary performance. It pretends to be nothing more
  than a simple account of one summer life, pretty much as it was lived,
  in a part of the Adirondacks.” Silas Strong is a woodland philosopher,
  and his camp is the scene of the wooing of a wood-nymph by a young
  politician. “The incidents include a forest fire, while among the
  leading characters is a dog said to be particularly engaging.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 71: 287. S. 22, ’06. 150w.

  “Many will be unable to feel either great admiration for, or any
  unusual interest in, Silas.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 363. S. 29. 140w.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 90w.

  “Altogether, it is a book that deserves to be read, and, having been
  read, to be pondered.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 540w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 320w.

  “Strong, fine-flavored story of the woods.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.

  “The actual story is not as impressive as it might be.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 130w.

    + – =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 100w.


=Bacon, Alice Mabel.= In the land of the gods: some stories of Japan.
†$1.50. Houghton.

  “Ten true pictures of fairyfolk and phenomena set in the frame of a
  dainty English style.” (Ind.) They illustrate “Japanese beliefs and
  traditions which Miss Bacon regards as the sources of the Japanese
  qualities and traits which have been so clearly shown the world during
  the great crisis of the last two years.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book is a ‘Japanese fairy world’ to date, but with something of
  Hearn’s witchery of style.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ’05. 110w.

  “All are worth telling, extremely well told, and full of interest both
  for children and for their elders.”

      + =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 130w.

  “There is certainly much pleasure to be had from reading these ten
  little stories.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 230w.

  “These stories are very happily phrased, full of the spirit of
  intuition, and thoroughly sympathetic with the life which they
  describe.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ’05. 60w.


=Bacon, Mrs. Dolores Harbourg.= King’s divinity. †$1.50. Holt.

  They met at a ball given by royalty, he a cousin of royalty, she a
  charming American girl. The course of true love is interrupted by
  court conventions and obdurate counsellors, but the divinity of love
  finally proves itself more than that of majesty.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 470w.

  “Is pleasant reading, but thin in quality and imperfect in its plot
  development.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 70w.


=Bacon, Edgar Mayhew, and Wheeler, Andrew Carpenter.= Nation builders: a
story. $1. Meth. bk.

  An appreciation of the itinerant preachers of Methodism who went out
  to possess the American frontier a century ago.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Outlook.= 82: 93. Ja. 13, ’06. 200w.

  “It is an inspiring record and the joint authors have well presented
  it.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 92. Ja. 20, ’06. 340w.


=Bacon, Edwin Munroe.= Connecticut river, and the valley of the
Connecticut; three hundred and fifty miles from mountain to sea:
historical and descriptive. **$3.50. Putnam.

  Under the headings “Historical,” “The romances of navigation,” and
  “The topography of the river and valley” the author has “traced all
  the interesting movements and events associated with New England’s
  chief river down to the present day.” The book abounds in the
  picturesque and traditional no less than in well authorized historical
  fact.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 41: 327. N. 16, ’06. 510w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 370w.

  “Is a book of notable interest to New-Englanders.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 260w.

  “The proportions of the long stretch have been duly considered, and
  the narrative, not unlike the river which it portrays, runs
  consistently, though compressed within brimming pages, from cover to
  cover—a happy concurrence of literary ease and historical severity.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 670w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 140w.


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

  “Students of schoolcraft and teachers will find that Mr. Bagley’s
  elaborate account of the processes of education repays careful study.”

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 555. Ja. ’06. 250w.

  “The contribution in this book lies in the careful selection of
  biological and physiological principles which have educational
  bearings, and which can be seen as such by the average teacher.”
  Frederick E. Bolton.

    + + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 369. N. 15, ’06. 560w.

  “What has been especially needed for some time is just such a work as
  Dr. Bagley has written. It will be generally agreed that Dr. Bagley
  has given us here a sound and scholarly statement of educational
  theory.” Edwin G. Dexter.

    + + =School R.= 14: 464. Je. ’06. 460w.


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

  “Mr. Bagot gossips not unpleasantly, if with no great indication of
  profound historical research.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 427. Ap. 7. 170w.

  “His book contains much valuable and interesting information, but the
  pleasure of reading it is somewhat marred by the uncalled-for
  apologetic tone adopted throughout, and the ever-recurrent use of the
  personal pronoun.”

    + – =Int. Studio.= 27: 373. F. ’06. 200w.

  “Charming pictures—with a very inferior text. Indeed it would have
  been better had the sketches followed one another and the printed
  matter been condensed into notes.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 120w.

  “We have found this the most pleasing volume of a class of books which
  appear now to have a certain vogue.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 14. D. 9, ’05. 180w.

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

  “Mr. Bagot’s style is clever and finished. It lacks a definite
  clear-cut motive that should give it force and value.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 180w.


=Bailey, Mrs. Alice Ward (A. B. Ward, pseud.).= Roberta and her
brothers; il. by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. †$1.50. Little.

  A lively story with a wide-awake, ambitious young heroine who is
  mother, sister, housekeeper and counsellor in her father’s home. Her
  trials, her triumphs, and her longings offer wholesome entertainment
  to young readers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is a book with plenty of life and vim between its covers.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 90w.

  “The story is wholesome, lively, and sufficiently natural to arouse a
  response in the heart of all girl readers.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 120w.

  “The characters are nicely differentiated, the expression fresh.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 768. D. ’06. 40w.


=Bailey, Mrs. Alice Ward (A. B. Ward, pseud.).= Sage brush parson.
†$1.50. Little.

  The sage brush wastes of Nevada furnish the general setting of Mr.
  Ward’s story while the particular interest centers in one of the
  little towns filled with rough miners. Among these carousing groups
  there appears one day an Englishman of deep religious zeal and culture
  bent upon the mission of saving souls. The reader’s sympathy is
  readily won for the lonely figure, whose apparent asceticism is not
  bred in the bone, but the outgrowth of a bitter heart load. The
  melodramatic touches are thoroughly in keeping with the locale of the
  story-drama.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is one of the strongest and most human stories we have read in
  months.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 557. My. ’06. 640w.

  “It is a good example of how much weakness in a plot and in style may
  be pardoned, if the central characters win our affection and hold our
  interest.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 29. Mr. ’06. 480w.

  “There is much strength in this vivid narrative, combined with humor,
  realistic description, and incisive characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 250w.

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1224. My. 24, ’06. 430w.

  “The style is crisp, virile, incisive; and although there may be
  suggestions of Bret Harte, perhaps even of ‘The Virginian’ here and
  there, this is yet a new story, strongly told, with a character all
  its own.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 340w.

  “Logic is not A. B. Ward’s strong point, but she ... writes a readable
  story and one that keeps the attention right up to the last word.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 158. Mr. 17, ’06. 1100w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 110w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 130w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 80w.


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

  “We see that the writer is a passionate lover of nature with a strain
  of the poet in him, but we do not always find his treatment
  convincing.”

    + – =Nature.= 74: 315. Ag. 2, ’06. 430w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w.


=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= Plant-breeding: being lectures upon the
amelioration of domestic plants. **$1.25. Macmillan.

  To this fourth edition of his volume in the “Garden craft series,”
  Prof. Bailey has added a new chapter on current plant-breeding
  practice. “For one who already knows something of garden plants ‘Plant
  breeding’ affords a royal road to modern evolutionary doctrine, while
  the changes in the text between the first and the present fourth
  edition show how rapid has been recent progress in this field.”
  (Atlan.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Gives a remarkably simple and readable account of current practice in
  this department of horticulture, interpreting every process in the
  light of recent theory.” E. T. Brewster.

+ + |=Atlan.= 98: 424. S. ’06. 150w.

  “Most accomplished writer of pure horticultural English.” Mabel Osgood
  Wright.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14. ’06. 1190w.


=Bailie, William.= Josiah Warren, the first American anarchist: a
sociological study. **$1. Small.

  “Warren’s anarchism was of a type different from that exemplified in
  the terrorists of today; was, in fact, philosophical anarchism in its
  purest form. Upholding the doctrine of the sovereignty of the
  individual and the abolition of all government but self-government,
  and cherishing the idea that the restraints of government are not
  needed to induce each individual to exercise his liberty with due
  regard to the rights of others, Warren spent many years in the
  endeavor to demonstrate in practice the validity of his
  theories.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Those who are interested in the growth of social theories in this
  country will welcome this little volume.”

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 173. Jl. ’06. 90w.

        =Critic.= 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 60w.

  “The story of the way in which Warren sought to put his teachings into
  practice makes entertaining and not unprofitable reading.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 918. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.

  “Mr. Bailie doesn’t succeed in conveying any impression of his
  personality.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 311. My. 12, 06. 540w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 240w.

        =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 565. S. ’06. 140w.


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

  “As stories of an ancient civilization, these flowery, unhurried tales
  have a charm of movement and meaning. As love stores the tales are
  pure and ardent, mixing earthly and heavenly motive and passion in the
  intimate way of the early world.”

      + =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 230w.


=Baird, Jean K.= Cash three. 60c. Saalfield.

  A little lad, as cash boy in a department store, fighting poverty with
  his father while his mother’s relatives are trying to find him. The
  tale, ending in a happy Christmas, is full of hardships, relieved by a
  father’s devotion and a child’s natural cheerfulness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895, D. 22, ’06. 30w.


=Baird, Jean K.= Danny. 60c. Saalfield.

  Goat Hill, an Irish washerwoman settlement, furnishes the setting of a
  story in which Mary Shannon, and Danny, the pride of her heart, are
  the principal characters.


=Baker, Abby G., and Ware, Abby H.= Municipal government of the city of
New York. *90c. Ginn.

  Altho written for eighth grade pupils in the New York schools, much of
  the discussion exceeds local interest and offers suggestions for every
  city’s government as well as help along the line of preparation for
  civil service examinations.


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

  “Is one of the most delightful children’s books of the year.” Amy C.
  Rich.

    + + =Arena.= 35: 333. Mr. ’06. 190w.


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

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ’05. 40w.


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

      + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 8. D. 9, ’05. 50w.


=Baldwin, May.= That little limb; il. †$1.25. Jacobs.

  A misunderstood, unconsciously naughty little girl lives a riotous
  life in her canon uncle’s home until he has to send her away to
  school. Her friendship for a young doctor just over the wall who is
  her prince and who understands her is the foil for all her childishly
  weird thrusts at life and people.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is rather a disappointing book.”

      – =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ’05. 70w.


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

      + =Bookm.= 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 60w.


=Baltzell, W. J.= Complete history of music. Presser.

  A book for schools, clubs and private reading. “The author begins at
  the beginning, with the prehistoric music of Assyrians and Egyptians,
  and follows down through Hebrew and Greek music, through the
  beginnings of mediaeval music, through the great period of the
  polyphonic ecclesiastical composers, and so to the modern schools, and
  the most modern schools There are chapters on musical instruments, on
  singing, on the origin and development of the opera and of the suite
  and sonata.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The most useful and up-to-date history of music in any language.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 414. My. 17, ’06. 340w.

  “For its purpose, and within its limitations this history is unusually
  good, and an uncommon skill has been shown in its compilation and in
  the arrangement of its parts.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 271. Ap. 28, ’06. 350w.

  “Especially full and informing are the early chapters dealing with the
  origin and primitive evolution of music.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 170w.


=Baly, Edward Charles Cyril.= Spectroscopy. *$2.80. Longmans.

  “Briefly the volume may be described as an excellent scholarly
  compendium of terrestrial spectroscopy brought up to date. The subject
  of astrophysics is barely touched upon. Of the seventeen chapters
  which the treatment includes, the first seven are devoted to what
  might be called ordinary spectroscopic practice, including the theory
  and use of the prism and the diffraction grating; the remaining ten
  chapters are given to more advanced and special problems, such as
  those occurring in the infrared and ultra-violet regions,
  spectroscopic sources, the Zeeman effect, spectral series, etc.
  Concerning each of these chapters it may be said that the problem is
  always definitely stated, the English is clear and simple, and the
  references to original sources are ample.”—Astrophys. J.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume as a whole is characterized by a fine perspective and by
  always putting the emphasis in the right place. It should find a place
  in the library of every student of physical optics.” Henry Clew.

    + + =Astrophys. J.= 23: 170. Mr. ’06. 810w.

  “The book, indeed, fills a gap in spectroscopic literature which has
  long existed. Notwithstanding the few drawbacks to which attention has
  been directed, the book reflects the greatest credit on its author.”

  + + – =Nature.= 73: sup. 9. N. 30, ’05. 680w.


=Bangs, John Kendrick.= R. Holmes & co.: being the remarkable adventures
of Raffles Holmes, esq., detective and amateur cracksman by birth.
†$1.25. Harper.

  The conflicting traits and characteristics of Raffles and of Sherlock
  Holmes are strangely blended in this new hero, Raffles Holmes, who
  introduces himself as the grandson of the famous cracksman and the son
  of the great detective. His history and adventures as recorded by
  Jenkins, who is his Dr. Watson and his Bunny in one, are highly
  amusing. In the double capacity of thief and detective he enjoys a
  successful and spectacular career, for while the Raffles in him
  perpetually cries “Take” the Holmes in him thunders “Restore” and he
  does both to his own advantage.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 90w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 200w.

  “A parody needs to be remarkably well done to secure the forgiveness
  of the admirers of the original. It is to be feared that Mr. Bangs
  must go unforgiven.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 910. Ag. 18, ’06. 110w.


=Banks, Rev. Louis Albert.= Great promises of the Bible. $1.50. Meth.
bk.

  This is the fourth volume of a quartette, the first three of which are
  “The great sinners of the Bible,” “The great saints of the Bible,”
  “The great portraits of the Bible.” There are thirty sermons which
  comprise a complete survey of the Bible promises including the promise
  of a new heart, forgiveness, answers to prayer, sleep, home of the
  soul, victory, morning and immortality.


=Barbey, Frederic.= Friend of Marie Antoinette (Lady Atkyns). *$3.
Dutton.

  “Lady Atkyns an English actress, lived in France long enough to
  acquire violent Royalist sentiments, and to be presented to the lovely
  queen Marie Antoinette, to whose cause she forever swore allegiance.
  Her recently discovered correspondence reopens the puzzle of the
  disappearance of the Dauphin. However, the case remains as completely
  unsolved as ever.... Lady Atkyns seems to have been a monomaniac of
  very generous impulses, who was the dupe of excited French Royalists,
  and they appeared as eager for English gold as for the rescue of their
  king.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A most disappointing book. Indeed, one is tempted to ask oneself,
  when wading through the excellent translation of M. Barbey’s work
  whether that distinguished writer really made the best of his
  material.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 401. Ap. 28, ’06. 790w.

  “The translation is, as a whole, very tolerably executed.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 507. Ap. 28, 2430w.

  “Although M. Barbey is a good compiler of evidence, he has no gift for
  vividness.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 132. Ap. 12, ’06. 1460w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 257. Ap. 21, ’06. 1460w. (Reprinted from
          Lond. Times.)

  “There are more exclamatory passages by the author than authentic
  quotations from Lady Atkyns’s letters.”

      – =Outlook.= 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 210w.

  “It is a pretty romance anyway, and a few words at least of it might
  be given as a foot note to the history of France.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 730. Je. 9, ’06. 300w.

      – =Spec.= 97: 235. Ag. 18, ’06. 1510w.


=Barbour, Mrs. Anna Maynard.= Breakers ahead. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  This story outlines the life of a “sublime egoist.” A young
  Englishman, Thomas Macavoy Denning, leaves home because he has been
  expelled from school, and comes to America with the resolve to make in
  the new world, single-handed, a name which shall equal his father’s in
  the old. He succeeds in so far as wealth and position are concerned,
  by sheer will, force, and self confidence he succeeds financially; but
  on the eve of his political triumph, just as his election as governor
  of a western state seems assured, the results of a lax past, of a
  period when he sowed wild oats rises up to defeat him—and his was not
  a soul which could bear defeat.

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  “The effect as a whole is not convincing. The author’s style is rather
  stilted and the dialogue is somewhat less than natural.”

      – =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 160w.

  “Otherwise the story is exceptionally well put together, and rises
  steadily toward a climax of interest that proves fairly enthralling.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 230w.

        =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.


=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Crimson sweater. †$1.50. Century.

  Life at the Ferry Hill school as Roy Porter, brother of Porter of the
  Harvard eleven, found it, forms an interesting study of the smallness
  and the breadth of various boy natures as well as a series of pictures
  of football, hockey, cross country runs, boat racing, base-ball, and
  other sports as they were played there. Harry, daughter of the
  head-master, furnishes a wholesome girl element and is Roy’s comrade
  thru the various ups and downs that made up his school life from the
  time when, as a boy, he rescued her pet rabbit, to the time when,
  having won his place as leader of the school, he is carried on the
  shoulders of his triumphant classmates at the close of the game in
  which Ferry Hill at last beat Hammond.

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        =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 110w.

  “Although the book was intended primarily for boys, the wholesome,
  outdoorsy girl will find it just as interesting on account of the
  hearty friendship between the boy and one of his girl schoolmates.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 140w.

  “It is perfectly safe to predict a large reading for this book among
  American schoolboys.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 80w.


=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Maid in Arcady. †$2. Lippincott.

  An aimless Vertumnus drifts into Arcady and beholds Clytie, a daughter
  of the gods. He gazes spellbound. So begins a tale of love which has
  the stamp of Olympia upon it, but which in reality is very modern
  after all, and, true to the adage, does not run smoothly. Believing
  that she is Laura Devereaux the girl whom his friend loves, he takes
  himself miserably away striving to forget that he had ever stumbled
  into Arcady. After a long and weary waiting he discovers his mistake
  and a happy ending ensues.

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  “The new story is longer and somewhat more substantial than its
  predecessors, but equally graceful and amusing.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “The story is graceful and more spirited than one would expect from
  the emphasis given to its externals.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 100w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 130w.


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

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: sup. 3. F. 2, ’06. 150w.


=Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Cecile Vincens) (Mrs. Charles Vincens).= Louis
XIV. and La Grande Mademoiselle. **$3. Putnam.

  The present story continues the career of La Grande Mademoiselle where
  the author’s “The youth of La Grande Mademoiselle” dropped it, just at
  the close of the Fronde,—that protest of the French nobility against
  centralization. Mme. Barine’s heroine was related to Louis XIII., was
  the richest heiress in France, and aspired to be an empress, a
  political power and a nun. “Her mad vagaries and misguided impulses”
  furnish material for a comic as well as a tragic study of a
  fascinating period.

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  “It is a book of striking interest, and the rendering is tolerably
  well done, though it retains French idiom too much, and gives us
  occasionally but jerky English.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 70w.

  “The proof of the merit of Mme. Barine’s work lies in the fact that
  one is eager to read it in spite of the very bad translation. To a
  subject replete with picturesque interest Mme. Barine has done full
  justice.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 471. My. ’06. 220w.

  “The narrative has all the vivacity of fiction, though at the same
  time its historical care and accuracy are evident at every turn. The
  translation, which is anonymous, is easy and unaffected.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 96. F. 1, ’06. 250w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 41. Jl. 5, ’06. 250w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 100w.

  “Is, to say the very least, vastly entertaining.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 1280w.

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 324. F. 10, ’06. 270w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 70w.

  “There is a lack of delicacy in some of the passages, which the
  translator would have shown better taste either by omitting or toning
  down, but the sketch given of the court and its manners is admirably
  drawn, and the pathos of the often ridiculous adventures of the
  heroine is well brought out.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 757. Je. 16, ’06. 880w.

  “The story may be read at length in these pages, admirably told by the
  author, so far as a deplorable translation permits us to appreciate
  it.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 265. F. 17, ’06. 470w.


=Barnard, William Francis.= Moods of life: poems of varied feeling. $1.
The Rooks press.

  A hundred and some poems which portray the grave as well as the gay
  moods of life.

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  Reviewed by William M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 310w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. ’06. 50w.


=Barnes, James.= Outside the law. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “A detective story with the detective left out.” (Outlook.) Lorrimer,
  a man of great wealth, imparts to an old servant the secret process by
  which he can reproduce the works of old engravers with great fidelity.
  The servant’s treachery in joining a band of counterfeiters starts a
  series of situations which implicate the innocent Lorrimer, and weave
  a relentless mesh about him.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 897. D. 16, ’05. 330w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 90w.


=Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith Huddleston.= Cecilia’s lovers. †$1.50. Dodd.

  A companion book to Mrs. Barr’s “Trinity bells.” New York life of
  to-day is portrayed, but Cecilia’s “Quakeress benefactor and Quaker
  home are the most pleasing and realistic features of the book. Her
  worldly friends and lovers are by no means satisfying to the reader.”
  (Outlook.)

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  “As regards the literary quality of the book there is not much to be
  said, but it is bright and pleasant, and likely enough to find
  readers.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 170w.

      + =Outlook.= 81: 380. O. 14, ’05. 60w.


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

  “There is not a dull page in the story. It moves on to a happy ending
  and the situations are so well handled that the reader’s attention is
  held from the beginning to the end, while as he reads he begins to
  understand why the mere pursuit of unearned wealth in this country is
  so absorbing.” Mary K. Ford.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 366. D. ’05. 1020w.

  “We cannot believe that Mr. Steele really did that which he is alleged
  to have done.”

      – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 140w.


=Barr, Robert (Luke Sharp, pseud.).= Triumphs of Eugene Valmont. †$1.50.
Appleton.

  “Eugene Valmont is an addition to the large number of private
  detectives who have betrayed the confidence of their clients by
  recording their achievements.” (Ath.) His exploits carried thru a
  group of stories frequently reveal a deviation from English legal
  methods, and hence an opportunity for other than machine made results.
  “The story of how the famous diamond necklace brought ill fate to
  every one connected with it from Marie Antoinette down is capitally
  told and helps to explain why Valmont lost his place as chief of
  detectives in Paris.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The creation of Eugene Valmont may, indeed, be counted one of Mr.
  Barr’s best achievements.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 475. Ap. 21. 200w.

  “The stories are readable but not absorbing.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 90w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 219. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.

  “Some ingenious and amusing detective stories.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 150w.


=Barrett, Alfred Wilson.= Father Pink. †$1.50. Small.

  A wily tho good-natured priest enters a fight to secure for his niece,
  Lucretia, money and diamonds which, by right of an unsubstantiated
  claim, go to the heroine of the tale, a young French girl. Interested
  in righting the much-tangled up affairs of fortune is a young bachelor
  who, tho outwitted on several occasions and who sees Father Pink
  disappear thru a tiger’s cage with the coveted diamonds, none the less
  wins the heroine and restores to her her wealth.


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

  “The author of this affectionately fashioned memorial reveals no
  critical qualifications for her task.” Royal Cortissoz.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 277. F. ’06. 540w.


=Barrows, Charles Henry.= Personality of Jesus. **$1.25. Houghton.

  Mr. Barrows is a successful lawyer who was formerly president of the
  International Young men’s Christian association training school. The
  author discusses the personal appearance, growth and education,
  intellectual power, emotional life, will, and unwritten principles of
  Jesus.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This indifference to the large lessons to be learned from recent
  historical study of the Gospels is the more to be regretted, since the
  author proves himself so well qualified, in his general knowledge and
  by his warm religious feeling, to discuss the high theme upon which he
  has expended so much patient labor.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1056. N. 1, ’06. 310w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 690. My. 5, ’06. 850w.

  “The author has done as well as anyone could be expected to do without
  the aid of criticism.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 87. Jl. 26, ’06. 740w.

  “Its practical common sense, its freedom from theological
  predilections, its sincere spirit, and its unpretentious style combine
  to make it a useful aid.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 335. Je. 9, ’06. 170w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 110w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 50w.


=Barry, J. P.= At the gates of the east: a book of travel among historic
wonderlands. $2. Longmans.

  “The information contained in the volume was not obtained from other
  books of travel, but derived at first hand. The places were visited in
  separate circular tours ... both in the spring and the autumn. The
  volume opens with descriptions of the capitals of Eastern Europe ...
  Cairo is the next city dealt with, after which come the cities of
  Southern Greece ... the eastern Adriatic towns ... and in the Western
  Balkans, Cettinje and the Provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A
  chapter on ‘Ways and means,’ in which the author tells the prospective
  tourist how to plan the trip outlined in his book, where to start and
  at what time of the year, what places to see, a word concerning costs
  and money, guide books, etc., closes the volume.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “When the author becomes eloquent or sentimental, as he often does, he
  is apt to show imperfect knowledge, and make statements which jar on
  the educated reader. Yet ... the book is pleasant and often
  instructive.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 410w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 467. Jl. 21, ’06. 590w.


=Barry, John D.= Our best society. †$1.50. Putnam.

  “It lacks Mrs. Wharton’s subtlety and finish, and is far from evincing
  great sophistication but it is none the less an accurate portrayal of
  certain phases of New York life.”

      + =Bookm.= 23: 341. My. ’06. 340w.

  “A sprightly and acute narrative. Considered as a novel, the book
  lacks conventional structure and plot, but so does the life it
  discriminatingly portrays.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 120w.

  “Is written with some skill.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.


=Barry, Richard.= Sandy of the Sierras. $1.50. Moffat.

  Sandy, true to his name, is a red-headed Scotch lad who goes from the
  Sierras down to San Francisco to make his fortune. He rises from the
  lower rounds of the ladder to the heights of political fame. He
  “becomes boss of the Pacific coast, and is not above the tricks of his
  trade. You leave him happy in having at one stroke won his love and
  made his father-in-law Senator.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has a better command of journalistic slang than of
  literary English.” Wm. M. Payne.

      – =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 120w.

        =Ind.= 61: 699. S. 20, ’06. 180w.

  “Those who are familiar with the word-painting and lurid touches of
  Mr. Barry’s ‘Port Arthur: a monster heroism,’ will not miss them in
  his new story.”

    – + =Lit. D.= 33: 283. S. 1, ’06. 330w.

  “Mr. Barry, no doubt, could write a better novel now.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 451. Jl. 14, ’06. 440w.

  “Much as I like Sandy I should like him better if his creator liked
  him less.”

    – + =Putnam’s.= 1: 111. O. ’06. 440w.


=Barry, William (Francis).= Tradition of Scripture: its origin,
authority, and interpretation. *$1.20. Longmans.

  “This is a volume of the ‘Westminister library,’ a series intended for
  the use of ‘Catholic priests and students,’ presumably ecclesiastical
  students.... The author’s preoccupation is theological, not
  scientific; and in his treatment of critical questions, he inquires,
  not what are the conclusions established by the evidence, but what
  proportion of these conclusions can be reconciled with the
  pronouncements of Roman authority.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is no doubt well adapted to those for whom it is intended,
  many of whom will learn from it much that they do not know,
  particularly about the Old Testament; and it will serve well enough as
  material for sermons. But priests and students will be well advised
  not to rely on Dr. Barry’s treatment of the critical problems of the
  New Testament, should they ever be called upon to discuss those
  problems with persons having a real knowledge of them.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 250w.

  “It is an encouragement to find a Catholic writer thus generously and
  intelligently treating the critical study of the Bible, and thus ready
  to welcome the results of honest and truth-loving scholarship.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 83: 265. My. ’06. 390w.

        =Spec.= 96: 227. F. 10, ’06. 3250w.


=Bashford, Herbert.= Tenting of the Tillicums; il. by Charles Copeland.
[+]75c. Crowell.

  “Tillicums,” the Indian word for “friends” is adopted by four boys who
  ran the round of camping adventure on Puget Sound. Their fearlessness
  is put to the test by wild animal as well as desperado, and is the
  real keynote to the spirited tale.


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

  “This little book would form a useful, popular and non-technical guide
  on sanitary matters to anyone about to build a country house.”

      + =Nature.= 73: 437. Mr. 8, ’06. 50w.

  “A clean-cut, authoritative little exposition.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 128. Ja. ’06. 120w.


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

  “The story is pretty in its pale, anemic way, but there are so many
  lustier blossoms to be gathered.”

    + – =Reader.= 6: 727. N. ’05, 200w.


=Bastian, Henry Charlton.= Nature and origin of living matter. *$3.50.
Lippincott.

  “For the past thirty-five years Dr. Bastian has consistently upheld
  the doctrine that life not only in the past originated, but does at
  the present time originate, from dead matter—the doctrine once
  generally known as that of spontaneous generation.... The present book
  ... dwells particularly on the importance to medical science of proof
  that disease germs may arise de novo.... Our boards of health are
  proceeding on the assumption that one typhoid germ, for instance, is
  always the offspring of another similar germ, and that if we can
  exclude these germs we can exclude the disease.... If it be true that
  a typhoid germ may under certain conditions arise where no such germ
  existed before, our precautions, tho necessary, will often be
  unavailing. And that they are sometimes failures for this very reason
  is Dr. Bastian’s belief.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “That the author is convinced of the truth of what he sets forth in
  his book none can doubt, but that it will succeed in making converts
  among men of science is not to be expected.” W. P. Pycraft.

      – =Acad.= 69: 1350. D. 30, ’05. 1420w.

  “Whatever one may think of the group of opinions which Dr. Bastian has
  maintained for a generation, consistently and almost alone, he is at
  least a learned man and a skillful writer, so that his discussion of
  the general problem is most illuminating.” E. T. Brewster.

    + – =Atlan.= 98: 420. S. ’06. 370w.

  “The observations and experiments are absolutely inconclusive.”

      – =Dial.= 40: 392. Je. 16, ’06. 440w.

  “No one will suggest that of the two hundred and forty-five
  micrographs reproduced in this book, a single one has been falsified;
  yet it will be almost universally held that the interpretation put
  upon them by their author and the inference drawn from them are
  incorrect.”

    – + =Lit. D.= 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 750w.

  “Dr. H. Charlton Bastian re-expounds his well known biological
  heresies with a vigour and industry worthy of a better cause.” J. A.
  T.

      – =Nature.= 73: 361. F. 15, ’06. 1130w.

  “Dr. Bastian’s work is an interesting one, both scientifically and, so
  to speak, psychologically. One cannot but feel in reading the work
  that the author is a man with an extraordinary amount of learning and
  industry, and it is not unlikely that the learning and industry will
  be useful at least, in drawing more attention to the subject of
  heterogenesis.” Charles Loomis Dana.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 424. Jl. 7, ’06. 1740w.

  “If this author is not quite a Huxley, he is more readable than
  Haeckel: we wonder that it never struck him that proper ‘contents,’
  page headings, and side summaries are indispensable accompaniments of
  a serious scientific book.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 610w.


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

  “His treatment is interesting, fresh, and skillfully related to modern
  life.” John E. McFadyen.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 316. Ap. ’06. 410w.

  “The closing chapters, on the prophet’s relation to the church and on
  the prophet’s vision, are somewhat one-sided and disappointing. As a
  whole, gives an excellent portraiture of one of the most remarkable
  figures in the history of religion.” Kemper Fullerton.

    + – =Bib. World.= 28: 155. Ag. ’06. 440w.

  “It speaks well for the American pulpit that a work of such ability
  comes from the rector of an important city parish.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 370w.


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

  “Captain Battine is a clever, a vivid and an engaging writer. But his
  judgments, both of men and of events, are often airy and unbased.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 270w.

  “A confessed Confederate bias does not interfere with impartial
  treatment, and the work is quite worth study by those who are
  interested in our history as well as by professional soldiers.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 140w.


=Baughan, Edward Algernon.= Music and musicians. *$1.50. Lane.

  The twenty seven articles included in “Music and musicians” are
  reprints of the author’s contributions to English periodicals. He
  treats such subjects as “The obvious in music,” “Richard Strauss and
  his symphonic poems,” “Richard Strauss and programme music,” and
  “Wagner’s ‘Ring.’”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has a way of his own in looking at men and things, and it is
  therefore not surprising if one cannot in all points agree with him.
  There are many excellent comments and criticisms in the volume.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 167. Ag. 11. 540w.

  “He has ideas of his own, and his lucid style enables him to convey
  them to the general reader even when they relate, as they must now and
  then, to matters technical.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 268. S. 27, ’06. 820w.

  “In all these matters, Mr. Baughan writes interestingly and gives
  frequent fillips to thought and discussion, even if he has not all the
  conviction of an aggressive advocate.” Richard Aldrich.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 1260w.

    + – =Spec.= 96: 1039. Je. 30, ’06. 1720w.


=Baxter, James Phinney.= Memoir of Jacques Cartier, Sieur de Limoilou:
his voyages to the St. Lawrence, a bibliography and a facsimile of the
manuscript of 1534; with annotations, etc. **$10. Dodd.

  “This volume contains a new translation from the original French of
  Cartier’s ‘Voyages’ in 1535–1536 and 1541, and the first translation
  of the manuscript discovered in 1867 in the Bibliotheque Nationale, of
  the voyage of 1534. A bibliography and a collection of all the
  pertinent documents thus far discovered in the French and Spanish
  archives and included, as well as an exhaustive memoir of
  Cartier.”—Am. Hist. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 745. Ap. ’06. 90w.

  “Dr. Baxter has given us what may almost be regarded as the last word
  on the great navigator of St. Malo. His work is authoritative.”
  Lawrence J. Burpee.

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 260. Ap. 16, ’06. 1600w.

  “This volume, which seems to have been a true labor of love, is a
  worthy tribute to his memory.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 150. Ag. 16, ’06. 480w.

  “His book is distinctly valuable and an important addition to any
  library aiming to keep up with the development of the knowledge of
  American history.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.


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

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 487. Ap. 21. 1560w.

    + + =Contemporary R.= 88: 903. D. ’05. 1230w.

  “Unfortunately, however, it can scarcely be said that he has really
  contributed anything new to the vast mass of literature on the same
  subject already in circulation.”

    + – =Int. Studio.= 27: 278. Ja. ’06. 170w.


=Bazan, Emilia Pardo.= Mystery of the lost dauphin, tr. with an introd.
essay by Annabel Hord Seeger. †$1.50. Funk.

  With a dramatic power which is moving in its forcefulness this Spanish
  author has written the story of the lost dauphin, the little son of
  Louis XVI, who was long supposed to have died in prison. It is a book
  of such realism that the reader feels thruout that it is the dread
  hand of fate and not the author who relentlessly orders the unhappy
  life of Naundorff, and forces him finally to give up voluntarily the
  recognition he has struggled a lifetime to gain. The story of his
  lovely daughter Amélie, whose happiness is sacrificed, gives to the
  book a deeper human interest.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 110w.

  “This particular version of the imagined history of the Dauphin has a
  romantic atmosphere of hopeless unreality, and arouses only a languid
  sort of interest.” Wm. M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 113. S. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “Her literary style is remarkable for clarity and simplicity.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 398. Ag. 16, ’06. 260w.

  “It belongs to the highest type of the historical novel, drawing its
  inspiration from authentic sources and rich in those elements which
  invest the dry bones of history with flesh and blood.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4, ’06. 550w.

  “The novel is so well constructed, there is so much rich color in the
  landscapes, and so much clever character drawing that, at first sight,
  it seems strange that it does not interest one particularly. But the
  reason is not far to seek. It is a novel of propaganda.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

  “Generally speaking, the English will do well enough. For the story,
  in spite of Senora Bazan’s reputation, it does not in the present
  version afford those thrills which one demands in fiction of the lost
  Dauphin school.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 454. Jl. 14, ’06. 410w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 90w.


=Beach, Rex Ellingwood.= Spoilers. †$1.50. Harper.

  A story which breathes the “wild west” atmosphere of Nome and the
  outlying mining camps, one whose brutality (of the daring Jack London
  order) proves the truth of Kipling’s “there’s never a law of God or
  man runs north of Fifty-three.” The plot involves a conspiracy against
  the joint owners of the Midas, the richest mine of Anvil Creek. A
  charming girl is the unconscious agent of the villains, and is also
  the cause of bitter rivalry between one of the owners and one of the
  conspirators. There are brawls, shootings in the streets, riots,
  battles at the mines, and murderous hand-to-hand fights—all of which
  show elemental savage man free from moral restraint.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The only trouble with his method is that it results in an absolutely
  false picture of life.” Edward Clark Marsh.

    – + =Bookm.= 23: 433. Je. ’06. 1100w.

  “He mistakes vulgarity for strength and brute force for manliness; and
  he discusses without reserve matters which emphatically demand
  discreet treatment.”

      – =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 100w.

  “Grips us by sheer brute strength, and almost makes us forget how
  devoid it is of anything like grace or delicacy of workmanship.” Wm.
  M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 220w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1547. Je. 28, ’06. 280w.

  “In turning his material into the form of the novel, however, the
  writer has won no success other than that of maintaining a high
  sensational tension.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 407. My. 17, ’06. 250w.

  “He is chiefly intent on his story. That’s a thing full of dramatic
  incidents and dramatic figures. If the hero and heroine are less
  effective than the others, that is one of the proved penalties of the
  dignity.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 600w.

  “The young novelist knows the men he writes of, and he knows, also,
  the place in which he has located them.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 600w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 270w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 501. Je. 30, ’06. 190w.

  “It is distinctly a man’s book, just as the north was a man’s
  country.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 210w.


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

  “No one can read these lives without being renewed in spirit, and for
  young women we know of no works so instinct with spiritual virility or
  so potential for good as the ‘Daughters of the Puritans.’”

      + =Arena.= 35: 221. F. ’06. 390w.

  “A collection of brief biographical sketches, characterized by a real
  interest of subject-matter and a pleasantly unconventional manner of
  treatment.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 250w.

  “The author has used pretty faithfully all printed matter relating to
  his subject; but there is absolutely no evidence of that added
  exploration of manuscript material which is now demanded by the
  thoughtful reader.”

    + – =Nation.= 81: 530. D. 28, ’05. 940w.

  “The author’s style and treatment are sufficiently fresh and original
  to justify publication.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 90w.


=Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli.= Lord George Bentinck: a political
biography; new ed; with introd. by Charles Whibley. **$2. Dutton.

  “It seemed timely, amid the great free-trade electoral campaign just
  closed across the water to bring out on behalf of the losing side a
  new edition of Disraeli’s political biography.... It opens on the eve
  of the repeal of the Corn laws, of which it gives the Tory view.
  Bentinck forestalled Chamberlain in thinking that England’s commercial
  policy should be not free trade but reciprocity.” (Nation.) Mr.
  Whibley in his introduction “leads thru unsparing denunciation of
  Cobden and Peel up to a parallel between the leader of the
  Protectionists in 1846 and the leader of the Protectionists to-day.
  Thus it trenches so closely upon present politics that we, being
  non-political must leave Mr. Whibley’s opinions to speak for
  themselves.” (Ath.)

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  “An eloquent, not to say vehement, introduction. Frankly partisan in
  tone.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 610. N. 4. 150w.

  “Mr Whibley has certainly managed to compress into a few pages an
  exhibition of a lack of political judgment and foresight, along with a
  degree of supercilious cocksureness which will not conduce to
  recommend his work to the reading public.”

    – + =Ind.= 60: 804. Ap. 5, ’06. 450w.

  “Mr. Whibley has written as if he had lost at once his temper and his
  sense of historical perspective.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 4: 348. O. 20, ’05. 1100w.

        =Nation.= 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 190w.

  “From the historical standpoint, too, there is ample room for
  criticism. The sweeping statements common to campaign documents
  abound.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 276. F. 3, ’06. 210w.

  “Disraeli sums up the character and career of Peel with an
  impartiality and a penetration that make this biography an English
  classic. It is the only instance we know of contemporary history being
  written with a due sense of perspective. But Mr. Whibley is more than
  sympathetic: he is discerning.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 100: 617. N. 11, ’05. 1330w.


=Bearne, Catherine M.= A queen of Napoleon’s court. **$2.50. Dutton.

  A sketch of Désirée Bernadotte whose interest centers in “the picture
  it gives of her times rather than of her life, for she seems to have
  been an exceptionally dull product of a brilliant age.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Miss Bearne has put together a book which will appeal to the reader
  who is not particular in the matter of strict accuracy.”

    + – =Acad.= 69: 1342. D. 23, ’05. 200w.

  “No more interesting book of gossip about famous and infamous people
  has appeared in recent years.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 460w.

  “A book that has caught something of the glamour of that extraordinary
  age. Mrs. Bearne is not always correct, she repeats herself, she will
  drag in a fine tale, gallantly regardless of any right it has to be
  there; but she is pleasant gossip, full of mirth and entertainment.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 62. F. 23, ’06. 1390w.

  “It will please a class of readers unacquainted with Bourrienne and
  Madame Lenormand, indifferent as to criticism and judgment, unskilled
  in matters of grammar and rhetoric, intent merely on promiscuous
  anecdote and cheap sentiment.”

    – + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 110w.

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1081. D. 30, ’05. 160w.

  “Out of these persons and adventures the author has made a readable
  volume.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 630. N. 11, ’05. 130w.

  “Mrs. Bearne’s amusing book gives a capital picture of Napoleon’s
  France.”

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 121. Ja. 27. ’06. 380w.


=Bearne, Rev. David.= Charlie Chittywick. 85c. Benziger.

  The tale of a resolute little lad who battled against a whole family
  of idle, shiftless, worthless members, and step by step becomes a
  self-respecting bread-winner.


=Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John.= Works. Cambridge English
classics; text ed. by Arnold Glover. 10v. ea. *$1.50. Macmillan.

  An edition of Beaumont and Fletcher in the series of “Cambridge
  English classics.” It gives the text of the second folio, which
  contained the thirty-four plays of the first folio with the addition
  of the wild-goose chase and all other known plays of the authors
  published previously to 1679. All the variant readings appear in the
  appendix, but there is no critical apparatus provided.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 69: 1169. N. 11, ’05. 1380w. (Review of v. 1.)

    + + =Acad.= 70: 376. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)

        =Ath.= 1906. 2: 250. S. 1, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

  “Does not seem to us to possess any advantage over the Variorum
  edition ... except that of greater cheapness.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 344. Ap. 26, ’06. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 809. N. 25, ’05. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Within its restricted limits it seems to be well done. But it is not
  the twentieth century edition of Beaumont and Fletcher which is wanted
  by all students of the history of the English drama.” Brander
  Matthews.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 222. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The text ... is that of the second folio ... which causes us both
  wonder and regret.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 662. My. 26, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The work has been executed with scrupulous care, but the result is
  far from satisfactory.”

    – + =Spec.= 96: 260. F. 17, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John.= Works. Variorum ed.; ed. by A.
H. Bullen. 12v. ea. *$3.50. Macmillan.

  Mr Bullen’s variorum edition of Beaumont and Fletcher was some years
  ago announced to “include all that was of importance in the work of
  previous editors, together with such further critical matter as the
  investigations of the past half-century supplied, and also a fuller
  record of the variant readings of early texts.... It follows in the
  main the lines laid down by Dyce, and offers an excellent reading
  text, while much learning is accumulated in the notes; textually,
  however, it is hardly what the modern philological scholar will regard
  as altogether satisfactory.” (Spec.)

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  “Where all the old editions are unanimous in one reading, but that
  reading is to modern editors inexplicable, the Variorum edition does
  not hesitate to change it.”

      – =Acad.= 70: 376. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)

        =Ath.= 1906. 2: 250. S. 1, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The most striking of its deficiences is that it appears in what the
  general editor terms ‘modern spelling.’” Brander Matthews.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 222. Ap. 7, ’06. 430w. (Review of v. 1 and
          2.)

  “There is no astonishing amount of erudition displayed in the very
  concise introductions.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 662. My. 26, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)

    + – =Spec.= 96: 260. F. 17, ’06. 910w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Beavan, Arthur H.= Fishes I have known. $1.25. Wessels.

  The author’s many and varied experiences in landing strange fishes in
  out-of-the-way abodes are given instructively enough for cyclopedia
  information and entertainingly enough to captivate the most
  indifferent angler. “Dolphins, turtles, pilot-fish—very seldom caught
  it seems—the Australian barracouta, the Murray cod, the catfish and
  other antipodean fishes, have been among his prey.... After
  experiences in faraway waters he comes back to England, and always an
  entertaining guide, conducts us to more familiar scenes.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 140w.

  “A pleasant non-technical little volume upon fishing in general and
  particular—from the British standpoint.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

      + =N. Y. Times= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 320w.

  “It is a book which any intelligent reader might presumably enjoy if
  he enjoys animate life, travel and adventure of any kind; but we
  imagine the average ten year-old boy would read it with keener
  interest and more profit than the angler.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 269. Mr. 29, ’06. 160w.

      + =Spec.= 85: 764. N. 11, ’05. 180w.


=Beck, (Carl) Richard.= Nature of ore deposits; tr. and rev. by Walter
Harvey Weed; with 272 figures and a map. 2v. $8. Engineering and mining
journal.

  The work “has that temper which has marked the Freiberg work for a
  century, and which took shape in the like work of his predecessor, Von
  Cotta, and the many successive scholars of that school.... The aim of
  the treatise is to give a compendium of what is known as to the origin
  and distribution of all those deposits which afford important metallic
  elements, with a measure of attention to each in some proportion to
  its economical importance, and by the means of a systematic
  classification of the occurrences.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Coming to the matter of this work, it may summarily be said that
  within its limits it is almost beyond praise. What is essential of all
  the important metalliferous ore deposits of the world is briefly, yet
  clearly, set forth, and this with a surprising evenness of
  presentation. The present writer knows of no other treatise dealing
  with as varied and wide-ranging features which approaches it in its
  accuracy and sufficiency. The work of the translator in his
  emendations as well as his renderings from the German is generally
  excellent.” N. S. Shaler.

  + + + =Engin. N.= 55: 191. F. 15, ’06. 2120w.

  “The subject of ore deposits is treated in an exhaustive way.” E. W.
  S.

    + + =J. Geol.= 14: 659. O. ’06. 160w.


=Becke, (George) Louis.= Adventures of a supercargo. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  “Given a setting which includes a man or two, a ship and a stretch of
  the Pacific, Mr. Louis Becke may be relied upon to reel off yarns of
  adventure to any extent.... The young hero is caught by a ‘southerly
  buster’ while sailing in Sydney harbour, and driven out between the
  towering ironbound Heads which guard the entrance to that famous
  haven, we settle down with confidence to the perusal of a string of
  adventures in which no break is likely to occur.... A [story] that
  should find much favour among boy readers.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The opening part of the present book inclines to dullness. The critic
  may quarrel with such books for their lack of any artistic scheme of
  construction, and upon many other grounds. But it is a fact that the
  adventures do not halt.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 510. Ap. 28. 300w.

  “To enjoy the book to the full one should not be more than seventeen.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 133. Ap. 12, ’06. 400w.

  “We imagine that ‘The adventures of a supercargo,’ although
  disappointing from the viewpoint of Mr Becke’s old admirers, will
  prove an enjoyable book to boys and those fond of taking their travels
  in such fictional form.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 304. My. 12, ’06. 610w.


=Bedford, Randolph.= Snare of strength. †$1.50 Turner, H. B.

  A tale of Australia which “shows intimate acquaintance with Australian
  miners, politicians, company promoters, and prodigal sons.” (Ath.) The
  atmosphere of vitality, of invincible youth greedy of life and domain
  is fairly heroic. Three young men “run their race with extraordinary
  vigor and leave the reader breathless, as was the way of the early
  Australian novels of the bushranging days. Modern worship of athletics
  has resuscitated the old type of wild rider and bold lover, but he has
  the modern touch of self-consciousness and knows himself for the man
  he is.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “But because there are signs of power in Mr. Bedford’s book, we would
  beg him not to squander his language as Ned the prodigal squandered
  his life.”

    + – =Acad.= 69: 1155. N. 4, ’05. 340w.

  “In the matter of style he sometimes errs through striving after force
  of expression, but there are passages in the book that are admirably
  written. Taken as a whole ‘The snare of strength’ is a remarkable
  book.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 467. O. 7. 230w.

  “If you can forget its shortcomings, you will find in it no small
  measure of rugged human nature, and you will get some new and
  interesting impressions of Australian life, physical, social and
  political.” Frederick Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 117. O. ’06. 330w.

  “No more man-book has appeared since Theodore Roberts gave us ‘Hemming
  the adventurer’ in ’94.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 190w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 153. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.

  “Is in its very being a book ‘worth while.’”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 460w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

  “While the book is defective in proportion and literary art in some
  respects, the author has a genuine knowledge of human nature, and
  often writes acutely and with a real grasp on his characters and their
  motives.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.

    + – =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 130w.


=Beebe, C. William.= Bird: its form and function. **$3.50. Holt.

  An untechnical study of the bird in the abstract, which, the author
  believes, with an earnest nature-lover, should follow the handbook of
  identification. Among the phases of physical life discussed are
  features, framework, the skull, organs of nutrition, food, the breath
  of a bird, muscles, senses, beaks, and bills, body, head and neck,
  wings, feet and legs, tails and eggs of birds. The book is handsomely
  made and copiously illustrated.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A valuable contribution to nature study, for it is both scientific
  and popular.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

  “It is to the fascinating drama of the evolution of bird life that he
  devotes most attention, and it is this feature of the book that will
  probably be found the most interesting.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 120w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 761. D. ’06. 180w.


=Beebe, C. William.= Log of the sun: a chronicle of nature’s year; with
52 full-page il. by Walter King Stone; and numerous vignettes and
photographs from life. **$6. Holt.

  Fifty-two short essays form the text of a chronicle which deals with
  interesting forms of the twelve-months’ life including plant, fish,
  insect and the neighbor in fur and feather. The sketches are direct
  invitations to enjoy the wild beauties of out-of-door life, and the
  illustrations fully second the call. The volume represents perfection
  in book-making combining strength with artistic points of excellence.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The most sumptuous nature book of the year. Anyone who absorbs this
  book will become in his own person a fairly accomplished naturalist,
  besides having a very good time in the process.” May Estelle Cook.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 387. D. 1, ’06. 420w.

  “A most useful handbook.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 13, ’06. 140w.

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

  “We find only one false note in the present volume, and this was sung
  by a ‘bob-white’ in January.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 520. D. 13, ’06. 540w.

  “His words should reach a larger audience than holiday buyers and
  recipients.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 890. D. 8, ’06. 380w.


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

  “A simple, unforced and delightful narrative.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 149. F. 10, ’06. 290w.

  “They have made one of the most delightful of nature-books.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 123. F. ’06. 120w.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1347. D. 7, ’05. 120w.

  “Mexico is an attractive country, and the account of the profusion of
  bird life, especially in the marshes of Chapala, is vividly written.
  But the book is not a work of great literary merit.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 180w.


=Beecher, Henry Ward.= Life of Christ: without—within: two sermons. $1.
Harper.

  Two of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s strongest and most inspiring
  sermons. Christ’s life from without is sketched as it appeared to
  pharisee and publican; from within, as the greatest moral force the
  world has ever known.


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

  “The real strength and interest of Dr. Beecher’s book lie in the
  second part, ‘The promise.’” Kemper Fullerton.

    + – =Bib. World.= 28: 154. Ag. ’06. 340w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 101. Jl. 12, ’06. 280w.


=Beet, Joseph Agar.= Last things. *$1.50. Eaton.

  A reprint, carefully revised and partly rewritten work published in
  1897. The principal topics discussed are “The second coming of
  Christ,” and “The doom of the wicked.”


=Beethoven, Ludwig van.= Beethoven, the man and the artist, as revealed
in his own words; compiled and annotated by Friedrich Kerst; tr. into
Eng., and ed., with additional notes by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.

      + =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 110w.

      + =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 30w.

  “Of real value to the student of musical history.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 999. O. 25, ’06. 90w.

    + + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 280w.

  Reviewed by Richard Aldrich.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w.


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

  “We think [its value] considerable from every point of view save the
  pictorial.”

  + + – =Acad.= 71: 178. Ag. 25, ’06. 780w.


=Bell, Lilian Lida (Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Bogue).= Carolina Lee. †$1.50.
Page.

  An ardent Southern girl brought up abroad refuses to be comforted when
  her father dies. “How can you believe in a God who punishes you and
  sends all manner of evil on you while calling himself a God of love”
  expresses the burden of her distracted mind. She loses her fortune,
  she falls from a horse and becomes a cripple. Life looks hard and
  bitter. To her, in this state comes the healing truth of Christian
  science with its deep revelations of the power that can bind up the
  broken hearted, make whole and restore harmony.


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

        =Outlook.= 83: 332. Je. 9, ’06. 250w.


=Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs. Arthur George Bell) (N. D’Anvers,
pseud.).= Picturesque Brittany; il. in col. by Arthur G. Bell. *$3.50.
Dutton.

  The text and illustrations work out a unity of presentation
  interesting from a descriptive, historical and artistic standpoint. It
  is the record of a summer holiday in Brittany, and the observations
  include scenery, people, their homes, customs and manners, with now
  and then a dip into the religious and political aspects.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We think [Mr. Bell’s drawings], indeed, better than those of any
  other colour-book on Brittany that has yet been issued. Mrs. Bell
  reveals in the arrangement and proportion of her book the skill of a
  practised writer, if in the loose style we are sometimes allowed to
  see the author almost ‘en déshabille.’”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 636. My. 26. 400w.

  “To journey through this romantic region with such accomplished guides
  is indeed a privilege.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 244. O. 16, ’06. 360w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 754. S. 27, ’06. 120w.

  “The text is agreeably written, and the pictures ... are sober,
  truthful, and sufficiently able, and are without any of those
  extravagances of color that have grown, of late, somewhat too
  familiar.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 241. S. 20, ’06. 80w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 425. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 420w.

        + =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 110w.


=Bell, Ralcy Husted.= Words of the woods. **$1. Small.

  Verse, “ranging from patriotic addresses to our country, through
  appreciation of nature in many moods, and eulogiums of friends, to
  impassioned love-songs.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Conventional verse of a rather commonplace kind, devoid of anything
  like originality and not noticeably felicitous in diction.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 240w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w.

  “An impression is left upon the mind that prudent pruning would have
  made the volume smaller and saved the reader from occasional
  commonplaces both in thought and phrase.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 70w.


=Benn, Alfred William.= History of English rationalism in the nineteenth
century. 2v. *$7. Longmans.

  Mr. Benn’s book “includes intelligent summaries of the various systems
  of philosophy which have influenced English thought, and gives much
  detailed consideration to the influence of Coleridge and the
  neo-Platonists, to utilitarianism, and Benthamism, to the Oxford
  movement, and to all literary work of distinction which has influenced
  the spread of rationalism or tended to curb its spread.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His book strikes us as neither amusing nor particularly instructive.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 268. S. 8. 440w.

  “It is a singularly interesting and well written account of the
  movement of theological (and, to some extent, of philosophical)
  thought in England during the last century. The fulness and accuracy
  of Mr. Benn’s information regarding the books and writers whom he
  passes in review makes his survey instructive and suggestive even to
  those who dissent from the barren negativity of his conclusions.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 198. Je. 1, ’06. 2820w.

  “The discussion is necessarily far less simple than Sir Leslie
  Stephen’s account of the eighteenth century, and its dramatic unity
  correspondingly weaker; but it has a richness and variety that are not
  without their compensating interest.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 2230w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 660w.

        =Sat. R.= 102: 301. S. 8, ’06. 1800w.


=Bennett, John.= Treasure of Peyre Gaillard. †$1.50. Century.

  While Jack Gignillatt, a young civil engineering student is
  recuperating among his Southern relatives, an old box is found at the
  end of a secret stairway which contains the legend of treasure buried
  in an adjoining swamp by an ancestor in the Revolutionary days at the
  time of a Tory raid. Jack’s nimble mathematical wit, aided by a
  cousin’s intuition, is put to the test of unravelling a cryptogram’s
  secret, which when once revealed starts an excited group on its way to
  the sure unearthing of a fortune.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A remarkable ingenious and vigorous yarn of mystery.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 420w.

  “The manner of the book is unconventional, and its combination of
  poetic imagination with rugged, somewhat broken style gives it a
  peculiar charm. The author’s one love scene, although it is told with
  poetic beauty and elevation of feeling, is a serious fault in
  construction, because in it he makes the sole departure from the first
  person in which the rest of the book is written.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 863. D. 8, ’06. 440w.

  “Will certainly hold a high place among tales of modern
  treasure-trove.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 190w.


=Benson, Arthur Christopher (T. B. pseud.).= From a college window.
**$1.25. Putnam.

  Eighteen essays whose subjects “are exceedingly diverse and unless
  they can all be brought under the heading, ‘criticism of life,’ there
  is no real bond of connexion amongst them.” (Ath.) The author writes
  upon religion, education, and literary subjects.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He is always suggestive, and writes in a style that must commend
  itself to every lover of letters.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 445. My. 12, ’06. 1550w.

  “We find an ease and withal a grace, in these essays that charm out of
  the reader his sense of the pettiness of their reflections.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 420w.

    + + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 260w.

  Reviewed by C. H. A. Wager.

      + =Dial.= 41: 33. Jl. 16, ’06. 770w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 320w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 80w.

  “After reading ‘From a college window,’ it is still possible to hold
  that ‘T. B.’ is a more engaging and even a more ‘convincing’ person
  than Mr. Arthur Christopher Benson.” H. W. Boynton.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 393. Je. 16, ’06. 1570w.

  “There is nothing musty about these essays. They are characterized by
  good sense, clear discrimination, and sane judgment, but they were
  written with scholarly ease, and they are invested with the atmosphere
  of well-bred leisure.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.

  “The interesting and attractive personality of the author stands out
  from the discussions, which are clothed in the best of modern essay
  style.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 90w.

  “The chief fault one finds in these agreeable papers is here and there
  a touch of sentimentalism.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 21. Jl. 7, ’06. 260w.

        =Spec.= 96: 741. My. 12, ’06. 1360w.


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

        =Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 60w.

  “Mr. Benson does not seek verbal felicities, and he has few lines that
  stand out from the rest, but all his writing is at a high level of
  thought and style. Sincerity and simplicity are too rare endowments at
  any time for us to pass them by lightly.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 192. Ag. 5, ’06. 130w.


=Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr and T. B., pseuds.).=
Upton letters. **$1.25. Putnam.

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 716. N. 24, ’06. 550w.


=Benson, Arthur Christopher (T. B. pseud.).= Walter Pater. **75c.
Macmillan.

  A life of Walter Pater written for the “English men of letters”
  series. The biography “is arranged chronologically in seven chapters;
  each chapter stands as a complete story either of events or of mental
  development. Pater’s early and long-forgotten writings are recalled,
  the raison d’etre of his Oxford life is clearly defined, the
  authorship of ‘Marius the Epicurean’ is analyzed with much care, and,
  finally, the fifty-odd pages devoted to ‘Personal characteristics’ are
  an achievement in graphic and intimate personalia which will doubtless
  be generously cited by reviewers of the book.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The life of Pater could not have fallen into safer, kindlier, or more
  sympathetic keeping than that of Mr. Arthur Benson.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 659. Je. 2. 1700w.

  “The biographer has entered so thoroughly into the spirit of his work
  that he writes of Pater with almost Pater’s own felicity.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 206. S. ’06. 860w.

  “On the whole, however, the book is to be counted among the best of
  this excellent series.”

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 119. S. 1, ’06. 330w.

  “Mr. Benson writes with the most scrupulous self-effacement.
  Throughout, he walks warily, reverently, seriously, decorously, and
  his admiration is so constant that in one or two passages, as in the
  opening pages and the last chapter of the book, he falls somewhat into
  the manner of the master. Pater has been given into uncommonly
  sympathetic hands.” Wm. T. Brewster.

    + + =Forum.= 38: 102. Jl. ’06. 1000w.

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1543. Je. 28, ’06. 490w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 869. Je. 9, ’06. 1220w.

  “It does not perhaps dig very deeply into Pater’s curious mind, and it
  has certain definite limitations; but it is a living sketch, vivid,
  tender, engaging, taken from a particular point of view, and touched
  off with real grace and ease.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 190. My. 25, ’06. 1220w.

  “It is quite an ideal biography.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 14. Jl. 5, ’06. 1530w.

  “His book is readable. He has marshaled his facts and given them to us
  in an interesting style.” James Huneker

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 349. Je. 2, ’06. 3420w.

  “Is, so far, the best expression of the life and mission of that
  Oxford dilettante in Roman English art and letters that we have.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

  “Mr. Benson, with extraordinary skill, has caught the butterfly, and
  yet produced the impression upon our minds that it is still free and
  alive, still floating in the air that gave it being.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 460w.

  “This little volume is the best summary of Pater’s life and work we
  have yet seen.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 50w.

  “With a fine and delicate reserve he refuses to do more than to
  suggest how and in what spirit we should approach so lovable, so
  reticent, so shy a man. Just this, so it seems to us, is the chief
  value of his work.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 146. Ag. 4, ’06. 1220w.


=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Angel of pain. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  The hero of this new tale by the author of “Dodo” is a fine young
  Englishman, inheriting wealth and strength, but “a man with an iron
  hand who did not always remember to put on the velvet glove.” He
  proceeds in much too business-like a manner with his courtship, but is
  accepted by Madge Ellington chiefly through her ambitious mother’s
  persuasion. On the eve of the marriage, Madge finds that she loves a
  poor painter, and so begins a series of tragic happenings which lend
  hurried action to the story. There is a character worthy a
  Maeterlinck, Tom Merivale, who can give and receive messages from bird
  and beast.

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    + – =Acad.= 70: 381. Ap. 21, ’06. 560w.

  “We have no patience with the chapters in which the hermit appears.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 445. Ap. 14. 290w.

  “The book is full of clever satire, trenchant analysis and a certain
  underlying vein of symbolism that is full of suggestion, but it lacks
  heart. There is not quite enough human nature in it, of the better
  sort, to make the characters convincing.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 31. Mr. ’06. 370w.

  “Mr Benson has gained much in solidity; he can no longer be called
  merely clever. But he has lost in vitality.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 483. My. ’06. 190w.

  “He has simply spoiled a story of genuine human interest by a reckless
  indulgence in sensational imaginings.” Wm. M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 220w.

  “Is a good story and is something more.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 458. F. 22, ’06. 350w.

  “Leaves us with the impression that, for all its laboured length and
  solid paragraphs, the book is the result of incomplete imagination and
  undigested thought.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 480w.

  “The book is undeniably a little disappointing at first, because
  somewhat lacking in the amusing qualities which we have learned to
  expect from its author but it grows upon one as the characters slowly
  develop and the theme is worked out through the medium of their
  lives.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 117. F. 24, ’06. 600w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 190w.

  “A singular mingling of the attractive and the disappointing. It is in
  its plot and situations distressing, but in its pictures of English
  society it is extremely interesting, and there are several characters
  worth knowing and rather carefully worked out.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 230w.

  “It is unusual, and well executed in a way but it is decidedly not a
  cheerful tale.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 260w.

  “Mr Benson would do well to shun the supernatural: it does not suit
  his style.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 529. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.


=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Paul. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  Paul Norris and Norah Ravenscroft who had played together since
  childhood find that they love each other after Norah marries Theodore
  Beckwith, a mean-spirited shrivelled up specimen of mankind. Paul
  becomes Beckwith’s private secretary and incidentally is compelled to
  be a modern type of court fool, tho sacrificing none of his dignity
  and courage in playing an entertainer’s rôle to amuse a pagan,
  sensuous nature. Paul’s hatred for the man tempts him to run him down
  with a motor car, he repents at the last moment but too late to avert
  the tragedy. The second part of the story shows Paul’s remorse which
  would drown itself in drink, his conversion, his marriage with Norah,
  and his final reparation to a “calm, un-angry, inevitable justice” by
  saving the child of Theodore and Norah from certain death.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An unpleasant laboured story.”

      – =Acad.= 71: 398. O. 20, ’06. 150w.

  “We are disposed to rank this novel as Mr. Benson’s best work
  accomplished since the public ear was captured by the specious
  cleverness of ‘Dodo.’”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 543. N. 3. 280w.

  “The writing is hardly less slovenly and involved than usual, and, as
  usual, the minor characters are delightful.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 353. O. 19, ’06. 290w.

  “The villain is too villainous to be true, and the hero too amiable to
  engage sympathy; the heroine is simply a nice girl in an awkward
  position.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 360w.

  “It would be a safe prediction that the people who have liked Mr.
  Benson’s other books will like this new one even better.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 170w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “There is just a tinge here of that diabolism toward which Mr. Benson
  seems to have a bent.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 120w.

  “Mr. Benson is a writer who never quite gets the effect at which he
  seems to be aiming. The book would be twice as interesting if it were
  half as long.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 210w.


=Benson, Godfrey R.= Tracks in the snow: being the history of a crime;
ed. from the Ms. of the Rev. Robert Driver. †$1.50. Longmans.

  The rector of an English country parish has recorded the story of the
  mysterious murder of his friend and neighbor, Eustace Peters and the
  unravelling of the mystery to which certain tracks of heavy boots
  found in the snow furnish the chief clue. It is from this manuscript
  that the present thrilling detective story with its mazes of
  suspicions, its strange adventures and narrow escapes is supposed to
  have been edited.

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  “We do not remember reading such a clever murder story since Grant
  Allen’s ‘The curate of Churnside.’”

      + =Acad.= 70: 429. My. 5, ’06. 440w.

  “The book, in short, shows considerable crudeness, but also an
  imaginative faculty by no means contemptible.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 130w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 371. Je. 9, ’06. 240w.

  “It is the history of a crime set forth with much artistic literary
  ability.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

  “A good detective story of a somewhat novel kind. The book is really
  interesting.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 698. Je. 2, ’06. 220w.


=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= King’s achievement. $1.50. Herder.

  A piece of controversial fiction which portrays Elizabethan times and
  doings, and which specifically deals with the suppression of the
  monasteries and the proclamation of the Royal supremacy in religious
  affairs. “Father Benson frankly takes sides.... The good is all on the
  side of the monasteries, the bad on the side of Henry and Cromwell and
  their creatures.” (Acad.)

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  “An exceptionally good historical novel, as such things go. It is a
  clever, a thorough, and a powerful work; but, in our opinion, it was a
  mistake to write it.”

    + – =Acad.= 69: 1080. O. 14, ’05. 340w.

  “The story, which is long, is mainly used as a vehicle for expressing
  the author’s decided views upon the religious and political matters of
  the day, and is rather overweighted by the historical detail which
  obtrudes itself too persistently in the foreground.”

    – + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 170w.

  “The work does not, on the whole, show as much careful elaboration as
  its predecessor [‘By what authority?’]. In compensation, however, the
  story has more unity and proportion, chiefly because there are fewer
  characters to claim the attention.”

    + – =Cath. World.= 82: 848. Mr. ’06. 460w.

  “He draws his characters with ease and sympathy, but not with that
  intensity of insight which creates a type and yet gives it the force
  of an individual. But they are not complete and striking human beings;
  and this is the flaw in what is a really beautiful and sensitive piece
  of work.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 359. O. 27, ’05. 500w.

  “We gladly recommend the book not only as a romance but also as
  history, inasmuch as it gives a far more truthful picture of the great
  sacrilege of the sixteenth century than most of the (so-called)
  histories of the period.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 240w.


=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Queen’s tragedy. $1.50. Herder.

  The court setting is a prominent feature of Father Benson’s portrayal
  of Queen Mary, against which background he outlines her as “human and
  a woman.... First love, a passion for Philip of Spain in the breast of
  a woman of thirty-seven, is tragedy in suspense from its commencement,
  and the novelist makes her foolish heart flutter before us till we
  need the annalist to reduce the temperature of our pity.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Whatever else may be thought of Father Benson’s latest historical
  novel, no one will fail to find it fresh, suggestive and interesting.”
  J. H. Pollen.

    + – =Acad.= 71: 63. Jl. 21, ’06. 1090w.

  “The writing at the end of the book is fine and grandiose.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 37. Jl. 14. 310w.

  “Though it is a creditable piece of work is scarcely on a level with
  either ‘By what authority?’, or ‘The king’s achievement.’”

    + – =Cath. World.= 84: 270. N. ’06. 360w.

  “It is first and foremost an engaging book. The author has what is
  called ‘a way with him’ ... his humour is fresh ... then, too, though
  the style is firm and good, it is all so easy, so limpid, so light.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 259. Jl. 20, ’06. 790w.

  “Two historic scenes are depicted with great power, the marriage of
  Mary and Philip at Winchester, and the burnings of Ridley and Latimer
  at Oxford.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 433. O. 6, ’06. 220w.


=Benton, Joel.= Persons and places. $1. Broadway pub.

  “Mr. Joel Benton came into casual contact with many people we want to
  know about—Emerson, Thoreau, Matthew Arnold, Horace Greeley, Barnum
  and Bryant—and he chats about them in a pleasant way, tho without
  contributing anything very novel or important to our knowledge of
  these men.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Writing largely of things a part of which he was and nearly all of
  which he saw, Mr. Benton can by no means be accused of producing
  merely the echo of an echo.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 300w.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1113. N. 9, ’05. 90w.

  “Most of the papers are not of serious importance.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 310w.


=Benziger, Marie Agnes.= Off to Jerusalem. *$1. Benziger.

  A happy account of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem during which the narrator
  gained “many graces, deep and holy impressions, and an enthusiastic
  love for the Holy land.”


=Berard, (Eugene) Victor.= British imperialism and commercial supremacy;
tr. by H. W. Foskett; with a pref. to the Eng. ed. by the author.
*$2.60. Longmans.

  Mr. Foskett says: “At the present time, the antagonistic opinions of
  free trade on the one hand, and the protection, fair trade, preference
  to the colonies on the other, are shaking to its very foundations the
  economic structure on which commercial Great Britain has rested and
  flourished undisturbed for the past fifty years. Under the
  circumstances the comprehensive survey made by M. Victor Bérard of the
  commercial and industrial situation of Great Britain among the leading
  communities of the day must undoubtedly appeal to the intelligence of
  all thinking Britons.” The translator’s aim is to emphasize the
  necessity for a thoro application of modern scientific methods.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The analysis of the book is keen, its style lively, and it is
  interesting reading.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 173. Jl. ’06. 140w.

  “On the whole, the translation is meritorious, and pains have been
  bestowed upon the book.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 228. F. 24. 880w.

        =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 522. O. ’06. 160w.

  “The figures are now so far out of date that an appendix bringing them
  down to within the year—if it be impossible to recast the text—is
  necessary. The translation is excellent.” Edward A. Bradford.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 1410w.

  “Suggestive and entertaining.” Alvin S. Johnson.

      + =Pol. Sci.= Q. 21: 718. D. ’06. 420w.

  “M. Berard is at best an able journalist juggling with second-hand
  knowledge and snippets from Blue-books and consular reports.
  Seriously, M. Berard’s English friends ought to have revised this
  undoubtedly interesting volume before it was allowed to appear before
  the English public.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 102: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 1860w.

  “M. Bérard is a charming writer, but of English politics, of the
  English temperament, of Imperialism, of the personnel of English
  government, his conception is wholly farcical. The English version, in
  our opinion, might have been better done, for it is full of misprints,
  and many of the phrases are awkwardly rendered.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 536. Ap. 7, ’06. 1240w.


=Bergamo, Rev. Cajetan Mary da.= Thoughts and affections on the passion
of Jesus Christ for every day of the year taken from the Holy Scriptures
and the writings of the fathers of the church; new tr. by the Passionist
fathers of the U. S. *$2. Benziger.

  “The principal object of this new translation is to rescue from
  oblivion a valuable work for many years out of print.”


=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.

  “All are written out of a wealth of precise information and, though
  deeply sympathetic, exhibit a perfectly sane and fair minded spirit.”
  Frederic Austin Ogg.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 259. Ap. 16, ’06. 340w.

  “The book could still be rescued for the mass of American people who
  ought to read it, by careful editing, by the elimination of one third
  of its material, which is useless repetition, and by giving it that
  typographical dress in which the average reader expects a book of such
  popular value to appear.” Edward A. Steiner.

    + – =Yale R.= 15: 106. My. ’06. 440w.


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

  “In its pictures of facts and conditions the book is entirely
  convincing, but as a story is not signally impressive.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “The story has a curious interest, as an interpretation, from the
  inside, of a theory of life utterly foreign to the average reader’s
  ideas.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 140w.

  “Is a simple, affecting tale of Russian-Jewish life.”

      + =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 120w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 32. Ja. 20, ’06. 230w.


=Bertin, L. E.= Marine boilers: their construction and working, dealing
more especially with tubulous boilers; tr. and ed. by Leslie S.
Robertson, with a new chapter on “Liquid fuel” by Engineer-Lieutenant H.
C. Anstey and a preface by Sir William White. *$5. Van Nostrand.

  A second edition of this work by a Frenchman appears with such
  revision and extension as the strides in marine practice, make
  necessary. The editor says that “progress has been rather in the
  direction of concentrating practice, along well acknowledged lines,
  than by the introduction of any noticeable departure in the design of
  boilers. Considerable development has taken place in the application
  of steam turbines to marine propulsion, but it has not called for any
  change in the types of boilers already in use.” A notable addition to
  the volume is a chapter on “Liquid Fuel.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Ath.= 1906, 2: 218. Ag. 25. 620w.

  “On the whole, the book is to be commended as the most satisfactory
  treatise on water tube boilers from the historical and constructive
  standpoint of which the reviewer has knowledge.” Wm. Kent.

  + + + =Engin. N.= 56: 51. Jl. 12, ’06. 700w.


=Besant, Walter.= Mediaeval London, v. 1. Historical and social. *$7.50.
Macmillan.

  This division of the posthumous work of Walter Besant on “The survey
  of London” will be complete in two volumes. “Mediaeval London,
  historical and social” to be followed by “Mediaeval London,
  ecclesiastical.” “The first volume discusses the history of the city
  in relation to our kings, whose dealings with the capital are
  succinctly recorded. The social condition of the town is also
  exhibited in its many and varied phases.” (Ath.) “The numerous and
  excellent illustrations are not the least attractive feature of the
  book. Many are taken from manuscripts in the British museum and
  elsewhere.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The great charm of these volumes is the individuality of the writer.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 65. Jl. 21. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “His notes are exceedingly valuable, and no future historical novelist
  of London will, we imagine, ever pass them by.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 233. Je. 29, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Parts of the whole volumes are suggestive rather of a collection of
  materials than of the production of a literary artist.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 101. Ag. 2, ’06. 1270w. (Review of v. 1.)

        =Sat. R.= 102: 424. O. 6, ’06. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “It is impossible here to do justice to the ability with which this
  picture of the past is drawn. Sir Walter left out nothing that could
  help us to realize the vigour of the great city, its pride of
  patriotism, its wealth, its far-reaching commerce. His name will be
  linked with it in such a fashion as we can hardly find paralleled in
  the history of the world’s capitals.”

  + + + =Spec.= 97: 541. O. 13, ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Betts, Ethel Franklin.= Favorite nursery rhymes. †$1.50. Stokes.

  Some of the oldest and the best nursery rhymes are grouped here and
  charmingly illustrated in black and white with six full-page colored
  plates.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 90w.


Bible for young people: arranged from the King James version; with
twenty-four full page il. from old masters. $1.50. Century.

  A need of the day is supplied in this volume of Bible stories which is
  a new and revised edition of a book originally issued at double the
  price. In making the text interesting to young readers, genealogies,
  doctrines and the hard-to-understand passages have been omitted. The
  illustrations are fine reproductions of the work of old masters.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The present edition is in more popular form than when it first
  appeared.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 31, ’06. 30w.

  “The compiler has shown discrimination and taste in her selection of
  material. While primarily appealing to young people, this admirable
  compilation will interest grown readers as well.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 190w.

Bible—Proverbs; tr. out of the original Hebrew and with former
translations diligently compared and revised. $1. Century.

  This little volume uniform with the “Thumb nail series” contains for
  introduction a chapter on “The proverbs of the Hebrews” from Dr. Lyman
  Abbott’s “The life and literature of the ancient Hebrews.”


Bible. Book of Ecclesiastes: a new metrical translation, with an
introduction and explanatory notes by Paul Haupt. 50c. Hopkins.

  “The translation here presented is a good one—accurate, fresh,
  suggestive, and rhymical. The conclusions embodied in this work ...
  seem to rest upon too uncertain and subjective grounds.” Ira Maurice
  Price and John M. P. Smith.

    + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 323. Ap. ’06. 190w.


=Bielschowsky, Albert.= Life of Goethe; authorized tr. from the German
by W: A. Cooper. 3v. ea. **$3.50. Putnam, v. 1, ready.

  A three-volume life of Goethe, with full critical estimates, designed
  for the student rather than for the general reader. The author devoted
  a life-time to the work and based it upon material made accessible by
  the opening of the Goethe archives and by recent philological
  investigation. The first volume covers the period from 1749–1788,—from
  Goethe’s birth to his return from Italy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Cooper approves himself a competent German scholar, and a writer
  of sound English as well. His rendering is now and then a trifle
  loose.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 321. Mr. 17. 1660w. (Review of v. 1.)

    + + =Critic.= 48: 364. Ap. ’06. 2180w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Bielschowsky’s book, by reason of its fuller and more accurate
  information will now take the place in our libraries that Mr. Lewes’s
  held so long. Professor Cooper’s translation is, in general, a very
  satisfactory piece of work. The language is usually well-chosen, and
  renders the thought, and in some degree the style, of the original.”
  Lewis A. Rhoades.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 85. F. 1, ’06. 1840w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Is remarkable for the impartiality with which, as a general thing, it
  keeps the balance between literature and scholarship.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Bielschowsky has brought to his task the two indispensable
  requisites: on the one hand, familiarity with the details of Goethe
  research, a world of scholarship by itself; on the other hand, the
  ability to think and feel and enjoy independently and to write with
  clearness and charm.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 430. My. 24, ’06. 2250w.

  “Two things seem defective in this volume: Bielschowsky has been no
  more successful than his predecessors in getting at the details
  incident to Goethe’s administration of public office at Weimar, and
  less even than others has he appreciated the dramatic significance of
  Goethe’s first touch with Schiller when Goethe visited the military
  school in Würtemberg, which he disposes of in two lines.” J. Perry
  Worden.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 136. Mr. 3, ’06. 1620w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Is probably the most complete and authoritative life of Goethe.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 118. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The story of the years covered by this installment—1749 to 1788—is
  told clearly enough, but with all his study, all his industry, all his
  admiration of Goethe’s genius Bielschowsky has not written a great
  biography.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 1.)

  + + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 640. Ap. 28, ’06. 2040w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Biese, Alfred.= Development of the feeling for nature in the middle
ages and modern times. *$2. Dutton.

  “It has been the author’s endeavor to trace in this volume the
  development of human thought in regard to the phenomena of nature from
  the introduction of Christianity downwards, in the same way that was
  done in a previous volume for the time of the Greeks and Romans. This
  has been done mainly by the study of writings, both in prose and
  poetry, in which natural phenomena, whether connected with scenery,
  weather, birds, or flowers, are spoken of with admiration.” (Nature.)
  “Ample quotations, pertinent notes, and a good index give point to
  Herr Biese’s discussions.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The vague and unsatisfactory impression left by his generalizations
  is, no doubt, due in some degree to his style, though for this the
  translator may be to blame. On the whole, however, the translation is
  workmanlike.” C: H. A. Wager.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 235. O. 16, ’06. 1850w.

      + =Nature.= 74: 293. Jl. 26, ’06. 450w.

      + =Outlook= 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 50w.

  “Useful and comprehensive handbook.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 505. O. 7, ’05. 210w.


=Bigelow, Melville Madison, and others.= Centralization and the law;
scientific legal education, an illustration, with an introd. by Melville
M. Bigelow. **$1.50. Little.

  Eight lectures delivered before the Boston university law school “on
  various recent occasions ... as part of the plan of legal extension
  now on foot there.” “The main lines of thought centre around the ideas
  (1) of Equality which according to the author, was formerly the
  dominant legal force in American life; (2) of Inequality, which is
  characteristic of present conditions; and (3) of Administration, which
  is the supreme end of legal, and, in fact, of all education intended
  to fit men for the practical affairs of life. Specifically, the more
  important subjects discussed are the extension of legal education, the
  nature of law, monopoly, the scientific aspects of law, and government
  regulation of railway rates.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 130w.

  “The economic philosophy underlying these essays is of a somewhat
  conventional, if not dangerously superficial order.”

    + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 329. My. ’06. 1080w.

  “The book is one that can be recommended to the general reader as well
  as to the lawyer and the law student. The historical presentation is
  excellent, and the citation of modern cases gives to the conclusions
  an immediate interest which either presentation by itself would not
  possess.” Worthington C. Ford.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 48. Ja. 27, ’06. 1880w.

  “As an exposition of law regarded as a progressive science,
  ‘Centralization and law’ is a valuable contribution to real progress,
  and in a department where that contribution is greatly needed.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 478. Je. 23, ’06. 600w.


=Bigelow, Poultney.= History of the German struggle for liberty, v. 4.
**$2.25. Harper.

  “In the details of book-construction the volume is unusually faulty. A
  large proportion of the text, probably a third, consists of quotations
  worked in with so little skill that the volume suggests the note-book
  rather than the finished production. The worst feature of the book,
  however, is its unfortunate tone.” Frank Maloy Anderson.

    – – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 711. Ap. ’06. 490w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “It contains the same slap-dash miscellaneous kind of matter as do its
  three predecessors, and does not deserve, any more than they, to be
  ranked as history according to any established canon, nor as
  literature if grace of style and a clear thread of consecutive
  narrative are to be regarded as necessary.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 191. F. ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “The tone of the work is throughout journalistic, often hysterical;
  but some later writer will doubtless find in this mass of material
  abundant matter for a single volume that will clearly and logically
  present the subject without sacrificing what has evidently been Mr.
  Bigelow’s paramount aim—the readableness and popular character of the
  narrative.”

    – + =Dial.= 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “Occurrences are treated rather in accordance with their
  picturesqueness or with the degree of attention which they excited at
  the time than with their permanent significance.”

  + – – =Nation.= 82: 301. Ap. 12, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 4.)

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)


=Bigg, Charles.= Church’s task under the Roman empire. *$1.75. Oxford.

  “They are delightful reading, fresh and breezy in their manner, with
  an ease of handling the material that speaks of long familiarity. The
  footnotes add very much both to the size of the book and to its
  value.” Franklin Johnson.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 337. Ap. ’06. 630w.


=Bigham, Madge A.= Blackie, his friends and his enemies: a book of old
fables in new dresses; il. by Clara E. Atwood. †$1.50. Little.

  Thirty-five stories made new with the furbishing suggested by the
  “Story lady’s” imagination are told a little street boy by way of
  compensation for his pet rat that died.

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  “An animal book which children will find very charming.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.


=Bindloss, Harold.= Alton of Somasco. †$1.50. Stokes.

  “It is interesting to compare with Mr. Beach’s novel the somewhat
  similar ‘Alton of Somasco.’ Here the scene is British Columbia instead
  of Alaska, and there is no political deviltry to impel the action, but
  otherwise the situation is the same, being evolved out of the conflict
  between legitimate settlers and unscrupulous schemers for the
  possession of valuable ranching and mining properties.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A novel which is terse, powerful yet graceful, showing intimate
  knowledge and acute observation, never overweighted with description
  yet containing many delightful pictures of colonial life and manners.”

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 881. Ag. 26, ’05. 330w.

  “We have no hesitation in pronouncing this his best story, nor in
  recommending it particularly to the attention of adventurous young
  England.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 235. Ag. 19. 400w.

  “The interest of the plot is fairly well sustained, but the book is
  carelessly written.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 50w.

  “An admirable novel is the result, and one which introduces us to a
  territory hitherto almost unexploited in fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 364. Je. 1. ’06. 120w.

  “In ‘Alton of Somasco’ Mr. Bindloss is seen at his best.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 279. S. 1, ’05. 380w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.


=Bindloss, Harold.= Cattle-baron’s daughter. †$1.50. Stokes.

  The transition-period when the boundless cattle-lands of the Northwest
  were first opened to the home-steader is well handled in this story of
  the cattle-baron’s daughter and her divided loyalty to her father, the
  champion of the old order, and to her lover, the leader of the
  homestead boys. The characters are well drawn Western types and the
  scenes of feud and riot, of miniature war and revolution, are
  stirring, because behind the hero is the spirit of the times, the
  steady march of the settler leading to the final triumph of the plow.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 67. Jl. 21. 180w.

  “A tale of thrilling adventure with plentiful humorous relief.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 626. O. 6, ’06. 240w.

  “The interest is well sustained to the end of the story, which is much
  above the average and is well worth reading.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 237. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w.


=Binns, Henry Bryan.= Life of Walt Whitman. **$3. Dutton.

  In Mr. Binns’ biography and interpretation it has been the aim to
  write about Whitman rather than to give Whitman’s work with running
  commentary. The author is an Englishman “who ‘loves’ the United
  States,” and thinks the time is not yet ripe for a final and complete
  biography, and therefore his work is suggestive rather than conclusive
  in the sense of literary decisions. “It is as a man that I see and
  have sought to describe Whitman. But as a man of special and
  exceptional character, a new type of mystic or seer.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a biography, it will easily take its place as our most exhaustive
  and authoritative record of Whitman’s career.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1285. D. 9, ’05. 1520w.

  Reviewed by M. A. DeWolfe Howe.

      + =Atlan.= 98: 849. D. ’06. 1280w.

  “Both in biographical detail and in critical comment the book is an
  excellent piece of work, perhaps the fullest and best study of the
  poet’s life and writings that has yet appeared.” Percy F. Bicknell.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 145. Mr. 1, ’06. 850w.

  “A book of some interest and value, which yet has a few of the faults
  common to most biographies. In the first place, it is too long.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 401. N. 24, ’05. 2880w.

    + – =Nation.= 81: 469. D. 7, ’05. 840w.

  “The poet’s work is, indeed, vindicated simply and naturally by Mr.
  Binns, with no violence of argument, and it is a pleasure to
  acknowledge the fine quality of spirit which he displays.” Jessie B.
  Rittenhouse.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 970w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 150w.

  “Mr. Binns’ book, granted a few somewhat soulful peculiarities, is not
  at all bad.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 20. Ja. 6, ’06. 1760w.


=Birney, Mrs. Theodore W.= Childhood. $1. Stokes.

  Believing that “discord in the home is in most cases due to a lack of
  comprehension of child nature and its needs,” Mrs. Birney offers
  parents and teachers the benefits of her earnestly acquired
  experience. “She is singularly free from fads; does not write as if
  she were the whole Law and the Prophets on the subject of children.”
  (Critic.)

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  “A careful perusal of the book should bring help to many households.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 90w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.


=Birrell, Augustine.= Andrew Marvell. **75c. Macmillan.

  “Very little is said of the poetry upon which his reputation rests.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 260w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 100w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 582. Ap. 14, ’06. 1720w.


=Birrell, Augustine.= In the name of the Bodleian, and other essays.
**$1.50. Scribner.

  “A collection of short essays on a great variety of subjects by a
  writer who is, by nature and training, a spectator and commentator of
  the school though not of the genius of Charles Lamb.” (Outlook.) “He
  opens his service, so to speak, in the name of the Bodleian, and goes
  to tell us of book-worms—the literary bookworm, not the one with
  spectacles—confirmed readers, first editions, libraries, old
  booksellers, collecting, and some score of similar things of value to
  the bibliophile.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If his work is always slight, it is very nearly always agreeable.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1191. N. 18, ’05. 1360w.

  “Represents him favorably enough as a critic none the less stimulating
  because he touches his topics with a light hand.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 230w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 310w.

  “Is characteristically full of quaint fancies, brilliant sallies of
  wit and humor, keenly-calculated judgments of men and things, and an
  erudition that pointedly avoids beaten highways to cull its treasures
  from old nooks and dusty corners.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 159. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.

  “Without being in any sense of the word a great essayist, Mr.
  Augustine Birrell is a brilliant and lucid writer.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 426. D. 8, ’05. 1520w.

  “It would be a limited taste indeed that could not extract from [these
  essays] several half-hours of entertainment.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 41. Ja. 11, ’06. 640w.

  “None of them will seem really trivial to lovers of ‘Obiter dicta’ and
  its successors. For they are all marked with the good-humored
  acuteness, the animated nonchalance, which engaged us in him long
  ago.” H. W. Boynton.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 879. D. 9, ’05. 1400w.

  “This volume is more fragmentary and discursive than the earlier books
  from the same hand, and the papers are, on the whole, less valuable.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 120w.

  “These essays, aside from the Arnold fling, are charming in tone and
  in their literary quality, which ranges from Baconian formality to a
  very effective use of modern slang.”

  + + – =Reader.= 7: 566. Ap. ’06. 450w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 40w.

  “It is always easy, but not always comforting, to read Mr. Birrell.
  When he is writing about books he is commonly delightful, though even
  here he cannot resist the temptation to ‘get his knife into’ something
  or somebody that he dislikes.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 97. Ja. 20, ’06. 1160w.


=Birukoff, Paul.= Early life of Leo Tolstoy, his life and work. **$1.50.
Scribner.

  The work of a man who was a friend of Tolstoi’s and in his employ. The
  outlines of M. Paul Birukoff’s biography were filled in by notes
  furnished by Tolstoi himself which fact lends a serious and
  authoritative value to the work. This first volume gives an account of
  the origin of the Tolstois, the novelist’s childhood, youth and
  manhood, and ends with his marriage. “A great deal of attention is
  devoted to the moral development of the young prodigy and very little
  to those amusements and external interests that probably were of far
  more importance in shaping his character.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is indeed a most serious work and suggests that the author was
  much more anxious to exhibit Leo Tolstoy as a prophet and teacher than
  as a literary artist whose province it is to hold the mirror up to
  nature.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 498. My. 26, ’06. 2030w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “This most interesting publication ought to find many readers.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 178. Ag. 18. 1360w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “There can be no doubt that this work will be a mine of information to
  the more critical biographer as well as in itself of much value.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 188. Ag. ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “It is an exhaustive analysis of the youth and early manhood of a
  personality of exceptional interest, with whose later years of
  achievement the reading-public is generally familiar.” Annie Russell
  Marble.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 59. Ag. 1, ’06. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “When completed bids fair to become one of the important contributions
  to our biographical knowledge during recent years.” Wm. T. Brewster.

    + + =Forum.= 38: 97. Jl. ’06. 1350w. (Review of v. 1.)

      + =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 1.)

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “One can pardon somewhat his lack of literary skill, in view of his
  transparent honesty, and modest attitude toward his work as ‘material’
  for the use of more competent workers hereafter.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 60. Jl. 19, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “There is in his attitude towards his literary master a certain
  servility of indiscriminate admiration, a too thoroughgoing sympathy.
  The net result of which simplicity is that the eminent Russian’s worst
  enemy could have wished him no other biographer.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 368. Je. 9, ’06. 910w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The undisguisedly autobiographic portions are exceedingly frank in
  places, and always intensely egotistical.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The book is thus chaotic and almost incoherent, yet most of the
  material is of intense interest.”

    + – =Putnam’s.= 1: 110. O. ’06. 510w. (Review of v. 1.)

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Black, Rev. J. F.= Bible way: an antidote to Campbellism. *50c. Meth.
bk.

  An argument in dialogue form which presents arguments against the
  doctrine of so-called Christian or Campbellite church.


=Black, John Janvier.= Eating to live, with some advice to the gouty,
the rheumatic, and the diabetic: a book for every body. *$1.50.
Lippincott.

  “Forewarned is forearmed” might be said to be the watchword of Dr.
  Black in his present work. He aims to save from pitfalls the mortals
  who eat and drink from instinct rather than from reason. He discusses
  the economics and values of different foods and gives dietary advice
  to people variously afflicted.


=Blackmar, Frank Wilson.= Elements of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.

  “On the whole, the author has furnished us with a very serviceable
  text. It is a logical development of the principles of the science and
  the different branches have been brought into proper correlation. Its
  style is sufficiently simple for easy comprehension and the student
  will find it a working manual of great value.” George B. Mangold.

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 243. Ja. ’06. 440w.

  “Is a singularly ineffective and eminently mediocre book. It affords
  no real penetrating insight into the nature of society. It has no
  intrinsic coherence.”

      – =Atlan.= 97: 852. Je. ’06. 230w.

        =Bookm.= 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 60w.

  “In general it may be said that Mr. Blackmar has made effective use of
  the new sources of material and new developments of theory that have
  become available since the publication of Mr. Fairbanks’ book.... Many
  pages of Mr. Blackmar’s book are marred by English not merely faulty,
  but incorrigibly and persistently so to such an extent that the sense
  may be recovered only with difficulty.” Robert C. Brooks.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 100. Mr. ’06. 910w.

  “The chapters on social pathology bring the science down to earth, and
  constitute probably the most valuable part of the book.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 202. Mr. 16, ’06. 210w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 100w.

  “Will serve a useful purpose ... for intelligent general readers and
  social workers who wish to gain a social attitude of mind in relation
  to all varieties of man’s activities.”

      + =School R.= 14: 542. S. ’06. 200w.


=Blair, Emma Helen, and Robertson, James Alexander=, eds. Philippine
islands, 1493–1898. 55 v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.

  “In eight volumes just under consideration, ninety documents ... are
  produced in translation, as are parts of the whole of seven old
  printed works. The editorial work upon these documents shows
  painstaking care and much discrimination. The translations—and this is
  important—appear generally to deserve the same commendation.” James A.
  LeRoy.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 681. Ap. ’06. 2900w. (Review of v. 21–27 and
          29.)

  Reviewed by James A. LeRoy.

  + + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 143. O. ’06. 1390w. (Review of v. 28–38.)

  “The volumes of 1905 are, all in all, the best edited and most
  carefully arranged and translated of the series thus far.”

    + + =Ind.= 40: 927. Ap. 19, ’06. 1090w. (Review of v. 21–27.)

    + + =Ind.= 61: 695. S. 20, ’06. 730w. (Review of v. 28–38.)

        =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 28–32.)


=Blake, Katharine Evans.= Hearts’ haven. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  “A stirring romance, rich in lights and shadows, full of human
  interest and possessing the peculiar charm of new scenes and
  surroundings. Another excellence of this work is the remarkable
  knowledge of psychology displayed.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 1310w.

  “The author of ‘Hearts’ haven’ has made clever use of her material,
  and the admission that the book leaves behind it a sense of depression
  is in itself a tribute to her strength.” Frederick Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 30. Mr. ’06. 160w.


=Blake, William.= Poetical works: a new and verbatim text from the
manuscript engraved and letter-press originals; with variorum readings
and bibliographical notes and prefaces by J. Sampson. *$3.50. Oxford.

  “‘Blake’s final version is uniformly adopted as the text, while all
  earlier or cancelled readings are supplied in foot-notes.’ All the
  poems are arranged exactly as they are found, and each group is given,
  as far as is known, in chronological order. The two main MS. sources,
  the Rossetti and the Pickering MSS., are now printed for the first
  time from careful and accurate transcripts, made by the present owner,
  Mr. W. A. White of Brooklyn, N. Y.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If it be desirable to possess a scholarly and complete edition of
  Blake, it would be impossible to imagine anything more suitable to the
  purpose than the edition before us.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1325. D. 23, ’05. 830w.

  “Mr. Sampson’s edition of Blake is a masterpiece of editing and Blake,
  of all modern English poets, was most in need of a good editor.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 100. Ja. 27. 2150w.

  “We cannot be too grateful for this beautiful and scholarly edition of
  the great mystic.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.

  “Mr. Sampson has compiled texts, compared different readings, grasped
  and illuminated obscure points, with all the tact and insight of the
  born commentator. His book should become the standard authority for
  all Blake students.”

  + + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 129. Ap. 12, ’06. 4030w.

  “Is in point of laborious research and painstaking arrangement, one of
  the most admirable pieces of editing that we have lately seen.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 99. F. 1, ’06. 280w.

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 298. Ap. 21, ’06. 3240w. (Reprinted from the
          Lond. Times.)

    + + =Spec.= 96: 259. F. 17, ’06. 1760w.


=Blanchard, Amy Ella.= Four Corners. †$1.50. Jacobs.

  The three Virginia acres on which the somewhat impoverished Corner
  family lived formed the center of the stage upon which the four little
  Corners, Nan, Mary Lee, and the twins, a cousin, an old mule named
  Pete, an angora cat, a mongrel dog, and a few delightful grownups, act
  out a little family drama. In it, sad little economies, sickness, and
  trouble bravely met, are contrasted with the joys of healthy girlhood
  with homely adventures, and happy little surprises. It is a story that
  will make careless little girls thankful for their blessings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a peasant, homy sort of tale.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.


=Blanchard, Amy Ella.= Little Miss Mouse. †$1. Jacobs.

  Miss Hester Brackenbury in days of affluence adopts two little waifs,
  a small boy and a girl, and when a few months later, she becomes poor
  she refuses to give them up but moves into a cottage and supports them
  by making buttonholes. It is a pretty story for grown-ups as well as
  children, for in the background is an old love-story which throws a
  mellow light upon the children in the foreground, their joys, their
  contentions and their troubles. In the end, thru little Miss Mouse and
  an old receipt, Aunt Hester is restored to her old estate.


=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Incomplete amorist. †$1.50.
Doubleday.

  “A study of an accomplished and refined male flirt who plays the game
  of love with counters only to find that at last he must play with
  gold. Contrasted with this superfine trifler is a straightforward,
  even impulsive English girl whose common sense and simple ignorance of
  the early Empire. These last three studies her girl artist life in
  Paris. The story has movement, variety, and originality.”—Outlook.

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  “It is essentially bright, witty, superficial work, and we are sorry
  to be, more than once, confronted with problems and situations which
  demand a stronger treatment and a deeper insight into human nature.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 375. O. 13, ’06. 140w.

        =Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 210w.

  “There are several reasons why ‘The incomplete amorist’ is deserving
  of attention. To begin with, it treats old and well-worn material in a
  new and whimsical way.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 119. O. ’06. 480w.

  “To judge by the experiment her true vein would promise to lie not in
  the picturesque region of Bohemian romance, but on the quiet levels of
  rustic comedy.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 263. S. 27, ’06. 340w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

  “‘E. Nesbit’ has shown that she understands grown-ups as well as she
  does children, and in ‘The incomplete amorist’ has written a novel
  original, clever, and full of interest.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 563. S. 15, ’06. 840w.

  “It has the great affirmative merit that it never bores the reader.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 120w.

  “As this novel is a study in masculine psychology it is unsatisfying.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 180w.

  “The greater part of the story is extraordinarily vulgar, and to that
  part of it which is not vulgar it is impossible to apply any epithet
  but that of ‘stagy.’ The story cannot but remind its readers of the
  sentimental fiction of about twenty years ago.”

      – =Spec.= 97: 790. N. 17, ’06. 220w.

  “In the midst of the inrush of novels it is one of the few that
  deserve a better fate than that of serving as a time-killer.”

      + =World To-Day.= 12: 1221. N. ’06. 130w.


=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Railway children; with
drawings by C. E. Brock. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “By a family misfortune these children are for a time deprived of
  their father, compelled to leave their pleasant home, and obliged to
  live in a little cottage close to the railway. All their strange joys
  and troubles are in one way or another connected with this railway and
  its surroundings.”—Outlook.

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  “A fragrant and sweet story. It would be indeed difficult to find one
  better suited for reading around the nursery fire or one which boys
  and girls alike would more enjoy.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 510. O. 27. 70w.

  “The interest—of which there is fair amount—is fortunately independent
  of the weak pen-and-ink drawings.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 150w.

  “E. Nesbit has put into a book for children some of that cleverness
  and charm which characterize his grown up stories.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 735. N. 10, ’06. 130w.

  “The incidents are worked out in a decidedly original way, and the
  story is strong enough to hold the attention of older readers as well
  as of young people”.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 170w.

  “It seems to us a pity that she has introduced into her latest story
  so very tragic and unpleasant a subject as imprisonment, whether
  wrongful or otherwise; to say nothing of implanting a premature
  distrust of British justice in the youthful reader’s mind.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

  “We can thoroughly recommend ‘The railway children’ as an excellent
  story.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 170w.


=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Rainbow and the rose.
*$1.50. Longmans.

  This volume of poems shows the author to be “Skilled in her craft....
  We like her best in her village monologues, which are full of insight
  and humour and sound philosophy. But when she pleases she can write
  also graceful songs.” (Spec.)

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  “Full of clever things in the conventional condescending mood which
  ought not to succeed, but unquestionably does. For the rest, E. Nesbit
  is not a poet, not a minor poet, not even an exquisite maker of verse;
  but all that an able woman who is not these can do by means of verse,
  she can do.”

    + – =Acad.= 69: 902. S. 2, ’05. 170w.

  “Many of the occasional pieces here tremble on the verge of success,
  and it seems as if a little more trouble and thought would have made
  them excellent.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 108. Jl. 22. 150w.

  “Her work always pleases. It reaches about the level of Jean Ingelow’s
  thought and sentiment, but never quite achieves the distinction of
  Christina Rossetti.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 39: 273. N. 1, ’05. 140w.

“Has the same qualities that has given her other collections rather
exceptional circulation. Mrs. Bland’s poetic sentiment is appealing
rather than poignant with the true poetic poignancy; though she has no
gift of verbal magic, she has verbal adequacy, and her verse is always
readable.”

      + =Nation.= 81: 303. O. 12, ’05. 220w.

  “The ‘Rainbow and the rose’ ... is neither decadent nor revolutionary,
  but fresh and individual in a simple way that makes agreeable reading
  of her more or less subjective verse.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ’05. 90w.

  “Shows much dexterity in versification, and a wider range than is
  usual in modern lyrics.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 761. N. 11, ’05. 160w.


=Bliss, Frederick Jones.= Development of Palestine exploration. **$1.50.
Scribner.

  This book which presents in amplified form the lectures delivered
  before the Union theological seminary in 1903 “treats of the progress
  made in the art of identifying sites, of the shifting point of view of
  travellers of different times, of Edward Robinson, Renan and his
  contemporaries, and of the Palestine Exploration fund and the
  exploration of the future.” (Am. Hist. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 728. Ap. ’06. 80w.

  “The work, as a whole, is written in an admirable spirit. Justice is
  done to the labors of each writer mentioned, though Dr. Bliss does not
  hesitate to mete out fair criticism to each when it seems necessary.
  The book contains an occasional misprint.” George A. Barton.

  + + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 581. Jl. ’06. 580w.

  “His tone is scholarly and his criticism remarkably just and well
  balanced. In a future edition Dr. Bliss might correct some misprints.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 790. Je. 30. 1340w.

      + =Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 90w.

  “An ambitious work covering in small compass a large tract of
  history.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “The book is full of important information, not only for the Bible
  student, but also for the modern traveller, who incidentally receives
  some good advice.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1161. My. 17, ’06. 260w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 40w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 574. Ap. 14, ’06. 1100w.

  “His work is neither a complete bibliography, with such notes as will
  enable a student to select what he wants for study, nor, on the other
  hand, is it a narrative of exploration. It falls midway between.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 63. Jl. 19, ’06. 1500w.

        =Outlook.= 82: 716. Mr. 24, ’06. 140w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 40w.

    + + =Spec.= 96: 834. My. 26, ’06. 1740w.


=Blomfield, Reginald.= Studies in architecture. *$3.25. Macmillan.

  Mr. Blomfield who is a “practising architect of distinction and
  enthusiasm sends a side-glance at Byzantium and Lombardy, but is
  chiefly occupied with the architecture (and architects) of the French
  and Italian renaissance.... Mr. Blomfield has not fallen into the
  faults he denounces: what he writes is full of interest because of his
  standpoint (and standing) as an architect, his personal knowledge of
  the buildings of which he writes, and his researches into their
  history. Above all, he has great enthusiasm for his art, a passion
  which archæology (while admitting others) tends, it would seem, to
  exclude.” (Spec.)

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  “A book as interesting as it is sound.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 523. Je. 2, ’06. 620w.

  “The volume is a real contribution to architectural criticism.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 220. Ag. 25. 1100w.

      + =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 100w.

  “Can be heartily recommended to layman and architect alike. Its
  literary flavour is delicate; its architectural criticisms are sound,
  to the point, and keen.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 71. Mr. 2, ’06. 820w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 307. Ap. 12, ’06. 840w.

    + + =Spec.= 96: 151. Ja. 27, ’06. 160w.


=Blundell, Mary E. Sweetman (Mrs. Francis Blundell).= Simple annals.
†$1.50. Longmans.

  Natural simple stories of humble village life. “Mrs. Blundell says in
  her Foreword that a golden thread runs through the homespun of even
  the most commonplace life. In each of these stories she has followed
  the golden thread. The village girls are innocent and charming, the
  men are chivalrous—their purpose is invariably marriage, and
  courtships end, as they should, with wedding-bells.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Our only quarrel is with her claim in the Foreword to call these
  charming fables ‘studies.’ For that, they are surely too slight and
  too determinedly optimistic.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 405. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.

  “None of them reaches the high level which the best of ‘Dorset dear’
  attained.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 667. Je. 2. 160w.

  “It is as charming a book of the kind as we have come across in many a
  long day.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 120w.

  “The book is full of delicately handled studies of the lights and
  shadows that fall across the existence of the modern workaday world.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 70w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 794. Je. 23, ’06. 120w.

  “A collection of short stories, which are even better from a point of
  view of comprehensive description than her novels.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 280w.


=Blundell, Mary E. (Sweetman) (Mrs. Francis Blundell; M. E. Francis,
pseuds.).= Wild wheat: a Dorset romance. †$1.50. Longmans.

  Another tale of the West country, which “carries its readers’ thoughts
  far afield on to the blue hills and into the wild woods.” (Spec.) “It
  has more of passion and sorrow in it than most of her romances, but is
  all the stronger for this, while there is enough of the humorous and
  cheerful to balance the whole. The love story is sweet and wholesome.”
  (Outlook.)

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  “‘Wild wheat’ is an admirable story and Peter’s character is finely
  handled, but in general interest it does not reach the level of some
  other Dorset tales.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1130. O. 28, ’05. 580w.

  “This is a very readable story of country life, though it is not equal
  to ‘The manor farm.’ The plot is a little thin.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 190w.

  “A correct, pretty, unpretentious tale that will please those who love
  the primroses of literature.”

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 708. F. ’06. 130w.

  “Inconsequent as the story is, it is readable, and perhaps we have
  found it the more provoking because indications are not wanting of the
  author’s capability of really good work.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 923. D. 30, ’05. 380w.

      + =Outlook.= 81: 892. D. 9, ’05. 70w.

      + =Spec.= 95: 1090. D. 23, ’05. 200w.


=Boas, Henrietta O’Brien (Owen) (Mrs. Frederick Samuel).= With Milton
and the Cavaliers. **$1.50. Pott.

  “This book is a collection of biographical sketches relating to the
  chief personages in England at the time of the civil war. The only
  connection that binds them together is the common period of which they
  treat and the historical thread that runs through them. The political,
  military, religious, literary, and social figures of the time are all
  illustrated in these essays, which taken together, thus present in a
  way a sort of picture of the moving forces of the period.”—N. Y.
  Times.

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  “Is not an instructive or a well-written book.”

      – =Dial.= 40: 94. F. 1, ’06. 390w.

  “She has written soundly and soberly and from abundance of
  information. She has not made her work abstruse, and it is a clear and
  consistent account of a momentous period in English history.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 679. O. 14, ’05. 510w.


=Boggs, Sara E.= Sandpeep. †$1.50. Little.

  Keren Happuch Brenson, better known as Sandpeep, a child of the waves
  as well as the shore who “fished and lobstered for a living” and
  listened in ecstasy to the music of her fiddle string across the pane
  of her cobwebby loft, is a heroine “rustic from her finger tips to her
  innermost cerebral atom.” Her development from the moment she became
  young Geoffrey Warrington’s governess to the day that established her
  in Munich for musical study is characterized by fearless loyalty and
  keen devotion to purpose. With a “Jane Eyre heroine and a virtuous
  Rochester” the story also records the mercenary intrigue of a woman’s
  substitution, of herself and child for her departed twin sister and
  baby, out of which deception grows the plot.

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        =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 30w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 273. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.

  “Parts of it are really exciting.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 303. My. 12, ’06. 460w.


=Boissier, Gaston.= Tacitus and other Roman studies tr. by W. G.
Hutchison. †$1.75. Putnam.

  “This volume contains four essays: the first, occupying more than half
  the whole work, deals with Tacitus as an historian, the others with
  subjects connected with the same period carry her through some trying
  experiences and contain much instruction and not a little
  entertainment. The Roman ‘Schools of declamation’ are described with
  admirable point and refreshing humour.... The essay on ‘The Roman
  journal’ helps us to realize how a worldwide empire managed to survive
  without newspapers. The discussion of the poet Martial is a specimen
  of ... lively and illuminating literary criticism.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The young student of the Imperial age ... can get to closer grips
  with the facts, even if he cannot deal with them so incisively and so
  elegantly as M. Boissier.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 251. Jl. 13, ’06. 470w.

  “The translation is correct in the main, and reads fairly smoothly. We
  wish that the book might be read and pondered by lovers of Tacitus,
  writers of history, and any other scholars who are planning learned
  works.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 670w.

  “M. Boissier’s sympathetic essay will please all those who believe in
  the educational value of the ancient historians and who admire the
  greatest of them.” Robert L. Schuyler.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 511. Ag. 18, ’06. 1750w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 288. S. 29, ’06. 170w.

  “If consequently we advise all those students who can do so to read M.
  Boissier in the original, no offence is intended Mr. Hutchison, whose
  translation is readable and accurate, and will lead many to work at
  the subject who would be deterred by a French book.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 115. Jl. 28, ’06. 1530w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 576. O. 20, ’06. 1480w.


=Bolton, Sarah Knowles (Mrs. Charles E. Bolton).= Famous American
authors. $2. Crowell.

  “Entertaining, chatty, sympathetic essays.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 30w.


=Bombaugh, Charles Carroll.= Facts and fancies for the curious from the
harvest-fields of literature. **$3. Lippincott.

        =Nation.= 83: 98. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.

  “The collection is large and varied, and the ‘chestnut’ is not more
  frequent than one would expect.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1131. D. 30, ’05. 170w.


=Bond, Francis.= Gothic architecture in England. *$12. Scribner.

  “Mr. Bond’s work is extraordinarily full, extraordinarily minute, and
  enriched by a wealth of illustrations, as well as most elaborate
  indexes, a very full bibliography, a chronological table, and many
  sheets of comparative mouldings drawn ... to a uniform scale.... Part
  1 is introductory, and covers the whole origin and development of
  mediæval church architecture in this country; while Part 2 is an
  analysis in which the whole ground is gone over in detail, piece by
  piece.”—Spec.

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  “This is in every sense of the word, a great book. It is a book that
  at once steps to the front as authoritative, and it will be long
  before it is superseded.”

  + + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 871. D. 23. 2890w.

  “Weighty and eminently trustworthy volume. His language is never
  obscure, and the veriest novice can follow with ease the arguments
  that are the result of many years’ study and of the critical insight
  that is so rare a gift.”

  + + + =Int. Studio.= 26: 86. Mr. ’06. 300w.

  “As a mine of erudition, of detailed analysis and information, and of
  criticism on English mediaeval church architecture, the book is worthy
  of all praise. It is no rival in persuasive literary style to the
  charm of Viollet-le-duc’s delightful mastery of lucid French.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 159. My. 4, ’06. 880w.

  “This is a scholar’s book.”

  + + + =Nation.= 83: 126. Ag. 9, ’06. 990w.

  “Altogether a volume very well worth having, worth inspecting, worth
  reading, even, up to a certain point, worth studying.” Montgomery
  Schuyler.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 301. My. 12, ’06. 2250w.

  “Must stand for many years to come as _the_ book of reference on the
  subject of ecclesiastical Gothic in England for all architects and
  archæologists.”

  + + + =Spec.= 96: 150. Ja. 27, ’06. 470w.


=Bond, Octavia Zollicoffer.= Old tales retold; or, Perils and adventures
of Tennessee pioneers. *$1. Pub. House of M. E. Ch. So.

  The annals of Ramsay and Putnam and later historical chronicles have
  been followed “with faithful and painstaking exactness” by the writer
  in these tales of pioneer life. “They will give the rising generation
  of Tennesseans more admiration and respect for the hardy and
  intelligent pioneers who invaded the wilderness and built up our
  western civilization.”


=Bonner, Geraldine (Hard Pan, pseud.).= Castlecourt diamond case. †$1.
Funk.

  Lady Castlecourt’s diamonds are stolen, and thereby hangs a detective
  tale in the relating of which six people participate. First the lady’s
  maid tells her story, then follow statements by the real thief, by
  Cassius P. Kennedy and his wife into whose innocent possession the
  stolen gems are thrust when the scared thief is forced to act quickly,
  by the private detective, and, lastly, by Lady Castlecourt herself who
  furnishes the key to a surprising situation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A detective novelette of some uncommon qualities.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 80w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ’05. 110w.

  “An amusing detective story.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 50w.


=Booth, Eva Gore-.= Three resurrections, and The triumph of Maeve. **$2.
Longmans.

  Mythological and metaphysical parables based upon the themes of
  Lazarus, Alcestis and Psyche form the first part of this volume of
  poetry, while the second is a romance in dramatic form which is
  “filled with the haunting spirit of Celtic mysticism.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Miss Gore-Booth is a very thoughtful poet, who avoids affected
  diction, and combines depth with simplicity.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 329. My. 16, ’06. 460w.

  “The bathos which is so frequently the result of a forced alliance
  between poetry and science, is a feature of ‘The three resurrections,
  and The triumph of Maeve.’”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 209. F. 17, ’06. 110w.

  “There is an unreality in the imagery and a monotony in the epithets
  which, in spite of all her art, affect the reader with weariness.”

      – =Spec.= 96: 262. F. 17, ’06. 110w.


=Borrow, George.= Romano lavo-lil; word book of the Romany or
English-Gypsy language. $2. Putnam.

  “Altogether it is an entertaining book, full of the spirit that makes
  ‘Lavengro’ so attractive, and with a bit more of a serious definite
  character.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 200w.


=Bose, Jagadis Chunder.= Plant response as a means of physiological
investigation. *$7. Longmans.

  “A substantial octavo volume of more than 700 pages, devoted to the
  elucidation and illustration of a single thesis. Although this thesis
  is here given in many forms and stated in connection with numerous
  associated topics, it is essentially simple in its outline. It is
  this: the plant is a machine; its movements in response to external
  stimuli, though apparently various, are ultimately reducible to a
  fundamental unity of reaction.... By means of ingenious delicate
  instruments which exaggerate the slightest motion at any spot, he has
  long been able to demonstrate that even the oldest tissues of a plant,
  so long as they are living are capable of responding in a marked
  degree to certain external stimuli. A special feature distinguishing
  this treatise from many of its class is the presentation, at the end
  of every chapter, of a summary which gives in a few short sentences
  the substance of the chapter.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One which no plant physiologist, however much he may combat details
  in it, can afford to ignore.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 768. Je. 23. 2530w.

  “The account itself is too detailed and too diffuse to be read
  straight through by any but a lover of plants or a student of the
  problem. It is however, simple and straightforward.” E. T. Brewster.

    + – =Atlan.= 98: 419. S. ’06. 560w.

  “The book is not without errors, both of reasoning and fact, into
  which the author has fallen by reason of some unfamiliarity with his
  materials. But whatever the future may show as to the accuracy of
  details, this book may be acclaimed as a path-breaking one; for it
  shows a method of attack and a refinement of instrumentation for the
  study of the phenomena or irritable reactions in plants that are sure
  to be of the utmost service.” C. R. B.

    + – =Bot. Gaz.= 42: 148. Ag. ’06. 1170w.

  “The treatise is stimulating and is likely to be fruitful in
  controversy.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 41. Jl. 12, ’06. 1120w.


=Boswell, James.= Life of Samuel Johnson; ed. with an introd. by Mobray
Morris. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.

  The introduction sketches briefly the difficulties and perils which
  surrounded Boswell in the preparation of his lasting work, and
  concludes with “A great subject and a great picture! Nor can portrait
  and painter ever be dissociated. As long as the huge bulk of Johnson
  rolls down the stream of Time, so long will the queer little figure of
  his biographer be saluted with no unkindly laughter.”


=Boswell, James.= Life of Johnson. $1. Frowde.

  A reprint of the third edition of this standard biography. It is
  similar in make-up to the handy classic volumes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 20w.

    + + =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ’05. 80w.

    + + =Educ. R.= 30: 426. N. ’05. 80w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 675. O. 14, ’05. 90w.


=Boulton, William B.= Sir Joshua Reynolds. **$3. Dutton.

  “If less vigorous in its ideas than Armstrong’s work, has the merit of
  telling the story of the painter’s life with much entertaining
  detail.” Royal Cortissoz.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 274. F. ’06. 150w.

  “While the work of Leslie and Taylor must remain the best source for
  an original study of Reynolds, this volume is easily the best general
  survey that we know.” Charles Henry Hart.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 226. Ap. 1, ’06. 450w.

  “He has something of Boswell’s gift. He knows what facts are worth
  telling and what are not. His style is unpretending, but not
  disagreeable.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 73. Mr. 2, ’06. 470w.

    + – =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ’05. 150w.


=Bourne, Henry Eldridge.= History of mediaeval and modern Europe. $1.50.
Longmans.

  “In the volume under review, Professor Bourne aims to give an account
  of European history which shall accent the features of the development
  common to European peoples as a whole, and subordinate the details of
  the different countries. He has met with reasonable success in this
  aim as well as in the effort to adapt the narrative to the needs of
  secondary school students; for it is this audience rather than that of
  a college that the author appears to have had in mind.”—Yale R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Earl Wilbur Dow.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 718. Ap. ’06. 890w.

  “A conveniently arranged and well illustrated text-book for school.”

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 234. Ja. ’06. 30w.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 104. Mr. ’06. 260w.

      + =Ind.= 62: 257. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.

  “The geographical relationships have been carefully noted, and strict
  attention has been paid to chronology, the various events of history
  in several countries being arranged in respect to time, so that the
  pupil will be able to carry the general situation pretty clearly in
  mind, while studying some special detail.” Francis W. Shepardson.

      + =School. R.= 14: 68. Ja. ’06. 180w.

  “The style on the whole is excellent, simple, remarkably free from
  technical terms, and abounding in effective illustrations.” Curtis
  Howe Walker.

    + + =Yale R.= 14: 435. F. ’06. 390w.


=Bousset, Wilhelm.= Jesus; tr. by Janet Penrose Trevelyan; ed. by W. D.
Morrison. *$1.25. Putnam.

  A book which “is a study of the mind of Jesus in its relation to the
  Jewish circle of His time, with its ideas and ideals, and also to the
  larger world of humanity.” (Ath.) “Bousset rejects the miraculous from
  the Gospel story and regards it as a later accretion. The only
  wonderful works of Jesus which he considers genuine are His miracles
  of healing. ‘His healing activity lies entirely within the bounds of
  what is psychologically conceivable.’” (Hibbert. J.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Translated into excellent English.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 700w.

    + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 934. Jl. ’06. 680w.

  “Tho brief in compass and designed as a popular hand-book, could not
  be omitted from any fair list of recent scientific studies in the
  records of the past.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 60w.

  “The character and teaching of the Saviour are treated by Professor
  Bousset with splendid sympathy, though he occasionally adopts a tone
  of patronage; and he frankly rejects some of His moral teaching as
  exaggerated and impracticable. But in spite of this, we welcome the
  book as being a real step back from mere criticism towards a deeper
  religious appreciation of our Lord and His gospel.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.


=Bovey, Henry Taylor.= Theory of structures and strength of materials.
*$7.50. Wiley.

  “The book, as its title indicates, is an attempt to cover, in one
  volume subjects which are generally and in the opinion of the
  reviewer, better, separated. It apparently aims to be a treatise on
  mechanics, the strength of materials, friction, framed structures,
  masonry, and, to some extent on machinery. The subjects of toothed
  gearing, dynamometers, belts and ropes appear, although they are
  usually included in works on structures.”—Engin. N.

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  “The book contains a very large amount of information, and will be
  useful as a book of reference for those familiar with the subject, but
  it is very poorly arranged and there is a lack of emphasis on
  fundamental principles.” George F. Swain.

  + + – =Engin. N.= 55: 425. Ap. 12, ’06. 1380w.

  “We have no hesitation in saying that Prof. Bovey in thus practically
  rewriting his book has considerably improved its value, both to the
  engineering student and to the civil engineer, engaged in the design
  of all classes of structures in steel and iron.” T. H. B.

    + + =Nature.= 74: 243. Jl. ’06. 640w.


=Bowen, Marjorie.= Viper of Milan. $1.50. McClure.

  “The viper of Milan,” written by a youthful novelist of sixteen,
  outlines against a mediaeval background the black intrigues of Gian
  Galeazzo Visconti. The plot centers about Visconti’s destruction of
  Verona, his abduction of the Duke of Verona’s wife and the efforts of
  the Duke to rescue her, necessitating a round of treacherous
  adventure.

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  “While making no special pretensions to historical accuracy, it
  attains, from the standpoint of romance, an unusually high level. We
  notice with regret the numerous grammatical slips which disfigure an
  otherwise excellent style.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 298. S. 15. 280w.

  “The book represents an infinitesimal achievement, and it would not be
  serving Miss Bowen to pretend that we find special promise in it.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 240w.

  “Della Scala and Visconti stand out most vividly in one’s memory of
  the characters, but there are many others drawn with admirable
  delicacy and skill. She has certainly triumphed along unconventional
  lines, for love is not the absorbing theme in ‘The viper of Milan,’
  and the ending is most unhappy.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 780w.

  “For so young a writer, Miss Bowen shows a remarkable sense of style,
  which, taken in conjunction with her energy and imaginative power,
  make her a welcome recruit to the ranks of adventurous romancers.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 578. O. 20, ’06. 1200w.


=Bowne, Borden Parker.= Immanence of God. **$1. Houghton.

  The author says that “The undivineness of the natural and
  unnaturalness of the divine is the great heresy of popular thought
  respecting religion.” He would offset the heresy with the statement
  “God is the omnipresent ground of all finite existence and activity.”
  “Two ... characteristics are very apparent in this little book.... The
  first is his ability to see clearly the reality so often hidden behind
  a voluminous debate about words; the second is his literary knack in
  so expressing the truth that the non-scholastic reader can understand
  it.” (Outlook.)

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  Reviewed by George Hodges.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 417. Mr. ’06. 310w.

  “His volume is a very sane and a very readable book, at once profound
  in thought and intelligible in expression.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ’05. 230w.


=Boxall, George E.= Anglo-Saxon; a study in evolution. $1.25. Wessels.

  The aim of this volume is “to bring all the English-speaking peoples
  together by enabling them to realize their own characteristics.” And
  to this end the author “has covered the ground that the Anglo-Saxon
  occupies in anthropology, history, economics, art, theology, and
  everything else.... The privileged classes of England are a Latin
  survival, and so is the ‘boss’ of American politics. Nevertheless,
  Americans, Australians, and other Anglo-Saxons are far ahead of Great
  Britain in their progress towards true Anglo-Saxonism; but a revulsion
  is coming even there.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He goes on for page after page proclaiming statements, sometimes of
  the most far-reaching importance positive and negative, and sometimes
  completely reversing conclusions of the students of those subjects,
  without a rag of evidence except the statement of his own general
  impression.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 405. Je. 23, ’06. 670w.

  “His observations are comprehensive and interesting, but rather
  cursory and superficial. In philosophizing upon them he is plainly
  amateurish.”

    – + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 160w.


=Boyce, Neith, pseud. (Mrs. Hutchins Hapgood).= Eternal spring: a novel.
†$1.50. Fox.

  A drama full of youth and love is enacted by a group of Americans on
  an Italian stage. A young American of thirty whose struggle for a
  competence in the Chicago stock-market had worn him down to “the
  absolute essentials of physical being” goes to Italy to marry the
  woman he had secretly loved—eight years his senior and now a widow.
  While pursuing the course of a luke-warm wooing he falls in love with
  her cousin, a gifted girl made melancholy by a wrongly fostered idea
  of hereditary insanity. The courage of the woman who relinquishes her
  claim on him is only surpassed by his energy in dispelling the
  illusion of insanity that holds the woman he loves.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “‘The eternal spring,’ forms a curious and not altogether satisfactory
  antithesis to ‘The forerunner,’ insomuch as its plot is a much more
  conspicuous feature than its human nature. It is not so fine a piece
  of art as the author’s earlier novel, not so fine even as her short
  stories.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 190. Ap. ’06. 800w.

  “Sentimentality runs riot in this story of young love in Italy.”

      – =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 70w.

  “The story is told with freshness and charm, in parts almost with
  distinction.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 115. S. 1, ’06. 260w.

  “Although we have found its leading characters not a little
  exasperating, ‘The eternal spring’ is a model of unusual originality
  and interest.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 94. F. 17, ’06. 610w.

  “This story is not bad reading.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.

  “The absence of plot and incident seems to indicate that it was
  intended to be a psychological novel; but the absence of any real
  psychological analysis leaves it doubtful just where to place it.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 50w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 60w.


=Boyd, James E.= Differential equations. 60c. James E. Boyd, Columbus,
O.

  “The merit of the book consists in a large number of mechanical and
  electrical problems that are given. These ought to do much to
  stimulate the interests of the students for whom the author writes.”
  William Benjamin Fite.

  + + – =Phys. R.= 22: 62. Ja. ’06. 140w.


=Boyd, Mary Stuart.= Misses Make-Believe. †$1.50. Holt.

  The Misses Make-Believe occupy a dilapidated London house, drive a
  victoria, jobbed for the London season on the most moderate terms,
  give “ghastly” receptions, the eve of which function finds them in the
  kitchen making half a dozen packets of table jelly and a bag of flour
  and a dozen shop eggs into supper for fifty. The guardian of these
  ambitious sisters at length persuades them to leave their stifling
  atmosphere and take up their abode in the country. The story really
  begins at this point, for when Belle and Eileen learn to live natural
  lives, their most coveted desires are within reach,—happiness,
  friends, and even husbands.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 210w.

  “The book is not remarkable, nor is it, in style, to be called
  common-place.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 60w.


=Boyesen, Bayard.= Marsh: a poem. $1. Badger, R: G.

      – =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 70w.

  “Is a piece of rather shadowy symbolism, which has, withal, a
  continuity of poetic atmosphere that is distinctly of promise.”

    + – =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 20w.

  “It contains some fine lines, but the average reader is too intent
  upon economizing his gray cortex to use it in deciphering allegories.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 923. D. 30, ’05. 80w.

  “Is poetic both in feeling and expression, moving swiftly and easily
  in its dramatic form, but the symbolism is too pervasive and rather
  obscure and the setting is cumbersome for the matter.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 60w.


=Bradford, Amory H.= Inward light. **$1.20. Crowell.

  “Altho these papers were written before the publication of Sabatier’s
  ‘Religions of authority and the religion of the spirit,’ they may be
  regarded as the doctrine and message of that remarkable book adapted
  to the religious situation in America.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1164. My. 17, ’06. 430w.


=Bradford, Gamaliel, jr.= Between two masters. †$1.50. Houghton.

  “A young man who suspects taint on money won in State street but is
  uncertain as to how it may be removed or avoided is the central figure
  of the tale. In addition there are three young ladies, one standing
  for ease of living and material comfort, one for charm and vivacity of
  manner, and the third for social service. In the end his feet stray
  into the paths of the social settlement.”—Pub. Opin.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Ind.= 60: 1487. Je. 21, ’06. 210w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 433. My. 24, ’06. 310w.

  “An entertaining sentimental novel.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 380w.

  “The social philosophy with which the book abounds is rather vague and
  ill-defined but the general idea has promise.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 573. My. 5, ’06. 90w.


=Bradley, A. C.= Shakespearian tragedy: lectures on Hamlet, Othello,
King Lear, Macbeth. $3.25. Macmillan.

  “We are impelled to state our belief that we have here a criticism
  which, in its combination of profundity and brilliance, of subtlety
  and balance, of eloquence of expression and exactness of thought,
  surpasses any comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare since the great
  critics of the romantic revival.” William Allen Neilson.

  + + + =Atlan.= 97: 703. My. ’06. 370w.


=Bradley, Arthur Granville.= Captain John Smith; with a map of the
Powhattan district of Virginia. 75c. Macmillan.

  Relying chiefly upon Captain Smith’s personal narrative, the
  biographer sketches Smith’s early career in the high seas, his coming
  to America, his adventures here among the savages and his
  explorations, his return to the Old world and his quiet life there,
  and the end of his busy life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Admirable little book.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 70. Ja. 20, ’06. 430w.

  “The volume is to be commended.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 761. D. 2. 60w.

  “With all the author’s credulity, however, we have in this work one of
  the best accounts of Smith’s life that has been written.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 399. Ag. 16, ’06. 340w.

  “The whole story is agreeably told, and the book in every way pleasant
  to read.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 180w.

  “Considering the range of the hero’s career and the advantages the
  subject affords, the book is astonishingly tame—but one may count it
  as a fairly truthful picture of the man as candid historians have come
  to see him.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 44. Ja. 20, ’06. 890w.

  “Is undeniably interesting, but is extremely uncritical.”

    + – =Outlook.= 81: 1082. D. 30, ’05. 250w.

  “Forms one of the best of the ‘Men of action’ series.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 20w.

  “Mr. Bradley tells the tale in a pleasantly ironic style, where
  enthusiasm for the subject is mingled with a sense of his amazing and
  whimsical fortunes.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 97. Ja. 20, ’06. 1540w.


=Bradley, Arthur Granville.= In the march and borderland of Wales. **$3.
Houghton.

  In this volume “Wales and its people and the eastern counties of
  England are happily described.... The book treats not only of the
  Marches of Wales, but of the English counties bordering on the
  principality.... Wherever Mr. Bradley wandered, he made notes and
  studied local history—not merely the history that one finds in books,
  but the history that is handed down by word of mouth.... Odds and ends
  ... that make this story vastly interesting to read.... Mr. Bradley
  was accompanied by a sympathetic artist, Mr. W. M. Meredith, whose
  pictures are pronounced excellent and accurate by the author.... A
  good index completes the volume.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + + =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 70w.

      + =Dial.= 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 320w.

  “Here is a long book, disfigured by blunders so numerous that they
  arrest the attention abruptly and make the act of reading far less
  agreeable than it ought to be.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 64. F. 23, ’06. 1260w.

  “He knows how to write and what to write.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 95. F. 17, ’06. 970w.

  “For the average American reader the treatment is sometimes
  over-minute and leisurely.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 130w.

  “Is a guide-book, a history, an atlas, and an appreciation of Wales,
  all in one.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 100w.

  “The book is, we think, decidedly superior to the author’s two volumes
  of ‘Highways and byways’ and quite on a level with ‘Owen Glyndwr.’
  Such slips notwithstanding, this itinerary is a brilliant piece of
  work for which all dwellers and tourists on the March should be duly
  grateful to the author.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: 49. Jl. 14, ’06. 1340w.

  “Every page has some new and various interest. And the pleasantest
  part of the whole thing, perhaps, is the waiter’s own fresh,
  good-humored, kindly, enthusiastic spirit.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 755. My. 12, ’06. 2100w.


=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= My lady’s slipper. **$1.50. Dodd.

  “Another charming love story.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 80w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w.


=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= Patriots. †$1.50. Dodd.

  “General Lee is the noble figure put upon a fitting pedestal in this
  romance of our Civil war. A tangled love affair straightens itself out
  by the simple device of mismatched lovers seeing their error and
  turning to their soul mates before it is too late.”—Outlook.

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  “The writer has, moreover, a pretty knack of working up his historical
  argument, and he has really read widely and wisely in American
  annals.” W. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 270w.

  “His last novel is, by all odds, the best he has ever written, but
  that is not saying enough to recommend it.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 350w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 296. My. 5, ’06. 270w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.


=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= True Andrew Jackson. *$2. Lippincott.

  The “True biographies” series aims at no formal biography in
  chronological order. In keeping with this purpose the author says,
  “here is an attempt to make a picture in words of a man; to exhibit
  personality; to show that personality in touch with its human
  environment; to declare what manner of man was he whose name is on the
  title page. Not to chronicle events, therefore, but to describe a
  being; not to write a history of the time, but to give an impression
  of a period associated with its dominant personal force, has been my
  task.” Thus the work is an intimate personal sketch of the man, based
  upon years of study.

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  “Mr. Brady seems to have placed a rather uncritical dependence upon
  Parton and the two recent biographies of Colyar and Buell, and to have
  wholly ignored the collection of Jackson papers in the Library of
  Congress, a collection that is unique for the vivid insight it gives
  into Jackson’s character.”

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 975. Jl. ’06. 140w.

  “Mr. Brady’s picture is neither true nor plausible.”

      – =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 270w.

  “There is too much quotation, and the result is too much like a
  scrap-book. Mr. Brady has made a closer study of Jackson than most of
  the recent authorities quoted by him, and his judgment, not theirs,
  should have been given.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 18. Jl. 1, ’06. 520w.

  “The historical background is weak, and the forces which shaped the
  hero’s life are but half understood.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 518. Ag. 30, ’06. 330w.

        =Nation.= 82: 382. My. 10, ’06. 190w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ’05. 140w.

  “He is uncritical and undiscriminating in the use of material. The
  book is, of course, not faultless in accuracy of detail. He is always
  fair.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 230. Ap. 7, ’06. 990w.

  “His work is further open to objection as ill-proportioned, abounding
  in extreme statements, and uncritical—defects which quite outweigh the
  considerations that it is vivacious, rich in anecdote, and thoroughly
  readable.”

    – + =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 220w.

  “Little new knowledge is added to the work of previous biographers.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.

  “Most readers will be indebted to him for not a few facts that they
  could not have gleaned from a reading of Parton or any other of
  Jackson’s numerous biographers.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 120w.

  “With laudable impartiality, but without much claim to clearness of
  arrangement or distinction of style, Mr. Brady has brought together a
  mass of facts which fairly justify the title of his book.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 871. Je. 2, ’06. 1870w.


=Brady, Cyrus Townsend, and Peple, Edward Henry.= Richard the brazen.
$1.50. Moffat.

  In this amusing comedy the vigorous hero, in the guise of a cowboy,
  rescues the heroine, who is the daughter of his father’s ex-partner in
  business, from a cattle stampede. Then he follows her to New York and,
  owing to a lucky accident, is enabled to masquerade as a young English
  earl and thus throw aside paternal prejudice and find time and
  opportunity to win the daughter. When all is explained the heroine
  does not regret her lost coronet but welcomes the discovery of her
  cowboy rescuer in the person of her audacious American lover.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Clever and entertaining story.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 546. S. 8, ’06. 530w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “The tone of this novel will not commend it to those who appreciate
  work of the first order.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 142. S. 15, ’06. 120w.

  “A novel which makes good reading for a winter’s night, or, for that
  matter, for any time.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 110w.


=Brain, Belle Marvel.= All about Japan; stories of the sunrise land told
for little folks. **$1. Revell.

  “A pleasantly written book.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1480. D. 21, ’05. 30w.

  “The book would have been much better if it had not been leveled down,
  and if it had been expurgated of most of its piety—not its religion.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 9. Ja. 6, ’06. 200w.


=Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt.= Concerning Belinda. $1.50. Doubleday.

  “Any one who has followed the diverting ‘Nancy’ through her various
  ‘misdemeanours’ and other sensations will not be disappointed in the
  new character Belinda.” G. W. A.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 108. Mr. ’06. 340w.


=Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt.= In vanity fair: a tale of frocks and
femininity. *$1.50. Moffat.

  “A bright, chatty, and quite superficial account of certain phases of
  Parisian life, such as many newspaper people could throw off, and not
  a few could do better.” (N. Y. Times.) “She calls her views snapshots
  of the inner courts of Vanity fair, and the representation must be
  viewed entirely apart from any moral or ideal sentiment. Frocks,
  dining, races, sport, hunting, fashionable Paris in its most
  extravagant follies, with Americans following hard after, make up the
  record.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 100w.

        =Dial.= 41: 92. Ag. 16, ’06. 270w.

  “The book, whether or not satisfactory as a whole, is entertaining.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 321. My. 19, ’06. 270w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.

  “The book of this season that most strongly commends itself as a gift
  to a traveler, especially to a woman, is ‘In vanity fair.’”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 410. Je. 23, ’06. 80w.

  “Manages to treat a frail and trivial subject with much skill.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 90w.

  “A very entertaining, gossipy book about French women.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 50w.


=Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen.= Main currents in nineteenth century
literature. 6v. v. 4 and 6. v. 4, *$3; v. 6, *$3.25. Macmillan.

  Volume six deals with “Young Germany,” and covers the period lying
  between the Congress of Vienna and the great revolutionary years of
  the mid-century.

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    + + =Acad.= 69: 1222. N. 25, ’05. 1800w. (Review of v. 6.)

  “The present volume is one of the most interesting and admirable in
  the series. It gives the author abundant opportunity for the display
  of his extraordinary psychological gifts.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 104. Ja. 27. 630w. (Review of v. 6.)

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 363. D. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1–6.)

  “It is difficult to keep within bounds our admiration for the energy,
  the insight, and the profound philosophical basis of this masterwork
  of criticism.”

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 540w. (Review of v. 6.)

    + – =Ind.= 61: 822. O. 4, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 4 and 7.)

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 110w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “He wrote in the full tide of liberalism, and his opinions are
  manifestly colored by political affiliations, but he writes always
  with spirit. The translation in the present edition is idiomatic, and,
  so far as we have examined, accurate.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 413. N. 15, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “Miss Morison, who has translated the last three volumes of the
  series, is responsible for much of the interest of the book; her
  translation is easy and fluent, to a very large extent, throwing down
  the bars between a foreign writer and an English reader, and much of
  the book’s interest is due to her.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 63. F. 3, ’06. 1030w. (Review of v. 6.)

  “As a whole, the study shows literary insight, breadth of view, and
  treatment vitalized by deep human sympathies.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 1–6.)


=Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen.= On reading: an essay. *75c. Duffield.

  Dr. Brandes answers the three questions why, what, and how to read,
  incidentally giving good advice on the subject of owning a library.


=Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen.= Reminiscences of my childhood and youth.
**$2.50. Duffield.

  The reader follows this autobiography in the spirit of its synthetic
  presentation. Especially interesting is the transitional period when
  the formative forces became apparent, when religious, philosophical,
  and social ideas were vaguely demonstrating a resolving principle. It
  is a thoroughly subjective sketch, and its introspective character
  appeals rather to the philosophical student than the casual reader.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Perhaps the most notable characteristic of the book is the address
  with which the writer manages to convey the impression of his own
  personality and at the same time to suggest the influences of his
  early environment.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 580w.

  “What the most famous critic has to tell us is of interest in view of
  his position and personality, and it is charmingly told.”

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 361. D. ’06. 1730w.

  “The vigor and the vitality which characterize his treatment of other
  writers are equally characteristic of this account of his own career,
  and in part even to the most trivial happenings a high degree of
  interest.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 323. N. 16, ’06. 2600w.

  “A two-fold value may be attached to this work. It is a piece of
  self-revelation by a master of psychological analysis, and it is a
  picture of events and personages prominent on the page of European
  history in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, seen through
  the prism of a very rich temperament.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 290w.

  “The translation of the book is, unfortunately, not very good. Not
  only is Brandes’s nervous, individual style entirely lost, but the
  translator shows lamentable ignorance of idiomatic English.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 489. D. 6, ’06. 450w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “While there is little in the narrative that is of permanent value, it
  is an interesting exercise to assume the writer’s point of view, and
  look out of the windows he opens toward the world of social, artistic,
  and literary movement.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 580. N. 3, ’06. 200w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 60w.


=Breal, Auguste.= Velazquez, tr. by Mme. Simon Bussy. *75c; lea. *$1.
Dutton.

  “He has plenty of enthusiasm in his heart, but he writes with
  moderation, and his little book forms an almost ideal introduction to
  the study of Velasquez.” Royal Cortissoz.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 280. F. ’06. 130w.


=Breasted, James Henry.= Ancient records of Egypt: historical documents
from the earliest times to the Persian conquest, collected, edited and
translated with commentary. 5v. ea. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.

  A five volume work which when completed by the last volume next fall
  will constitute a full and reliable source book of Egyptian history.
  The work is intended as a companion to the author’s “History of
  Egypt,” and in scope covers chronologically arranged inscriptions from
  the earliest records to the final loss of Egyptian independence by the
  Persian conquest.

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  “The general arrangement of the work seems excellent, and Dr.
  Breasted’s translations leave nothing to be desired.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 474. Ap. 21. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The series is admirably planned and executed and promises to be of
  immense value to all workers in these lines.”

    + + =Bib. World.= 27: 320. Ap. ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)

    + + =Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)

    + + =Bib. World.= 28: 80. Jl. ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “No student of ancient history can be satisfied without access to this
  important work.”

    + + =Bib. World.= 28: 224. S. ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “When the promised index to these translated records has been issued,
  Professor Breasted may be cordially congratulated on having begun and
  ended a great task, by the successful accomplishment of which he has
  put the study of Egyptian history on an entirely new footing.” F. Ll.
  Griffith.

  + + + =Bib. World.= 28: 345. N. ’06. 1430w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  “Such source-books are invaluable to the student of Egyptian history.”
  Ira Maurice Price.

  + + + =Dial.= 41: 17. Jl. 1, ’06. 550w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

  “The fullest as well as the most vivid and interesting that has ever
  been written.” F. Ll. Griffith.

  + + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 545. Jl. ’06. 960w. (Review, of v. 1.)

  “It is time that such a work as this by Professor Breasted were
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  + + + =Ind.= 60: 1106. My. 10, ’06. 830w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

        =Ind.= 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Professor Breasted has accomplished a very difficult task never
  before accomplished, and one which is greatly to the credit of himself
  and of the Chicago university.”

  + + + =Ind.= 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 4.)

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 145. Mr. 10, ’06. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 465. Jl. 21, ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)

        =Outlook.= 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)

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    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 792. Je. 23, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  “The whole series of volumes is indispensable not only to the
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  + + + =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 4)

        =Spec.= 96: 952. Je. 16, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

        =Spec.= 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)

  + + + =Spec.= 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 4.)


=Breasted, James Henry.= History of Egypt from the earliest times to the
Persian conquest. **$5. Scribner.

  “This book fills a great want. The writer seems to me to view Egypt
  too often not as a critic but as an over-enthusiastic lover and
  admirer, a fault rather general with the older school of
  Egyptologists. The treatment of the transliteration of Egyptian names,
  abounding in unwarranted innovations and inconsistencies, is hardly
  suited to a popular work.” W. Max Müller.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 866. Jl. ’06. 1230w.

  “Pitfalls have been avoided by Dr. Breasted, and in the result, and
  subject to the caution we have indicated, his book is the best so far
  at the disposal of the general reader.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 473. Ap. 21. 1680w.

  “The best single-volume history of Egypt yet published. The work is
  intended for the general public rather than the specialist.”

  + + + =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.

  “Professor Breasted has shown remarkable skill in weaving together the
  scattered fragments of information that we possess covering the whole
  period of his treatment; and the result is a vigorous, popular, and
  highly interesting narrative account—even though sometimes severely
  condensed—of the political, religious, and social life of the ancient
  Egyptians.” Ira Maurice Price.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 15. Jl. 1, ’06. 750w.

  “He has, in a word, and without abating a jot of authority, invested
  the most arid as well as the most intensely human topics of Egyptology
  with a fresh interest. To us its most serious defect lies in the
  unduly high valuation of the influence of the Nile valley people on
  the earliest civilization of Southern Europe.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 610w.

  “His style ... is singularly vigorous and lucid. Professor Breasted
  never forgets that his book is a history and not an archaeological
  treatise, and this is one of his great merits.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 110. Mr. 30, ’06. 1630w.

  “The student will look in vain for any other one work so well adapted
  as this volume is to give him his first broad ideas and impressions of
  the beginning of civilization and of the great general tendencies of
  social evolution which have been exemplified in the development of all
  peoples ancient and modern.” Franklin H. Giddings.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 529. S. ’06. 790w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 160w.

  “Little seems to have escaped his notice, and the story is put
  together out of it in a pleasant and readable way.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 793. Je. 23, ’06. 870w.

    + + =Spec.= 96: 792. My. 19, ’06. 1410w.


=Brennan, Rev. Martin S.= What Catholics have done for science: with
sketches of the great Catholic scientists. 3rd. ed. $1. Benziger.

  A general refutation of the two wide-spread notions that when a man
  devotes himself to science, he must necessarily cease to be a
  Christian and that the Catholic church is hostile to scientific
  progress.


=Brent, Rt. Rev. Charles Henry.= Adventure for God; six lectures
delivered in 1904. **$1.10. Scribner.

  Bishop Brent of the Philippine islands appeals to the intellect, thru
  the imagination in his six lectures, The vision, The appeal, The
  response, The quest, The equipment, and The goal.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Outlook.= 82: 392. F. 24, ’06. 860w.

  “Bishop Brent outlines in vivid, effective form the impetus,
  character, and purpose or goal of the active Christian life. The style
  is vigorous and direct and the thought is practical and helpful.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 92. Ja. 20, ’06. 90w.


=Bridges, Robert (Droch, pseud.).= Demeter: a mask. *85c. Oxford.

  “In ‘Demeter’, a masque written for and acted by the ladies of
  Somerville College, Oxford, the author tells the old tale of the rape
  of Persephone, of Demeter’s quest for her, and of her return as queen
  of Hades, to live in this world only during the flower-time. His
  variation upon the simplicity of the tale is his mystical account of
  Persephone’s experiences in the nether-world, where she learns the
  hidden darkness of evil.”—Spec.

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  “The verse throughout is extraordinarily interesting, and there is
  much to rank with the best of modern verse, both in its novelty and in
  its excellence.”

    + + =Acad.= 68: 607. Je. 10, ’05. 850w.

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 6. Jl. 1. 1440w.

  “It is but fair to observe that correctness and decorum usually attend
  the march of Mr. Bridges’s metrical battalions.” Edith M. Thomas.

      + =Critic.= 47: 571. D. ’05. 240w.

  “He had things that were worth saying and he has said them; but they
  are not the mighty things that Milton had it in him to say, nor has he
  the organ voice at the sound of which all other voices know that their
  part is silence.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 189. Je. 16, ’05. 1960w.

  “The versification, where he is content to be normal, is easy and
  flowing, the diction graceful and worthy of the subject, but the
  beauty of the myth is too often overlaid with philosophisings which
  are not startlingly original.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 100: 57. Jl. 8, ’05. 990w.

  “In the main the verse has that grave perfection of form which Mr.
  Bridges almost alone of the moderns can achieve.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 191. Ag. 5, ’05. 270w.


=Bridgman, Raymond Landon.= World organization. 50c. Ginn.

  “The present volume is an important contribution to the literature of
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  world constitution, The world legislature, The world judiciary, The
  world executive, World legislation already accomplished, World
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  organization secures world peace.

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  permanent upward-moving civilization.”

      + =Arena.= 34: 445. O. ’05. 580w.

        =Outlook.= 80: 936. Ag. 12, ’05. 130w.


=Brierley, J. (“J. B.,” pseud.).= Eternal religion. **$1.40. Whittaker.

  Making use of the “heritage of the past centuries, with their vast
  endeavors after ultimate truth, and at the same time of a scientific
  method for assaying their results” the author first sets forth
  principles, necessary to an understanding of the theme as a whole,
  then deals with some of the leading positions of Christianity, and
  devotes the succeeding chapter to application of religion, as he
  expounds it, to some of the prominent present-day problems.

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  “In Mr. Brierley’s treatment of his subject, breadth and
  discrimination are equally apparent. For all religious teachers, and
  for any who are perplexed with religious problems, it would not be
  easy to find a more stimulating and helpful book.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 320w.

  “We have read this book with much interest and with frequent
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    + – =Spec.= 95: 821. N. 18, ’05. 280w.


=Briggs, Charles Augustus.= Critical and exegetical commentary on the
book of Psalms. 2v. v. I. **$3. Scribner.

  “This volume includes the introduction to the entire Psalter and the
  Commentary on Pss. 1–50.... Especial attention is given in the
  commentary to the poetical form, each psalm being translated with the
  due attention to the parallelism and recognition of the strophic
  structure. The critical position of the author might be called
  conservative in these days when many interpreters are denying the
  existence of pre-exilic psalms in the Psalter.”—Bib. World.

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  “The introduction is full and thorough, packed with learning.”

    + + =Bib. World.= 28: 351. N. ’06. 80w.

  “His work upon it is not likely to be excelled in learning, both
  massive and minute, by any volume of the ‘International series,’ to
  which it belongs.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 383. O. 13, ’06. 300w.

  “Dr. Briggs’s introduction is a monument of industry and learning.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 460w.

        =World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 320w.


=Brinkmeyer, Rev. Henry.= Lover of souls: short conferences on the
Sacred Heart of Jesus. *$1. Benziger.

  Nineteen helpful conferences which treat from a Roman Catholic
  standpoint of: Devotions in the church, Love manifested in creation,
  The exceeding great reward, The memorial, The bread of life, The
  sacrifice, Reparation, The malice of sin, The satisfaction for sin,
  and other kindred subjects.


=Brinton, Davis.= Trusia: a princess of Krovitch. †$1.50. Jacobs.

  Of the same old ingredients, an obscure corner of Europe, a
  revolution, a beautiful and throneless princess, and an adventurous
  American, the author has made a stirring and interesting tale. He
  carries his readers and his hero in a touring car from a New York club
  to Krovitch, an ancient kingdom on the borderland of Russia, where
  there is bloodshed and treachery, war and intrigue, in plenty. There
  the hero’s valet becomes a king, and the hero wins the love of a
  princess, Trusia, who after all is better fitted to be the wife of a
  wealthy New Yorker than mistress of a crumbling medieval castle.

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  “The proceedings are by turns stirring, comic, and pathetic. If there
  were less real gore and real killing it would read like unstaged
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      – =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 290w.

  “There are plenty of exciting incidents, which begin with the first
  page and end with the last, and they are woven together with a fair
  amount of skill into a plot that is coherent and sufficiently
  reasonable.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 220w.


=Brooke, Stopford Augustus.= On ten plays of Shakespeare. *$2.25. Holt.

  “To the reader who has thought much about Shakespeare and is not new
  to Shakespearian criticism the book is disappointing in its
  meagreness. The author, while not going beyond what has been said by
  his predecessors, writes almost as if he had had none.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 57. Ja. 20, ’06. 1050w.

  Reviewed by William Allen Neilson.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 702. My. ’06. 310w.

  “It is marked throughout by thorough scholarship, keen critical
  acumen, and refined taste.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 100w.

  “To make us see more in Shakespeare, that is the writer’s desire.
  There have been few books so single-minded as this.” Edward E. Hale,
  jr.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 148. Mr. 1, ’06. 1770w.

  “His inferences are generally reasonable, and his statements of facts
  accurate. But it is not clear that any very definite addition has been
  made by the publication of this book to the common stock of
  knowledge.” R. W. Chambers.

      + =Hibbert J.= 4: 920. Jl. ’06. 2010w.

  “They consist mainly of moral and esthetic commonplaces interrupted by
  occasional flashes of original insight.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 687. Mr. 22, ’06. 290w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 165. F. 22, ’06. 630w.

  “The remaining plays chosen by Mr. Brooke are treated with equal
  individuality and insight, and with a finish and charm of style which
  would render the volume eminently readable, even to a jaded student of
  Shakespeare.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 45. Ja. 27, ’06. 940w.

  “Unhappily Mr. Brooke’s insight and sympathy appear to be in an
  inverse ratio to the importance of the subjects on which they are
  exercised.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 205. F. 17, ’06. 1860w.

  “They are all the product of a fresh and imaginative mind, alive to
  all the subtle influences of poetry, and capable of conveying its
  impressions to others. Perhaps the best of all are those upon ‘As you
  like it’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet.’”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 185. F. 3, ’06. 1400w.


=Brookfield, Charles, and Brookfield, Frances.= Mrs. Brookfield and her
circle. 2v. **$7. Scribner.

  “The work of the editors is well done, and the book is sure to take
  its place among remembered annals of the Victorian period.” H. W.
  Boynton.

    + + =Atlan.= 98: 282. Ag. ’06. 380w.

  “Are quite as interesting as any other Brookfield volumes that have
  been published; and this is paying them the highest compliment.”
  Jeannette L. Gilder.

  + + + =Critic.= 48: 84. Ja. ’06. 1170w.

  “There are fifteen portraits, all remarkably good; so good in fact as
  to give a value to the book in spite of the lack of judgment and good
  workmanship which characterize the editing.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1285. My. 31, ’06. 370w.

  “It is really in these letters that the claim of the book to be here
  noticed lies, for the connecting paragraphs and the descriptions of
  the principal personages which come from the pens of the two
  compilers, are done in a somewhat loose and careless fashion, which
  shows itself even in the numerous misprints or misspellings of proper
  names we encounter.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 76. Ja. 25, ’06. 2140w.

  “The letters speak for themselves and are so complete in their
  reflection of the times and the people they represent that the slender
  thread connecting them is hardly more than a placing in order.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 517. Mr. 3, ’06. 2450w.


=Brooks, Hildegard.= Larky furnace and other adventures of Sue Betty.
$1.25. Holt.

  Sue Betty worried about things in the nighttime and as a result she
  had many surprising adventures. She followed the larky furnace that
  went out nights and discovered what a really giddy creature he was,
  she met a pirate in the lighthouse where she went to see her cousin do
  light housekeeping, she rode delightedly on a saddle-moose, she
  interviewed the editor of the powder magazine in behalf of her uncle’s
  rejected manuscript, and she did many other interesting things all of
  which are found in this volume.

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        =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 166. Mr. 17, ’06. 290w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.


=Brooks, William Keith.= The oyster; a popular summary of a scientific
study. *$1. Hopkins.

  “The book is of great interest as a contribution to both natural and
  industrial history.”

    + + =Engin. N.= 55: 192. F. 15, ’06. 260w.

  “This book is interestingly written and well illustrated.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1544. D. 28, ’05. 40w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 125. Ja. ’06. 260w.


=Broughton, Rhoda.= Waif’s progress. $1.50. Macmillan.

    + – =Acad.= 69: 1335. D. 23. ’05. 420w.


=Brown, Alice.= County road. †$1.50. Houghton.

  “The thirteen stories that make this volume are excellent reading.
  Most of them are set in the kitchens and dooryards of New England
  houses; nearly all are enveloped in the young green of spring, and
  every one deals with a human predicament.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is no abatement of cleverness and there is an increase of
  rational motive, which both go to make a heartily agreeable volume.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 240w.

  “Those to whom the stories are new have a rare pleasure before them.
  Those who have lingered lovingly over the tales as they appeared in
  the magazines will rejoice in their possession in permanent form.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 560w.

  “They pass through pleasant places, they are free from haste, and they
  are frequented by quaint, simple, original people.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 70w.


=Brown, Alice.= Court of love. †$1.25. Houghton.

  The Court of love “where everybody has what he likes and likes what he
  has,” was naturally looked upon by the world as a lunatic asylum, but
  it was merely the whim of a girl who had not found happiness and who
  wished to make other people happy. Julia Leigh’s unrestrained
  hospitality involves her in strange complications not of her planning,
  but by her fantastic masque she succeeds in re-uniting her best friend
  to a forgetful husband, in restoring a lost child to its uncle, in
  giving a burglar his deserts, in providing a real vacation for a
  houseful of strangers, and finally in securing for herself her heart’s
  desire. The whole is a pretty farce-comedy.

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  “No outline of its plot—if there be such a thing about it—could convey
  the least sense of its bubbling humor and joyously riotous course.” W.
  M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 130w.

  “It has the piquancy of plot and an ease of expression that are
  refreshing.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 60w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 308. My. 12, ’06. 240w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

  “The plot is merry and farcical, quite absurd in fact, but some of the
  characters are cleverly amusing. On the whole, however, the little
  play is not up to the author’s usual high standard.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 80w.


=Brown, Alice.= Paradise. †$l.50. Houghton.

  “It is a story of strong human interest, tender and humorous, and in
  its peculiar way strangely attractive.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1362. D. 30, ’05. 230w.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 150w.

  “The larger relations of life, with which the book professes to deal,
  it handles, after all, rather half-heartedly; its real delight lies in
  the pages of humorous observation, its delineations of eccentric
  character. Miss Brown has done bigger and more enduring work.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 180w.


=Brown, Anna Robeson (Mrs. C. H. Burr, jr.).= Wine-press. †$1.50.
Appleton.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

        =Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 70w.


=Brown, Arthur Judson.= New forces in old China: an unwelcome but
inevitable awakening. **$1.50. Revell.

  “The most obvious omission is that of the vital matter of education,
  but with the help of the index even this defect may in a measure be
  supplied.”

  + + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 189. Ja. ’06. 500w.


=Brown, Charles Reynolds.= Social message of the modern pulpit. **$1.25.
Scribner.

  The Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching delivered at Yale during
  1905–6. “The burden of the lectures is that it is the chief duty of
  the clergy, at least in the present situation, to inculcate true
  principles of social action and become leaders in the work of social
  reconstruction.” (Nation.)

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  “His appeal is rarely to facts of personal observation or to what
  might be called the original documents of sociological controversy,
  but is commonly to writers whose entire fairness and inerrancy have
  yet to be proved.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 490w.

  “Vitalized throughout by a strenuous moral tone, insisting on the
  supremacy of spiritual ends and values, these lectures are
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  comes of long and friendly contact with the interests both of trade
  and unionists and capitalists in California.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 310w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 90w.

  “The man who thinks that the message of Christianity is an academic
  discussion of theological matters would do well to read this volume.
  For every clergyman the reading of it is a duty.”

    + + =World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 170w.


=Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes.= In and around Venice. *$1.50. Scribner.

  “Other books may tell us much of Venice; Mr. Brown gives us Venice
  from the Venetian point of view.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 326. Mr. 17. 230w.

  “Justifies all expectations. He does not write simply of its
  picturesque aspects. He is learned in all the lore of the region,
  historical, geographical, practical and artistic.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 310w.


=Brown, John A. Harvie-.= Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe:
Norway, 1871, Archangle, 1872, Petchora, 1875. il. 2v. *$20. Wessels.

  These two volumes contain the journals which Mr. Harvie-Brown, “an
  accomplished ornithologist and enthusiastic faunist,” kept from day to
  day during the expeditions to Norway, Archangle and Petchora. “The
  real value and purpose of the book, however, lie in the observations
  of the author and his companions on bird and animal life,—observations
  that are minutely correct and scientific, and will be of interest to
  those deeply versed in bird and animal lore.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is rather one for a naturalist’s library than for general
  reading, yet there are many passages of character and travel which no
  reader could fail to appreciate.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1134. O. 28, ’05. 510w.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 235. F. 24. 1350w.

  Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 300w.

  “There are some instructive notes on the habits both of birds and men,
  for all of which one is grateful, wishing only that there had been
  more of this wheat and less of the journalistic chaff.”

    + – =Nature.= 73: 50. N. 16, ’05. 980w.

    + – =Spec.= 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ’05. 430w.


=Brown, Marshall=, ed. Humor of bulls and blunders. **$1.20. Small.

  A book of fun primarily designed to amuse, and negatively to suggest
  the importance of clear expression and simplicity of style. There are
  educational, parliamentary, political, and typographical bulls and
  blunders, there are humorous arraignments of advertisements, epitaphs,
  and letters, and there is comedy in careless sentence structure,
  punctuation and wrong use of words.

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  “A merry book, a book full of mirth-provoking passages. He seems to
  have captured everything in his line.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 580. S. 22, ’06. 310w.


=Brown, Vincent.= Sacred cup. †$1.50. Putnam.

  “The title refers to the sacrament of the Communion. The central
  characters are a gentle clergyman, a young man, and a young woman....
  Before the story opens a man has seduced a village girl, who dies
  after giving birth to a child. The child is brought up in the
  clergyman’s house, a fact which scandalizes many people. Presently the
  vicar hits upon the identity of the child’s father, who becomes
  engaged to the Lady Bountiful of the district. There comes a day when
  the vicar feels obliged to refuse to administer the sacrament to this
  unconfessed sinner, and upon that action the whole book hinges.”—Ath.

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  “We have found the novel extremely interesting, for the plot is well
  worked out and the characters are clearly developed.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1082. O. 14, ’05. 240w.

  “The conclusion is ineffective, and, notwithstanding a certain
  cleverness, the novel cannot be called a success.”

      – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 890. D. 30. 230w.

  “This is altogether the best piece of fiction written by Mr. Brown.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 100w.

  “It may be occasionally dull, but it is never cheap; while in
  conception it is tender, and even noble, and it yields passages of
  real delicacy and sensitiveness to spiritual beauty.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 400w.

  “There is decided ability and moving power in the scenes when the
  quiet, timid little rector stands true to his religious conviction and
  sacrifices his interests and his human ties.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 90w.

  “The story is lacking in many essential elements of strength, as well
  as in a completely balanced development of the characters.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 120w.


=Brown, William Garrott.= Life of Oliver Ellsworth. **$2. Macmillan.

  “Besides being a biography and concerned particularly with the career
  of Ellsworth, the book also presents a picture of life in New England
  in Colonial times—the life of the people, picturesque scenes, and many
  episodes.” (N. Y. Times.) “Much hitherto unpublished material is
  brought to light, the arrangement is as a rule excellent, and the
  impression left is that of a clean cut portrait of a fine old
  Connecticut and American patriot.” (Outlook.)

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  “I cannot venture to say that it is absolutely free from error, for I
  have not scrupulously sought for blunders; but those I have noticed
  are trivial. The book is well written because the English style is
  clear, straight-forward, and simple, not over-elaborated or striving
  for effect.” A. C. McLaughlin.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 690. Ap. ’06. 1350w.

  “Much information which is not readily, if at all to be found
  elsewhere.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 472. My. ’06. 80w.

  “A clear and sane account of a worthy patriot and jurist is given by a
  practiced historian in this volume.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 515. Mr. 1, ’06. 70w.

  “The life story [is] ... unfolded clearly and in an interesting way.
  At times Mr. Brown troubles himself overmuch about petty details, and
  at others betrays an undue enthusiasm for his hero. But his work—which
  is based on original research and makes available not a little
  hitherto unpublished material—has the signal merit of affording a
  better insight not alone into Ellsworth’s character and activities,
  but into the temper of the times in which he lived.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 215. F. 10, ’06. 530w.

  “His biographer, accordingly, finds a dearth of material, and is
  forced to rely much upon that indispensable and most dangerous faculty
  of the historian—imagination. As a judicious and sympathetic study of
  a notable American statesman and jurist, the volume is heartily to be
  welcomed.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 329. Ap. 19, ’06. 930w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 772. N. 11, ’05. 270w.

  “In William Garrott Brown’s book on his life and works the treatment
  is as ample as could be desired, if, indeed, it be not a trifle too
  detailed for easy reading.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 81: 1086. D. 30, ’05. 180w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 100w.


=Brown, William Haig.= Carthusian memories and other verses of leisure.
*$1.60. Longmans.

  “A little volume of occasional and other verses by the late head
  master of Charterhouse, collected by his daughter. These verses
  represent some of the thoughtful hours of ease crowning days of toil,
  and reflect a gentle, kindly man whether in serious or more humorous
  moods.... These pages contain no mere jingling rhymes, although they
  show the light touch of an accomplished versifier, the work being
  invariably easy and natural. Dr. Haig Brown is equally at home in
  English or Latin, French or Greek or German.... The many specimens of
  prologues for Old Carthusian theatricals show a pen as facile as that
  of Dryden, and the four-foot rhyming Latin lines, might have come from
  a skilful mediaeval monk.”—Ath.

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  “There is in all these sets of verses ... a warmth of heart and an
  affection ... for the school over which he reigned for thirty-four
  years together with a quiet sense of fun.”

      + =Acad.= 68: 646. Je. 17, ’05. 460w.

      + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 749. Je. 17. 260w.

  “A congeries of scholarly good things.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 120w.

  “The general reader will find the book not without a peculiar charm,
  which it derives less, perhaps, from its graceful art than from its
  attractive humanity.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 498. O. 7, ’05. 600w.


=Brown, William Horace.= Glory seekers: the romance of would-be founders
of empire in the early days of the Southwest. **$1.50. McClurg.

  These true stories which read like romance are mainly of men who
  “standing on the rugged confines of civilization in America at an
  early period of our national life, sought distinction by attempting to
  hitch their wagons to the star of empire.” Here are recorded
  Wilkinson’s “treasonable enterprise,” “Citizen” Genet’s undertakings,
  disgrace of Senator Blount, Burr’s arrest, Philip Nolan’s expedition
  to Texas, the Magee expedition to Texas and Mexico and other
  glory-seekers’ efforts to invade the Southland.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is well done and is interesting.”

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 338. S. ’06. 80w.

  “Mr. Brown narrates the facts fairly enough, but still with that due
  regard for the picturesque which the subject seems to demand.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 160w.

  “The stories are worth re-telling, and the author tells them most
  interestingly.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 393. Je. 16, ’06. 390w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 284. Ap. 28, ’06. 320w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 200w.

  “He has also sacrificed critical caution to the desire to be
  entertaining, and his work is further marred by a flippancy of style
  strangely out of keeping with the theme and in itself conducing to
  weaken any claim his book may have to serious consideration.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 200w.

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 270w.


=Browne, George Waldo.= St. Lawrence river: historical, legendary,
picturesque. **$3.50. Putnam.

  “It is in delineating the picturesque that Mr. Browne is at his best,
  but even here we usually have rhapsody rather than sane description.
  It would be tedious even with space at one’s disposal to point the
  dozens of mistakes in the book. Enough has been written to show that
  Mr. Browne was not equal to the task before him.”

    – – =Canadian M.= 26: 123. D. ’05. 1890w.

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 648. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.


=Browne, Nina Eliza=, comp. Bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. *$5.
Houghton.

  The initial volume in a series of bibliographies of prominent fiction
  writers. The author, the secretary of the American library association
  publishing board, has spent sixteen years upon her task, and has
  included entries of everything that can be found in print by and about
  Hawthorne, with references also to all the articles that were called
  forth by the recent Hawthorne centenary.

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  “The book is comprehensively arranged, and the items for the most part
  very completely covered, so that the volume stands as a genuine
  contribution to bibliographical literature, and must prove invaluable
  to the Hawthorne student.”

  + + + =Bookm.= 22: 647. F. ’06. 250w.

        =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 30w.

  “Miss Browne has done a remarkably good piece of work in her
  bibliography of Hawthorne.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ’05. 410w.


=Browning, Oscar.= Napoleon: the first phase: some chapters on the
boyhood and the youth of Bonaparte, 1769–1793. *$3.50. Lane.

  “He has carefully gathered the necessary materials and arranged them
  in excellent order for those to whom French books are sealed. The
  digest, too, is fair and discriminating.”

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 385. Ja. ’06. 900w.

  “Does not claim to be more than a summary of MM. Chuquet and Mason’s
  works on Napoleon’s early years.” L. G. W. L.

      + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 415. Ap. ’06. 220w.


=Browning, Robert.= Select poems; arranged in chronological order, with
biographical and literary notes by Andrew Jackson George. $1.50. Little.

        =Ind.= 59: 1349. D. 7, ’05. 60w.

      + =School R.= 14: 231. Mr. ’06. 30w.


=Browning, Robert.= Selected poems; with biographical sketch by
Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. $1.25. Crowell.

  Browning in the “Thin paper poets” edition is a companion for daily
  walks, easily pocketed. The fact that Charlotte Porter and Helen A.
  Clarke contribute the biographical sketch vouches for its literary
  quality and authoritativeness. The frontispiece is a reproduction of
  his last photograph made in 1889.


=Browning, Robert.= Selections from Browning; ed. with introd. and notes
by Robert Morss Lovett. *30c. Ginn.

  A collection for the person who has not read Browning. The order in
  which they would easily appeal to such a reader has been followed,
  giving first poems of action and narration; second, poems of places;
  third, love poems; and fourth, poems of character.


=Bruce, William Samuel.= Social aspects of Christian morality. *$3.50.
Dutton.

  Believing that the social problems are at the foundation personal and
  moral problems, the author would solve them “in accordance with the
  principles of justice and equity.” He discusses the following
  subjects: Scope and method of social ethics. Christian ethics, The
  family, Marriage, Family life and relationships, The state, The
  national state, State intervention, The civic power, The Christian
  state, Public morality and the state, The social mind and the press,
  Ethics of war, Ethics of art, Science and Education.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Bruce cannot be said to have made any real contribution to the
  discussion of his theme.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 310w.

  “Simplicity, practicality, and sedate strength characterize these
  lectures.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 360w.


=Brummitt, Daniel B.= Epworth league methods. *$1. Meth. bk.

  “The Epworth league movement is here set forth with such attention to
  detail that the book will be found a working hand-book, sufficient to
  give every chapter a complete and not easily exhausted scheme of work,
  with most of the plans worked out in full,” and it will be of interest
  and value to the thousands of young people of the Methodist church who
  are enrolled under the league’s banners thruout the United States.


=Bryan, William Jennings.= Letters to a Chinese official: being a
western view of eastern civilization. **50c. McClure.

  Written by way of reply to the “Letters from a Chinese official” by
  Mr. Lowe Dickinson. They have grown out of Mr. Bryan’s recent travels
  in the Orient, and discuss such subjects as Chinese civilization
  overrated, Western civilization underrated, The folly of isolation,
  Labor-saving machinery, Government, The home, Without a mission, and
  Christianity versus Confucianism.

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        =Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 40w.

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 142. S. 15, ’06. 60w.

  “It is a serious and convincing argument that Mr. Bryan
  advances—rather more serious, perhaps, than was called for by so
  evident a satire as the first production.”

    + – =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 150w.


=Bryant, Sara Cone.= How to tell stories to children. *$1. Houghton.

  Helpful instruction to mothers and teachers on the psychology of
  story-telling is followed by a group of stories prepared for use. “It
  is pleasant to realize that the author places more store by the
  imaginative force of the legend than its educative value, that she
  realizes the first requisite of the story is to give joy rather than
  to carry primarily useful information.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Bookm.= 22: 534. Ja. ’06. 30w.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ’05. 60w.

  “Suggestive to mothers and teachers.”

      + =Outlook.= 80: 344. Je. 3, ’05. 10w.


=Buck, Gertrude, and Morris, Elizabeth Woodbridge.= Course in narrative
writing. *80c. Holt.

  A course is here provided with an aim to definite practical results
  for the student of composition. The author discusses the structure of
  the story, finding the story, the point of view, the beginning and the
  end of the story, scenes and transitions, character drawing, and the
  setting, names and titles.

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  “It appears to us, that granting the propriety of the fundamental
  conceptions, as we do not, the development of the subject is in the
  right order, and the exercises, as is usual in the text-books of these
  authors, ingenious and good.” E. E. Hale, jr.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 453. Je. ’06. 450w.

  “Contains some interesting comment on the construction of the novel
  and might be useful in connection with the study of literature.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.


=Budge, Ernest Alfred Wallis.= Egyptian heaven and hell. 3v. *$5. Open
ct.

  “The first two of his three volumes are given to the transcription and
  interpretation of the two great books in which the ‘Learning of the
  Egyptians.’ as it is related to the life after death, was expressed;
  the third is a history and explanation of the two. These may be
  defined as rival theories of eschatology, or they might be described
  in more popular language as illustrated guides to the abodes of the
  dead. They represent respectively the popular and the educated view of
  the other world.”—Spec.

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  “Dr. Budge’s rendering of the very difficult texts with which he here
  has to deal is in every way adequate, and his third volume, in which
  he discusses their bearing, contains matter which it is incumbent upon
  every student of such matters to read.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 663. My. 26. 2610w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w.

  “It is impossible to do full justice to this work in the space at our
  disposal, but it will certainly long form the standard work on the
  subject of Egyptian eschatology.”

  + + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 295. Ag. 31, ’06. 1310w.

  “The conceptions of the rewards and punishments of the dead in the
  next world as given in these two books are also well worth the
  attention of the anthropologist.”

  + + + =Nature.= 74: 10. My. 3, ’06. 770w.

  “None of the material has escaped Dr. Budge’s unwearied industry. The
  English reader now has before him all that can be known at present
  about the ‘Book Am-Duat’ and the ‘Book of gates.’”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 623. My. 19, ’06. 1510w.

    + + =Spec.= 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 280w.


=Buell, Augustus C.= Paul Jones: founder of the American navy. 2v. $3.
Scribner.

  Mr. Buell’s work on Paul Jones published six years ago appears in new
  edition form, with supplementary chapter by General Horace Porter of
  sixty-five pages devoted to a detailed account of the recent discovery
  and identification of the remains of this revolutionary hero.

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  “Unfortunately, the publishers have not taken advantage of the
  opportunity afforded by a new edition to correct the many inaccuracies
  of the first imprint.”

      – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 974. Jl. ’06. 120w.

  “His book is quite good enough to deserve its splendid new setting.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 220. Ap. 7, ’06. 190w.

  “Will probably take place as the authentic narrative relating to this
  early officer under the American flag.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.


Buff: a tale for the thoughtful by a physiopath. $1. Little.

  Buff, a frail wisp of humanity, passes thru interesting stages of
  development as thought, reason and observation bring him into harmony
  with the restorative power of nature. The aim of the sketch is to
  teach the beneficial results of co-operating with nature in developing
  useful lives.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the form of a biography, written in an unconventional but
  attractive manner.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 130w.


=Buley, E. C.= Australian life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.

  “Australia is no longer a colony, but a nation. This is the keynote of
  Mr. Buley’s book on Australia.... It is a vivid picture that Mr. Buley
  presents of newly made cities humming with industry and business and
  filled with comfortable homes; great cattle and horse ranches, where
  every proprietor is a little lord of the manor; sheep farms in the
  back blocks fifty miles from a neighbor; gold fields where fortunes
  are made in a day and lost the same night; and wide, dreary stretches
  of the Never-Never land still awaiting irrigation and the consequent
  inrush of settlers.”—Pub. Opin.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book deals most entertainingly with Australian life, and is well
  illustrated.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 197. Mr. 16, ’06. 380w.

  “The especial virtue of the book is its elementariness.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 806. Ap. 5, ’06. 270w.

  “We have not, however, often read a volume in which solid information
  was conveyed in a more pleasing style.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 61. Ja. 18, ’06. 750w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 230w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 725. D. 2, ’05. 240w.

  “This is an interestingly written volume, with a particularly
  absorbing chapter on the ‘Never never’ country.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 70w.


=Bullock, Charles Jesse=, ed. Selected readings in public finance.
*$2.25. Ginn.

  A book which supplies the collateral reading needed to supplement the
  text-book and lectures in a general course in finance. It aims to
  introduce students to standard authors on subjects of finance, to draw
  upon modern monographic or periodical literature not easily
  accessible, to present other material of a statistical, historical and
  descriptive nature that is necessary to amplify a knowledge of the
  subject.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Ought to prove of great value to teachers in small colleges.”

    + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 520. O. ’06. 140w.

  “The chief criticism to be passed upon what is in other respects a
  most useful work is the comparatively slight attention paid to
  specifically American problems.”

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 565. S. ’06. 160w.

  “It is not often that a volume is found where the evils of such
  multiple authorship are so well overcome.” H. C. E.

    + + =Yale R.= 15: 334. N. ’06. 340w.


=Bumpus, T. Francis.= Cathedrals of England and Wales. **$4. Pott.

  “Mr. Bumpus’s book is a valuable guide in the case of these buildings
  not only describing them very fully, but also pointing out what parts
  of them are original, and what new.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 903. D. 30. 170w.

  “His book should be carefully read before any of the churches he
  describes are visited.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 426. Ap. 7. 140w.

  “It is no mere dressing-up of old material and hackneyed views.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 150w.

  “Mr. Bumpus has only one real fault in writing about our cathedrals.
  He is convinced that all the restorations of English cathedrals,
  since, say, 1840 have been justified.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 556. N. 3. 210w.

  “Not merely a useful handbook, but a piece of real literature.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 20: 180. Ap. ’06. 130w.

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 52. Jl. 14, ’06. 830w.

  “We are not much struck by the illustrations, which are reproductions
  from very ordinary photographs such as any amateur might take, but the
  letterpress shows painstaking work, and the author is clearly well
  studied in architecture.”

        + – Sat. R. 102: 494. O. 20, ’06. 160w.

  “Mr. Bumpus writes, for the most part, with moderation and good sense.
  It is a pleasure to follow a guide so well informed and so
  enthusiastic.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 264. F. 17, ’06. 330w.


=Bunyan, John.= Pilgrim’s progress: with notes and a sketch of Bunyan’s
life. *25c. Ginn.

  Uniform with the “Standard English classics” this “Pilgrim’s progress”
  has been carefully edited and abridged for school use.


=Burdick, Lewis Dayton.= Hand. $1.50. Irving co.

  A survey of facts, legends, and beliefs pertaining to manual
  ceremonies, covenants and symbols. The chapters include a historical
  study of the hand as “Executant of the brain,” “A symbol of life,” “A
  symbol of authority,” “An indicator of fortune,” “Trial by the hand,”
  “Laying on hands,” “Lifting the hand,” “Taking an oath,” “The social
  hand,” “The healing hand,” “The hand of evil,” and others related in
  idea.

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        =Arena.= 35: 335. Mr. ’06. 190w.

  “An unusually interesting little monograph, prepared in a scholarly
  manner.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.


=Burgess, (Frank) Gelett.= Are you a bromide? or, The sulphitic theory
expounded and exemplified according to the most recent researches into
the psychology of boredom, including many well-known bromidioms now in
use. *50c. Huebsch.

  In his satiric essay the sulphitic author raises a question without an
  answer, furnishing a classification by which the bores may be
  separated from the apostles of the unexpected which the few will apply
  and the many will indignantly condemn. But his theory is expounded
  with such conviction that if he reach a wide enough audience the stock
  phrases of the bromides here listed are doomed to become obsolete.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Ind.= 61: 1353. D. 6, ’06. 130w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 190w.


=Burgess, (Frank) Gelett.= Little sister of destiny. †$1.50. Houghton.

  Margaret Million is a wealthy young heiress who plays the rôle of
  chorus girl, cashier, manicure, artist’s model, and serving maid in
  order to befriend and help less fortunate girls. Her Lady Bountiful
  methods demand that her beneficiaries never know the source of their
  good fortune—the idea of mystery enhancing the fairy-tale aspect of
  the book.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The stories of her experiences are entertaining in spite of their
  unlikeliness.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 60w.

  “Is one of the most lovable books that have come to our table for many
  a long day.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1686. My. 31, ’06. 150w.

  “Everybody should read ‘The little sister of destiny.’”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 214. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

  “They vary in merit, but as a whole will not enhance the author’s
  reputation as a whimsical humorist.”

      – =Outlook.= 83: 43. My. 2, ’06. 30w.

  “After Mr. Burgess’s usual manner he mixes a good deal of sense with
  considerable whimsical nonsense.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 638. My. 19, ’06. 150w.

      – =R. of Rs.= 33: 761. Je. ’06. 70w.


=Burgess, William Watson.= Life sentence; or, Duty in dealing with
crime. $1.50. Badger, R. G.

  The scene of this story is Carson City. In commuting the life sentence
  of a woman who had murdered a villainous man there is opportunity for
  the author’s arguments of justification. He would reform the world by
  preventing instead of punishing crime.


=Burke, John Butler.= Origin of life: its physical basis and definition.
*$3. Stokes.

  This bulky volume is based upon the “experiments of J. Butler Burke of
  Cambridge, England, upon the effect of radium salts upon sterile
  solutions of bouillon and other organic media. Under the influence of
  the radiations, small bodies (termed ‘radiobes’) appear in the medium
  which appear strikingly like micro-organisms in that they grow in size
  and later exhibit nuclei and then divide. It is held that they are not
  bacteria nor even protoplasm, but that they are really alive, and
  represent transitional and evanescent forms of matter and energy lying
  between the common inorganic types of matter and stable living
  aggregates.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We are indeed no nearer the solution of the problem of the origin of
  life than before this book was written.” W. P. Pycraft.

      – =Acad.= 70: 500. My. 26, ’06. 1280w.

  “He possesses neither the learning nor the clarity of mind which give
  value to Dr. Bastian’s treatment of the same topics, irrespective of
  his personal views.” E. T. Brewster.

      – =Atlan.= 98: 421. S. ’06. 380w.

  “It is to be hoped that he is more skillful with the test-tube than
  with the pen. His style is extraordinarily loose and awkward.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 5: 123. Ap. 6, ’06. 1320w.

  “While biologists generally will regard this presentation, like the
  earlier one, as failing to prove the author’s main thesis ...
  nevertheless, the volume will serve a valuable purpose as an excellent
  exposé of both old and new theories of the origin of life, and of a
  philosophy of nature which is growing in popularity.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 18. Jl. 5, ’06. 340w.

  “An interesting book on a perennially interesting theme.” J. A. T.

    + – =Nature.= 74: 1. My. 3, ’06. 2200w.

  “Mr. Burke may not have proved his points, but he is not dogmatical,
  and he certainly seems a very wholesome philosopher.” Charles Loomis
  Dana.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 430. Jl. 7, ’06. 1460w.

        =R of Rs.= 33: 766. Je. ’06. 120w.

  “It is amazing that a man should dare to publish such a record of
  experiment, so slipshod, so uncritical, so destitute of scientific
  method; great must be his trust in the abundant and unfailing
  beneficence of popular ignorance.”

    – – =Sat. R.= 101: 334. Mr. 17, ’06. 1560w.


=Burland, Harris.= Black motor car. †$1.50. Dillingham.

  “The volume, contains indications of a gift for narrative, and some
  respectable powers of description; it is compact of energy and
  enthusiasm.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 758. Je. 23. 210w.


=Burland, Harris.= Financier. †$1.50. Dillingham.

  A new story by the author of “The black motor car.” “Briefly set down,
  the plot involves an African region, a promoter who is also an
  unscrupulous British patriot, a contest with Germany, a little war
  with heaps of slain, an impossible young actress, an equally
  impossible young civil engineer, a peer or two, a panic, gold mines,
  and members of the kaiser’s secret service—especially a lady spy,
  picturesquely named Mrs. Wooddevil. Mr. Burland has by the way, a
  curious taste in names.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His ‘Financier’ like his other stories, is readable in spite of the
  glaring inexpertness of the diction, the wretched quality of the
  puppets, and the exposed condition of the wires that pull them about
  to do the showman’s will.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 280w.

  “A crude story.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 20w.

  “Is an honest piece of sensationalism free from the most glaring vices
  of its class.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 212. Ag. 18, ’06. 150w.


=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend).= Dawn of a to-morrow.
†$1. Scribner.

  A book which embodies the spirit of Christian science without the
  letter seems to be a sermon with the unannounced text “I if I be
  lifted up ... will draw all men unto me.” A king of finance just ready
  to “shuffle off this mortal coil” by act of suicide withdraws to the
  slum section of London to hide his deed in a pauper’s seclusion. Here
  he is found by a “little rat of the gutter,” an ugly girl of twelve
  years, with astonishing insight into human hearts. This child with her
  sure faith in God as a present unfeared reality; Jenny Montaubyn who
  had taught her this hope; Polly, a girl of the streets; and a hungry
  thief form a group who make a great capitalist take hope and desire to
  work out his own salvation.

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  “Is a simple, old-fashioned miracle-play, set forth in modern London
  with the sure, swift touch of a practised story-teller.” Mary Moss.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 299. My. ’06. 560w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 130w.

      – =Ind.= 60: 1487. Je. 21, ’06. 160w.

  “The little story is tenderly told, leaving the reader with a softened
  heart and broader sympathies.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 147. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.

  “It is an unusual little tale, written powerfully and dramatically.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

  “There is a decidedly tense air about the short story, which detracts
  from its intended effect.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 320w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 761. Je. ’06. 40w.


=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend).= Little princess:
being the whole story of Sarah Crewe now told for the first time. †$2.
Scribner.

  “It is unusual to tell a story three times over, but all three
  versions are charming, and we accept them with gratitude.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 150w.

  “Is written in that fascinating style which has won for the gifted
  author of ‘The little Lord Fauntleroy’ so many admirers.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 375. F. ’06. 60w.

      + =Spec.= 95: 1042. D. 16, ’05. 140w.


=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend).= Queen Silver-Bell.
[+]60c. Century.

  Silver-Bell, queen of the fairies, grieves because people have grown
  so stupid that they no longer believe in fairies. She is so agitated
  that her temper flies out of its golden cage, and the Dormouse, to
  whom she goes for advice, assures her that the only way she can atone
  for her loss is to encourage the writing of fairy stories. Into the
  ears of her amanuensis, apprenticed for life, she whispers these
  stories, which so far are three in number. “Queen Silver-Bell” and
  “How Winnie hatched the little rooks” are found in this first volume
  of the series.

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  “The little story will be warmly received.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 50w.

        =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.

  “While Mrs. Burnett’s style is so pure that it makes easy reading,
  there is not in her subject matter in these books any very striking
  motive to make an impression on the child’s mind.”

    + – =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.


=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend).= Racketty-Packetty
house. [+]60c. Century.

  The second volume of fairy tales dictated by Queen Silver-Bell to her
  amanuensis.

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      + =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

        =Nation.= 83: 514. D, 13, ’06. 20w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.

    + – =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.


=Burney, Frances (Madame D’Arblay).= Diary and letters of Madame
D’Arblay; ed. by her niece, Charlotte Barrett. 6v. ea. *$2.50.
Macmillan.

  Reviewed by J. C. Bailey.

  + + + =Living Age.= 249: 268. Ja. ’06. 9790w. (Reprinted from
          Quarterly R.)

  + + + =Nation.= 81: 526. D. 28, ’05. 2060w. (Review of v. 4–6.)

  Reviewed by J. C. Bailey.

  + + + =Quarterly R.= 204: 89. Ja. ’06. 9790w.


=Burns, Robert.= Poems; with biographical sketch by Nathan H. Dole.
$1.25. Crowell.

  One of the eight volumes in the “Thin paper poets” series. The book
  contains a biographical sketch and a glossary, and as a frontispiece
  reproduces the Peter Taylor painting of Burns in 1786.


=Burr, Agnes Rush.= Russell H. Conwell, founder of the institutional
church in America: the work and the man. **$1. Winston.

  This is the sketch of a philanthropist still living, still doing
  active work for church, college, and hospital, in all of which three
  lines “he has blazed new paths ... has not only proven their need,
  demonstrated their worth, but he has shown how it is possible to
  accomplish such results from small beginnings, with no large gifts of
  money, with only the hands and hearts of willing workers.”


=Burrage, Henry Sweetser.= Gettysburg and Lincoln: the battle, the
cemetery, and the National park. **$1.50. Putnam.

  “His book is divided into three parts, the first dealing with the
  battle, the second detailing the circumstances connected with the
  inception, dedication, and completion of the cemetery and the third
  giving a record of the work of the park commission.” (Outlook.) “Of
  special interest are the chapters on Lincoln’s address, and the
  slightly different versions of it printed. He shows that many persons
  who heard the address were deeply impressed by it.... Mr. Burrage,
  with greater fulness than Nicolay or Hay, has gone into the
  circumstances in which Lincoln wrote the speech. He presents facts
  which are as new as they are interesting.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The sketch is well written and to the point.” Edwin Erle Sparks.

      + =Dial.= 41: 320. N. 16, ’06. 190w.

  “Mr. Burrage’s monograph was worth the doing, and he has performed
  this task fairly well.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w.

        =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 150w.

  “A useful volume by Major Henry S. Burrage, himself a war veteran and
  imbued with obvious enthusiasm for his theme.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 250w.


=Burrell, Joseph Dunn.= New appraisal of Christian science. 50c. Funk.

  An estimate of Christian science made according to the standard of
  mental science resulting in an adverse summary characterized by such
  expressions as “infantile logic, offensive pretentiousness, and
  slippery casuistry.”

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      + =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 30w.


=Burroughs, John.= Bird and bough. **$1. Houghton.

  This collection of the nature verses which have been published in
  various periodicals is happily dedicated “To the kinglet that sang in
  my evergreens in October and made me think it was May.” “The freshness
  and precision of Mr. Burrough’s observation need no comment. He is a
  master of clean-drawn phrase, and ... has a good gift of short-lined
  metre. So far as his work is poetry rather than versified nature
  study, it is so by virtue of a certain single-minded affectionateness
  of interest in nature.” (Nation.)

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  Reviewed by Edith M. Thomas.

      + =Critic.= 49: 139. Ag. ’06. 780w.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 206. O. 1, ’06. 190w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 230w.

  “Quite free from such introspection, without a trace of the haunting
  melancholy that pervades ‘The Shropshire lad,’ John Burroughs makes
  his songs of ‘Bird and bough.’”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 280w.


=Burroughs, John.= Ways of nature. **$1.10. Houghton.

  “In his latest book his observations are new and described with
  freshness and point.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 355. Ap. 14, ’06. 630w.

    + + =Ind.= 60: 286. F. 1, ’06. 350w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 59. Ja. 18, ’06. 1140w.

  “Burroughs evidently proves his case to his own convincing, if not to
  a legion of his hearty friends and admirers.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 1610w.

  “He has thought out the subject, and what he writes is fairly
  interesting.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 110w.


=Burry, B. Pullen-.= Ethiopia in exile: Jamaica revisited. †$1.50.
Wessels.

  “It is a valuable contribution to the great racial problem which
  demands the serious attention of American statesmen. The author draws
  an instructive parallel between the condition of the negroes of
  Jamaica and those of the United States.” (Ath.) “The black man in
  republican America is vastly worse off than in monarchist Britain, she
  says; and no American has a right to gainsay her. The Jamaican is out
  of work because, owing to changed conditions, there is no work in
  Jamaica for him to do; the American negro is deliberately prevented
  from working by the whites, both North and South; they won’t have
  him.” (Nation.) “Miss Pullen-Burry sees the most hopeful sign in the
  work done by Dr. Booker T. Washington and his colleagues for the
  education and racial elevation of the negro, and gives a full and
  interesting account of this work.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 39. Jl. 14. 300w.

  “We can commend Miss Pullen-Burry’s book; it is an excellent account
  of Jamaica, it is a fair study of the chief problem before us
  Americans.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 71. F. 3, ’06. 540w.


=Burton, Richard.= Rahab: a drama in three acts. *$1.25. Holt.

  A drama made out of the story of the “Woman of Jericho” whose house
  was on the city wall. Dr. Burton’s quick imagination has given life
  and a distinctive dramatic energy to a Bible story that of itself is
  meager. His Rahab who has seen the glory of God of Israel in a vision
  and has dreamed of the downfall of Jericho is drawn in flesh and blood
  characters, and thru her and her three rival lovers a strong human
  interest is maintained.

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  “Dr. Burton brings to his task the faculty of clearly perceiving his
  ‘dramatis personæ’ of determining the interaction of his characters,
  and a skilled workmanship in the management of the verse-vehicle.”
  Edith M. Thomas.

    + + =Critic.= 49: 219. S. ’06. 390w.

  “Dr. Burton’s ‘Rahab’ is a pretty enough academic exercise. But it has
  about as much to do with existing conditions as has the megatherium.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 758. S. 27, ’06. 130w.

  “If the play lacks sufficient vigor to foretell for it length of days
  it has some qualities that are uncommon in contemporary verse.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 180w.

  “It is simply and fluently written, with many felicities of phrase,
  and with comparatively few passages to which the most super-sensitive
  critic might object.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 300w.

  “It is not in any sense a great play, but it has movement, vivacity,
  color, and dramatic feeling.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 769. Jl. 28, ’06. 240w.


=Bury, John B.= Life of St. Patrick and his place in history. *$3.25.
Macmillan.

  “His method can without hesitation be said to be sound, and his mind
  singularly unbiased. His mastery of the evidence, both in Latin and in
  Irish, is also unquestionable. The style, too, though rather compact
  and severe, is lucid and readable.” F. N. Robinson.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 633. Ap. ’06. 770w.

  “The arrangement of the book is admirable. We hope that in a second
  edition we may be supplied with a complete index.” F. E. Warren.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 347. Ap. ’06. 2360w.

  Reviewed by T. W. Rolleston.

  + + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 447. Ja. ’06. 1310w.

  “The text of Professor Bury’s book is clear, succinct, and well
  arranged chronologically.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 19. Ja. 4, ’05. 930w.

  “We cannot part from Professor Bury’s work without expressing our
  unfeigned admiration for his complete control of the original
  authorities on which his narrative is based, and of the sound critical
  judgment he exhibits in dealing with sources which present unusual
  difficulties.”

  + + + =Spec.= 95: 977. D. 9, ’05. 1830w.


=Butler, Alford A.= Churchman’s manual of methods: a practical Sunday
school handbook for clerical and lay workers. $1. Young ch.

  A practical handbook compiled wholly from the author’s experience as
  Sunday school teacher, superintendent, clergyman and professor of
  religious pedagogy.


=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Incubator baby. [+]75c. Funk.

  The author of “Pigs is pigs” writes an incubator baby’s comments upon
  the change from her “paradise” to the big uncongenial world presided
  over by her indifferent father and mother.

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  “Here we have gentle satire at its best. It is a delightful story and
  will be enjoyed by old as well as young, though it will be especially
  pleasing to the little people.”

      + =Arena.= 36: 684. D. ’06. 240w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 80w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 670. O. 13, ’06. 140w.

  “The satire is relieved by an abundance of sentiment and common
  sense.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 120w.


=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Perkins of Portland; Perkins the Great. †$1.
Turner, H. B.

  Seven adventures of Perkins of Portland leave nothing to be desired in
  the way of advertising-finesse. He seizes the moment to launch a ware
  upon a gullible public, and whether it be porous plasters or guinea
  pigs his success is obvious.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 670. O. 13, 06. 110w.

  “Sequels and second books in the wake of a popular success, while they
  may be measurably good themselves, are usually dangerous experiments.
  This little book is, unfortunately, no exception to the rule.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 50w.


=Byrne, Mary Agnes.= Fairy chaser and other stories. 60c. Saalfield.

  Five charming fairy tales for young readers: The fairy chaser, Kitty’s
  ring, The magic mirror, The old gray shawl, and Cecelia’s gift.


=Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th baron.= Poetical works; new and
rev. ed.; ed. with a memoir by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. *$1.50.
Scribner.

  A complete edition of Byron’s poetry, containing all the new poems
  included in the 1898–1904 edition. The reader will find “a lively and
  well-written memoir by the editor, and judicious notes to the various
  poems, which explain all that one needs to know.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The introductory memoir ... is all that could be desired; in every
  way this is a most satisfactory edition of Byron to have on the
  bookshelf, and we think it will continue for many a long day, to
  deserve a place there.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 5. Ja. 6, ’06. 1160w.

  “An admirable and probably final edition of the noble poet.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 14. Ja. 6. 130w.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 290w.

  “It contains the gist of the editorial matter in Mr. Coleridge’s
  definitive seven-volume edition.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 240. Ap. 1, ’06. 100w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 100w.

  “The text is authoritative.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 150w.

  “In every way it is an excellent addition to one’s book shelves.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 150w.

  “This is an acceptable one-volume edition of Byron’s poems.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 130w.


                                   C


=Cabell, James Branch.= Line of love. †$2. Harper.

  “An interesting contribution to romantic literature, not beyond
  popular understanding and enjoyment.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 50w.

  “Altogether Mr. Cabell’s book is unusual in style, poise, and dramatic
  fervor.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w.


=Cable, George Washington.= Old Creole days; with 8 full-page il. and
head and tail pieces in photogravure by Albert Herter. $2.50. Scribner.

  In reprinting “Old Creole days” eight full-page drawings and fourteen
  smaller ones add new charm to the contents.

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  “The mechanical features are all of a high grade of excellence, and
  the volume has an air of dignity and beauty that well fits the charm
  of the contents.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 90w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1401. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 60w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 50w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 140w.


=Cabot, Mrs. Ella Lyman.= Everyday ethics. $1.25. Holt.

  Both teacher and general reader will find in this volume the rudiments
  of right choosing and well doing. The moral aspects of the soul’s
  activities—memory, imagination courage, feeling and the sense of honor
  are discussed in detail with the special aim of serving the teacher’s
  needs.

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  “It is a book that every child might read with profit if it were not
  forced upon him in the form of ‘lessons.’”

      + =Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 40w.


=Cadogan, Edward.= Makers of modern history: three types: Louis
Napoleon, Cavour, Bismarck. **$2.25. Pott.

      + =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 80w.


=Caffin, Charles Henry.= How to study pictures. **$2. Century.

  “Regarded as a frank imitation, however, the book is well enough of
  its kind.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 7. O. 13, ’06. 1100w.

  “Mr. Caffin helps people to look at pictures with their eyes, a not
  too common thing with writers on art, who mostly see pictures with
  their minds, which is quite a different matter.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 170w.


=Caird, Edward.= Evolution of theology in the Greek philosophers.
*$4.25. Macmillan.

  Reviewed by George Burman Foster.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 762. O. ’06. 970w.


=Caird, Mrs. Mona.= Romantic cities of Provence; il. by Joseph Pennell
and Edward Synge. *$3.75. Scribner.

  “This is a book bred of a sojourn in Provence and attesting an
  awakened eye and sympathy. It aims to catch the spirit of the place,
  the indefinable quality lost in a hurried railway passage, and
  succeeds best, perhaps, in imparting the reflex effects produced upon
  the traveller. The book is illustrated from over two dozen pen
  sketches by Joseph Pennell and about twice the number by Edward M.
  Synge, who draws with a similar preoccupation with the effect of
  sunlight, but with a more downright stroke, a generally wider
  interspace in shading and a greater use of outline.”—Int. Studio.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Mona Caird brings a romancer’s love of sentiment and an artist’s
  powers of description to her ‘Romantic cities of Provence,’ with the
  happiest of results.” Wallace Rice.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 260w.

      + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 56. D. ’06. 140w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 610w.

  “Certainly no one of the season’s volumes is better worth owning than
  is this.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 130w.


=Calderon de la Barca, Pedro.= Eight dramas of Calderon; freely tr. by
E. Fitzgerald. $1.50. Macmillan.

  The eight dramas included here are as follows: The painter of his own
  dishonor, Keep your own secret, Gil Perez the Galician, Three
  judgments at a blow. The mayor of Zalamea, Beware of smooth water, The
  mighty magician and Such stuff as dreams are made of.

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  “His versions appeal neither to the scholar nor to the general reader:
  the one is irritated by constant omissions, amplifications, and
  liberties of every kind, while the other is disappointed at finding
  that the Spanish atmosphere has vanished.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 112. Jl. 28. 200w.

  “It will save searching in a general collection, and can be
  comfortably held in the hand.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 11. Jl. 5, ’06. 70w.

  “The Eversley imprint, owing to its cheapness and excellent
  typography, will appeal to many lovers of the Spanish poet.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 495. Ag. 11, ’06. 260w.


=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Moorish remains in Spain. **$15. Lane.

  “Taken altogether, Mr. Calvert’s book is most disappointing, and we
  think that the Alhambra plates should be withdrawn.” A. J. Butler.

      – =Acad.= 70: 471. My. 19, ’06. 1870w.

  “The coloured plates reproduce admirably the delicate devices
  characteristic of Moorish workmanship at its best. Mr. Calvert
  habitually confounds legend with fact, and fails to distinguish
  between the random assertions of a tourist and the statements of a
  scholar.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 543. My. 5. 330w.

  “His book, so complete in other respects, is without an index, a fact
  that detracts very greatly from its value to the student.”

  + + – =Int. Studio.= 29: 88. Jl. ’06. 420w.

  “With regard to the Moorish ‘architecture and decoration’ in these
  three cities, the main theme of the book, Mr. Calvert is himself
  rather prone to superlatives and gush; and, moreover, does not clearly
  see that architecture is something altogether different from
  decoration.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 243. Jl. 6, ’06. 870w.

  “The book seems worthy of its subject, and we would gladly give a more
  effective description of its many beauties.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 545. Ap. 7. ’06. 120w.


Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G.
W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.

  “There are unhappily gaps filled with second-rate productions, which
  detract considerably from the value of the whole.”

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 447. My. 12, ’06. 1890w. (Review of v. 9.)

  “As a book of reference this one has a certain value, though it is
  neither a monument of British scholarship nor of Continental, there
  being neither continuity nor unity in the product of a well-meant
  effort to weld the two. There is little charm of style anywhere, no
  quality of mysterious evolution in the subject which compels
  attention, no magisterial character in the book to command the highest
  respect. As to the bibliography, no arrangement could have been
  invented more forbidding to the searcher after authors, titles, or
  subjects.”

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 135. O. ’06. 2270w. (Review of v. 9.)

  Reviewed by W. E. Lingelbach.

  + + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 342. S. ’06. 1370w. (Review of v. 9.)

  “It contains a great deal of good work by capable writers and if it
  does not reach Acton’s ideal, it does not fall far below that of M.
  Ernest Lavisse.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 691. Je. 9. 1990w. (Review of v. 9.)

  “The weakest part of the scheme is its treatment of great men.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 725. D. 8. 1950w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “In the assignments of topics to their European associates, the
  editors of this important series have been especially happy. The
  division of the subject-matter into topics has been accomplished
  satisfactorily.” Henry E. Bourne.

  + + + =Dial.= 41: 203. O. 1, ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 9.)

  “One is naturally tempted to compare the two volumes with the
  corresponding ones of their predecessor, the ‘Histoire generale.’ They
  are full of well-attested facts. But from the point of view of
  attractiveness of style and matter the English books fall behind the
  French. Its writers have not the French knack of dovetailing a
  striking incident or quotation into a perforce heavy narrative. All of
  them possess learning and industry; but taken as a whole their product
  is but dull reading, though there are exceptions.” W. E. Rhodes.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 160. Ja. ’06. 1740w. (Review of v. 3 and 8.)

  “It is in relation to international affairs, and especially to war,
  that the co-operative method breaks down worst. In a volume of such
  dimensions, with a scheme which drags most things away from
  chronological order, the lack of a thoroughly good index is especially
  unfortunate.” Hereford B. George.

    + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 807. O. ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 9.)

  “The volume is ample for clear views of Napoleon the man, the soldier,
  the statesman, and for his effect on the world in government,
  religion, society and art.”

  + + + =Ind.= 61: 1115. N. 8, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 9.)

  “It is hard to see who will read the book, for the expert can get
  little from the disconnected monographs, while the layman is confused
  by the overlapping divisions, where there is no charm of style and no
  evolution which holds the attention.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 9.)

  “The volume before us is inferior to none of its predecessors. Some of
  the chapters are of conspicuous merit, and throughout a very
  respectable standard is maintained, while, as the editors observe,
  ‘the dominance of an overwhelming personality gives the events
  narrated cohesion and unity.’”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 176. My. 18, ’06. 2710w. (Review of v. 9.)

  “That part which deals with the literature printed and manuscript,
  including pamphlets and news letters, relating to the Thirty years’
  war is likely to be of great service to students.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 397. N. 30. ’06. 2160w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “The general level of quality is well-sustained. It is perhaps not so
  high as in the first two volumes—‘Renaissance’ and ‘Reformation’—but
  it strikes us as rather higher than in the last preceding volume, that
  on the French revolution.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 225. S. 13, ’06. 2990w. (Review of v. 9.)

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 300. My. 5, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 9.)

  “It must be acknowledged that the volume on Napoleon is not so
  uniformly excellent as the volumes on earlier epochs—the renaissance,
  the reformation, and the wars of religion.” Christian Gauss.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 417. Je. 30, ’06. 4220w. (Review of v. 9.)

        =Outlook.= 83: 286. Je. 2, ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 9.)

  Reviewed by J. H. Robinson.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 702. D. ’06. 840w. (Review of v. 9.)

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 9.)

  “There is not only a lack of general cohesion in the fragments but
  most of them are far from complete in themselves.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 589. My. 12, ’06. 1740w. (Review of v. 9.)

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 166. Ag. 4, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 9.)

    + + =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 9.)


=Campbell, Douglas Houghton.= Structure and development of mosses and
ferns. *$4.50. Macmillan.

  A recently re-written and enlarged edition of Professor Campbell’s
  work.

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  “That the book is fairly brought up to date goes without saying,
  though one may differ from the author as to the relative values among
  some of the newer researches, and may wish that some of the old
  figures had been replaced by new and better ones. Proof-reading
  throughout the volume has been very bad. The index is really absurd.
  Spite of defects ... we welcome the new edition and commend it to
  every botanist as a necessary reference work, even though he have the
  first.” C. R. D. and C. J. C.

  + + – =Bot. Gaz.= 40: 461. D. ’05. 1070w.

    + + =Ind.= 59: 1482. D. 21, ’05. 160w.

  “Professor Campbell is an ardent investigator, to whom cryptogamic
  botany is much indebted for substantial advance in certain directions,
  and he is, moreover, a clear expositor.”

    + + =Nation.= 81: 532. D. 28, ’05. 450w.

  “This edition without question must prove to be as helpful and
  suggestive as the one it supplants, and will be used by all students
  who wish to obtain a clear notion of the structure and relationship of
  higher plants.” Charles E. Bessey.

    + + =Science=, n.s. 22: 631. N. 17, ’05. 580w.


=Campbell, Frances.= Dearlove, the history of her summer’s make-believe.
†$1.50. Dutton.

  “Dearlove is a little maiden of eleven years, portrayed in a charming
  frontispiece. She holds sway over a family consisting of her
  grandfather, the Earl of Amherst; her uncle and aunt, Lord and Lady
  Inverona, and her young widowed mother Lady Margaret Gordon. The
  ‘Summer’s make-believe’ takes place on the Isle of Guernsey, where the
  family is spending a happy holiday. The ‘make-believe’ is an invention
  of Dearlove (otherwise Philomena,) who decrees that for the summer all
  the grownups shall become her age—except ‘Ganpa,’ who may be
  twenty-five—shall be called by their Christian names, and shall
  disport themselves like eleven-year-olds. How they do this, whom they
  meet, and what comes of it all makes a fanciful book.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “She tells her tale with a complete understanding of children and
  their ways; and heart as well as skill goes to make it the charming
  book it is.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 405. Ap. 28, ’06. 270w.

  “The author can do better than this, but her gifts appear to us to lie
  in the direction rather of pure fantasy than fiction.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 513. Ap. 28. 170w.

  “Will make grown-ups young again, if any book can.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1413. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

  “The book is written in a style so limpid and pleasant, and tells
  about such true-hearted sweet people, besides having that indefinable
  thing we call ‘atmosphere,’ that, albeit with some grumbling, we fare
  on to the end.”

  + – – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 544. S. 1, ’06. 380w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 140. S. 15, ’06. 120w.

  “Readers who like a series of charming sketches with a delicate thread
  of plot connecting them are cordially recommended to send for
  ‘Dearlove.’”

      + =Spec.= 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 120w.


=Campbell, Frances.= Measure of life. **$1.50. Dutton.

  “In her dedication Mrs. Campbell alludes to these tales and dreams as
  her ‘spiritual adventures,’ and that is perhaps the clearest
  description that can be given of them. Dreams, legends, and visions
  have each a golden thread of spiritual meaning woven into them. All
  the author’s eloquence is upon the side of right and goodness; her
  pages are full of counsels of perfection, of the wisdom of endurance,
  of the salutary effect of patience under pain, suffering and loss, of
  the value of self-sacrifice and tribulation in the discipline of life.
  Throughout she glorifies those bracing qualities which ordinary human
  nature is least inclined to go out of its way to cultivate. Some of
  the tales are charming in their tenderness and gaiety.... Others, of
  dreams and second sight, are curious and interesting.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Ideas flow easily and find expression in a wealth of imagery that
  transforms familiar truths into something new and strange.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 261. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.

  “While her symbolical personages, such as the ‘master of illusion,’
  are charming, her contemporary characters, whether English ladies or
  Irish peasants, do not entirely carry conviction. This criticism does
  not, however, hold good with regard to the still-life of the picture,
  which testifies to an intimate and sympathetic acquaintance with Irish
  landscape, and to a notable gift of description.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 229. F. 24. 160w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 280w.


=Campbell, Scott, pseud. (Frederick William Davis).= Below the dead
line. †$1.50. Dillingham.

  When Inspector Byrnes commanded New York police he issued an order
  demanding the instant arrest of every crook found by day or night in
  that part of the city lying south of Fulton street. This order soon
  earned for the district the title “Below the dead line.” This story
  records the operations of clever criminals who tried to evade the
  order.


=Campbell, Wilfred.= Collected poems. **$1.50. Revell.

  A collection of Mr. Campbell’s poems that have appeared in American
  and English periodicals. They are prefaced by an introduction by the
  author in which he says “After all, the real root of all poetry, from
  Shakespeare to the latest singer, is the human heart.... It is man the
  hoper, man the dreamer, the eternal child of delight and despair,
  whose ideals and desires are ever a lifetime ahead of his greatest
  accomplishments, who is the hero of nature and the darling of the
  ages. Because of this true poetry will always be to him a language.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 260w.

  “A poet whose inspiration is both strong and sustained.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 128. F. 16, ’06. 500w.

  “Is marked neither by exquisite craft nor by great imaginative power.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 699. S. 20, ’06. 200w.

  “His ‘Collected poems’ would have gained in poetic value by a more
  rigorous standard of selection, and by the drastic pruning of some of
  the pieces selected.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 460w.

  “They have a pleasant ease and a very true and sensitive feeling for
  nature.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 170w.

  “Some of his patriotic verses are as good as anything we have seen of
  the kind.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 756. My. 12, ’06. 250w.


=Canning, Albert Stratford George.= History in Scott’s novels. **$3.15.
Wessels.

  “Mr. Canning takes up fifteen novels in chronological sequence, from
  ‘The talisman’ to ‘Red-gauntlet.’ and runs through such portions of
  the plot as bring authentic personages into view.” (Nation.) “In each
  he explains the allusions, expands the references to historical facts,
  and in general connects romance with actuality.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is not without, some merit.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 512. Je. 21, ’06. 520w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 130w.


=Capart, Jean.= Primitive art in Egypt; tr. by A. S. Griffith. *$5.
Lippincott.

  “M. Capart’s own part in the book appears to have been mostly confined
  to the selection of the matters to be reproduced, and this task has
  been discharged with both skill and judgment. The translation by Miss
  Griffith is adequate to its purpose.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 170w.

  “It appeals, with its wealth of illustration and its sober judgment,
  to all who concern themselves in any wise with the civilization of
  primitive man. A word of praise should be said for the admirable work
  of the translator of the book, Miss Griffith ... her version reads
  like a bit of original English.” L. H. Gray.

  + + + =Bookm.= 22: 359. D. ’05. 310w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 104. F. 1, ’06. 380w.


=Capen, Oliver Bronson.= Country homes of famous Americans. **$5.
Doubleday.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 190w.


=Capes, Bernard.= Bembo: a tale of Italy. $1.50. Dutton.

  “The tale opens in 1476, with the introduction of the heroine and a
  cavalier and their attendants going toward Milan. Later on in this
  chapter comes Bernard Bembo, who ‘mouths parables as it were
  prick-songs, and is esteemed among all as a saint.’ He is very young
  in appearance and ‘pretty.’ And he is a ‘child propagandist
  interpreting and embodying in himself the spirit of love.’ The story
  is not based on fact, Mr. Capes points out in preface, but ‘the
  fundamental fact of nature.’”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the novel Mr. Bernard Capes is quite at his best.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 784. Jl. 29, ’05. 330w.

  “Not even Mr. Hewlett has so successfully reproduced the mediæval
  atmosphere. The whole characterization is of a piece with the swing
  and virility of the style. It is a fine work, and reaches the
  high-water mark of living romance.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 234. Ag. 19. 580w.

  “Mr. Capes has produced in this moving and opulent work something that
  comes near to being a masterpiece.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 390w.

  “The story is well told.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1060. N. 1, ’06. 340w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 233. Jl. 21, ’05. 290w.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 371. Je. 9, ’06. 250w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.

  “Extravagance and violent over-emphasis are the greatest faults of his
  style, which is always strained to top-pitch, and glaringly
  over-coloured.”

      – =Sat. R.= 100: 562. O. 28, ’05. 420w.

  “His euphuism sometimes gets out of hand and mars the poetry of his
  tale, and sometimes he lingers so long on an emotion that the reader
  is a little repelled. But for the work as a whole we have nothing but
  praise.”

  + + – =Spec.= 95: 228. Ag. 12, ’05. 800w.


=Carducci, Giosue.= Poems of Italy: selections from the odes of Giosue
Carducci; tr. with an introd. by M. W. Arms. **$1. Grafton press.

  A half dozen pieces selected from “Odi barbare,” translated,
  introduced and annotated by M. W. Arms.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Dial.= 40: 359. Je. 1, ’06. 60w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 440w.


=Carey, Rosa Nouchette.= No friend like a sister. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  Sister Gresham, the strong, capable, contented woman, who establishes
  a model nurses’ home and finds her life’s happiness in it is a friend
  to the other characters in the book, in times of stress or trouble.
  They all lean upon her; her favorite sister Eleanor, who is made happy
  by the chance confession of the man who dares not aspire to her, her
  brother Lyall who goes as a missionary to Africa, and his child-like
  wife who refuses to go with him and later wakes to a realization of
  her love and duty. There are other characters also, some of whom stand
  alone, and there is another love affair in which the daughter of an
  old country family throws aside conventional barriers to marry the man
  of her choice.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Her popularity is no doubt deservedly due in great part to the
  extreme wholesomeness of her tone, which makes her stories eminently
  suitable for the young girl, and also a love of detail which appeals
  to a certain order of mind in old and young alike.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 439. O. 13. 220w.

  “It is her complacency, and the apparent conviction that she is
  conveying the truest and best in life to her twenty-five thousand
  readers that make Miss Carey’s books irritating.”

      – =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. O. 13, ’06. 140w.


=Carey, Wymond.= “No. 101.” †$1.50. Putnam.

  “No. 101” is a spy of the time of Louis XV, who betrays the secrets of
  the French ruler to the British. The identity of this spy is a
  mystery, and anyone so unfortunate as to discover the secret perishes
  within twenty-four hours. An English captain, a French nobleman, Louis
  XV, and Mme. de Pompadour figure prominently in the story.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Few of the figures have the indefinable quality of vitality, but
  perusal brings the not altogether unsatisfactory sensation of having
  assisted at a well-staged historical drama while still enjoying the
  comforts of the domestic hearth.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 226. F. 24. 110w.

  “He has allowed himself considerable liberties with the facts of
  history. But in view of the capital tale he has produced, the reviewer
  can not but readily forgive him.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 550w.

  “Taken by and large it is a good deal better (merely as an excuse for
  passing superfluous time away) than most of its kind.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 69. F. 3, ’06. 540w.

  “The story is entertaining.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 80w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 30w.

  “The book is well above the average, but lovers of Dumas need feel no
  anxiety.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 306. Mr. 10, ’06. 290w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 226. F. 10, ’06. 560w.


=Carl, Katherine A.= With the empress dowager. **$2. Century.

  “If she has been led away by gratitude and kindly feeling, it is
  difficult to find fault with her. And we may add that the skill and
  insight needed for literary portraiture are not often combined with
  the painter’s craft.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 196. F. 17. 810w.

  “Reveals one of the most important steps in the transformation now
  going on in that giant empire.” John W. Foster.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 544. Ap. ’06. 440w.

  “Beside being fascinating in itself, reveals very much of historical
  and antiquarian interest to those who have read widely and critically
  in the court life of the vassal kingdoms around the Middle country.”
  W. E. Griffis.

      + =Critic.= 48: 371. Ap. ’06. 270w.

  “She is not to be blamed for writing of the empress as she found her.
  But she must not expect her readers to accept her estimate at face
  value.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 253. F. 17, ’06. 560w.

  “Cannot boast of any special literary attractions. The book is worthy
  of what it has not, an index.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 125. F. 8, ’06. 910w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 410w.

  “It is interesting in a way and up to a certain point. But all that
  one cares to read might have been put into a smaller compass.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 228. F. 10, ’06. 320w.


=Carleton, Will.= Poems for young Americans. $1.25. Harper.

  The verses of Will Carleton that are peculiarly adapted to younger
  readers have been grouped under three headings as follows: Poems for
  young Americans, Poems of festivals and anniversaries, and Humorous
  verse.

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  “They have the trick of rime, but somewhere there is the false ring of
  patriotism, that comes whenever one tries hard to write
  patriotically.”

    – + =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 60w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 100w.


=Carlile, Rev. Wilson, and Carlile, Victor.= Continental outcast: land
colonies and poor law relief; with a preface by Rt. Rev. E. S. Talbot.
*60c. Wessels.

  An account of a visit to some of the labor colonies of Belgium,
  Holland, Germany and Denmark by two men engaged in the work of the
  Church army of England, and actually interested in the improvement of
  the English poor law. “How the unemployed of every sort, able-bodied
  or infirm, honest or criminal, men in search of work or vagrants and
  beggars, are treated in Continental Europe is the subject of this
  instructive volume.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 458. Jl. 21, ’06. 1500w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 220w.


=Carling, George.= Richard Elliott, financier. $1.50. Page.

  Trained in an unscrupulous school of finance, the hero of Mr.
  Carling’s tale shows how material success can be attained by very
  corrupt practices. An eavesdropping stenographer rises to the position
  of trust magnate and the rounds by which he did ascend materially are
  scathingly marked off. It is a sort of “crack o’ doom” warning to
  “high finance” aspirants.

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  “The book is not pleasant reading, but may be a faithful picture. The
  story part of it is closely, carefully, and skillfully woven. Its
  satire is perhaps rather too patent to be as biting as satire ought to
  be.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 674. O. 13. ’06. 470w.


=Carling, John R.= Viking’s skull. 75c. Little.

  A popular edition of “The viking’s skull.” Mr. Carling has written a
  peculiarly interesting and thrilling story which involves the mystery
  centering about a crime, and the meaning of a runic inscription on an
  old Norse altar ring. The hero promises his mother before her death to
  find the criminal in whose stead his father is serving a life
  sentence. The father’s escape from prison and disappearance add to the
  mystery to be solved.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 195. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.


=Carlyle, Thomas.= French revolution. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume sets.” The books are pocket
  size, with flexible leather binding, and are printed in large clear
  type on Bible paper. The frontispieces are respectively portraits of
  Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.


=Carman, (William) Bliss.= Pipes of Pan. *$2. Page.

  Five recent collections of Mr. Bliss Carman’s poetry make up this
  substantial volume. They are as follows: From the book of myths, From
  the green book of the bards, Songs of the sea children, Songs from a
  northern garden, and From the book of valentines.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 70w.

  “There is scarcely a piece in the present volume that is devoid of
  melodious cadences and poetic imagery, yet the effect of the whole is
  of sunrise on a foggy morning at sea. Mr. Carman’s later work lacks
  poetic intensity, and the reader of it takes little away with him.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 180w.

  “It is the chief fault of this fluent and often charming verse that
  it, too, is singularly soulless.”

    + – =Putnam’s.= 1: 225. N. ’06. 380w.


=Carman, (William) Bliss.= Poetry of life. **$1.50. Page.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w.


=Carmichael, Montgomery.= In Tuscany: Tuscan towns, Tuscan types and the
Tuscan tongue. **$2. Dutton.

  “The author has lived long in the Tuscan cities and has learned to
  admire the Tuscan character. His book is a series of expositions of
  that character in various manifestations. First, there are some
  chapters about the temperament of the people in general; then
  descriptions of types, such as the priest, the cook and the coachman;
  then accounts of less-known localities—Portoferraio, Mont La Verna,
  Orbetello—and of the national sport and the national lottery.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ind.= 61: 755. S. 27, ’06. 100w.

  “No English reader, who thinks of visiting Tuscany or taking up
  residence there, should fail to read his book.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 443. Jl. 7, ’06. 560w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 110w.


=Carmichael, Montgomery=, ed. Life of John William Walshe as written by
his son Philip Regidius Walshe. *$1.50. Dutton.

  “John Walshe, says his son, was a splendid scholar and a devoted
  servant of God. Of his scholarship he has left as a monument many
  volumes of material relating chiefly to St. Francis of Assisi; of his
  devotion to God, impressive evidence is given in this narrative of his
  quest to know God, a quest that began in England in his earliest youth
  and found its consummation in distant Italy, whither he had fled from
  his merchant father’s counting-room, and where he entered upon a life
  of study, love and religion that was to lead him to the purest and
  most profound mysticism. The phrase a nineteenth-century mystic sounds
  strange indeed, but such was John Walshe, and a mystic whose
  influence, as diffused by his son’s filial zeal, must touch with
  uplifting power all who read the story of his painful
  pilgrimage.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A most unusual, fine, eloquent, sincere, even inspired piece of
  writing.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 537. S. 1, ’06. 1410w.

  “It is not a great biography, indeed, it has sundry obvious defects
  from a purely literary standpoint. But whatever of blemish it may seem
  to us to hold is lost from sight in contemplation of the saintly
  figure it reveals.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 220w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 50w.


=Carpenter, Edmund Janes.= Long ago in Greece: a book of golden hours
with the old story tellers. $1.50. Little.

  The atmosphere and literary excellence of the old Greek tales are
  preserved in these twenty and more simplified stories. Among them are
  Homer’s “Battle of the frogs and mice,” a portion of Aristophanes’
  “Birds,” the wooing of Pelops, the tale of Hero and Leander, Ovid’s
  version of Narcissus and his shadow, Hesiod’s account of Pandora’s
  curiosity, and Pindar’s sketch of Thetis and many others.

        =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 60w.

  “It has the particular merit that it follows the originals very
  closely and preserves something of the atmosphere as well as the
  subject matter of the famous old stories that it presents.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 70w.

  “They are retold simply and in every way made attractive to the
  youthful reader.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 60w.


=Carpenter, Edward.= Days with Walt Whitman. $1.50. Macmillan.

  “Mr. Carpenter, an English gentleman, made the poet’s acquaintance in
  the sixties through his writings; but met him only in 1877. Seven
  years later they met again. The notes made by the disciple were
  written out carefully, and have been published in an English magazine,
  but now only in book form.... The book has a chapter on Whitman as a
  prophet, one on the poetic form of ‘Leaves of grass,’ and another, and
  by no means the least interesting, on Whitman and Emerson. The new
  volume should please the ever-widening circle of lovers of the ‘Good
  gray poet.’”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 70: 547. Je. 9, ’06. 700w.

  Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

      + =Atlan.= 98: 898. D. ’06. 530w.

  “What one misses most in the book is any evidence that the author saw
  and felt Whitman as a poet.”

      – =Critic.= 49: 205. S. ’06. 410w.

  “But while Traubel’s face to face likeness of Whitman in all his moods
  is more interesting, Carpenter’s book contains a more definite
  literary appreciation of the man and his genius.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 153. Jl. 19, ’06. 650w.

  “Mr. Carpenter’s attitude and language are those of an entirely sane
  person; he writes entertainingly and interestingly, without gush. Yet
  that his opinion of Whitman was that of a pupil toward a chosen master
  appears on every page.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 397. Je. 16, ’06. 220w.

  “Pleasantly written, reminiscent book, in the entertaining style of
  Mr. Carpenter’s other books.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 60w.

  “It is a pity so much of this book should be mere tittle-tattle.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. O. 13, ’06. 1130w.


=Carpenter, Edward Childs.= Captain Courtesy, a story of Old California.
*$1.50. Jacobs.

  The struggle between Mexico and the United States in old California is
  intertwined with the story of Captain Courtesy whose Spanish mother
  and American father were killed by the Mexicans and who for six years
  waged a warfare of his own upon his enemies by becoming an outlaw
  whose name spelled terror, a daring road agent with a great price upon
  his head. After a series of bold adventures he wins an American wife
  and American citizenship.

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  “This is evidently a first book, and it shows many of the faults of
  the ’prentice hand. He merely skims over the surface of things, as if
  he were in haste to tell his slight little story with the fewest words
  possible.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 764. N. 17, ’06. 190w.


=Carpenter, Joseph Estlin.= James Martineau; theologian and teacher.
*$2.50. Am. Unitar.

  “The work is really a model of what a work of this kind should be.”

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 22. Ja. 1, ’06. 380w.


=Carpenter, Rt. Rev. William Boyd, bp. of Ripon.= Witness to the
influence of Christ; being the William Belden Noble lectures for 1904.
**$1.10. Houghton.

  “The author demands scientific examination of the religious facts, and
  shows himself well informed in the latest literature on the psychology
  of the religious experience.” Thomas C. Hall.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 567. Jl. ’06. 1270w.

  “Its chief excellence is its suggestiveness; its chief defect, its
  lack of orderly treatment of the subjects undertaken.” Henry Thomas
  Colestock.

  + + – =Bib. World.= 27: 397. My. ’06. 290w.


=Carr, Clark Ezra.= Lincoln at Gettysburg. **$1. McClurg.

  Written primarily as an address and delivered before the State
  historical society of Illinois, Mr. Carr’s effort may be considered an
  appreciation well worth the time of any student and reader. He
  sketches the transition from the disappointment of the assembled
  Gettysburg multitude, over Lincoln’s speech to the dawning realization
  that it was a masterpiece of oratory, and a “crowning triumph of
  literary achievement.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Edwin Erle Sparks.

      + =Dial.= 41: 320. N. 16, ’06. 370w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 70w.


=Carrington, FitzRoy.= Pilgrim’s staff: poems divine and moral, selected
and arranged by FitzRoy Carrington. **75c. Duffield.

  The aim of the compiler has been to choose from the verse of three and
  a half centuries a “handful of poems, beautiful in thoughts and
  spiritual import, which should reflect, as well as might be, in a
  space so limited, all moods for self abasement of utter unworthiness,
  to the courage born of a firm faith in the divinity of man, which can
  face, unafraid, the Great Unknown.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 40w.

        =Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

        + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 80w.

  “Though there are lacking some poems that one might expect in even so
  small a collection as this, those that are included have been
  discriminatingly selected.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 80w.


=Carroll, Phidellia Patton.= Soul-winning: a problem and its solution;
with an introd. by C: H. Fowler. *50c. Meth. bk.

  A seven part discussion of the problem of soul-winning treats The
  importance of soul-winning, Personal effort in soul-winning, A
  successful method, Steps leading to Christ, Children won by personal
  effort, A revival not absolutely essential to soul-winning, and
  Preparation for soul-winning.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To all who follow Dr. Carroll in his apparent contention that
  winsomeness consists in words fitly spoken, this book will be of great
  and interesting and in some respects a difficult sub-permanent value.”
  Edward Braislin.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 575. Jl. ’06. 520w.


=Carter, E. Fremlett.= Motive power and gearing for electrical
machinery: a treatise on the theory and practice of the mechanical
equipment of power stations for electricity supply and for electric
power and traction. *$5. Van Nostrand.

  “The first edition of this book was issued in 1896.... The book is
  essentially a compilation of principles, theory and results of
  experiments of the mechanical engineering features of electrical power
  plants, with some illustrated descriptions of existing plants.... [It
  includes] many subjects which are usually treated in separate books.
  It is neither a textbook nor a work of reference but practically an
  encyclopaedic compilation, from various sources, of descriptions and
  data on mechanical engineering which are supposed to be of interest to
  the electrical engineer.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The engineering student will find each of the subjects of this book
  treated in far better shape in numerous standard works, and the
  general reader who is not a student will find the book in many cases
  too difficult of comprehension for him.” William Kent.

      – =Engin. N.= 55: 671. Je. 14, ’06. 1770w.


=Carter, Jesse Benedict.= Religion of Numa, and other essays on the
religion of ancient Rome. *$1. Macmillan.

  In order to facilitate presentation, Mr. Carter divides Roman history
  into five epochs, those of the legendary kings and the semi-historical
  kings, the first half of the republic, the last half of the republic,
  the beginning of the empire, and the renaissance of religion under
  Augustus. It “is less a handbook than a sketch of the change by which
  the original agricultural and secluded mythology of Rome and its gods
  who had their proper home within the Pomerium, developed into the
  prevailing mythology of the classical period.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Gives, perhaps, as clear a general view as the reading public either
  desires or deserves. The work is entirely destitute of reference to
  authorities.” Andrew Lang.

    + – =Acad.= 70: 134. F. 10, ’06. 1330w.

  “Mr. Carter gives no authorities and not too many details; hence his
  book will not supply the needs of real students of the subject.
  Nevertheless, the book will serve well as an introduction to the
  subject, being clearly and forcibly written.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 12. Jl. 7. 350w.

  “This is a very valuable short study of an interesting and in some
  respects a difficult subject.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 180w.

  “This little volume is full of suggestion and value.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 743. Mr. 29, ’06. 240w.

  “The society may be congratulated on a carefully prepared and valuable
  volume.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 127. Ag. 9, ’06. 590w.

  “Involves some interesting excursions in the bypaths of classical
  learning.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 196. Mr. 31, ’06. 240w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 40w.

  “A readable sketch ... based on the recent critical work which has
  pieced together many isolated indications and filled numerous gaps by
  illuminating conjecture.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 271. S. 1, ’06. 680w.


=Carter, Thomas.= Shakespeare and the Holy Scriptures, with the version
he used. *$3. Dutton.

  “The good intentions and industry of the author of this volume are, of
  course, worthy of all respect, but we cannot avoid the feeling that
  they have been wasted on a tedious piece of work.”

      – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 847. D. 16. 190w.


=Cartrie, Count de.= Memoirs of the Count de Cartrie; with introd. by F:
Masson, and appendices and notes by Pierre Amédée Pichot. *$5. Lane.

  A record of the extraordinary events in the life of a French royalist
  during the war in La Vendée, and of his flight to Southampton, where
  he followed the humble occupation of gardener.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A work which reflects credit on all concerned.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 399. O. 6. 2150w.

  “As a tale of adventure, the work cannot fail to attract. It also has
  value as a side-light thrown on a memorable epoch in French history.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 260w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 366. N. 2. ’06. 1580w.

  “The interest of these memoirs is very great, great everywhere and
  they have considerable historic value.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 373. N. 1, ’06. 1180w.

  “Its limitations in interest are its best guarantee of genuineness:
  and in genuineness as a human document typically illustrative of
  personal fortunes during the French revolution its chief interest
  lies.” G: S. Hellman.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 630. O. 6, ’06. 1760w.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1. ’06. 280w.

  “This story of suffering and hairbreadth escape shows the nature of
  the struggle in a way that historians as well as students will
  welcome.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 522. O. 27, ’06. 140w.


=Cartwright, Julia (Mrs. Henry Ady).= Raphael. *75c. Dutton.

  This little manual on the life and art of Raphael is the fourteenth
  volume in “The popular library of art.” The author tells about the
  “birth of Raphael and his life and studies at Perugia, Florence and
  Rome. She describes his Madonnas, the Vatican Stanze, his portraits of
  contemporaries, his work as architect and decorator, and his cartoons,
  the last of which, she says, ‘mark the final stage of Raphael’s
  artistic development.’” (N. Y. Times.)

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  “Mrs. Ady seems to have been helped by the rigid limitations of space
  to give us her very best. The essential acts of Raphael’s life and art
  could not have been stated more concisely. Nor has the necessary
  compression of the material made for dullness.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 690. N. 18. 410w.

  “Within its limited compass, a singularly complete account of the
  character and development of Raphael’s work. She is of course
  thoroughly familiar with modern critical opinion, and as far as it
  goes her work is exact and scholarly.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.

  “The volume is a worthy successor to its forerunners.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 90w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 162. Mr. 17, ’06. 250w.


=Carus, Paul.= Friedrich Schiller. **75c. Open ct.

  In Mr. Carus’ memorial volume fittingly contributed at the time of the
  Schiller centenary, a biographical sketch is followed by two essays on
  Schiller as a philosophical poet and on Schiller’s poetry. There are
  illustrative selections from the poet’s works given in both German and
  English.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A concise but scholarly sketch of Schiller’s life and an appreciation
  of his poetry.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 30w.

  “It is a book of popular character, and very interesting in its
  presentation of the subject.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 60w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 70w.


=Carver, Thomas Nixon=, comp. Sociology and social progress: a handbook
for students of sociology. *$2.75. Ginn.

  A book designed to be used as the basis for class-room discussions or
  to furnish collateral reading to a course of lectures. The author has
  gone out-side of systematic treatises on sociology for observations
  upon the phenomena of society, upon the laws of social growth and
  decay, and upon the problems of social improvement, and has presented
  them in form for the student and the general reader as well. The
  discussion is in three parts: part 1, The nature, scope and method of
  sociology; part 2. Sociology as a study of social progress—the
  direction of social progress; part 3. The factors of social progress.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The general purpose is admirable, and Professor Carver’s book will be
  welcomed by sociologists as a distinct enlargement of library
  facilities.” G: E. Vincent.

    + + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 122. Ag. ’06. 900w.

  “The compiler has produced a volume which will be of very great
  service to those of his readers who wish to get a general conception
  of the ideas of the best thinkers and students of society, but who
  have not the time to read the works in extenso, nor the wisdom to
  choose well.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 174. Jl. ’06. 310w.

  “The volume does not, accordingly, show us much of its compiler’s
  personal opinions, and can hardly, we think, be of great usefulness to
  the general reader.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 77. Jl. 26, ’06. 350w.

  “The book is a timely one and should both promote and assist the
  teaching of sociology.”

    + + =Yale R.= 15: 339. N. ’06. 200w.


=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.= Novels of Henry James: a study. **$1.25.
Putnam.

  “Miss Cary is not quite an ideal interpreter.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 103. Ag. 4, ’06. 1280w.

  “Elisabeth Luther Cary would appear to have done, in her study of
  Henry James, pretty much all for him that it is possible for an ardent
  disciple to do at this time.” H. W. Boynton.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 458. My. ’06. 480w.

        =Ind.= 60: 44. Ja. 4, ’06. 120w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 100w.


=Cary, Elisabeth Luther, and Jones, Annie Maria.= Books and my food.
**$1. Moffat.

  Mental and physical aliment in the form of quotations and recipes for
  every day in the year.

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  “We hope that the culinary taste of the authors is in keeping with the
  literary.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 50w.

  “On the whole, the object has been attained; but now and again an
  exception must be taken to the compiler’s accuracy.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 155. Jl. 19, ’06. 200w.

  “The quotations will be a godsend to the harassed makers of menus for
  public occasions.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.


=Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Edgerton.= Heart of Lady
Anne. †$1.50. Stokes.

      + =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 100w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 922. D. 30, ’05. 370w.

  “It is very dainty, amusing and inconsequential.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 190w

  “The texture is of the lightest, but skilfully woven.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 786. D. 16, ’05. 190w.

  “The book is gracefully written and is easy reading, but it will
  strike many readers as being as artificial as the age which it is
  intended to represent.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30, ’05. 70w.


=Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Egerton.= If youth but knew.
†$1.50. Macmillan.

  The time and rule of Jerome Bonaparte furnish the “occasion and
  material of this romance.... The period chosen by the authors is just
  anterior to the fall of Jerome, and the critical part of the narrative
  passes in Cassel at the King’s court. The atmosphere clothes this
  story as a garment from the very outset, when we make the acquaintance
  of the young Anglo-Austrian count and his chance companion, the
  wayfaring fiddler, Geiger-Hans. It begins to be romantic, it continues
  in the true vein of romance, and ends sweetly upon a proper romantic
  note, to the accompaniment of Geiger-Hans’s fiddle.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “From the opening pages of the present story the stage and its
  machinery are always in sight. But once accept the book as a glorified
  libretto of a romantic opera, clever, dainty, delicately treated, and
  all runs smoothly and delightfully to the end.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 358. Ap. 14, ’06. 420w.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 474. Ap. 21. 400w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “It is a story throbbing with life, instinct with poetic feeling, and
  bearing the stamp of a creative power that is closely akin to genius.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 180w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 120w.

  “This is one of the prettiest of the stories of Agnes and Egerton
  Castle.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 630w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

      + =North American.= 182: 927. Je. ’06. 110w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 91. My. 12, ’06. 200w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 592. My. 12, ’06. 200w.


=Castleman, Virginia Carter.= Roger of Fairfield. $1.25. Neale.

  With picturesque and historic Virginia for a setting, reflecting the
  spirit of ante-bellum days, Miss Castleman follows the fortunes of
  Roger of Fairfield thru college and the theological seminary to his
  ordination and marriage.


=Cather, Willa Sibert.= Troll garden. †$1.25. McClure.

  “For cultivation and distinction of style, Miss Cather may even rank
  with Mrs. Edith Wharton, but she is far more sympathetic, far deeper.
  Although her stories are short and unpretentious, they seem to me
  quite the most important in recent American fiction.” Mary Moss.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 48. Ja. ’06. 380w.


=Catherine of Siena, St.=, tr. by Vida D. Scudder. *$2.50. Dutton.

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 462. Ja. ’06. 60w.


=Cator, Dorothy.= Everyday life among the head-hunters, and other
experiences from East to West. $1.75. Longmans.

  “Without making any pretense to being scientific this plain and
  unvarnished but eminently readable, narrative ... contains a large
  amount of interesting information with regard to the customs and modes
  of life of both Dyaks and the less well known Muruts.” R. D.

    + + =Nature.= 73: 203. D. 28, ’05. 570w.

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 648. Ap. 28, ’06. 380w.


=Cattell, J. McKeen=, ed. American men of science: a biographical
directory. *$5. Science press, N. Y.

  A “who’s who” for the men who work in the field of pure science.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Ind.= 60: 809. Ap. 5, ’06. 70w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 220w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 153. Mr. 10, ’06. 270w.


=Cavaness, Alpheus Asbury Brenton.= Rubaiyat of hope. *$1. Meth. bk.

  Omar’s red rose, wine-dyed, gives place to the lily which waves with a
  palm, symbol of victory. The author of this poem sounds a triumphant
  note of hope mastering despair, man mastering destiny. He teaches that
  “nothing can unhinge us but ourselves.”


=Cawein, Madison Julius.= Nature-notes and impressions, in prose and
verse. **$1.50. Dutton.

  Brief sketches in prose and verse taken from the author’s note book.
  “A memorandum of moods, of accents in nature, caught at the moment, to
  be elaborated later into a picture.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The whole output tends to give the impression that the successes
  themselves are not spontaneous but the mere chance triumphs of a
  highly self-conscious and wholly artificial method.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 288. O. 4, ’06. 370w.

  “One of the qualities, indeed which in poetry serves to give him
  distinction, a remarkably affluent and picturesque imagery, in prose
  has a tendency to become a defect, rendering the style too poetic and
  imaginative and the periods over-sustained. This is, indeed the chief
  limitation to the volume, but a limitation redeemed by the delicate
  picturing to be found on every page.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 616. O. 6, ’06. 1160w.

  “The work of Mr. Cawein is not distinctly lyric, although the verse
  has rhymthic charm.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 220w.


=Cawein, Madison Julius.= Vale of Tempe. *$1.50. Dutton.

  “The most surprising thing about Mr. Cawein’s work is the even
  excellence which characterizes so great a quantity of matter.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 126. F. 16, ’06. 270w.


=Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de.= Don Quixote; tr. with introd. by John
Quimby. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume set” this “Don Quixote” is of
  interest alike to students and library collectors. There is an
  informing introduction, the first part of which presents the merits
  and demerits of the edition offered to English readers thru the past
  two centuries and a half, and the second part of which sketches
  Cervantes’ life.


=Chadwick, John White.= Later poems. *$1.25. Houghton.

      + =Reader.= 7: 229. Ja. ’06. 160w.


=Chadwick, Samuel.= Humanity and God. **$1.50. Revell.

  “The one weakness in the otherwise masterful work is in the lowering
  of the standard of human perfection in order to permit to
  consciousness the sense of its attainment.” Edward Braislin.

  + + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 571. Jl. ’06. 340w.


=Chamberlain, Charles Joseph.= Methods in plant histology. *$2.25. Univ.
of Chicago press.

  “The book will be very useful to teachers of secondary schools, as
  well as to independent workers, for it gives in usable and concise
  form the latest and most approved methods of modern micro-technique.”
  W. J. G. Land.

    + + =School R.= 14: 310. Ap. ’06. 260w.


=Chamberlain, Leander Trowbridge.= True doctrine of prayer: with
foreword by the Rev. W: R. Huntington. **$1. Baker.

  Dr. Chamberlain has presented the doctrine of prayer in a logical
  succession of paragraphs “each one of which presents truth which no
  one who desires to think deeply about prayer can afford to lose out of
  sight.... It is not merely as a healthful exercise for the soul that
  he would have us think of prayer, but as a potency, a dynamic, an
  efficient cause.... He is willing to explain, to interpret, to
  justify, but never to minimize.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Outlook.= 82: 523. Mr. 3, ’06. 230w.


=Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder, and Salisbury, Rollin D.= Geology. 3v. v.
1, Processes and their results; v. 2, and 3, Earth history, ea. *$4.
Holt.

  The first volume of the work appeared in 1904 and is now in its second
  edition. “In that volume was given a statement of the planetismal
  hypothesis of earth origin. In these new volumes the hypothesis is
  developed and applied, and its application requires a new reading of
  dynamical geology, with a consequent new interpretation of geologic
  history.... A notable feature of the work is the attention paid to
  past climates and the use made of them in interpretation.... The
  treatment of Pleistocene and the human or present periods is unusually
  full and satisfactory.... The book closes with a very interesting and
  suggestive discussion of man as a geologic agent, and as influenced by
  his geologic environment.”—Dial.

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  “Whether we accept or reject their views, there is no gainsaying the
  fact that Profs. Chamberlin and Salisbury have produced a very
  suggestive work, which is likely to exert a marked influence on the
  teaching of geology in all English-speaking countries.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 191. Ag. 18. 1410w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

  “It is not sufficiently complete to be an entirely satisfactory book
  of reference. For the general reader the book has a charm and
  freshness not common to scientific texts, but it contains so much new
  and not yet accepted doctrine that such a reader will need to take
  careful note of the qualifying phrases. It is to working geologists
  that the book will make the strongest appeal.” H. Foster Bain.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 1420w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

  “For the graduate student and as a reference work for the teacher and
  general reader the work is, however, indispensable.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 393. Ag. 16, ’06. 1050w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

        =Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

      + =Nation.= 82: 476. Je. 7, ’06. 1240w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

  “The arrangement of the book is in most respects well adapted to the
  requirements of students, and the presentation of the subject matter
  is always clear.” A. H.

    + + =Nature.= 74: 557. O. 4, ’06. 2210w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

  “The principal adverse criticisms that can be made, relate to the
  minor details of editing—not to the subject-matter or the method of
  treatment. In the presence of so much that is large, and helpful, and
  inspiring such criticisms seem like mere quibbling. Not a subject is
  touched upon in the entire work that does not have the breath of a new
  life breathed into it.” J. C. Branner.

  + + – =Science=, n.s. 24: 462. O. 12, ’06. 2540w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

  “The authors give an admirable account of the various stages through
  which the earth has passed since it became solid, and their
  beautifully illustrated volumes form one of the most complete and
  trustworthy geological treatises which have yet been published.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 654. N. 3, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)


=Chambers, Robert William.= Fighting chance. **$1.50. Appleton.

  Silvia Landis, a spoiled society girl, and Stephen Siward, who has
  inherited a weakness for drink, meet at a railway station “and
  continue the game there begun at a house party where assorted time
  killers are assembled.... Silvia angles for a new millionaire and
  plays with Stephen even while she lands him.... The story passes from
  the house party to the city, where Silvia pursues her social pastimes
  and retains her golden fiancé and Stephen ... fights the demon rum
  alone with more or less unsuccess. You have in the meantime club
  scenes, bridge scenes, scenes of domestic, infelicity, scenes of
  sordid life, glimpses of the half-world, a panorama of high
  finance.... In the end ... Mr. Chambers, to achieve his happy ending
  appropriates a motor car ... and lets it blow up with the marplot.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Chambers is so clever, has so keen a sense of character, that
  after enjoying his book, you ungratefully regard him with violent
  irritation. He has no right not to do even better! His abundant and
  interesting material is not thoroughly digested.” Mary Moss.

  + + – =Bookm.= 24: 157. O. ’06. 870w.

  “Such books as this play with the glittering surface of life but have
  nothing to do with its deeper realities.” Wm. M. Payne.

      – =Dial.= 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 270w.

  “A real rival to Mrs. Wharton’s ‘House of Mirth.’”

      + =Ind.= 61: 642. S. 13, ’06. 70w.

  “The interpretation which Mrs. Wharton attempted of New York society
  in ‘The house of mirth,’ Robert Chambers has really accomplished in
  his new novel.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 877. O. 11, ’06. 1080w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1158. N. 15, ’06. 100w.

  “Realistic in the extreme and to the extent of introducing slang and
  even profanity, it still has fine touches of sentiment and reveals an
  intimate knowledge of a species of human existence which, in a sense
  is as new and as modern as the motor and skyscraper.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 370w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 500w.

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

  “With all its palpable defects upon it, this novel was framed for
  popularity. It is emphatically not for the literary epicure.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 140w.

  “Mr. Robert W. Chambers has taken the material of Mrs. Wharton’s
  ‘House of mirth’ and made it over. Like Mrs. Wharton, Mr. Chambers
  shows you the brightest and best touched with the poison; unlike Mrs.
  Wharton, he refuses to permit, much less to organize, a conspiracy of
  bitter circumstances which shall assist the poison in its cruel work
  and bring everything to a bitter end.” H. I. Brock.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 548. S. 8, ’06. 1160w.

  “A particularly good story.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “While the novel may be at heart no more pessimistic, socially
  speaking, than Mrs. Wharton’s ‘The House of mirth,’ it lacks the
  delicate perception and fine literary shading of that searching
  analysis.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 240w.

  “If Mr. Chambers had only taken the time to reconstruct the volume,
  prune it of superfluous conversations, and infuse into it a little
  more of the heroism his title suggests, he would have had a novel of
  real significance.”

    – + =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 160w.


=Chambers, Robert William.= Iole. †$1.25. Appleton.

  “This is the prettiest and gayest bit of satire that we have seen in
  print for many a day; daintily good-humored, but none the less
  piercing and effective.”

      + =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 150w.

  “The fun really ends with Iole’s marriage, at which point a wise
  reader, grateful for a smile, will move on to other pastures.” Mary
  Moss.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 100w.


=Chambers, Robert William.= Mountain-land; with 8 full page il. in col.
by Frank Richardson. **$1.50. Appleton.

  Two little children have an instructive day’s journey to the
  mountain-land during which they converse with the mountains centuries
  old and learn the lesson of its disregard for time and change, and
  talk with the ice-fly, the snow jay, a band of owls, a squirrel, a
  lynx and giant silkworm moths. Each one of the creatures furnishes
  instruction regarding its identity, habitat and general
  characteristics.

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 60w.


=Chambers, Robert William.= Reckoning. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “Mr. Chambers’s richly dressed puppets move briskly through their many
  trials to a happy end, and the author, as I before said, is a
  competent story teller.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 150w.

  “It leaves you with a sense of puzzled doubt just where erudition
  ceases and the dime novel begins.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 22: 374. D. ’05. 380w.


=Chambers, Robert William.= Tracer of lost persons. †$1.50. Appleton.

  Certain interesting cases taken up by Mr. Keen, head of the firm of
  Keen & co., Tracers of lost persons, form the substance of these
  amusing stories, but they are not on the old detective story order,
  for they are all cases in which the lost person is a lost love or a
  lost ideal and they all end in happy marriages as the dinner given to
  Mr. Keen at the close of the volume by five radiant young couples
  testifies.

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  “Somewhat puerile and wholly absurd is the main idea of this amorous
  tale, but some of the incidents are amusing, and the dialogue is
  brisk.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 50w.

  “A new and improved form of the detective story.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 223. Jl. 26, ’06. 60w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

  “Capital reading for a leisure hour or two.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.


=Chamblin, Jean.= Lady Bobs, her brother and I: a romance of the Azores.
†$1.25. Putnam.

  “The trick of pitching an unpretentious story in just the right key is
  rare enough to entitle Jean Chamblin’s placid little idyl of the
  Azores, ‘Lady Bobs, her brother and I’, to a word or two of cordial
  commendation.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 190w.

  “She has a facile and humorous pen and her letters are literature.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 190. F. ’06. 160w.

  “It is a pity that Miss Chamblin has felt it necessary to resort to
  meaningless slang and cheap humor in order to enliven her heroine’s
  letters.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.

  “A large amount of interesting description and information regarding
  these unique islands is cleverly woven into the story.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 343. F. 8, ’06. 120w.


=Champlain, Samuel de.= Voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain
(1604–1616) narrated by himself; tr. by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together
with the voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes; ed. with
introd. and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. 2v. ea. **$1. Barnes.

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  Americana.’ Professor and Mrs. Bourne have therefore rendered a
  distinct service to students of our early history. An extremely
  adequate and interesting introduction of twenty-eight pages has been
  contributed by Professor Bourne.”—Lit. D.

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    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 190w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 250w.

  “An edition that represents in brief the sum of present-day
  knowledge.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 210w.

  “A work of considerable interest to the historical student.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 50w.


=Champlin, John Denison.= Young folks’ cyclopedia of common things.
$2.50. Holt.

  This third edition revised and enlarged meets the demands of rapid
  advance during the past decade in everything pertaining to science and
  industrial arts.


=Champlin, John Denison.= Young folks’ cyclopaedia of persons and
places. $2.50. Holt.

  More than five hundred new articles appear in this fifth edition,
  including names of persons and places prominent in latter-day
  happenings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 70w.

  “Will be welcomed by all boys and girls of alert, inquiring mind.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 100w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 724. N. 3, ’06. 140w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 285. S. 29, ’06. 20w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 70w.


=Champney, Elizabeth Williams.= Romance of the French abbeys. **$3.
Putnam.

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 649. Ap. 28, ’06. 170w.


=Chancellor, William Estabrook, and Hewes, Fletcher Willis.= United
States; a history of three centuries. 10 pts. pt. 2, Colonial union,
1698–1774. **$3.50. Putnam.

  “It is unfortunate that so faulty a work should be launched upon the
  public by the reputation of a great publishing house and by strangely
  favorable notices from several literary periodicals of high standing.”
  W. M. West.

    – – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 441. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “His material is slight and it is further obscured by a flood of
  ‘literary’ allusions and historical philosophy-and-water in an
  inflated style which becomes a weariness to the reader’s patience.”
  Theodore Clarke Smith.

  + + – =Atlan.= 98: 707. N. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Channing, Edward.= History of the United States. 8v. v. 1, Planting of
a nation in the New World. **$2.50. Macmillan.

  “Not only an admirable specimen of historical scholarship, but also a
  successful effort to present the results of scholarship in an
  attractive form.” Edward Gaylord Bourne.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 390. Ja. ’06. 1750w.

  “[His] sense of balanced judgment is reinforced by the shrewd,
  occasionally ironical or humorous style which reflects the personality
  of the author.” Theodore Clarke Smith.

    + + =Atlan.= 98: 706. N. ’06. 150w.

  “He still shows the mastery, the cool, skeptical scholarship, with the
  occasional gleam of wit and the constant clearness of expression which
  marked his first volume.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 2.)

  Reviewed by Henry Russell Spencer.

  + + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 346. Je. ’06. 1220w.


=Chapin, Henry Dwight.= Vital questions. **$1. Crowell.

  “The volume is a good one to put in the hands of one whose interest in
  matters social needs quickening.”

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 234. Ja. ’06. 90w.


=Charles, Frances Asa.= Pardner of Blossom range. †$1.50. Little.

  A tale of Arizona in which cowboys and Indians figure. Holly, the
  granddaughter of the owner of Blossom ranch conceives a dislike for an
  army captain who is alleged to be responsible for the death of a
  private whose horse Pardner comes into her possession. That this same
  officer should become a favorite in her train of suitors suggests an
  interesting situation which is satisfactorily worked out.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story is pretty, and the author has evidently made a resolute
  effort to soften the asperities of her early manner.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 130w.


=Charlton, John.= Speeches and addresses: political, literary, and
religious. $2. Morang & co.

      + =Dial.= 40: 53. Ja. 16, ’06. 170w.


=Chaucer, Geoffrey.= Canterbury tales, prologue and selections:
rewritten in simple language by Calvin Dill Wilson, and decorated by
Ralph Fletcher Seymour. *$1. McClurg.

  In retelling old tales for young readers, Mr. Wilson aims to preserve
  in his prose rendering the literary no less than the poetic and
  artistic qualities of the original. This Chaucer is a charming volume
  which is uniform with Mr. Wilson’s retold “Faery queen.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 50w.


=Cheney, John Vance.= Poems. **$1.50. Houghton.

      + =Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 110w.

      + =Reader.= 7: 228. Ja. ’06. 200w.


=Cheney, Warren.= Challenge. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  The dramatic incidents of Mr. Cheney’s tale serve to show in turn
  stout-hearted, superstitious and treacherous phases of character as
  exhibited among a group of Russians in the Alaskan bay of Ltua. The
  rebellious gurgling of the “draw”—a dangerous whirlpool at a certain
  turn of the tide—gets into the very action of the story, and as it
  sinks every mortal caught in its swirl except the brave-hearted Ivan
  and his Mortyra, typifies the evil of the tale. There is also a case
  of mental assassination worked out which introduces a metaphysical
  problem.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There are some very strong situations and finely-drawn scenes in the
  work, which on the whole is far above the ordinary present-day story
  of this character.”

      + =Arena.= 36: 572. N. ’06. 220w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 50w.

  “It is a novel with a new idea, if there is such a thing in the world,
  and a new field, which is worth while in itself.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 410w.

  “Warren Cheney ... knows his Alaska and the Russians there thoroughly.
  There is in this story a restrained dramatic intensity very grateful
  to the artistic sense.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.

  “There is decided value in the tale’s study of motive and character,
  together with a singularly full acquaintance with the local color and
  of a little-known historical episode.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 40w.


=Chesnutt, Charles Waddell.= Colonel’s dream. †$1.50. Doubleday.

  “The narrative not unfrequently drags, and the character-drawing is
  sometimes wanting in clearness.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 180w.


=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Charles Dickens. **$1.50. Dodd.

  “This new book is builded on the false idea that just at this time
  Dickens needs a champion among his own people.” (N. Y. Times.) “Mr.
  Dickens and Mr. Chesterton move ... arm in arm through these pages
  like a pair of boon companions, and the ordinary reader may be trusted
  not to notice that Mr. Dickens’ arm is somewhat hard held.” (Sat. R.)
  “Dickens is a typical English figure, and it is on this side that Mr.
  Chesterton’s study is illuminating. It abounds in side-lights thrown
  by a somewhat mystical optimism and uproarious spirits on the
  Gargantuan feast of good humour provided by the master.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style in which the book is written reminds us too closely of the
  smart political leader.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 221. S. 8, ’06. 1620w.

  “The real misfortune of the book is that the author seems unable to
  check his propensity for wild paradox, and cherishes a growing habit
  of exaggeration, which leads to false emphasis and essentially
  obscures the issue.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 294. S. 15. 2230w.

  “Mr. Chesterton’s book is one which no one who loves Dickens or who
  admires brilliant writing can afford to ignore.” Arthur Bartlett
  Maurice.

  + + – =Bookm.= 24: 267. N. ’06. 2650w.

  “As a life of Dickens it does not profess to have value. At the same
  time, it is entertaining, suggestive, brilliant in spots, the very
  last book one would go to sleep over. As a self-portrayal of Mr.
  Chesterton, rather than a picture of his greater countryman, it has
  decided merits.” Percy F. Bicknell.

      + =Dial.= 41: 272. N. 1, ’06. 1940w.

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 296. Ag. 31, ’06. 1140w.

  “As biography Mr. Chesterton’s book is quite superfluous, and, we may
  add, quite inadequate. As criticism it will hugely delight folks who
  find enjoyment in literary fireworks.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 598. S. 29, ’06. 2260w.

  “With so good a book as Dr. Ward’s little critical biography in the
  field, the present volume seems a work of supererogation.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 715. N. 24, ’06. 200w.

  “One cannot regard Mr. Chesterton as the ideal critic of Charles
  Dickens though he makes a very effective apologist.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 368. S. 22, ’06. 1510w.

  “The book, taken as a whole, is as warm and understanding a tribute as
  any hand has laid on the great writer’s grave. We find ourselves also
  largely in accordance with him when he blames and demurs.”

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 364. S. 15, ’06. 2500w.


=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Club of queer trades. †$1.25. Harper.

  “They have not a free inventive stroke. They are whimsical and
  studied.”

    + – =Reader.= 6: 727. N. ’05. 160w.


=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Heretics. *$1.50. Lane.

  “As a critic, not only of heretics but of various aspects and
  relations of life discussed in this volume, when he has finished off
  the heretics, Mr. Chesterton shows a definite advance in clearness and
  force.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 208. Mr. 8, ’06. 1500w.


=Cheyne, Thomas Kelly.= Bible problems and the new material for their
solution. *$1.50. Putnam.

  “The book is stimulating and thought-provoking, even though its
  theories are now and then insufficiently supported by facts.” Ira
  Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.

    + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 324. Ap. ’06. 250w.


=Cholmondeley, Mary.= Prisoners. †$1.50. Dodd.

  “This novel is essentially a tragedy, with an Italian setting for the
  initial crime, that brings about the punishment of an innocent man
  through a woman’s revolting cowardice. The action of the novel centres
  about the redemption of the small-souled woman who emerges as a fairly
  honourable character.”—Canadian M.

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  “In no modern novel has the female mind been analyzed with a more
  delicate sense.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 244. S. 15, ’06. 1640w.

  “A powerful though somewhat painful book. Her one failure is
  Carstairs.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 329. S. 22. 550w.

  “Faults it has in abundance—big, obtrusive, exasperating faults. It is
  a book well worth reading.” Edward Clark Marsh.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 274. N. ’06. 950w.

  “Is as vivid in literary force as ‘Red pottage,’ and is more wholesome
  in tone. It is the work of an artist, not a vivisectionist.”

  + + – =Canadian M.= 24: 86. N. ’06. 410w.

  “The author makes herself the peer for a page or two with the writers
  of the best literature in the ... tribute to a certain class of dull,
  enduring Englishmen.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1288. N. 29, ’06. 660w.

  “The story is not without dramatic chapters. In spite of literary
  defects it often holds the interest of the reader effectively.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 160w.

  “Some of the deeper things in human nature are cleverly touched and
  their fountain sources stirred.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

  “We find wisdom, indeed, rather in the stuff of the story than in
  those often brilliant incidental comments on which no small part of
  her fame reposes. We suggest that in this book, wise and witty as her
  ‘chorus’ often is, she has a little abused that privilege by trying
  ostentatiously to live up to it.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 600w.

  “If the story, as said, mounts steadily, the reader, at least, is
  breathless much of the way under the suspense and under the
  cleverness. The ethical aspects are broad and deep.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 520w.

  “In more ways than one, we are continually reminded of George Eliot;
  not that there is the faintest trace of imitation, but that Miss
  Cholmondeley has an equal insight into character and motive, a like
  power of analysis, a similar gift for pregnant sentences of humor and
  of wisdom.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 697. O. 27, ’06. 1280w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

  “This is not so well-rounded and satisfying a story as was ‘Red
  pottage.’”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 21, ’06. 130w.

  “Is technically faulty in construction in that the critical point of
  the plot is reached in the early chapters, but the tenseness of the
  situation continues.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 120w.

  “Brilliant but unequal novel.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 441. S. 29, ’06. 1720w.


=Christian, Eugene, and Christian, Mrs. Eugene (Mollie Griswold
Christian).= Uncooked foods and how to use them. $1. Health-Culture.

  A new revised and enlarged edition of a treatise on how to get the
  highest form of animal energy from food. Food problems and the
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  Pastors of the Lutheran church, members, and those who desire to know
  the teachings of the Lutheran church will find in this booklet concise
  answers to questions concerning the church, her history and her
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=Churchill, Winston.= Coniston. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  Love and politics are deftly blended in this life story of Jethro
  Bass, the New England politician of a generation ago, the crude man of
  the tannery who made himself a power in the state. His first victory,
  won by questionable methods, cost him the first Cynthy, but after a
  life in which his politics outweighed his love, great as that love
  was, he at last retires from the political field in a voluntary
  sacrifice of his power to the second Cynthia’s happiness. The book is
  full of strong characters; Bob, Cynthia’s lover, Bob’s father, old
  Ephraim, Ezra Graves. All Coniston seems to live upon its pages, with
  its local interests, its plots and counter plots; but the warm heart
  and the shrewd unscrupulous mind of Jethro, and the noble spirited
  girl who loved him while she despised his methods are the truly great
  things of the book.

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  “The novel, when tried on the touchstone of nature, does not stand the
  test. A genuine humour twinkles over the book, making it very pleasant
  indeed to read.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 53. Jl. 21, ’06. 1680w.

  “It is not too much to say that it places him at the head of
  contemporary American novelists.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 97. Jl. 28. 450w.

  “It is of better quality than the average fiction of to-day.”

      + =Cath. World.= 84: 115. O. ’06. 170w.

  + + – =Critic.= 49: 208. S. ’06. 410w.

    + + =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 390w.

  “A sober estimate will give the book due recognition for its idealism,
  its close observation, and its genuine human interest, while not
  ignoring its coherent structure, its superficial characterization, its
  long-windedness, its affected pose, and its slovenly diction.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 430w.

  “Mr. Churchill’s latest novel is his best novel.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 96. Jl. 12, ’06. 860w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

  “The story is open, nevertheless, to the same objections which have
  been brought against its predecessors—lack of concentration, and the
  diffusion of events over too large an area.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 460w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 300w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

  “He transcribes rather than creates, and his effects are got by
  plodding equably ahead with his narrative rather than by any flash of
  inspiration.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 249. Jl. 13, ’06. 650w.

  “‘Coniston’ would have been a good novel if it had begun in the
  middle.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 38. Jl. 12, ’06. 540w.

  “‘Coniston’ can hardly fail to give its readers food for thought. Well
  will it be for our government if these readers are many, and if they
  straightway proceed to run according to the reading.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 1140w.

  “‘Coniston’ is so great an advance on ‘The crisis’ and ‘The crossing’
  in construction, condensation, and artistic feeling that it cannot
  fail to appeal to a new group of readers, while its human duality will
  hold those who have already accepted Mr. Churchill as a born
  storyteller.”

    + + =Outlook= 83: 100. Je. 30, ’06. 240w.

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 707. N. 24, ’06. 130w.

  “But Mr. Churchill does not merely preach a sermon on civic
  righteousness. ‘Coniston’ is a love story, and a capital one, of
  perhaps a deeper motive than any of the earlier romances from Mr.
  Churchill’s pen.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 256. Ag. ’06. 450w.

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 305. S. 8, ’06. 220w.

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 1030w.


=Churchill, Winston.= Title-mart. **75c. Macmillan.

  In this little three-act comedy Mr. Churchill satirizes the American
  custom of bartering off comely heiresses in the title-market. The
  scene is laid in a millionaire’s New England “camp,” the principal
  actors are a practical father, an ambitious stepmother, an athletic
  daughter devoted to jiu-jitsu, and an English lord who for the
  amusement of the moment trades his title for the plain Reginald
  Burking, M. P. of the friend accompanying him. The situations growing
  out of the exchange of identity are humorously farcical.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The whole, though a trifle extravagant, is written with remarkable
  spirit and humour.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 743. Je. 16. 150w.

  “It is smartly written and reads well. The contrast of the rustic mind
  with metropolitan swiftness is humorously set forth.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 164. Mr. 17, ’06. 100w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 50w.

  “The play is extremely light, however, and depends for its substance
  upon a confusion in identities.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7, ’06. 200w.


=Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer.= Lord Randolph Churchill. 2v. **$9.
Macmillan.

  The fact that Mr. Winston Churchill is not of the party in the
  interests of which his father ran his brief political career insures
  for this work non-partisan treatment. It deals with Lord Churchill’s
  public rather than his private life, and is in the main a record of
  ten brief years of an effective career. During this period Lord
  Churchill became leader of the House of Commons and chief exponent of
  the so-called Tory democracy, attempted the reform of the Conservative
  party from within and in the end broke with all his former leaders and
  colleagues. “The atmosphere is from start to finish severely
  political.” (Acad.)

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  “Mr. Morley himself did not show more candour in writing the life of
  Mr. Gladstone than Mr. Winston Churchill has shown in dealing with the
  career of his father.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 5. Ja. 6, ’06. 1220w.

  “It will have to be carefully studied by all who would be well versed
  in the political history of England, especially party history, from
  the Reform act of 1867 to the end of the Unionist administration of
  1886–1892.” Edward Porritt.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 675. Ap. ’06. 790w.

  “In the work before us there are many fine passages, and we find it
  almost as a whole both vivid and dignified in narration, and here and
  there even noble.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 7. Ja. 6. 4340w.

  “Mr. Winston Churchill makes the reader feel the tragedy of his
  father’s life,—a tragedy equally dramatic whether, as he contends, it
  was due to a conscientious struggle for principles that could not be
  carried out, or whether, like the tragedies of romance, it was the
  fatal result of defects of character.” A. Lawrence Lowell.

  + + + =Atlan.= 98: 248. Ag. ’06. 3910w.

  “A biography of marked interest, of rare quality and of intrinsic
  historical value.” George Louis Beer.

    + + =Critic.= 49: 83. Jl. ’06. 2420w.

    + – =Current Literature.= 40: 381. Ap. ’06. 1310w.

  “It has, then, both biographical importance and historical value, for
  it gives us a clearer insight into the workings of Tory machinery than
  any other volume.” E. D. Adams.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 2930w.

  “Its place is alongside John Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone.’”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 626. Mr. 15, ’06. 1260w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

  “If executed with tact and a certain deference to family
  susceptibilities, may safely be pronounced an impressive political
  biography and an invaluable contribution to the history of the
  conservative party and of British politics generally.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 491. Mr. 31, ’06. 1210w.

  “A life so well worth writing has been admirably written.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 1. Ja. 5, ’06. 3580w.

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 492. Je. 14, ’06. 2110w.

  “His book has a general value in so far as it treats of the politics
  of Great Britain during a brief period active in partisan struggles if
  not notable for great achievements; for it gives us an inside view of
  the strange way in which a nation is governed.” Joseph O’Connor.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 125. Mr. 3. ’06. 3870w.

  “Considering everything Mr. Churchill is to be felicitated on the
  zeal, tact, and ability with which he has executed his task.” H.
  Addington Bruce.

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 905. Ag. 18, ’06. 1790w.

  “His manifest care and wish—and he succeeds in both—are to present his
  father as he lived, fought, worked among his fellows.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 283. Mr. 3, ’06. 800w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 280w.

  “The style of the narrative is easy and clear, occasionally graceful
  and pathetic. There is a due sense of perspective.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 18. Ja. 6, ’06. 3080w.

  “The book has its faults,—faults of arrangement, of prolixity and
  repetition, of occasional irrelevance; and the writer has been tempted
  unconsciously to turn the narrative of certain incidents in his
  father’s life into a kind of apology for certain incidents in his own.
  Mr. Churchill tells the story of his father’s private life with
  singular tact and good taste, and he has striven to make the tale of
  his public life an adequate history of an epoch in English politics.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 19. Ja. 6, ’06. 2170w.


=Clare, W. H.= Rattle of his chains. $1.25 Eastern pub. co.

  Here is portrayed on the one hand the bondage of a young man serving
  false gods bound so that with every move the chains rattle; on the
  other, the freedom of industry—“with greed, avarice and covetousness
  wanting, and with the golden rule as a living precept.”


=Clarke, Rev. Richard F.= Lourdes: its inhabitants, its pilgrims, and
its miracles. *$1. Benziger.

  The miracle phase of the Lourdes pilgrimage is uppermost in this
  account which is given with “rigorous exactitude.”


=Clarke, William Newton.= Use of the Scriptures in theology; the
Nathaniel William Taylor lectures delivered at Yale university in 1905.
**$1. Scribner.

  “We believe the author’s positions and arguments are in the main sound
  and irrefutable.” Milton S. Terry.

        + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 363. Ap. ’06. 1300w.

  “Mention should be made of the sweet spirit, religious insight, and
  frank and honest courage which appear conspicuously upon every page of
  the book.” G. B. S.

        + + =Bib. World.= 27: 474. Je. ’06. 1220w.


=Clayden, Arthur William.= Cloud studies. **$3.50. Dutton.

  Not alone to the meteorologist and to the artist who finds
  extraordinary examples of art in the “general negligence of cloud
  forms,” but to the general reader also does this work appeal. “It is
  important to notice that the author accepts the types of the
  international cloud atlas and arranges his various forms as subforms
  of these types.” The illustrations include many reproductions of
  typical cloud-forms, and forms showing the transformation of one
  cloud-form into another.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 364. Mr. 24. 440w.

  “Not only the nature-lover and the artist, but the meteorologist as
  well, will find much of value and interest in this book.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 169. S. 16, ’06. 190w.

  “While of great value to specialists, is hardly less interesting to
  the general reader, and will be immensely helpful in continued and
  more accurate study of this fascinating subject.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 328. Ap. 19, ’06. 900w.

  “Mr. Claydon’s work will be a standard one for all students of
  clouds.” H. Hildebrand Hildebrandsson.

  + + – =Nature.= 73: 416. Mr. 1, ’06. 690w.

  “While its text should appeal to the scientific man, and its
  photographic illustrations to the artist, the style is not attractive,
  and in spite of the theoretical interest of the subject, will hardly
  induce the wider public to read it in large numbers.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 14. Ja. 13, ’06. 640w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 456. Ap. 14, ’06. 1750w.

  “This volume is essentially practical, and anyone who has read it with
  attention will find a new interest added for the future to his daily
  study of the sky.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 460w.


=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.=). Editorial wild oats.
†$1. Harper.

      + =Spec.= 96: 952. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.


=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.=). Eve’s diary. $1.
Harper.

  “Translated from the original,” these experiences of Eve in the garden
  of Eden and afterwards form a fitting companion piece to “Extracts
  from Adam’s diary.” Thruout she is Eve, the first woman, naive,
  frankly curious and frankly loving, a world of women feel the kin-call
  when she speaks and her Adam, as she draws him, is without question
  the eternal masculine. There is a fund of wit and humor in this gentle
  satire on man and nature and there is something more, an undernote
  which culminates in this closing tribute to the first mother: At Eve’s
  grave. Adam: “Wheresoever she was _there_ was Eden.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is hardly to us a favorable specimen of the author’s
  humour.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 185. Ag. 18. 80w.

      + =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 90w.

  “The only fault to find with these books is that there is so little of
  them.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

  “The book bears internal evidence that it owes much to the skill of
  the translator.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 910. Ag. 18, ’06. 100w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 393. S. 22, ’06. 1310w.


=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= Men and things. $1.25.
Harper.

  An illustrated volume of humor, comprising well chosen selections from
  thirty-six modern humorists including Ade, Aldrich, Bangs, Burdette,
  Field, Harris, Harte, Holmes, Howells, Nye, Warner and others perhaps
  less well known but no less amusing. Mark Twain, as compiler, opens
  the book with this apology, “Those selections in this book which are
  from my own works were made by my two assistant compilers, not by me.
  This is why there are not more.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 90w.

        =Dial.= 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 60w.

  “It would seem that each author is represented by his inferior work
  only.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 170w.

  “The new book is full of good matter, in prose and verse.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 116. F. 24, ’06. 250w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 100w.

  “It is trite and unnecessary but only fair to say that the best things
  in the book are his own.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 150w.


=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.)=, ed. Primrose way. Mark
Twain’s library of humor. †$1.50. Harper.

  The third volume in Mark Twain’s “Library of humor” continues for
  funloving readers the humorous offerings of “Men and things,” and
  “Women and things.” Besides the editor’s own contributions are stories
  by George Ade, John Kendrick Bangs, Samuel Cox, Sewell Ford, William
  Dean Howells, John G. Saxe, Melville D. Landon, Hugh Pendexter and
  many others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 372. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 529. Je. 30, ’06. 160w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 40w.


=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= $30,000 bequest and
other stories. $1.75. Harper.

  Forty or more of Mark Twain’s funniest stories have been gathered into
  this volume. Some have appeared before in book form while other more
  recent ones have seen print only in magazines. The volume includes: A
  dog’s tale, The Californian’s tale, A telephone conversation, Italian
  with grammar, The danger of lying in bed, Eve’s diary, Extracts from
  Adam’s diary, and A double-barreled detective story. The frontispiece
  is a photograph of the author on his 70th birthday, and there are
  other illustrations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 30w.

        =Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 120w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 670. O. 13, ’06. 230w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 60w.


=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= Women and things.
†$1.50. Harper.

  The second volume in Mark Twain’s “Library of humor.” There are some
  of Mark Twain’s own stories including the inimitable funny “Esquimau
  maiden’s romance.” There are stories by George Ade, John Kendrick
  Bangs, Josh Billings, Josiah Allen’s Wife, Widow Bedott, Bret Harte
  and others. The stories humorously show the graces, the foibles, the
  fancies and weaknesses of women.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Dial.= 40: 334. My. 16, ’06. 50w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 43. My. 3, ’06. 50w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 40w.

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 70w.


=Clement, Ernest Wilson.= Christianity in modern Japan. **$1. Am. Bapt.

  “Clear, compact, and well arranged.”

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 190. Ja. ’06. 290w.


=Clement, Ernest Wilson.= Handbook of modern Japan. **$1.40. McClurg.

        =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 50w.


=Clements, Frederick E.= Research methods in ecology. $3. Univ. pub.,
Neb.

  “One can scarcely praise this work too much; it is what is needed to
  prevent ecology from falling into a swift and merited disfavor.”

  + + + =Bot. Gaz.= 40: 381. N. ’05. 790w.


=Clerke, Agnes Mary.= System of the stars. *$6.50. Macmillan.

  The results of the past fifteen years of sidereal research have been
  embodied in Miss Clerke’s revision. Extensive modifications of the old
  text have been made, and new chapters inserted.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It has the remarkable feature of combining extraordinary profusion of
  precise information with an elegance of literary style quite unusual
  in scientific authors.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 556. Je. 9, ’06. 760w.

  “All astronomers and those interested in astronomy will heartily
  welcome the new edition of Miss Clerke’s ‘System of the stars’.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 727. N. 25. 110w.

  “Students of astronomy will find the latest results of sidereal
  research admirably stated in the new edition.”

  + + + =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 60w.

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 420w.

  “The work is so good that every student of astronomical physics must
  be familiar with it, and every astronomical library must include it.”
  R. A. Gregory.

  + + + =Nature.= 73: 505. Mr. 29, ’06. 3840w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ’05. 270w.

  “Is one of the noteworthy additions to scientific literature.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 100w.

  “We find, as we expected to find, a well-arranged, lucid and
  remarkably accurate account of an immense number of observations and a
  sympathetic though judicious and cautious analysis of the various
  inferences that have been drawn from them.”

  + + + =Sat. R.= 101: 54. Ja. 13, ’06. 1100w.

  “Miss Clerke. with her usual power of accurate and lucid exposition,
  has given us a most fascinating account of all that astronomers have
  thus far discovered about these immensely distant stars.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 714. My. 5, ’06. 1350w.


=Cleveland, Frederick Albert.= Bank and the treasury. *$1.80. Longmans.

  Reviewed by Frank L. McVey.

        =Dial.= 41: 166. S. 16, ’06. 6120w.

      – =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 110w.

  “In character it is a plea, not an investigation; an exposition and
  defense of ‘a point of view.’ The author also makes some excellent
  proposals concerning the form of bank reports.” David Kinley.

  + + – =Yale R.= 14: 421. F. ’06. 530w.


=Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover.= Fishing and shooting sketches: il. by H:
S. Watson. *$1.25. Outing pub.

  Mr. Grover Cleveland is manifestly as authoritative on the subject of
  fishing as was Isaak Walton of old. Much of the former’s philosophy is
  simmered down to creed form for the sportsman. And his book,
  copyrighted now for the fifth time, has become a guide book for the
  fisherman and hunter who are only better instructed for the woodsy
  out-of-door tang to all of Mr. Cleveland’s law unto their “honorable
  order.”


=Climenson, Mrs. Emily J.= Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the
Blue-stockings: her correspondence from 1720–1761. 2v. **$8. Dutton.

  The story of the early life of Mrs. Montagu, written by her
  great-great-niece. “The material in the two volumes was gleaned from
  some sixty-eight cases, in each of which were from 100 to 150 letters,
  written by Mrs. Montagu or received by her. There are letters to and
  from the most learned and celebrated personages in England and France
  and other countries. Among the names mentioned are the Duchess of
  Portland, Laurence Sterne, Dr. Johnson, Sir Robert Walpole, Mrs.
  Friend, Elizabeth Carter, the translator of Epictetus; Gilbert West,
  Nathaniel Hooke, Mrs. Pococke, David Hume, Lyttleton, Lord Bath, Dr.
  Young, and a number of others.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Climenson has succeeded in identifying, with one or two
  exceptions, the numerous folk whose names occur in her text; in other
  respects her notes are defective and capricious.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 495. My. 26. ’06. 2180w.

  “Though containing a variety of readable matter, we think it might
  with advantage have been shortened by the excision of much domestic
  detail which is not of general interest.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 537. My. 5. 2490w.

  Reviewed by J. H. Lobban.

        =Blackwood’s M.= 180: 452. O. ’06. 4480w.

      + =Critic.= 49: 188. Ag. ’06. 280w.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 270w.

  “Mrs. Climenson has proved herself a loving editor of her kinswoman’s
  letters. She has verified with enormous labor the dates of letters,
  many of which were previously uncertain.” Basil Williams.

    + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 594. Jl. ’06. 410w.

  “She was a formalist rather than a wit, and in her letters she tries
  so hard to be amusing that one would really prefer her natural
  dulness.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 140. Ap. 20, ’06. 820w.

  [Mrs. Climenson has] “so more than edited it that the two handsome and
  liberally illustrated volumes ... might be styled a memoir.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 427. My. 24, ’06. 400w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ’05. 220w.

  “The two volumes before us are edited with some care and not a little
  profusion.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 351. Je. 2, ’06. 1600w.

  “Her correspondence is interesting, for it gives an insight into the
  customs of the day, fashions, amusements, travel, etc.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.

  “We have many reliable and entertaining contemporary records of the
  crowded eighteenth century, but this must be regarded as exceptionally
  attractive.” Elizabeth Lore North.

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 524. Je. 30, ’06. 1580w

  “Mrs. Climenson is defective in ... literary tact and sense of
  perspective.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 727. Je. 9, ’06. 1670w.


=Clute, Willard Nelson.= Fern allies. **$2. Stokes.

  “The field notes, which show an intimate acquaintance with the life
  histories of the various forms, will interest the botanist as well as
  the layman.”

    + + =Bot. Gaz.= 40: 464. D. ’05. 130w.

        =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 60w.

  “One could hardly ask a better guide than Mr. Clute’s handsome
  volume.”

    + + =Ind.= 59: 1482. D. 21, ’05. 80w.

  “A few years ago the Clutes gave us the best, most comprehensive book
  that we have concerning our ferns in their haunts, and now they have
  accomplished a yet more difficult task, that of writing and adequately
  illustrating a guide to the more obscure kin of the fern tribe.” Mabel
  Osgood Wright.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 470w.


=Coates, Thomas F. G.= Prophet of the poor: the life story of General
Booth. *$1.50. Dutton.

  “In its special mission of reclaiming and preventing the waste of
  humanity, the Salvation army has put life and force into the
  desiccated idea of the ‘Church militant.’ Of this idea, as well as of
  the poor, General Booth has been for over half a century the prophet,
  and also the prophet of a human brotherhood, the Christian ideal of
  which is more largely realized in his army than in any other branch of
  the church. The life-story of this great leader, and of his
  like-minded and noble wife and comrade, the ‘mother’ of the army, is
  an illustrious chapter in the yet unfinished Acts of the
  apostles.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One would turn to it in vain to find broad grasp of the relation of
  the Army to other religious or social efforts of the time, or even
  vivid portrayal of the personality of its subject. It fails also in
  arrangement of its material, has no index, and is not in any way
  satisfactory as a biography of General Booth.”

      – =Ind.= 60: 1163. My. 17, ’06. 140w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 654. O. 6, ’06. 1700w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 244. My. 26, ’06. 190w.

  “A very entertaining and graphic biography.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 250w.


=Cody, Sherwin.= Success in letter-writing, business and social. **75c.
McClurg.

  The methods of the old-fashioned polite letter-writing have been
  studiously avoided in this up to date volume which “actually tells how
  to deal with human nature by mail.” Under the head of business letter
  writing not only routine business letters, but circular letters,
  advertising letters and letters which “sell goods” are treated. Under
  social letter writing are included the various forms of social
  correspondence, invitations, regrets, letters of friendship and
  liberal advice upon love letters.


=Colcock, Annie T.= Her American daughter. $1.50. Neale.

  A group of American writers and artists come together in Madrid at the
  opening of the Spanish-American war, and during these agitated days
  they work out among themselves the very pretty little love story of
  Miss Ray, an art student from South Carolina and Russell, a New York
  writer who has had the misfortune to offend her by publishing an
  article which ridicules the South. A bull-fight, a carnival, a wicked
  señor who has made a wager that Miss Ray will dine with him at
  midnight unchaperoned, and good Donna Dolores who calls Miss Ray her
  American daughter, lend to the story a truly Spanish atmosphere.


=Colegrove, William.= Hartford; an epic poem. $1.25. Badger, R. G.

  An epic poem modeled upon the Æneid, which presents the early history
  of Hartford, Connecticut and sings of arms and the colony’s founders.


=Collier, The Hon. John.= Art of portrait painting. *$3.50. Cassell.

  In this practical treatise for the student and professional painter,
  the subject is treated from a threefold point of view: The historical,
  The aims and methods of the great masters, and The practice of
  portrait painting. The illustrations include forty or more portraits
  painstakingly reproduced from some of the world’s best work.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “No man of our day could write of his subjects more agreeably, sanely,
  or with more intimate knowledge, nor produce a volume so likely to
  gain the attention of the general public.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 525. Je. 2, ’06. 500w.

  “Much personal suggestion is also admitted by the pleasantly
  colloquial manner of the book, and the attitude throughout is marked
  by common sense, definite opinions and an open-minded inclination for
  progress and novelty coupled with a sufficient conservatism.”

    + – =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 54. D. ’06. 330w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 379. Je. 9, ’06. 640w.


=Collins, Archie Frederick.= Wireless telegraphy: its history, theory
and practice. *$3. McGraw.

  A general explanation of the theory of etheric waves furnishes a
  foundation for an explanation of the nature of waves in general, of
  light waves of electrical vibrations, and apparatus for producing
  them. “He discusses electric discharges, the action of ultra violet
  rays, direct and alternating current effects.... He explains the
  workings of a variety of oscillating current generators and then
  passes to electric wave detectors—the best known to the public being
  the Marconi ‘coherer.’” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Engin. N.= 56: 417. O. 18, ’06. 100w.

  “Aims to be—and seems to succeed in being—a practical treatise on
  wireless telegraphy so written so as to be of use both to the expert
  in scientific matters and to the tyro who has everything to learn.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 733. O. 28, ’05. 330w.

  “In the opinion of the reviewer the illustrations ... constitute the
  most useful part of this book. In the hands of one whose familiarity
  of the subject enables him to interpret the many obscure passages and
  to distinguish the inaccurate statements from those that are correct,
  Mr. Collins’s book may in some cases be found useful.” Ernest Merritt.

  – – + =Phys. R.= 22: 63. Ja. ’06. 500w.

  “He covers the whole field briefly but satisfactorily. In addition to
  being practically the first book in this field, Mr. Collins’s is well
  prepared and authoritative.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 60. Ja. 13, ’06. 170w.


=Collins, John Churton.= Studies in poetry and criticism. $2.50.
Macmillan.

  Seven essays which regard poetry from the standpoint of the
  moralist,—the moralist who thinks that “In the wretched degradation
  into which belles lettres have fallen we seem to be losing all sense
  of the importance once attached to them, when critics were scholars
  and poets something more than aesthetes.” The essays are The poetry
  and poets of America, The collected work of Lord Byron, The collected
  poems of Mr. William Watson, The poetry of Gerald Massey, Miltonic
  myths and their authors, Longinus and Greek criticism, and the True
  functions of poetry.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In this book Mr. Churton Collins writes as a pessimist.”

      – =Acad.= 69: 1305. D. 16, ’05. 1850w.

  “As a critic, Prof. Collins has a cultivated taste, but his instinct
  is unsure.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 857. D. 23. 1720w.

  “Impeccable in scholarship. Mr. Collins has not in this volume avoided
  one or two minor slips of style, probably due to careless
  proofreading.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 472. Je. 7, ’06. 1590w.

  “A genuine by-product of scholarship, true essays, containing not any
  sound doctrine, but the human touch which alone is able to convey the
  results of scholarship to those who stand outside the bars of that
  snug pasture.” H. W. Boynton.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 98. F. 17, ’06. 5700w.

  “A fine book because its author has high ideals and has lived with and
  learned to love the master-minds of literature.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 494. Ap. 21, ’06. 1100w.

  “The truth is that Professor Collins’s doctrine turns out, if it is
  followed to its logical conclusion, to be a fatally narrow one.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 93. Jl. 21, ’06. 1870w.


=Colson, Elizabeth, and Chittenden, Anna Gansevoort=, comps. Children’s
letters: a collection of letters written to children by famous men and
women. $1. Hinds.

  As different in tone and individuality are these letters as the
  characteristics and moods of the long list of contributors. Among the
  letter-writers selected are Holmes, Whittier, Lincoln, Phillips
  Brooks, Martin Luther, Sidney Smith, Longfellow, Stevenson, Scott,
  Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen and many others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.

  “The compilers ... have performed their tasks of selection and
  explanation with good judgment and sympathy.”

        + + N. Y. Times. 11: 41. Ja. 20, ’06. 2030w.

  “Altogether a delightful little volume, and one well worth making.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 445. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.


=Colton, Arthur Willis.= Belted seas. †$1.50. Holt.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

        =Atlan.= 97: 46. Ja. ’06. 200w.


=Colton, Arthur Willis.= Cruise of the Violetta. †$1.50. Holt.

  An Ohio woman, left with a vast fortune, equips a yacht and sails to
  the land of “parrots and monkeys and bananas and foreign missions.”
  The story is a humorous characterization of a practical woman’s
  missionary work, shared by the unique Dr. Alswater, who was “not a
  ‘globe trotter’ but rather a floater,—in the manner resembling
  sea-weed, that drifts from place to place, but wherever it drifts or
  clings, is tranquil and accommodating.” The fortunes of a young
  electrician, sent to a South American town to establish an electric
  light plant, form one thread of the tale.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Colton’s new novel is conceived in an unconventional, not to say
  freakish, style. Banter and sarcasm prevail from the beginning to the
  end. Humor is not lacking, but it is seldom wholesome or spontaneous.”

    – + =Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 200w.

  “He approaches the ticklish realm of burlesque with too great
  cocksureness.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 250w.

  “It is lively and clever, and fit company for hours that might
  otherwise be dull.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “In this book he is not at his best.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 40w.


=Colvin, Sir Auckland.= Making of modern Egypt. *$4. Dutton.

  “It is the imperturbability of Lord Cromer which dominates Sir.
  Auckland Colvin’s history,” (Acad.)—the man who is chiefly responsible
  for the growth of modern Egypt. “The scheme of the book is a simple
  one. Whereas Lord Milner gave us a series of brilliant essays on
  different aspects of the Egyptian problem, Sir Auckland aims at
  presenting a consecutive narrative of successive incidents so that the
  reader may know, in any given year, the exact progress made by Egypt
  up to that date in all branches of the public service. It is an
  attempt to show history in the making, and, though lacking the style
  and charm of “England in Egypt,” it will prove of more value to the
  student than Lord Milner’s volume.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Well written, lucid and temperate, it sets before us the events of
  the last five and twenty years without favour. As we read Sir Auckland
  Colvin’s book, we understand the reason of the supremacy which England
  most unselfishly still holds in Egypt and her colonies, and we can
  imagine no better handbook of practical statesmanship than ... ‘Making
  of modern Egypt.’”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 279. Mr. 24, ’06. 1150w.

  “Sir Auckland Colvin knows all there is to be known on ‘The making of
  modern Egypt.’ The fact that he can hardly be said to possess the art
  of constructing a book does not detract from the worth of this volume,
  though it renders it heavy for the general reader.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 296. Mr. 10. 610w.

  “It differs from Lord Milner’s ‘England in Egypt’ in being more of a
  consecutive narrative of incidents, but at the same time lacks the
  brilliancy of style that characterizes Lord Milner’s essays.”

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 260w.

  “Despite a few errors and a few redundancies this book is the most
  useful record available, if we exclude Lord Cromer’s official reports,
  of Egypt’s progress from 1882 to the present day.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 90. Mr. 16, ’06. 1300w.

  “The book, despite the many romantic phases of the subject, is not
  exciting reading, but it supplies the safest guide to those who may
  wish to study one of the most interesting and far-reaching series of
  events which have occurred in our own time.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 62. Jl. 19, ’06. 1320w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 390w.

  “Cannot fail to be a valuable and interesting work.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “Every chapter is enlivened with wit and picturesqueness of phrase,
  and he has a happy gift of classical reminiscence.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 946. Je. 16, ’06. 1340w.


=Coman, Katherine.= Industrial history of the United States for high
schools and colleges. *$1.25. Macmillan.

  “In view of the scattered and partial character of the material
  available, it is not perhaps surprising that Miss Coman’s book gives
  the impression of a collection of facts having to do with the economic
  history of the United States, rather than of a clear presentation of
  the main features of that history and the influences by which they
  have been determined. It must be said, moreover, that even in her
  statements of facts the author has not exercised as much care as might
  fairly be expected.” Henry B. Gardner.

    – + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 948. Jl. ’06. 650w.

  “On all moot questions in our economic history, whether resulting from
  political differences or purely academic in character, she has shown
  an eminent degree of fairness.” Robert C. Brooks.

  + + + =Bookm.= 22: 530. Ja. ’06. 550w.

  “One of the good qualities of the book is its directness and clearness
  of statement.” Henry E. Bourne.

  + + – =Educ. R.= 31: 102. Ja. ’06. 1150w.

  “This is an instructive and a much needed work.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 440w.

  “It is written in a clear, concise style and contains a large amount
  of descriptive material within brief compass. Its main defect is that
  it fails to leave upon the mind of the reader a clear impression of
  the development of the principal industries of the country.” Robert
  Morris.

  + + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 62. Ja. ’06. 140w.

  “The lines of conception ... are broad, and bold, but not fully
  matched by firmness in execution.” Carl Russell Fish.

    + – =School R.= 14: 462. Je. ’06. 530w.

  “As a first attempt it is entitled to considerable measure of
  commendation. The great defect of the book is that those ‘essential
  elements’ of our economic history are not only not brought out clearly
  so that the reader may be sure to grasp them, but they are apparently
  not comprehended by the author herself.” G. S. C.

    + – =Yale. R.= 15: 324. N. ’06. 1150w.


=Commons, John Rogers=, ed. Trade unionism and labor problems. *$2.50.
Ginn.

  The second volume of the “Selections and documents in economics” being
  brought out by Professor W. Z. Ripley of Harvard university. There are
  twenty-seven essays, mostly reprints from current scientific magazines
  on a variety of aspects of the social and economic situation, which
  aim to furnish collateral reading for college classes.

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  “Is invaluable to the student; it places in accessible form a mass of
  most important material, and heartily commends itself to the reader.”
  G. B. Mangold.

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 182. Jl. ’06. 580w.

  “There is scarcely a question of the day that does not have
  interesting light shed on it by one or more persons peculiarly fitted
  to discuss it. The book is an excellent disseminator of wholesome good
  sense and moderation.” W. E. C. W.

    + + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 196. Ja. ’06. 320w.

  “It will furnish the raw material for a course in descriptive
  economics, and as such is a serviceable volume.”

      + =Bookm.= 22: 536. Ja. ’06. 130w.

  “Despite the variety of material in the book, a fair amount of unity
  is preserved through Mr. Commons’s introduction, which adequately
  relates the chapters.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 40. Jl. 16, ’06. 190w.

  “To any student of labor problems the book is indispensable.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 150w.

  “With most of the material included economists are generally familiar,
  but the assembling of the material in one volume provides an excellent
  text-book for classes making a study of labor problems.” John
  Cummings.

    + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 455. Jl. ’06. 320w.

  “The selections will supplement admirably the lectures and ordinary
  reference-books which have constituted hitherto the principal pabulum
  that teachers could set before their students.”

      + =Nation.= 81: 504. D. 21, ’05. 250w.

  “The volume is full of valuable information, but it is rather material
  for the student than history, philosophy, or sociology for the general
  reader.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 210w.

  “In no other one book is such a mass of vital facts brought together.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ’05. 210w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 210w.


Companion to Greek studies; ed. by Leonard Whibley. *$6. Macmillan.

  “The only weakness is in a detail of arrangement i. e. the neglect of
  side references and the consequent lack of coherence. There is much
  unevenness in the bibliographies.” James C. Egbert.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 454. Je. ’06. 610w.


=Comstock, Harriet T.= Meg and the others. 75c. Crowell.

  Two little girls of to-day, sitting in the firelight just before
  bed-time hear the stories of Meg, and Mary, and the Boy, which their
  grandmother calls out of the long ago for them. And when they have
  heard all about them, their games, their troubles, and their
  adventures, when they have learned to love them, and are loath to let
  them go, they find that Mary is a nice old lady who is coming to live
  with them, and that Meg and the Boy are really their own dear
  grandmother and grandfather.


=Comstock, Mrs. Harriet Theresa.= Queen’s hostage. †$1.50. Little.

  A story built up about plot, treachery, and treason which constantly
  threatened Queen Elizabeth’s peace of mind. The hero is a young lord
  of the house of Rathven who incognito redresses the wrongs of a
  treacherous father and earns the long questioned right to be counted
  among the queen’s loyal subjects.

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 170w.


=Comstock, Seth Cook.= Marcelle the mad. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “With the romantic Ardennes forest for setting, and for the motif the
  incident of a medieval feud between the Duke of Burgundy and the
  citizens of the town of Dinant, Dr. Comstock has written a stirring
  tale of adventure to which he gives the name of ‘Marcelle the mad’ ...
  after the female Robin Hood who plays the leading role.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A trifle melodramatic and stilted in the earlier chapters, it
  develops into a really powerful piece of work. If the story boasts
  little originality either of plot or incident, it is told with a skill
  and vigor that lift it well above the level of its kind, and few are
  likely to leave it dissatisfied.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 210w.

  “As a romance—a mere romance—of the time-killing variety, Mr.
  Comstock’s story will do very well indeed.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 320w.

  “A stirring tale of love and adventure.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.


=Conant, Charles Arthur.= Principles of money and banking. 2v. *$4.
Harper.

  Mr. Conant’s work carries “the reader from the beginnings of exchange
  when cattle and fragments of metal passed by tale of weight down
  through the origin of coinage and the birth thereof of modern banking
  to the complete mechanism of money and credit as they exist to-day.”
  “It is not written for the purpose of demolishing the ‘quantity
  theory,’ extirpating the bimetallist, or advocating an ‘asset
  currency,’ but is devoted to irenic exposition rather than polemical
  discussions.” (Nation.)

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  “The work is not only a forceful exposition of so-called principles
  which have guided commercial people and leading nations in thinking
  about monetary problems, but it is unique in that the work of the
  author is in the nature of a collation of the thought and expression
  of nearly every writer of note on the several topics treated.”
  Frederick A. Cleveland.

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 424. Mr. ’06. 2170w.

  “The proper man to write on the subject is the man who is constantly
  practicing the operations he describes. Mr. Conant fulfills these
  conditions.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 401. O. 6. 1890w.

  “To his task Mr. Conant brings some very unusual qualifications.”
  Winthrop More Daniels.

  + + – =Atlan.= 97: 851. Je. ’06. 640w.

  “A breadth of view and a freedom from partisan bias not frequently
  found in monetary treatises.” R. C. B.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 216. Ap. ’06. 510w.

  “A careful reading increases the admiration for the skill with which
  the well-selected quotations have been woven into the book. What was
  once scattered and almost unattainable in small libraries has been
  brought together in an attractive, new and forceful way, which leaves
  the professor of economics deeply indebted to the author.” Frank L.
  McVey.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 165. S. 16, ’06. 450w.

  “In spite of its theoretical weakness, the work has much to recommend
  it to serious students of monetary science. It furnishes one of the
  best available accounts of recent developments in money and banking.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 398. F. 15, ’06. 450w.

  “He has not always discriminated between what was novel to him and
  what would be new to a well-informed reader. His pages are encumbered
  with superfluous quotations upon unimportant topics. His historical
  chapters are sometimes painfully inadequate, and his treatment of
  theoretical subjects not always satisfactory.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 210w.

  “It would be difficult to name a treatise which blends facts and
  theory so well, applying each to the other in a manner so
  illuminating.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 913. D. 23, ’05. 580w.

  “As a writer he possesses an agreeable style and the ability so to
  present the most arid scheme that it becomes interesting even to a
  reader having a minimum of economic knowledge.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 614. Mr. 17, ’06. 1550w.

  “While Mr. Conant’s work possesses the virtue of great
  comprehensiveness, it is the opinion of the reviewer that, to be of
  greatest use to the general reader and the university student alike, a
  book on money and banking should above all exhibit that unity and
  precision of theory which is the greatest lack in Mr. Conant’s work.”
  A. C. Whitaker.

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 332. Je. ’06. 1720w.

  “Mr. Conant’s treatment of disputed questions in monetary theory, in
  the opinion of the present reviewer, leaves much to be desired. Mr.
  Conant is none too happy in his handling of technical economic
  phrases.” A. Piatt Andrew.

    + – =Yale R.= 15: 321. N. ’06. 1190w.


Congo, The: a report of the commission of enquiry appointed by the Congo
Free State government. *$1. Putnam.

  “The main topics taken up in the commissions’s report are the land
  régime, taxation, military service, trade concessions, depopulation,
  and the administration of justice. In respect to all of these matters,
  numerous evils are pointed out: the arrogance of the government in
  appropriating alleged vacant lands, the oppressiveness of the labor
  tax, the terrorism and cruelty resulting from quasi-military
  expeditions, the exploitation of the natives by agents of greedy
  commercial companies, and the lax jurisdiction of the territorial
  courts.”—Dial.

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      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 175. Jl. ’06. 100w.

        =Dial.= 41: 210. O. 1, ’06. 450w.

        =Ind.= 60: 874. Ap. 12, ’06. 120w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 340w.


=Connolly, James Bennet.= Deep sea’s toll. †$1.50. Scribner.

  “It is a healthy, stimulating book, with the tang of salt air in every
  page.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 449. Ap. 14. 190w.

  “Though applauded by all true sailors, is a trifle too special for a
  general reader.” Mary Moss.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 40w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 30w.

        =Ind.= 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 240w.

  “Is written with full knowledge and sympathy, and in the slow,
  involved talk of the men we get much of the flavour of the spoken
  word.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 98. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w.


=Connor, Ralph, pseud. (Charles William Gordon).= The Doctor, a tale of
the Rockies. †$1.50. Revell.

  A character of rare strength and beauty is developed in this story of
  Barney, who as a lad was obliged to renounce his hope of a college
  education in favor of a clever younger brother. He stayed at the mill,
  worked, played his violin, and longed to be a doctor. Then, after many
  things had come to pass which tried his soul, and purged it of all
  dross, he became a preacher-doctor in the Rockies where strong men and
  rough loved him for his unselfish ministrations to their bodies and
  their souls and honored him as a power for good. In the end when he
  laid down his life for his friend he brought his career to its final
  triumph of success in failure.

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      + =Acad.= 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 180w.

  “It is hard to see why the average adult should not find the story at
  once commonplace and passably long-winded.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 160w.

  “The best thing Ralph Connor has done since ‘The sky pilot,’ and
  perhaps the best thing he has ever done. Is a good book, both in the
  religious and literary senses of the word.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 835. D. 1, ’06. 440w.


=Conover, James Potter.= Memories of a great schoolmaster. **$1.50.
Houghton.

  The life of Dr. Henry A. Coit, for fifty years headmaster of St.
  Paul’s school at Concord, N. H., has inspired this volume. It is a
  confession of Dr. Coit’s religious and educational faith expressed in
  terms of high standards and ideals in everything.

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      + =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 160w.

  “To the alumnus of St. Paul’s the book will be a valuable memorial of
  its chief personality; and to others it will be an interesting
  disclosure of a noteworthy influence.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 321. My. 19, ’06. 1080w.

  “It is an inspiring book for all who, whether teachers or parents,
  have the perilous charge of either boys or girls in the budding time
  of adolescence.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 190w.

  “His book has the double charm of personal knowledge and of love for
  his subject.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 511. Ap. 21, ’06. 60w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. 2, ’06. 70w.


=Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski).= Mirror of the sea.
†$1.50. Harper.

  One who has long known and loved her, and who has always understood,
  writes here of the sea and her moods, of her anger when the winds lash
  her, of the fear of her, the charm of her, of the men in the good
  ships that sail her and sometimes go down in her, of their ways, their
  rugged courage, and the various phases of the lives they lead. There
  are bits of sentiment, scraps of romance, flashes of humor, many real
  dramatic scenes and much hard fact, and thru it all the sound of the
  sea.

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  “But the book is more than a series of fine pictures; it is a
  sensitive appreciation of the whole art of seamanship, an imaginative
  reading of the varying moods of the sea.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 393. O. 20, ’06. 980w.

  “There is nothing here which the discriminating reader can afford to
  miss.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 513. O. 27. 430w.

  “His latest work will compare well with the best work he has done.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 220w.

  “For ‘The mirror of the sea’ we would make bold to predict a very long
  life. We seem to see it being discovered and re-discovered as the
  years roll on.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 344. O. 12, ’06. 1390w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 374. N. 1, ’06. 670w.

  “He knows the souls of the sea and of ships, as he knows the souls of
  men, but that would be worth but little to us, did he not possess a
  still more wonderful faculty of interpretation and expression—a
  faculty that was never better shown than in these sketches.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 820w.

  “To a practical knowledge of seamanship, of lading cargoes, ruling
  crews, managing and navigating vessels, Joseph Conrad adds the vision
  of a poet and exercises the witchcraft of a master of style.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 180w.

  “To those who belong to the totem of its writer it will be always a
  kind of gospel. It contains the whole soul of a man who has known the
  deeps of sea mysteries, who has sought them as a lover, with joy, and
  reverence, and fear.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 888. D. 1, ’06. 850w.


=Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski).= Nostromo: a tale of the
seaboard. $1.50. Harper.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 45. Ja. ’06. 570w.


Conversations with Christ: a biographical study. $1.50. Macmillan.

  The author of these “Conversations” which, he says, have “too much
  personality to be mythical” “has taken between twenty and thirty
  passages from the gospels in which questions put, or petitions made,
  to the Master, and His answers, are recorded. In all of these we have
  portraits of Christ, wonderfully various, but with an unmistakable
  likeness, and also with an unmistakable reality.” (Spec.)

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    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 118. Mr. 30, ’06. 530w.

  “As a study it has the merit of freshness and insight; it is the
  product of a cultured and vigorous mind, intellectually and
  spiritually strong.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 110w.

  “A really noble piece of writing.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 372. Mr. 24, ’06. 260w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 501. Mr. 31, ’06. 480w.


=Conway, Sir Martin.= No man’s land; a history of Spitsbergen from its
discovery in 1596 to the beginning of the scientific exploration of the
country. *$3. Putnam.

  It is the history of the whaling industry engaged in by rival nations
  along the coasts of this group of islands that occupies the greater
  part of Sir Martin Conway’s volume. In addition are accounts of
  Russian exploring enterprises and scientific expeditions in the
  eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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  “His task has been accomplished in a characteristically complete
  fashion, and has evidently involved a good deal of research in rare
  books of old voyages, both English and Dutch.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 635. My. 26. 880w.

  “No one has a better claim than Sir Martin Conway to have undertaken
  this history, and few could have written it so well. The book is a
  most valuable achievement, a most important contribution to
  geographical literature.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 209. Je. 8, ’06. 2190w.

  “The great value of this work is that it brings within convenient
  compass a great body of information scattered through forgotten books
  and manuscripts which throw light on some obscure points and give a
  connected history and a most complete account in English of the great
  whale industry.” Cyrus C. Adams.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 370w.

  “Sir Martin Conway arouses the interests of his readers in the curious
  history of a land which, though never permanently inhabited, has
  played the part of an apple of discord between the great powers of
  former days.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 239. Ag. 25, ’06. 1160w.

  “A compendious bibliography and some good illustrations add to the
  value of his excellent book.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 330w.


=Cook, E. Wake.= Betterment, individual, social and industrial; or,
Highest efficiency. **$1.20. Stokes.

  The preface says: “The object of this work is to give in convenient
  form the latest discoveries which promote individual, industrial, and
  collective efficiency.” Conservation of energy in all its forms would
  result in the “Simple life,” weary though the expression be, and the
  author suggests it as the goal that insures immunity from disease, and
  a great increase in mental and physical energy.


=Cook, Theodore Andrea.= Old Provence. 2v. **$4. Scribner.

  “Old Provence is the land of romance, and of the tale of its beauty
  and interest Mr. Cook is the most delightful of narrators.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 34. Ja. 13, ’06. 1060w.

  “The work needs a clearer plan, more adequate special knowledge,
  better judgment and critical discrimination, many more references
  (there are but very few), more personal reserve, a better index and a
  real map. It is pleasant, semi-learned magazine writing.”

    – + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 874. Jl. ’06. 570w.

  “More than a guide-book and less, it is one of those aids to travel
  which, like Mr. Crawford’s ‘Rulers of the South,’ should lie by the
  side of Baedeker in even the smallest steamer trunk.” Josiah Renick
  Smith.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 39. Ja. 16, ’06. 1610w.

  “The effect is excellent and exquisite, the information fixed and
  true.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 440w.

  “We commend these attractive volumes to every one who cares for truth
  and romance blended in European history.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 463. Mr. 24, ’06. 1730w.


=Cooke, Edmund Vance.= Chronicles of the little tot. $1.50. Dodge.

  Under five head verses grave and gay are here grouped for little
  people: The cradlers. The creepers, The cruises, The climbers, and In
  remembrance.

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  “Should make both universal and tender appeal,—not alone to those who
  are the little tot’s vassals and slaves, but to the wider circle of
  child-lovers, as well.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 210w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 818. D. 2, ’05. 310w.


=Cooke, Grace MacGowan.= Their first formal call; il. by Peter Newell.
†$1. Harper.

  How two ambitious boys just out of knickerbockers and duly posted in
  “Hints and helps to young men in business and social relations,” fared
  in making their first formal call upon the Misses Claiborne. Not
  daring to make their mission known they sat at the feet of Grandfather
  Claiborne and Aunt Missouri the entire Sabbath afternoon and when
  night came were sent to bed, much to the humbling of their youthful
  pride.

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  “Mrs. Cooke has made the whole affair wonderfully ludicrous and real
  and Peter Newell has furnished fourteen full-page pictures as funny as
  the text.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 190w.


=Cooke, Jane Grosvenor.= Ancient miracle. †$1.50. Barnes.

  “Life in the Grand plateaux of northern Canada is described pleasantly
  in this peaceful but not unpleasing tale of love and labor. Mrs. Cooke
  has imprisoned the atmosphere of this cold yet beautiful country and
  draws well the good and pleasant folk who live there. The Francoeur
  family, the faithful curé Xavier, and his numerous progeny are all
  pictured graphically, while the love stories of the two girls furnish
  sufficient interest to keep the reader’s attention.”—Critic.

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  “It is chiefly for the characterization that the book will be found
  enjoyable.”

  + + – =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 90w.

  “A romance of the Canadian forests, alive with the fascination and
  witchery of those vast regions.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 200w.

  “So good superficially that it is a little difficult to express its
  limitation. There is a lack of human warmth and sympathy.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 861. Ag. 11, ’06. 110w.


=Cooper, Edward Herbert.= Twentieth century child. $1.50. Lane.

  Reviewed by E. L. Pomeroy.

      + =Arena.= 35: 106. Ja. ’06. 230w.


=Cooper, Walter G.= Fate of the middle classes. *$1.25. Consolidated
retail booksellers.

    + – =Ind.= 60: 342. F. 8, ’06. 180w.


=Copperthwaite, William C.= Tunnel shields and the use of compressed air
in subaqueous works. *$9. Van Nostrand.

  “Mr. Copperthwaite’s task has been to compile and condense ...
  scattered information into one place. He has done his work
  excellently.... Mr. Copperthwaite divides his book into eleven
  chapters. Of these the last chapter on ‘Cost of the shield,’ and the
  first three chapters on ‘Early history, 1818–1880,’ ‘Use of compressed
  air in engineering works’ and ‘Cast-iron lining for tunnels,’
  respectively, are general in character; the remaining seven chapters
  are collections of descriptions of specific shield tunnel works
  classified under three heads; Shields in London clay, Shields in water
  bearing strata and Shields in masonry tunnels.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is undoubtedly destined to be the standard English work on
  this peculiarly difficult branch of engineering practice.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 218. Ag. 25. 1520w.

  “The volume is in all respects worthy of prominent position in the
  tunnel engineer’s library.”

    + + =Engin. N.= 55: 676. Je. 14, ’06. 1520w.

  “A very valuable and comprehensive history of a system of tunnelling.”

  + + + =Nature.= 74: 348. Ag. 9, ’06. 1180w.


=Corelli, Marie (Minnie Mackay).= Treasure of heaven: a romance of
riches. †$1.50. Dodd.

  The treasure of Heaven which becomes the quest in Miss Corelli’s story
  is love, and she would demonstrate the fact that riches menace its
  possession. David Helmsley, an aged multi-millionaire, becomes a tramp
  in pursuit of definite happiness, he gives and takes in his wanderings
  and learns both are spontaneous. Finally he is nursed back from death
  by one who teaches him the great love lesson which, without any
  matrimonial thought, blesses his closing days.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The novel is exceedingly modern in flavor and probably will be found
  satisfactory by those readers who were in expectation of iconoclastic
  touches such as recently have distinguished Miss Corelli’s
  utterances.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 260w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 450w.

  “Miss Corelli’s latest story is by no means lacking in power. Lacking
  in distinction, it of course is; but it has more dignity of substance
  and less indignity of style than anything of hers we have hitherto
  seen.”

  – – + =Nation.= 83: 227. S. 13, ’06. 500w.

  “As a literary production does not measure up to its ethical
  intention.”

  – – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 549. S. 8, ’06. 640w.

        =Putnam’s.= 1: 319. D. ’06. 80w.


=Cornell, Hughes.= Kenelm’s Desire. †$1.50. Little.

  Desire, a musician by instinct, by training, and by heredity, spends a
  summer in British Columbia among the Indians, canoeing, sailing,
  mountain-climbing and fishing. Here she discovers in a young Alaska
  Indian, adopted and educated by white people, a soul fired by ambition
  and pride, one that reflects the sad poetry of vanishing traditions.
  The love idyll is interwoven with flagrant race prejudice, political
  scenes, and true-to-life sketches of Indian character.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      – =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 150w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 270w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 220w.

  “Hughes Cornell has a novel situation in this story and manages it
  well.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 170w.


=Cornes, James.= Modern housing: houses in town and country, illustrated
by examples of municipal and other schemes of block dwellings, tenement
houses, model cottages and villages. *$3. Scribner.

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 239. Ag. 19. 320w.


=Coryat, Thomas.= Coryat’s crudities. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.

  “The recently republished crudities of Thomas Coryat give, perhaps, a
  clearer notion of Shakespeare’s period than does Shakespeare himself.”
  Herbert Vaughn Abbott.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 694. My. ’06. 3850w.


=Cotes, Sara Jeannette (Duncan) (Mrs. Everard Cotes).= Set in authority.
†$1.50. Doubleday.

  A story “about India and the possibility of carrying our beloved
  doctrines of liberalism into practice in that strange land.... In with
  the politics is wound a story of men and women, of love and loss and
  hopes and fears, which displays a number of very cleverly drawn
  characters, whose thoughts and feelings are of deep interest. The
  soldier, by strange bonds that remain concealed until the very end, is
  united by close ties to the Viceroy himself—and the discovery adds
  pathos to the wretched muddle which everybody made of things.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not a comforting or exhilarating story, but it is a clever,
  mature, and thoughtful piece of work that will increase Mrs. Cotes’s
  already high reputation.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 529. Je. 2. ’06. 330w.

  “Mrs. Cotes has given us of her best in this story of Indian life.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 791. Je. 30. 90w.

  “Every character in the book is alive and every character has its
  proper measure of interest.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 192. My. 25, ’06. 470w.

  “People who like atmosphere, much clever talk, details of life and
  character, will enjoy her book. Those who prefer much story and less
  atmosphere will pronounce it tedious.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 340w.

  “It is quotable to a large degree, and cannot be read without constant
  responsive smiles and a desire to share the witty characterizations
  with any near-by neighbor.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 190w.

  “Society in the capital of a small Indian province is clearly
  sketched, but the ineffective love-story of the chief characters is
  unconvincing.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 250w.

  “Her present book, though from a literary standpoint not quite in her
  happiest vein, is, however well worth reading.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 989. Je. 23, ’06. 310w.


=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.).= From a Cornish window.
*$1.50. Dutton.

  This reflective and discursive “volume is somewhat arbitrarily divided
  into twelve chapters named after twelve months. Cornish matters, so
  far as treated at all, are more particularly discussed in ‘August’ and
  ‘December’; the other chapters handle at random, literature and life
  and politics and education. The writer’s unenthusiastic estimate of
  ‘our modern bards of empire,’ whom he finds lacking in high
  seriousness and any recognition of the human soul, is to be noted with
  approval. In the sober month of November he indulges in reflections on
  this human soul’s ultimate destiny.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 71. Jl. 21. 410w.

  “Despite occasional dull pages in these random outpourings, our
  popular story-teller ‘Q’ is worth reading in his more serious moods.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 118. S. 1, ’06. 360w.

  “There are pages of fooling that we could wish omitted; there is a
  certain flippancy, a lightness of word that wrongs the serious
  thought, that makes us say, ‘Not worthy of “Q”!’ We speak of this at
  once, that we may get our objections out of the way and have done with
  them. Who—where so much is good—can help a little sigh after
  perfection?”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 264. Jl. 27, ’06. 1380w.

  “There is much variety in this miscellany, or series of miscellanies,
  arranged by the calendar; but nothing therein is labored or affected.
  It is excellent talk, as flexible, suggestive, and responsive to
  suggestion, as good talk should be.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 880w.

  “A very charming miscellany.” H. I. Brock.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 531. S. 1, ’06. 1300w.

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 91. S. 8, ’06. 280w.

  “All lovers of good literature will find it a treasury which they will
  not readily exhaust.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 300w.


=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.).= Mayor of Troy. †$1.50.
Scribner.

      + =Acad.= 70: 333. Ap. 7, ’06. 720w.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 603. My. 19. 540w.

  “A broadly humorous tale.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 53. Ja. ’06. 50w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 80w.

  “So long as we are ready to take the actors as characters in farce,
  the fun is fast and furious, and the writer carries us along with him
  so that we do not stop to think of possibilities.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 84. Mr. 9., ’06. 420w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 466. Ap. 14, ’06. 150w.

    + – =Spec.= 96: 425. Mr. 17, ’06. 510w.


=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q”, pseud.).= Shakespeare’s Christmas
and other stories. †$1.50. Longmans.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 53. Ja. ’06. 80w.

  “Are capital illustrations of his narrative skill.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 90w.


=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.).= Sir John Constantine:
memoirs of his adventures at home and abroad, and particularly in the
island of Corsica, beginning with the year 1756; written by his son,
Prosper Paleologus, otherwise Constantine; ed. by Q. †$1.50. Scribner.

  This tale of adventure “has movement, suspense, the thrill of danger
  and the delight of high-minded devotion and idealized love. The time
  is in the seventeenth century, when Corsica was in arms against
  Genoa’s occupation and oppression, and the people were rallying to
  Paoli. Among the aspirants for the crown is a young English lad whose
  somewhat quixotic but chivalrous father, Sir John Constantine, of
  Cornwall, has procured from Theodore, a dissolute ex-king confined in
  an English debtor’s prison, a written renunciation in favor of the
  boy, together with the possession of the famous iron crown. With a few
  friends Sir John and his son land in Corsica and encounter adventure
  aplenty.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 71: 440. N. 3, ’06. 550w.

  “As adventure there has been no better story for a long time; and
  there is many a laugh in it too.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 687. D. 1, 310w.

  “A novel of adventure of many merits is ‘Sir John Constantine,’ about
  whose ultimate relation to the literature of its period there need be
  but little doubt.” A. Schade van Westrum.

    + + =Bookm.= 14: 379. D. ’06. 630w.

  “How does he produce a literature that is not literal of life, but
  higher—a sublimated form of memories that come to the reader like the
  fragrance of centuries, sweet and familiar, too elusive to hold, too
  dear to lose?”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 935. O. 18, ’06. 730w.

  “His genius consists in having the right words with which to interpret
  a high romance of a time long past.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

  “Mr. Quiller-Couch is no weaver of ornate verbal fabrics; but he is at
  once too ardent and too steeped in great literature to be ever mean or
  cold, and there are times when the mere beauty of his style, as style,
  moves us to enthusiasm.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 420w.

  “As a tale of romantic adventure we have had hardly anything since
  Stevenson’s time so good as Mr. Quiller-Couch’s new story. The story
  as a whole, indeed, is so excellent of its kind that one wishes that
  the author had recast some parts of the book and subjected it to a
  severer test of his judgment as to construction, probability, and
  humor.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 287. S. 29, ’06. 280w.

  “Sometimes the changeling in ‘Q’ gets the better of the romancer, and
  the farce, delightful in itself, strikes a jarring note in such an
  environment. Apart from this blemish, we have nothing but praise for a
  story which is not only ‘Q’s’ finest achievement, but one which must
  stand very near the work of the greatest of the romantics.”

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 790. N. 17, ’06. 370w.

  “For ingenuity of plot and unconventionality of adventure the book is
  in a class by itself. His work never descends to vulgarity or claptrap
  excitement. For he is an artist.”

    + + =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 120w.


=Coudert, Frederick René.= Addresses, historical—political—sociological.
**$2.50. Putnam.

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 829. Mr. ’06. 400w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 60w.

  “Mr. Coudert was a man of broad and deep culture, thoroughly
  acquainted with the literature of France, Spain, and Germany, and
  possessing a lucid, graceful, and effective English style.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 270w.


=Cowan, Rev. Henry.= John Knox, the hero of the Scottish reformation,
1505–1572. **$1.35. Putnam.

  “The index in Cowan is admirable; that in Macmillan is almost
  worthless. The work by Cowan is the more scholarly, the more unbiased,
  and the more valuable.” Eri. B. Hulbert.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 353. Ap. ’06. 480w.

  “Dr. Cowan’s work is less a piece of detraction or of eulogy than a
  plain narrative of events, with occasional comment upon the main
  issues which claimed Knox’s effort.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 288. Ap. 6, ’06. 210w.


=Cox, Isaac Joslin=, ed. Journeys of La Salle and his companions. 2v.
**$2. Barnes.

  The latest issue of the “Trail makers” series. The work includes
  translations from the memoirs of Tonty, Membré, Hennepin, Douay, Le
  Clercq, Joutel, and Jean Cavelier, besides minor sketches and an
  introduction.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An admirable supplement to the formal story of American history and
  exploration, giving us cheap reprints of the personal narratives of
  the early discoverers and travellers, most of which are long out of
  print and comparatively inaccessible in the libraries.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. 06. 90w.

        =Dial.= 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 50w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 142. Ag. 16, ’06. 220w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 68. F. 3, ’06. 660w.

  “Some of these narratives have been difficult of access, and certainly
  they all abound in stirring adventure and incident.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 93. Ja. 13, ’06. 220w.


=Cox, Kenyon.= Old masters and new: essays in art criticism. **$1.50.
Fox.

  “Amounting to a general view of the course of art since the sixteenth
  century.”

      + =Reader.= 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 350w.


=Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).=
Dream and the business. †$1.50. Appleton.

  Mrs. Craigie’s posthumous novel. “There are six main figures in the
  book,—Firmalden, the Nonconformist minister, and his sister; the Roman
  Catholic Lord Marlesford and his wife; Lessard, the musician, and Miss
  Nannie Cloots, the actress. Among these six the game of love is played
  with immense confusion.” (Spec.) “The story is one of dreams and of
  disillusions; it fits its title better than it does the text from
  which the title is taken. To the meaning of the latter, as made
  obvious by the context, it seems scarcely to adhere.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We close it with the feeling that here is a fine novel marred by the
  old lack of sympathetic interest in human nature.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 197. S. 1, ’06. 1950w.

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 266. S. 8. 450w.

  “Under her customary lightness of manner the tone is full of grave
  sincerity, but this does not mean that the story is a tract—far from
  it!—or that it is dull. On the contrary, her workmanship has never
  been more careful or her good sayings more abundant.” Mary Moss.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 382. D. ’06. 890w.

  “The author’s skill in describing the play of light and shadow on the
  surface of character, her French firmness and lightness of touch, the
  abundance of epigram and delicately elegant phrase, and the keenness
  of her observation, in which mingles a slight dash of kindly cynicism,
  make up a fine story.”

      + =Cath. World.= 84: 406. D. ’06. 480w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1347. D. 6, ’06. 550w.

  “The characterization, acute enough up to a point, constantly breaks
  down through the writer’s becoming more interested in the conversation
  than in the people. She lays herself open to the reproach of talking
  through her characters instead of letting them talk.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 297. Ag. 31, ’06. 1310w.

  “It may well enough stand as her monument, for it suggests everything
  characteristic in her substance and manner.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 352. O. 25, ’06. 930w.

  “Although, as we think, its characters do not measure up to their
  creator’s conception of them, and although we are sometimes dragged
  rather than swept along with the narrative, the ability of the novel
  is of so high an order that we agree with Mr. Choate in his belief
  that it ‘will be another laurel’ in its writer’s ‘well-won crown.’”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 684. O. 20, ’06. 1320w.

  “Its chief charm, alike from the development of a double plot, which
  is so delicately conceived and carried out with so much artistic
  finish as to obscure the end before the end comes, lies in the
  vitality of its characters and their consistently preserved
  personalities.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “The book is in many ways the best that Mrs. Craigie has written. It
  is riper, maturer, firmer. It exhibits a more vivid grasp of things.
  Much of the pain which strove in her earlier books to hide itself
  under a mask of flippancy is mercifully gone.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: 301. S. 8, ’06. 1150w.

  “Will not, we think, add to the reputation of Mrs. Craigie; but it
  will not detract from it. It is a fair example of her strength and her
  weakness.”

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 369 S. 15, ’06. 770w.


=Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).=
Flute of Pan. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “It should be safe to predict success for the comedy.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 240w.

  “The whole story is told in the vein of comedy, and is but a trifling
  performance.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 250w.

  “It is moderately amusing. The reader with a small purse might
  hesitate, however, before putting out his $1.50. for it.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 500w.


=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Impressions of Japanese architecture and the allied
arts. **$2. Baker.

  “To our mind the most important chapter in it is that dealing with
  Japanese sculpture. We do not remember any work in which its subject
  is so well and instructively handled.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 557. My. 5. 800w.

  “The general reader as well as students of this subject will find Mr.
  Cram’s book interesting and instructive.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 20w.

    + + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 220w.

  “The essays that make up this volume are thoughtful and
  discriminating.” Frederick W. Gookin.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 192. Mr. 16, ’06. 870w.

  “It is the work of a man who finds perfected Japanese designs as
  nearly supreme as any decorative art in the world can be. A book of
  extreme subtlety of thought, which is increased by the strongly
  religious turn that all Mr. Cram’s reasoning is apt to take.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 164. F. 22, ’06. 800w.

  “A keen analysis, interestingly written, of the beauties of Japanese
  architecture.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 70w.


=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Ruined abbeys of Great Britain. **$2.50. Pott.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 150w.

  “For the book generally we have nothing but praise. It is a pity,
  however, that Mr. Cram did not use more moderation of language in his
  introduction.”

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 792. N. 17, ’06. 220w.


=Crane, Aaron Martin.= Right and wrong thinking and their results.
**$1.40. Lothrop.

  The undreamed-of possibilities which man may achieve thru his own
  mental control.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Crane’s argument is both skilful and convincing.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 270w.

  “A forceful monograph.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 50w.


=Crapsey, Algernon Sidney.= Religion and politics. **$1.25. Whittaker.

  A series of thirteen sermons, delivered before the author’s own
  congregation which discuss “society as politically and
  ecclesiastically organized, from the point of view of the religion of
  Christ as conceived by the author.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All this, however, is incidental. The book is an excellent popular
  treatment of the subject of the relation between church and state,
  going most originally into the profoundest questions as to the nature
  of each, and giving a most excellent historical resume of their
  relations.” Ralph Albertson.

    + + =Arena.= 36: 109. Jl. ’06. 2450w.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

        =Atlan.= 97: 415. Mr. ’06. 280w.

  “On matters of politics and industry, as well as history, and on the
  spirit of American institutions, and on the church as the incarnation
  of that spirit ... on all such themes this will be found a simple yet
  stimulating book, brave and persuasive, conferring dignity upon the
  writer, transferring worth unto the reader, a book of dear ideas that
  may be cheaply had (by us) but never cheaply practiced.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 514. Mr. 1, ’06. 480w.

  “It cannot, however, be regarded as a contribution of original value
  to the subject. In spite of its plea for science, it seems to be the
  product of the writer’s inner consciousness rather than his
  investigations.”

    – + =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ’05. 220w.


=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Fair Margaret a portrait. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “It is always interesting, and told with the author’s deep knowledge
  of human nature, and his unvarying charm.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1201. N. 18, ’05. 310w.

  “The story, if it does not rank with this popular author’s best work,
  is none the less very readable.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 170w.

  “If there were nothing else in this book than the portrait of the
  big-hearted, Junoesque, voluble French woman ... it would still be one
  of the books that Mr. Crawford might justly be very proud of.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 373. D. ’05. 450w.

  “The present addition to the Crawford library does not promise to
  dispute the position of the ‘Saracinesca’ series, though, like all of
  Mr. Crawford’s work, it belongs to the first-class of current
  fiction.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 82: 837. Mr. ’06. 390w.

  “The dialog has more than Mr. Crawford’s customary vivacity.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 111. Ja. 11, ’06. 330w.

  “Is extremely interesting, and there is some good character drawing in
  it.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 650w.

  “There is a certain skill in the construction, but the mechanism is
  always visible, and there is no character which really lives. The
  interest in the book lies rather in the shrewd comments and
  reflections with which the dialogue is interspersed.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 396. N. 17, ’05. 330w.

  “The story is told, too, in his own charmingly leisurely fashion, with
  many stops by the way to comment or analyze, and we confess to a
  distinct desire for its sequel.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 230. Ap. 7, ’06. 420w.

  “It is, by all odds, the best thing he has done within the last ten
  years.”

  + + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 210w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 28. Ja. 6, ’06. 390w.


=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Lady of Rome. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “It has for background the social life of Rome which he depicts so
  well, and deals chiefly with the character—or rather conscience—of
  Maria Montalto, which is sustained through many years and various
  crises by religious conviction, causing her to expiate her sin at some
  length, in fact from cover to cover. Expiations and religious scruples
  at such length might easily become irritating, but here the author has
  shown his skill by making Maria’s struggles not only far from
  wearisome but so far interesting that the reader is pleased to leave
  her in the last pages still a sensible woman, who believes in the
  reward of virtue.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story is told well and smoothly, though without the deeply
  studied and vividly rendered psychology for which the characters give
  plenty of opportunity, so that they lack in some measure the vitality
  which such studies demand.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 398. O. 20, ’06. 220w.

  “Maria ... fails to be as convincing as some of the slighter
  characters who are depicted with more of Mr. Crawford’s usual
  vitality.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 577. N. 10. 190w.

  “It belongs distinctly in the first rank of Mr. Crawford’s novels ...
  even if it does not attain the standard set by the Saracinesca
  trilogy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 388. D. ’06. 780w.

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 420w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 260w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 861. D. 8, ’06. 620w.

  “Mr. Crawford’s usual freshness of invention seems to have deserted
  him in this story; but he is so skillful and thoroughly trained a
  novelist that he never fails to interest his readers. This story,
  however, cannot be ranked with his very successful ventures in
  fiction.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 200w.

  “Bears signs of forced activity and of hasty construction.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 522. O. 27, ’06. 170w.

    + – =Spec.= 97: 685. N. 3, ’06. 150w.


=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Salve Venetia: gleanings from history. 2v.
**$5. Macmillan.

    + + =Acad.= 70: 525. Je. 2, ’06. 730w.

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 223. F. 24. 1090w.

  “We have the raw material of history, slowly amassed or laboriously
  epitomized by others, treated mainly from the artist’s point of view,
  end dexterously, though never dishonestly, manipulated, so as to
  produce the best scenic effect.”

      + =Atlan.= 97: 556. Ap. ’06. 820w.

  “It is very readable, and, needless to say, abounds in
  picturesqueness.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 110w.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1543. D. 28, ’05. 300w.

  “These two volumes need no pictures to make them attractive to their
  readers.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 72. Mr. 2, ’06. 1400w.

  “These volumes ... are neither history nor romance, but a blend of
  both. If we judge them as history, their value is small; as romance
  they are entertaining.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 249. Mr. 22, ’06. 920w.

  “The volumes are filled with data, description, episode, and anecdote
  drawn from noted monographs and arranged, retold, and commented on
  with that fine historical insight, that superb grasp of materialistic
  and spiritual significance, that poetic charm of narrative which have
  made this author’s ‘Ave Roma immortalis’ and ‘Rulers of the South’
  valuable contributions to history and pleasant books to read.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 112. F. 24, ’06. 1950w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 860. Ag. 11, ’06. 700w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 90w.

  “Is not the equal of its predecessor: it is less profound, less
  picturesque, less well written; it should have been more fascinating,
  it is less so. We can commend the book from beginning to end as a
  faithful and fascinating picture of the story of Venice.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 177. F. 10, ’06. 870w.

    + + =Spec.= 96: 872. Je. 2, ’06. 1230w.


=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Southern Italy and Sicily and the rulers of
the South; with 100 original drawings by Henry Brokman. *$2.50.
Macmillan.

  “It is well written and lively, but is the work of a novelist rather
  than an historian, with many positive mistakes, not to speak of
  omissions and oversights.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 863. D. 23. 140w.

  “It is an entirely charming and fascinating chapter of history written
  by one who, while full of the noblest spirit of romance, is yet
  soberly devoted to fact, who while recognizing and employing the
  canons of practical exposition does not shrink from the use of that
  poetical language which alone can illumine the stirring epics of the
  history of South Italy.”

        + Sat. R. 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 250w.


Creed of Christ. *$1.25. Lane.

  “The work contains seven chapters which are devoted to a consideration
  of ‘The sayings of Christ,’ ‘Phariseeism,’ ‘God the Lawgiver,’ ‘God
  the Father,’ ‘The kingdom of God,’ ‘Apparent failure,’ and ‘Final
  triumph.’ We have never known a work in which the line has been drawn
  so clearly and strikingly between the letter that killeth and the
  spirit that maketh alive as in this book.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “That he is a man of broad mental vision, of rich imagination and of
  deep spiritual intuition is clearly revealed in the work, which seems
  to us to be pregnant with the seeds of a spiritual renaissance. We
  could heartily wish that this volume could be placed in the hands of
  every truth-loving and sincerely religious man and woman in the land.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 100. Ja. ’06. 640w.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

        =Atlan.= 97: 417. Mr. ’06. 320w.

  “The author has made an interesting book; but he has made it by
  confounding Hebraism with Pharisaism; by forgetting that Jesus Christ
  was a Jew—the reformer, not the repudiator, of the religion of his
  people; its spiritual interpreter, and so its defender, not its
  enemy.”

    + – =Outlook.= 81: 569. N. 4, ’05. 1950w.

  “Is written with more than ordinary vigor and knowledge of the facts
  of everyday living.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 40w.

  “A really remarkable and original book.”

    + + =Spec.= 94: 751. My. 20, ’05. 330w.


=Cripps, Arthur Shearly.= Magic casements. $1.25. Dutton.

  “The casements so Arthur Shearly Cripps tells us, look outward upon a
  ‘beautiful and restless England,’ look inward upon ‘her many-coloured
  faith.’ The magic we can aver is the tinge of imagination, the glamour
  of romance which he has succeeded in throwing over the little
  happenings of which we catch fleeting glimpses through those
  casements.” (N. Y. Times.) “A man escapes by the hanging of a dead
  bear instead of him: an old woman who goes to pray for her son loses
  her offering, and sees a true miracle, to the horror and instant
  conversion of a wicked priest, who was about to show her a false one
  for somebody else’s money; a a gold coin looks up in the face of a
  person who likes gold coins too much. These things are attractive and
  there is a touch of power in ‘The orb of terror,’ and ‘Dead in April’;
  of beauty in ‘The black-faced lamb,’ and in the end of ‘Crimson for
  snow-white.’” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Cripps has made a pretty success out of indifferent material.”

    + – =Acad.= 69: 1264. D. 2, ’06. 320w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 359. O. 27, ’06. 280w.

  “The coloring in these bits of writing is of too opalescent a sort to
  win great popularity.”

  – – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.


=Crocker, Francis Bacon, and Wheeler, Schuyler Skaats.= Management of
electrical machinery. *$1. Van Nostrand.

  A thoroly revised and enlarged edition of the practical management of
  dynamos and motors.


=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Cherry ribband: a novel. †$1.50. Barnes.

  “It differs from his usual types in a touch of something deeper and
  more spiritual.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 641. N. 11. 160w.

  “The book deserves well of the reader, albeit it is little more than a
  replica of earlier ones.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 153. Mr. 1, ’06. 120w.

    + – =Ind.= 59: 1349. D. 7, ’05. 400w.

  “Mr. Crockett does not seem to have advanced in his art, but ‘The
  cherry ribband’ will satisfy his public.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 145. F. 3, ’06. 130w.


=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Fishers of men. †$1.50. Appleton.

  The missionary of Mr. Crockett’s Edinburgh slum district is a man who
  in a “beautifully human, devoted, and non-pietistical way, is shown
  among the burglars and toughs of Edinburgh’s Cowgate. The hero of the
  story is a lad who has the advantages of a high-class finishing school
  in artistic burglary, but insists on turning out straight and square;
  and some of the most interesting scenes are in a boys’ reformatory.”
  (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Crockett’s latest book is full of his good qualities.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 509. Ap. 28. 320w.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 80w.

  “Abundance of exciting incident (sometimes close to melodrama), a
  well-sustained plot, shrewd characterization, and genial humor all
  combine to make this book one of the most entertaining that Mr.
  Crockett has ever written.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 190w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 142. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.

  “Altogether a badly constructed, but decidedly readable book.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 618. Mr. 17, ’06. 170w.


=Crook, Rev. Isaac.= Earnest expectation. *50c. Meth. bk.

  Eight sermons “suggested by many of the rarest hearers as well as the
  finest preachers in Methodism.”


=Crooke, William.= Things Indian: interesting and entertaining
information in regard to India by a former member of the Bengal civil
service. *$3. Scribner.

  A volume belonging to the series including “Things Chinese,” and
  “Things Japanese.” “It might well be called a ‘Cyclopedia of India,’
  for it is divided alphabetically into subjects varying from
  agriculture at the beginning, through barasaul guns, caste,
  juggernaut, opium, tree worship, to writing. It covers a great deal of
  ground, and contains a vast deal of seemingly intimate knowledge of
  India.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It deals with a vast variety of subjects pleasantly throughout, and
  in many cases supplying useful information: in others the treatment is
  inadequate.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 576. My. 11. 320w.

  “As a book of reference ‘Things Indian’ will take its place beside
  Yule and Burnell in the revolving bookcase.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 127. Ap. 6, ’06. 320w.

  “A wider circle of subjects, more intimate acquaintance with Sanskrit
  literature, and Mr. Crooke’s unrivalled knowledge of India as it is
  would produce a work of very great value.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 468. Je. 7. ’06. 500w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 342. My. 26, ’06. 80w.

  “A valuable book for traveler, student, or reader.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 288. Je. 2, ’06. 120w.

  Reviewed by F. A. Steel.

      – =Sat. R.= 102: 199. Ag. 18, ’06. 560w.


=Crosby, Ernest.= Garrison the non-resistant. 50c. Public pub. co.

  “There are present in this work the moral uplift and inspiring
  elements that render a book vital. It is a little volume that should
  be placed in the hands of young people everywhere.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 446. Ap. ’06. 240w.

  “Apart from these possible flaws, however, Mr. Crosby has written a
  wholesome book for the times, and we hope that it will have a wide
  reading.”

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 95. F. 1, ’06. 310w.

  “It is not, however, structurally organic. In the personal narrative
  there are several minor errors of fact.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 54. Ja. 18, ’06. 200w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 220w.


=Crosby, Oscar Terry.= Tibet and Turkestan: a journey through old lands
and a study of new conditions. **$2.50. Putnam.

  The journey of exploration thru central Asia made in 1903 by Mr.
  Crosby in company with Capt. Ferdinand Anginieur of the French army
  furnishes much of the material for his “stirring tale of adventure and
  still more stirring record of wrongs.... [He] tears off with pitiless
  hand the thinly decent covering which ‘political necessity’ threw over
  the Lhasa affair, and exposes that affair in its naked simplicity.”
  The book is fully illustrated.

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    + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 175. Jl. ’06. 310w.

  “We cannot rate Mr. Crosby’s book high, although we can readily
  understand that it may be useful and informing to the American
  reader.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 419. Ap. 7. 380w.

  “The narrative is particularly attractive and valuable wherein he
  brings out the rival relation of the Russians and the British.” John
  W. Foster.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 100w.

  “A book at once readable and disappointing.”

    + – =Bookm.= 33: 339. My. ’06. 370w.

  “With its text, index, and brand-new map, it is a revelation of the
  new Asia of railways and telegraphs.” W. E. Griffis.

      + =Critic.= 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 360w.

  “Mr. Crosby’s description of the countries named is familiar, and his
  discussion of the political aspect is independent.” H. E. Coblentz.

      + =Dial.= 40: 234. Ap. 1, ’06. 310w.

  “There is much of interest in the narrative of his trip. Many of his
  views are quite novel.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 160w.

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 110w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 81. Ja. 25, ’06. 880w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 749. N. 4, ’05. 330w.

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ’05. 110w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 260w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 110w.


=Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson.= Wild Irishman. **$1.25. Appleton.

  “One expects of him bitter sarcasm and finds on the whole kindly
  appreciation.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 130w.


=Crothers, Samuel McChord.= Endless life. **75c. Houghton.

  The will of the late George T. Ingersoll provides for an annual
  lecture on “the immortality of man.” Mr. McChord, chosen to deliver
  the 1905 address, cites the case neither of the primitive man nor of
  the average modern man, avoiding a “jungle growth of superstition” on
  the one hand, and a region of indifference on the other, but of the
  simple man who is viewed in contrast to the man of highly specialized
  intelligence. The relation of ethical idealism to future life is
  discussed.

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  “The book is a healthful consideration of a universally interesting
  topic, presenting old and familiar matter with clearness and
  suggestiveness.” Henry M. Bowden.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 555. Jl. ’06. 80w.

  Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

        =Critic.= 48: 458. My. ’06. 60w.

      + =Lit. D.= 31: 957. D. 23, ’05. 970w.

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 127. Ap. 6, ’06. 320w.

  “His volume is an interpretation of life by a seer.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 716. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.


=Crothers, Samuel McChord.= Pardoner’s wallet. **$1.25. Houghton.

  These ten essays by the author of “The gentle reader” offer
  indulgences for such sins as those of omission, of necessarily
  slighted work, of doing more than is expected of one, and of
  unreasonable virtues. He deals with the “foibles, peccadillos,
  fallacies and the prejudices” of mankind with a subtle but always
  kindly humor, and never fails to make his moral purpose responsible
  for the friendly arraignment. The undertone of the book sounds a note
  of gentle manners and broad charity.

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  “He shoots very straight, although he does not employ a deadly kind of
  ammunition.”

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 116. Ap. ’06. 250w

  “Mr. Crothers is less whimsical, but hardly less effective, than in
  ‘The gentle reader.’” H. W. Boynton.

      + =Critic.= 48: 457. My. ’06. 650w.

  “Finally, Dr. Crothers, to use the language of a brother divine,
  belongs to that best class of essayists who ‘clarify life by gentle
  illumination and lambent humor.’”

      + =Dial.= 40: 22. Ja. 1, ’06. 430w.

  “Like its predecessor, is altogether delightful reading.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 160w.

  “All the essays are well written.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 220w.

  “In that most genial and delightful style of which he is master Doctor
  Crothers has written a series of essays in which the connecting thread
  is a kindly judgment of human peccadillos.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 60. Ja. 13, ’06. 400w.


=Crowley, Mary Catherine.= In treaty with honor. †$1.50. Little.

  The historic setting of this tale is the struggle of French Canada for
  independence in 1837. A young volunteer of Irish birth, French
  education and United States citizenship and his comrade, a Polish
  aristocrat fight the same battles, share thrilling adventures and love
  the same winsome Jacquette. In the end one gives up his life for his
  country’s cause and the other wins the heroine.

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 743. N. 10, ’06. 230w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 100w.


=Crowther, Samuel, jr., and Ruhl, A.= Rowing and Track athletics. **$2.
Macmillan.

  A double volume in which the first subject is treated by Mr. Crowther
  and the second by Mr. Ruhl appears in the “American sportsman’s
  library.” “The treatment of rowing is largely historical, several
  chapters being devoted to the origin and development of collegiate
  rowing in the United States. The exposition of track athletics gives a
  convenient résumé of all the important records made in this branch of
  athletics during recent years.” (R. of Rs.)

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      + =Nature.= 73: 605. Ap. 26, ’06. 490w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 265. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w.

  “In fact, the book is a history of athletics in America, so clearly
  and intelligently written that the layman may catch much of the
  professional’s enthusiasm.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 130w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.

  “The somewhat dry statistics of track athletics in America are made
  readable by the excellence of the style in which the events are
  described by Mr. A. Ruhl.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 368. Mr. 24, ’06. 1040w.


=Culbertson, Anne Virginia.= Banjo talks. $1. Bobbs.

  “These include a captivating variety of themes, touched with
  considerable originality in dialect, idiom, and orthography.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 30w.


=Cuppy, Hazlitt Alva=, ed. Our own times: a continuous history of the
twentieth century. *$3. J. A. Hill & co., New York.

  The aim of this enterprise is to furnish each year a clear, concise
  compendium of the twelvemonth’s record, doing yearly what Dr. Albert
  Shaw does monthly in his Review of reviews. The initial volume,
  prepared by Bonnister Merwin touches upon the main conditioning forces
  of the world’s activity to-day. The book is provided with maps and
  also with many full-page half-tones of important personages and
  noteworthy events.

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  “That every reference library must have the series goes without
  saying. Dr. Cuppy should have the hearty gratitude of every literary
  worker.” A. W. S.

  + + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 428. N. ’05. 820w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “We have tested it at a number of points and have found it adequate
  and just in its treatment and comprehensive in its view.”

  + + + =Bookm.= 23: 218. Ap. ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The whole not only forms an invaluable compendium of the year’s
  record, clear, concise, and reliable, but possesses a certain charm of
  style and literary grace that lend to the history the interest of a
  story.” Gerhardt C. Mars.

  + + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Curry, Charles Emerson.= Electromagnetic theory of light, pt. I. *$4.
Macmillan.

  “Dr. Curry’s account of the electromagnetic theory of light promises
  to be very useful to students of mathematical physics, for whom no
  English book of exactly similar scope is at present available.... This
  first part deals with such phenomena of light as can be fully
  explained by the beautiful theory of Clerk Maxwell, whilst the second
  part is to treat of those cases in which that theory has hitherto
  failed to yield a satisfactory explanation.”—Sat. R.

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  “The author has fallen into the error, only too common, of not
  confining himself within any definite limits. The author’s treatment
  is adequate for the most part, but we are not much impressed by it;
  his mathematics are heavy, of the ‘sledge-hammer’ order, but they are
  stronger than his physics.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 440. S. 30. 1700w. (Review of pt. 1.)

  “The work is purely theoretical, and in some chapters has no obvious
  pertinency to known facts.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 98. Ag. 2, ’06. 100w. (Review of pt. 1.)

    + + =Nature.= 73: 316. F. 1, ’06. 930w. (Review of pt. 1.)

  “The mathematician will find its pages at once lucid and accurate.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20, ’05. 370w. (Review of pt. 1.)

  “A book unnecessarily abstract, which, while entirely modern in
  treatment, and sufficiently cognizant of recent theoretical
  discussions, is out of touch with the experimental side of the
  science.” C. E. M.

  + + – =Science=, n.s. 23: 385. Mr. 9, ’06. 390w. (Review of pt. 1.)

      + =Spec.= 95: 155. Jl. 29, ’05. 50w. (Review of pt. 1.)


=Curtis, David A.= Stand pat; or, Poker stories from the Mississippi.
$1.50. Page.

  The little town of Brownsville, Arkansas, furnishes the setting for
  Mr. Curtis’ twenty poker stories. Long Mike, Gallagher, the man with
  one eye only, and Stumpy figure thruout the sketches, and the
  characterizations are chiefly of this card quartette so mis-matched in
  sporting proclivities.

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  “It is a pleasant volume for casual reading.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 80w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 379. Je. 9, ’06. 100w.


=Curtis, Edward.= Nature and health: a popular treatise on the hygiene
of the person and the home. *$1.25. Holt.

  How to claim “the priceless boon of health, happiness and the
  usefulness of years,” is discussed according to late enlightenment on
  the subject of hygiene. The chapters consider breathing, eating,
  drinking, drugging for delectation, seeing, hearing, clothing,
  bathing, disposing of waste, disinfecting, exercising the body,
  exercising the mind, sleeping and waking, working and playing, and
  living and dying.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a particularly excellent manual.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 60w.

  “It is full of good advice and usually in striking form.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.

  “For those who must read about their health, there is no better book
  than this, with its clarion call back to nature.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 815. O. 4, ’06. 670w.

  “Now and again there are signs that he is a bit of a ‘faddist,’ but
  notwithstanding this his book may be heartily commended to the lay
  reader desirous of leading a sane, clean, wholesome life.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 150w.

  “The style of the writing is easy and unconventional, possibly at
  times a little too colloquial.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 280. Ap. 5, ’06. 130w.

  “One can dip into it here and there, and be certain always of finding
  something worth while told succintly, with a dry wit that like the
  claws of a burr makes it stick.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.

  “Delightful treatise.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 445. Ap. 7, ’06. 90w.

  “The book as a whole is characterized by accuracy of statement, clear
  discussion, and practical suggestion, and it is a welcome contribution
  to an important subject.” J. E. Raycroft.

      + =School R.= 14: 616. O. ’06. 140w.


=Curtis, Newton Martin.= From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: the story of
the Sixteenth New York infantry with personal reminiscences. **$2.
Putnam.

  In sketching the movements of the Sixteenth New York infantry from
  Bull Run to Chancellorsville there is also an amount of incidental
  information about northern New York organizations identified with the
  army of the Potomac. “The whole tendency of the narrative and of the
  comment which Gen. Curtis allows himself to make from time to
  time—with notable restraint and fairness—is to exalt the qualities of
  Gen. George B. McClellan as a commander of armies.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Few writers on events and conditions during the civil war have
  approached the subject with a better fund of historic information, and
  few have the vivid yet plain power of narration possessed by General
  Curtis.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 240w.

  “Not only does Gen. Curtis write entertainingly, but he has also seen
  in good perspective the part played by his regiment in the campaigns
  and battles which he describes.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 130w.

  “It is not often that a book which sets out to tell the story and
  record the services of a single military organization results in a
  narrative so full of really and generally interesting matter. He
  writes like a man and a soldier not like an army clerk.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 621. O. 6, ’06. 1620w.

  “In addition to its value as material for full knowledge of military
  history of the Civil war, this book has also considerable interest in
  its personal narrative of camp and battle incidents. Here and there
  flashes of humor enliven the story.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 50w.


=Curtis, Olin Alfred.= Christian faith personally given in a system of
doctrine. *$2.50. Meth. bk.

  A book which claims simply to impart a vision of the Christian faith
  as an organic whole of doctrine. It is not dogmatic, does not attempt
  “to speak the final word.... The main clue to all can be found in one
  thing, namely, in the junction of the two ideas, personal
  responsibility and racial solidarity.” The introduction discusses man
  and the Christian religion, then follows a six part treatment of the
  system of doctrine.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Outlook.= 82: 42. Ja. 6, ’06. 590w.

  “A book which very fairly represents the present drift away from
  dogmatism in American theology.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ’05. 80w.


=Curtis, William Eleroy.= Egypt, Burma and British Malaysia. **$2.
Revell.

  “This is the latest and best literary photograph of the contemporary
  British protectorates here so agreeably treated.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 150w.

  “For the most part he gives us what we often need, recent and reliable
  information about distant lands.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 60w.


=Curtis, William Eleroy.= Modern India. **$2. Revell.

  Reviewed by John W. Foster.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 160w.

  “Its statistics are recent, and the author evidently has the
  reporter’s instinct highly developed and a well-trained eye for the
  picturesque. On the other hand, his style is diffuse, his diction
  ‘journalese,’ and his inaccuracy amazing.” Louis H. Gray.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 339. My. ’06. 270w.

  “He tells us much that most books leave out. He helps us to adjust
  traditional notions to present-day reality.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 191. F. ’06. 250w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 60w.


=Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel, 1st baron.= Lord Curzon in
India: being a selection from his speeches as viceroy and
governor-general of India, 1898–1905. With a por., explanatory notes,
and an index, and with an introd. by Sir Thomas Raleigh. *$4. Macmillan.

  “Lord Curzon made more than 250 set speeches during his seven and a
  half years’ service as viceroy, of which some sixty are in Sir
  Thomas’s book. They refer to all sorts of subjects, from the
  Budget—seven budget speeches are given—to art, archaeology, education,
  the famine, irrigation, game, preservation, the plague, and
  temperance. Their interest to Americans is of the slightest, except as
  showing what manner of man Curzon is, who has reversed the usual
  course of events, and has served in the highest post under the British
  crown without having worked his way to it systematically.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Lord Curzon does not possess a good literary style.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 511. Ap. 28. 930w.

  “To the student, not only of history, but of sociology of the human
  atmosphere, so to speak, of the last decade, the book is deeply
  interesting and extremely suggestive.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 215. Jl. 26, ’06. 250w.

  “On the whole, however, it is the matter rather than the manner of the
  speeches that will interest the reader of this large volume.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 139. Ap. 20, ’06. 1220w.

  “His selected speeches are for those who have to reckon with him in
  domestic politics, and again for all libraries.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 427. My. 24, ’06. 90w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 310w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 342. My. 26, ’06. 160w.

  “Indispensable to those who would understand how England has developed
  her vast dependency.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 190w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. 06. 40w.

  “If there is much of self-confidence in this volume of speeches so
  full of rare charm, commanding eloquence and literary delights, it is
  the just confidence of a strong man armed and equipped at all points
  for the fray.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: 206. Ag. 18, ’06. 2020w.

  “Certainly no collection of speeches has been published for long so
  full of political wisdom and sustained at so high a level of style.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 869. Je. 2, ’06. 1650w.


=Cust, Lionel.= Royal collection of paintings at Buckingham palace and
Windsor castle; with an introd. and descriptive text. 2v. *$100.
Scribner.

  The benefits of King Edward’s recent movement to have the Royal art
  collection put in order, properly arranged, classified and cataloged
  are extended to the public through the medium of Mr. Cust’s
  magnificent two-volume work. There are one hundred and eight
  photogravures which illustrate masterpieces of the Italian, Dutch,
  Spanish, Flemish, German and English schools. The author furnishes an
  introduction and descriptive text which aid the illustrations in
  forming “a precious record of one of the finest collections of the
  world.”

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  “The public ... is certain to be grateful that the Royal commands have
  been so thoroughly and adequately executed by Mr. Lionel Cust.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 768. D. 2. 1350w. (Review of v. 1.)

  Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 270. F. ’06. 360w.

        =Ind.= 60: 744. Mr. 29, ’06. 70w.

    + + =Int. Studio.= 27: 277. Ja. ’06. 750w.

  “A work which reflects great credit on all who have been concerned in
  its preparation.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 29: 271. S. ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 2.)

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 428. D. 8, ’05. 1110w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The second of Mr. Cust’s two magnificent volumes on the King’s
  pictures is of even greater interest than the first.”

  + + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 256. Jl. 20, ’06. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 465. Jl. 21, ’06. 1160w. (Review of v. 2.)
          (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 177. Ag. 11, ’06. 660w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Useful and handsome publication.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 100: 628. N. 11, ’05. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “But though the work before us is open to criticism on these minor
  points, we have nothing but praise for the general result achieved.”

        + + – Spec. 96: 100. Ja. 20, ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Cust, Robert H. Hobart.= Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, hitherto usually
styled “Sodoma;” the man and the painter. *$6. Dutton.

  A “just and fair-minded picture” of the artist deals with question of
  name,—including the origin of nickname, “Sodoma”—date of birth and
  birthplace of Bazzi; gives an account of his early years and
  apprenticeship; and then turns to discussions of his frescoes and
  paintings, his visits to Rome, and his fame and fortune. The book is
  equipped with notes, and numerous illustrations in photogravure which
  have been selected to aid the student in following the artist’s
  development.

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  “Mr. Cust’s book is a welcome and valuable addition to the existing
  literature relating to this fascinating painter.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 475. My. 19, ’06. 1390w.

  “With lawyer-like acuteness he weighs the evidence on either side
  before he pronounces judgment.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 27: 371. Je. ’06. 250w.

  “Persons interested in Italian art will read the book with pleasure,
  in spite of a somewhat heavy style and a superabundance of notes.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 94. Mr. 16, ’06. 1530w.

  “A treatise which is practically exhaustive. Mr. Cust’s style
  throughout is clear and simple, and, in treating of artistic matters,
  he eschews the terminology of the modern scientific school.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 392. My. 10, ’06. 630w.

  “It is a fascinating volume, and will even hold the attention of the
  lay reader who has a keenness for the episodic drama of history and
  biography.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 303. My. 12, ’06. 900w.

  “Even if Mr. Cust seems a little too enthusiastic about the subject of
  his book, his work is an interesting contribution to the literature of
  Renaissance art.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 1011. Je. 30, ’06. 200w.


=Cutler, James Elbert.= Lynch law: an investigation into the history of
lynching in the U. S. **$1.50. Longmans.

  “The book is not only henceforth the authority on the subject, it is
  also a good example of a rational and scientific historical method.”
  Albert Bushnell Hart.

  + + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 425. Ja. ’06. 1100w.

  Reviewed by Alvin S. Johnson.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 139. Mr. ’06. 750w.

  “The general line of treatment is wholly satisfactory and eminently
  fair. The book is a contribution and is a good example of the
  scientific historical method.” Charles H. Ambler.

  + + – =Yale R.= 15: 100. My. ’06. 1380w.


                                   D


=Dale, Thomas F.= Fox. $1.75. Longmans.

  A recent volume in the “Fur, feather and fin series,” whose general
  aim is to treat the fowl, fish or beast under consideration from the
  standpoint of its natural history, its capture and its food value.
  “The present volume gives not only its natural but its psychological
  history adequately for the first time, and in a way that should
  attract all those interested in the question of the extent of animal
  intelligence.” (N. Y. Times.) The following headings suggest the
  extent of the treatment: The natural history of the fox, The education
  of the fox, The mind of the fox, How to preserve foxes, Home and
  haunts of the fox, The hunted fox, The fox as a captive, The fox as an
  outlaw, The fox in fable, Cousin Jack, The fox and his fur, and
  Hunting the fox.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Had Mr. Dale kept within his proper limits, we should have had
  nothing but commendation to bestow upon his work.”

    – + =Nature.= 74: 79. My. 24, ’06. 200w.

  “Openly stating his sympathetic appreciation of the animal, the author
  proceeds with his study, combining faithful observation that carries
  conviction with it and all the compelling interest of a romance.”
  Mabel Osgood Wright.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 405. Je. 23, ’06. 540w.

  “It is in short a capital monograph, and will be read with interest we
  are sure not only by those who delight in the sport of fox-hunting,
  but also by every lover of natural history.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 118. Jl. 28, ’06. 580w.

  “Though this book on ‘The fox’ does not quite come up to the standard
  of certain of its predecessors, every one who cares about fox-hunting
  should read it. It would have been better had the natural history of
  the fox been entrusted to a zoölogist.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 18. Jl. 7, ’06. 600w.


=Dale, Thomas F.= Polo, past and present. *$3.75. Scribner.

  “The selection of this book dealing with the polo of the remote past
  might it seems to us well have been omitted. Has written on the whole
  an excellent book, and we can thoroughly recommend it to all
  interested in perhaps the most fascinating game that was ever
  invented.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 402. Mr. 31, ’06. 470w.


=Dana, John Cotton.= Notes on bookbinding for libraries. 75c. Library
bureau, Chicago.

  “The problem with which this book deals is purely a library problem.
  It makes no pretence of contributing anything to the art or craft of
  book making; its aim is to give to librarians such an elementary
  knowledge of this craft that they may intelligently decide on the
  methods and materials that are best adapted to their needs. The point
  of view is purely the economic one—how shall the library bind its
  books so as to secure the largest possible service at the least
  cost.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Henry E. Bliss.

  + + + =Library J.= 31: C130. Ag. ’06. 1530w.

  + + – =Library J.= 31: 738. O. ’06. 950w.

  “Library commissions are recommending it, and it is likely to become
  the standard text book on library binding in summer schools,
  apprentice classes, and in the more elementary of the regular library
  schools.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 224. S. 13, ’06. 320w.


=Dana, John Cotton, and Kent, Henry W.= Literature of libraries in the
17th and 18th centuries. 6v. *$12. McClurg.

  Two volumes of this series of six have made their appearance. One of
  them is “The duties and qualifications of a librarian: a discourse
  pronounced in the general assembly of the Sorbonne, December 23, 1870,
  by Jean-Baptiste Cotton des Houssayes, to which have been prefaced an
  introduction and bibliographical note.” The other introduction is “The
  reformed librarie-keeper. or two copies of letters concerning the
  place and office of librarie-keeper” by John Dury. with a biographical
  sketch of this Presbyterian divine of the sixteenth century.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A collection that should be studied by all library workers, and that
  might well be read by any student of educational and intellectual
  history.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

        =Putnam’s.= 1: 252. N. ’06. 100w.


=Daniel, James Walter.= Maid of the foothills; or, Missing links in the
story of reconstruction. $1.50. Neale.

  It has been the aim of the author to depict the spirit of the times
  truthfully, and to give proper place to the importance of the
  Red-shirt movement which severed the shackles of a bound populace. The
  story treats of the grim humor of the oppressed citizens, the heroism
  of Southern women in that period of severest trial and oppression, and
  shows the infamous deeds and evil spirit of Southern men who joined
  the hosts of carpet-baggers and helped them to bleed the prostrate
  state.


=Darrow, Clarence S.= Eye for an eye. †$1.50. Fox.

  Jim Jackson who tells the tale of his crime the night before the
  expiation of his guilt, is one of those unfortunate “submerged tenth”
  victims of negative circumstances. Not with the spirit of resentment
  but of discouragement over never having had a chance in life, Jim
  tells his story with a mildness that “is a more severe arraignment of
  social conditions than the fiercest tirades could be.” (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If to create an illusion, to attain the effect aimed at, completely
  and entirely, is literary art, then Mr. Darrow’s work is literary art
  of the highest, in spite of an apparent neglect of all the canons of
  literary art.” Grace Isabel Colbron.

    + – =Bookm.= 22: 629. F. ’06. 420w.


=Dauncey, Mrs. Campbell.= Englishwoman in the Philippines. *$3.50.
Dutton.

  “This is a series of letters written by an Englishwoman during a stay
  of nine months in the Philippine islands, and they are full of those
  definite details of living which satisfy the curiosity and give
  precision, without any special attempt at style, the innumerable
  phases of a life so foreign as to be interesting in all its
  commonplaces: they describe the climate and scenery, the costumes of
  the natives, their houses, their occupations, amusements, politics,
  religion. And they abound in criticisms of the American
  administration, indeed of everything American.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If [the great American people] read Mrs. Campbell Dauncey’s
  penetrating but not unkindly criticisms in the proper spirit, her book
  for them will be of real service. To the British reader it will appeal
  as a notable contribution to Pacific literature, worthy, at a
  reasonable interval, to be placed on the same shelf with Stevenson’s
  ‘South sea studies.’”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 396. O. 20, ’06. 1210w.

  “Barring several ludicrous blunders thus almost wilfully made, the
  letters stick with great faithfulness to conditions as personally
  observed, and have the touch which comes from direct observation.” H.
  Parker Willis.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 279. N. 1, ’06. 1030w.

  “Quite commonplace in all ways and practically valueless as bearing
  upon the Philippines. Scarcely a single general comment upon the
  Philippines or Philippine conditions is correct.”

    – – =Ind.= 61: 996. O. 25, ’06. 1360w.

  “With every page a challenge, one may be glad to read the volume,
  regretting for the lively and confident author’s sake, that a
  competent editor had not revised some of its phrases.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 600w.

  “It is told much better and more interestingly than we have seen it
  told before.” Montgomery Schuyler.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 517. Ag. 25, ’06. 1030w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 90. S. 8, ’06. 320w.

  “It is distinctly above the average of such books.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. O. 13, ’06. 760w.


=Davenport, Frederick Morgan.= Primitive traits in religious revivals: a
study in mental and social evolution. **$1.50. Macmillan.

  “One may regret that not many first-hand observations of revivals in
  process are made by the author, that his material is almost
  exclusively historic; still his work of interpretation is vital
  throughout,—there are no dead pages.” H. H. Horne.

  + + – =J. Philos.= 3: 48. Ja. 18, ’06. 600w.

  “The book is admirable in many ways. It is perhaps marked by facility
  rather than by great power and depth. The book should prove helpful to
  readers of quite contrasted training and sympathies.” G. M. Stratton.

    + + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 239. Jl. 15, ’06. 840w.


=Davey, Richard Patrick Boyle.= Pageant of London; with 40 il. in color
by John Fulleylove. 2v. *$5. Pott.

  A series of word-pictures with pictorial accompaniment of the
  principal events that have transpired in London. It is called a
  “Pageant,” “meaning not only coronations, royal marriages, funerals,
  and other pompous shows and spectacles, but as signifying the
  unrolling, as in a sort of procession, of the story of the British
  capital from the day when Julius Caesar appeared on the bank of the
  Thames, to that which witnessed the funeral of Queen Victoria.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Davey is not always accurate, and his style is not always pure,
  but his book is as good a compendium of the history of London as we
  know.”

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 542. Je. 9, ’06. 1680w.

  “In a work intended for the general reader rather than for the serious
  student it may perhaps seem ungracious to dwell on imperfections which
  a very little care could remove. It is a pleasanter task to dwell on
  the merits of a book which is replete with information, presented with
  a considerable amount of literary skill.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 756. Je. 23. 1520w.

  “Thoroughly up-to-date, embodying the results of the most recent
  archæological researches, the new publication is indeed a most
  noteworthy one, full of curious information on all manner of side
  issues and giving token on every page of deep erudition.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 29: 182. Ag. ’06. 280w.

  “The coloured pictures by Mr. Fulleylove are a serious mistake. Such a
  book could not have been too copiously adorned with old engravings.
  Properly selected, such a pictorial accompaniment would more than have
  doubled its value.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 233. Je. 29, ’06. 230w.

  “It is not always decreed that a man shall live to execute the work
  which his years have accumulated, but in this case the decree seems to
  have existed and seems to have been fulfilled. The world of history
  and literature is as much to be congratulated as the author.”

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 879. D. 15, ’06. 480w.

  “Americans ... should find this book very entertaining and
  enlightening, and good reading before a trip to England—or even after
  one, as a pleasant reminder.”

        + Putnam’s. 1: 378. D. ’06. 220w.


=Davies, D. Ffrangçon-.= Singing of the future; with an introd. by
Edward Elgar. *$2.50. Lane.

  “A book which prompts thought.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 905. D. 30. 580w.

  “Is a direct and serious appeal to the English-speaking singer.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 131. F. 16, ’06. 280w.


=Davis, Henry William Charles.= England under the Normans and the
Angevins. *$3. Putnam.

  Volume 2 of Professor C. W. C. Oman’s “History of England” to be
  complete in six volumes and to include the period “from the beginning”
  to 1815. “Mr. Davis seeks to focus his volume at a given point by
  dwelling on the inventive and experimental features of his era as
  contrasted with the spirit of consolidation which marked the age of
  the three Edwards.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An attractive book, at once well-planned, well-written, and
  scholarly. The narrative is crisp and clear and the characterizations
  pointed, and Mr. Davis treats his theme broadly.” Charles H. Haskins.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 882. Jl. 06. 1190w.

  “To the author’s mastery of his sources as well as the literature on
  his subject is added the gift of writing in a bright and interesting
  fashion; while the excellent table of contents and the marginal
  headings will be found useful pilots by the teacher and the student.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 825. D. 16. 1440w.

  “As a popular history it is likely to take high rank.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 330w.

  “Thoroly as it has been covered by many historians before him, he adds
  touches of freshness and vigor to an old narrative.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 333. Ag. 9, ’06. 410w.

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.

  “Mr. Davis is an excellent writer, and keeps at all points in touch
  with first hand authorities.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 262. Mr. 29, ’06. 480w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 350w.

  “Mr. Davis is scarcely at his best with regard to Norman England and
  its great constitutional document, Doomsday Book.” Joseph Jacobs.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 377. Je. 9, ’06. 570w.

  “Mr. Davis’s sympathies are manifestly with the native element, and
  perhaps as a result of this he scarcely does justice to some of the
  notable foreigners who were responsible at once for the spoliation and
  regeneration of England. His work further suffers from carelessness in
  identifying persons and places, and from eccentricities in the
  spelling of proper names.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 360w.

  “The characters described are made alive, and the institutions real.
  We do not know a more suggestive or interesting guide to this
  important period.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 463. Ap. 14, ’06. 1080w.


=Davis, John Patterson.= Corporations: a study of the origin and
development of the great business combinations and their relation to the
authority of the state. 2v. **$4.50. Putnam.

  “Altogether, we must regard this book as materials collected with a
  view to the production of a definite theory, rather than any coherent
  statement of such a theory.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 436. My. 24, ’06. 310w.

  “It is also highly suggestive, penetratingly analytical, and rich in
  information useful to the economist, jurist, and legislator; and if it
  is impossible wholly to agree with Dr. Davis’s findings as to facts or
  to deem his influences always sound, it is equally impossible to deny
  the value of his work as an aid to the more intelligent consideration
  of its important subject.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 82: 566. Mr. 10, ’06. 1440w.

  Reviewed by Henry R. Seager.

      + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 553. S. ’06. 860w.

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 465. Ap. 14, ’06. 1150w.

  “The work as it stands, is of very high merit, and covers a vast range
  of ground. It is a work that every library which wishes to be well
  equipped in the side-lights of history must possess, for, apart from
  the independent research and clear thought that distinguish it, it
  comprises the views and research of most modern thinkers on the
  difficult and often obscure subjects with which Dr. Davis deals.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 468. O. 6, ’06. 820w.

  “As a whole, the work, while it shows careful thought and much
  reflection, lacks proportion, and is too plainly bent to a
  preconceived theory.” Simeon E. Baldwin.

    – + =Yale. R.= 15: 88. My. ’06: 740w.


=Davis, Morgan Lewis.= The gas offis, by the offis boy. $1. Broadway
pub.

  Dedicated “To everybody wot uses gas,” these observations of the gas
  company’s office boy will prove amusing reading for the gas burning
  public who will learn how the chronic kicker appears when viewed from
  inside, and of the many amusing devices to which human nature resorts
  to dodge or reduce the gas bill. It may even fulfill the pacific
  mission of rousing down-trodden customers to sympathize with an
  equally down-trodden head-bookkeeper.


=Davis, Norah.= Northerner. †$1.50. Century.

  “If she lavishes ornamental words, she is never common.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 47: 49. Ja. ’06. 200w.

  “It is an unusually strong book, with an unusually strong man for its
  central character.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 230w.


=Dawson, Miles Menander=. Business of life insurance. **$1.50. Barnes.

  “Any person intending to take out a policy who fails to read this or
  some similar work is certainly very short-sighted.”

      + =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 160w.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 350w.

  “This book will be found good reading by all who are interested in
  life insurance.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 47. Ja. 4, ’06. 530w.

  “In short, precisely because the book is more than a text, it is for
  textbook purposes better than a text.” H. J. Davenport.

      + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 127. F. ’06. 140w.

      – =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 180w.


=Dawson, William Harbutt.= German workman: a study in national
efficiency. *$1.50. Scribner.

  “In this volume William Harbutt Dawson gives an account of what the
  state is doing for the working classes in Germany. The book is a
  history, not an argument; a book of information not of philosophy. The
  reader will rise from the perusal of it impressed by the fact that the
  least democratic state in western Europe is also, at least in one
  sense of the term, the most socialistic state.... The book contains
  twenty-two chapters, each chapter devoted to a specific department of
  state provision of one sort or another for workingmen.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Ind.= 61: 752. S. 27, ’06. 210w.

  “A volume which, if not attractively written, is probably the most
  convenient guide for English readers who would venture into the mazes
  of German ‘Sozialpolitik.’”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 397. N. 8, ’06. 890w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 180w.

    – + =Sat. R.= 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 270w.

  “A valuable addition to our information.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 230w.


=Dawson, William James.= Makers of English prose; new and rev. ed.
*$1.50. Revell.

  The author “traverses in one volume practically the whole realm of
  English verse from Burns to the men of our day and that of English
  prose from Johnson to Ruskin and Newman. The books deserve popularity
  in America for their helpfulness, sanity, and learning.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author refrains from wild theories or strange deductions, and is
  exempt from bias towards any especial domain of letters.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 70w.

  “The discussion is trenchant, the style pithy, and the judgment
  pronounced is usually temperate and sound. An occasional statement may
  strike us as a rhetorical exaggeration, but in the main the criticism
  is intelligent and compact.”

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 80w.

  “Mr. Dawson is admirable—in his application of common sense to
  criticism, and in his moral prepossessions of literature.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 285. F. 1, ’06. 520w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 60w.

  “Mr. Dawson has insight, sympathy, and knowledge, but with these
  qualities combines others that are more rare in an essayist; he has
  practical aims, and his style has both clearness and distinction.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

  “We know of no book that gives a juster, sounder, or, on the whole, a
  more interesting view of the group of writers selected by Mr. Dawson,
  and of the times in which they lived and labored.” Edward Cary.

    + + =Outlook.= 11: 577. S. 22, ’06. 990w.

  “A volume of literary criticism of unusual importance.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 170w.

  “Mr. Dawson’s breadth of view is remarkable and his memory
  extraordinarily retentive. His point of view is always eminently sane,
  sympathetic and impartial. His style, moreover, is delightfully clear,
  forceful, and smooth.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 200w.

  “He is clearly familiar with the great body of first-class English
  fiction, and can write with force and common sense. But we doubt the
  necessity or demand for books of this character.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 146. F. 3, ’06. 160w.

  “He says many true things, and says them well; he says some few things
  which do not seem to us true, but he always commends them by the
  manifest conviction from which they proceed.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 125. Ja. 27, ’06. 270w.


=Dawson, William James.= Quest of the simple life. $1.50. Dutton.

  In form Mr. Dawson’s book “is autobiographical, narrating the happy
  escape of a London clerk, after twenty years’ drudgery in the city, to
  the free air and manifold delights of a horticultural, piscatorial and
  literary life in the lake district.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is to be hoped that the seductive volume may not fall into the
  hands of any London-weary clerk who shall mistake its plausible
  fictions for the gospel truth. A student of social problems, he has
  things to say about the evils of city life and the advantage of
  country life that are worth saying and worth reading.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 350w.

  “Animated by sanity, sympathy and knowledge, linked to a felicitous
  and forceful style.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 973. O. ’06. 120w.

  “Dr. Dawson’s account of his quest for a simpler and more satisfactory
  life has in it nothing extreme, nothing so austere as to make the
  ordinary man draw back and doubt its wisdom.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 824. D. 1, ’06. 700w.

  “These essays have distinction and grace of manner, and they also
  contain not a little of philosophical value as relates to the social
  civilization and social movement of our day.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 385. O. 13, ’06. 170w.


=Day, Holman Francis.= Squire Phin. †$1.50. Barnes.

  “Yet another story of Maine is ‘Squire Phin.’ His office was over Asa
  Brickett’s village store, and there and thereunder goes forward the
  chorus in this rustic melodrama. The protagonists, meanwhile, are
  variously occupied in practicing law, making love, adjusting quarrels,
  and preventing scandals, while over all is cast the limelight of
  burlesque by the return to his native town of the showman ... with
  chariots, parrot and elephant he shrieks and plunges and crashes
  through the story till, tired of his unchartered freedom, he sinks
  into the repose of wedlock.”—Nation.

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  “The dialect of this book touches deeper depths than even the usual
  New England coast story. The incidents bear the same enlarged relation
  as the dialect to the average village chronicle.”

      + =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ’05. 270w.

  “Rarely have we met a more amusing group of village sages.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 530. O. 28. ’05. 120w.


=Deakin, Dorothea.= “Georgie.” †$1.50. Century.

  Broad shouldered, blond, boyish, frankly engaging, and wholly sincere
  in each passing fancy, Georgie succeeds in becoming engaged to any
  number of nice girls, sometimes in quick succession and sometimes all
  at once. The story of his loves is amusing and it is interesting to
  see how one can be such a trifler and still remain a gentleman at
  heart. As for Violet, pretty as paint, Druscilla, plain Anne, the
  goddess girl, Phillida, Dolly and the little Puritan, their cause
  needs no sympathy.

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  “But though belonging to the bubbles of bookmaking, the story is of an
  ingratiating kind, and serves to wreathe an hour in half-protesting
  smiles.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 210w.

  “Making no pretensions that are not fulfilled, they disarm criticism
  and succeed in their mission of being diverting.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 777. N. 24, ’06. 250w.

  “Such a book might easily be made silly, but in fact this is
  thoroughly amusing.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 60w.


=Dealey, James Quayle, and Ward, Lester Frank.= Text book of sociology.
*$1.30. Macmillan.

  “Sociology is in its infancy, but such a book as this will avail much
  to interpret it to students.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 334. S. 9. 430w.

  “The treatment throughout the book is altogether constructive and
  non-controversial. The style is very clear and attractive, considering
  the character of the work.” R. F. Hoxie.

    + + =Philos. R.= 15: 670. N. ’06. 260w.

  “Only those who have had considerable training in the biological
  sciences, history, economics, and psychology will be able to get much
  good from the book. To the student so prepared, however, who will read
  also widely both from Ward’s larger works and from other works
  mentioned in the text, this little book will prove of great value.”
  Henry W. Thurston.

  + + – =School R.= 14: 542. S. ’06. 760w.

  “The book is very clever and very readable, but we cannot help
  thinking a trifle paradoxical.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 644. Ap. 28, ’06. 400w.


=Decharme, Paul.= Euripides and the spirit of his dramas; tr. by James
Loeb. **$3. Macmillan.

  An introduction shows the need of an “able” attempt to reveal the true
  Euripides. The author believes that both as a man and a poet he has
  been underrated from Aristophanes down. Part 1 of Professor Decharme’s
  discussion shows what were Euripides’ emancipatory views upon
  religious traditions, philosophy, society and politics. Part 2 is a
  critical study of Euripides’ dramatic art.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The analytical index of a dozen pages is a commendable feature.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 190w.

  Reviewed by F. B. R. Hellems.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 1520w.

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1224. My. 24, ’06. 410w.

  “Excellent version.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 279. Ag. 10, ’06. 820w.

  “Mr. Loeb has escaped the danger of over-literalness, and has lost
  nothing of the lucidity of Decharme’s French. It should be in the
  hands of all students of the drama.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 371. My. 3, ’06. 510w.

  “We know, however, of no analysis of the character and work of
  Euripides that is, all things considered, as thorough, impartial, and
  convincing as that made by Paul Decharme.” George S. Hellman.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11:189. Mr. 31, ’06. 1560w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 290w.

  “In breadth of view, close analysis, and well-thought-out
  presentation, Professor Decharme’s work is very able, and Mr. Loeb
  seems to have done justice to his self-imposed task.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 509. Ap. 21, ’06. 170w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 50w.


=Deeping, (George) Warwick.= Bess of the woods. †$1.50. Harper.

  Bess, the courageous heroine of this stirring tale, has been brought
  up as one of a rough band of English smugglers who quarrel over her
  among themselves, but when one of them tries to win her by brute
  force, there comes to her aid young Richard Jaffray, owner of a
  near-by estate, who rescues her and is wounded in her defence. How
  Bess is freed from Dan, and how Richard escapes from the toils of the
  passé Miss Jilian, and how they both come to their own, forms the
  substance of this story of brave deeds and social banter, of
  ball-room, of forest and of sea.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A vigorous, full-blooded romance of the eighteenth century, in which
  the tone and temper of the age are most successfully realized.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 190w.

  “Might have been written by any one of a dozen other novelists—and
  written rather better.”

      – =Bookm.= 23: 641. Ag. ’06. 470w.

  “The characters are vividly drawn; the plot ‘marches’; the color is
  laid on freely and not without sureness.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 110w.

  “Extremely interesting well-written and artistically framed romance,
  which has not had many equals in the action of recent years.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 240. O. 16, ’06. 360w.

  “Marked by—clear style and a simplicity of diction. It is an engaging
  story, full of entertainment for those who ask no more of a novelist
  than that he should entertain.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 360w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 454. Jl. 14, ’06. 400w.


=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= Little son of sunshine, a story for boys and
girls. †$1.25. Harper.

  Sunny little Christopher, an orphan with only one leg and a pair of
  crutches upon which to begin his walk thru life, limps straights into
  the hearts of a kindly farmer and his childless wife who have taken
  the little waif into their home for a summer’s outing. At the end of
  his holiday, which is made merry by his escapades with Betty who with
  her aunt has come to board at the farm, he finds that two homes are
  open to him and later discovers that General Keith, the rich, lonely
  old man whose stern nature has melted before the sunshine of
  Christopher’s nature, is really his own grandfather.

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  “All told with much literary skill, and the storyteller’s knack of
  weaving incidents together to give them the flavor of reality.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 100w.

  “A pretty, well-managed story of a dear child.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 130w.


=Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade (Campbell).= Awakening of Helena Richie.
†$1.50. Harper.

  Helena Richie’s soul awakening seems so natural and possible amid the
  Old Chester people and Old Chester surroundings, with Dr. Lavendar at
  his best, as philanthropist, philosopher and mentor. This woman has
  violated the structural facts of the moral law. She is led by little
  David, a homeless child whom she takes, to discover the great religion
  of duty. As the light comes, her old standards seem the poor tottering
  things they really are and she struggles for permanent defences. When
  her life becomes known and Dr. Lavendar regards her unfit to keep
  David, her submission to the law of retributive justice which operates
  for a time then gives way, and her determination to make the remainder
  of her life “clear and sound” but give evidence to the genuineness of
  her awakened sincerity.

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  “The book has many of the merits and faults that are frequently met in
  novels written by women.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 280w.

  “In this last story we feel that Mrs. Deland has, as never before,
  proved herself the creator, and not merely the finely-equipped and
  enjoyable story-teller.” Edith Baker Brown.

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 57. S. ’06. 1150w.

  “It is a story that has seldom been told as appealingly and with such
  conscience-searching effect as in ... Mrs. Deland’s latest and best
  novel.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 115. S. 1, ’06. 520w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 336. Ag. 9, ’06. 1140w.

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 60w.

  “Strikes a deeper and truer chord of human passion, and indeed of
  tragedy, than most of the novels of the day that deal with a similar
  theme.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 283. S. 1, ’06. 540w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 550w.

  “The story is beyond question a contribution to real literature. We
  are inclined to believe it must be coupled with Mr. Wister’s ‘Lady
  Baltimore’ as the finest fiction produced in this country this year.”

  + + + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

  “It is a good thing to have a ‘text’ for your novel, if your judgment
  is so well able to bear it as is Mrs. Deland’s; if it warms you to so
  much sympathy and understanding as are revealed in this wise, deep,
  and tender story.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 271. Ag. 3, ’06. 440w.

  “Mrs. Deland’s latest novel opens and proceeds with a firm tread which
  has not always characterized her larger books. At the same time the
  accustomed fine inlay work that marks all her dealings with Old
  Chester and its inhabitants is here peerlessly present.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 83. Jl. 26, ’06. 380w.

  “Flawless in literary form, penetrated through and through with ‘an
  inward spiritual grace,’ surely it must come to its own—a permanent
  place among the books that abide.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 445. Jl. 14, ’06. 990w.

  “Mrs. Margaret Deland’s latest and most successful novel.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 230w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 270w.

  “Highly sophisticated cosmopolitan novels are so numerous that the
  success of this deeply human tale, told in the universal language of
  the writers who are born and not made, is a thing in which even the
  judicious may rejoice without loss of dignity.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 320w.

    + – =Putnam’s.= 1: 109. O. ’06. 350w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 420w.


=De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham) (Mrs. Henry De La Pasture).= Man from
America. †$1.50. Dutton.

  A story by the author of “Peter’s mother.” “The pretty
  granddaughters—one is a butterfly beauty but as sweet and good as good
  can be, the other an earnest thinker, but no prig—grow up and fall in
  love and get married to the right people, and learn in time that
  bon-papa is not really poor, but that he (and they) are very rich; and
  the little troubles they have passed through, the little white clouds
  that have sailed across on the summer wind, only make the sunshine of
  their sunny lives more golden.” (Acad.)

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      + =Acad.= 69: 1201. N. 18, ’05. 240w.

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 200w.

      + =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 90w.

  “That the work is fresh, human and altogether delightful, must be the
  verdict of every reader.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 140w.

  “Crude as it is in execution, told with a frank disregard for the
  niceties of narrative art, it comes very close to being great.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 400w.

  “We ... find in the author’s portraits of one or two not a little of
  the genius of Jane Austen.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 409. N. 24, ’05. 230w.

  “Comedy of the most light and charming kind, with sentiment enough of
  a natural and healthy kind and wit enough to add savor to the
  sentiment.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 470w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 120w.

    + – =Sat. R.= 100: 402. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.

  “A very genial and entertaining romance.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 270w.


=De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham) (Mrs. Henry De La Pasture).= Toy
tragedy: a story of children. †$1.50. Dutton.

  The tragedy is a toy tragedy merely because it deals with children,
  and the things which make up their weal and woe, and it is a story of,
  rather than for, children because the tale of the four orphaned little
  folks and how they learned too early the harder side of human nature
  and how to cope with it, is really a story for thoughtful grown ups.
  The death of little Elsie, and the sweet chastened spirit of Jean cast
  a shadow over the story which the success of the two boys does not
  dispel.

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  “The story is well written.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 80w.

  “It is an attractive children’s story, although the situations are
  just the least bit improbable, and there is a touch of false sentiment
  in the relations between the good little sister and the pretty spoiled
  one.”


=Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.= Breaking the wilderness: the story of
the conquest of the far West. **$3.50. Putnam.

  “A very readable book, which has the great attraction of a thoroughly
  humane and reasonable point of view; nor is the drift of the main
  argument less interesting to follow because some conclusions differ
  from those of several who have gone before in the same track of
  adventure.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1353. D. 30, ’05. 1170w.


=De Mille, James.= Cord and creese. †$1. Harper.

  This new edition of an old story enables a new generation to revel in
  its dramatic scenes of love and mystery, in its graphic descriptions
  of the search for a stolen treasure, and to follow the many tangled
  threads of its plot to a happy ending. The cord of the title is one of
  curious Eastern manufacture, the creese is a Malay dagger, and the two
  form the principal clues in the search for the villain of this
  stirring tale.

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  “So far as style goes it is much superior to the novel of adventure of
  commerce, as put on the market to-day.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 120w.

  “A story better worth reading than most of the more recent examples of
  its class.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 44. Jl. 16, ’06. 60w.

  “Folks who like good measure, however, will find ‘Cord and creese’ a
  satisfying book, the work of a story-teller who knew his business as
  it was practiced in his day, and who knew the world.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 409. Je. 23, ’06. 280w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 765. Jl. 28, ’06. 20w.


=De Morgan, William Frend.= Joseph Vance: an ill-written autobiography.
†$1.50. Holt.

  The autobiography of a middle-class Englishman of fifty years ago
  which unites the characteristics of the novel with the interest of a
  human document. The author turns analyst, and includes father, mother,
  friends and self in a sketch that runs close to the heart. He follows
  his boyhood days, and youth amid poverty, his Oxford days which
  developed an inordinate love for chess as well as mechanical inventive
  ability, and colors the latter happenings with his love for a woman
  whom he does not marry. The life-story reflects much of middle-class
  English thought and customs of fifty years ago.

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  “We wish that Mr. de Morgan had been content with a manner of
  construction as simple and direct as the actual writing of his book.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 112. Ag. 4, ’06. 270w.

  “Is fresh, original, and unusually clever.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 97. Jl. 28. 250w.

  “In my personal opinion this ‘ill-written autobiography’ is wise,
  witty, gentle and of unflagging interest, but then, I have been
  frightfully prejudiced in its favour—by reading it.” Mary Moss.

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 277. N. ’06. 1480w.

  “It is not a book that the reviewer can boom, much as he would like
  to; nor can he give a more definite idea of it than to say that, if
  the reader likes both ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘Peter Ibbetson,’ he can
  find the two books in this one.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 100w.

  “It is ill-written only in the sense of not being composed according
  to the present trim, abrupt fashion of novel-reading. We hardly know
  how to suggest the mellowness of this story, and therein lies its
  charm. We doubt if any reader who has a sense for true humour will
  find it tedious.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 650w.

  “A work as admirable in detail as in mass effect, a book worth reading
  and rereading and keeping in your house.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 620. O. 6, ’06. 980w.

  “This is a novel of the first order—one that aligns itself with the
  best English fiction.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 240w.

  “Amuses by its willful divagations from the straight of narrative,
  quietly pleases by its wholesome sentiment, and leaves one with an
  impression of thorough enjoyment.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 24, ’06. 330w.

  “The style is strong and expressive, but very often clumsy and
  over-elaborate and would-be humorous. The strength and interest of the
  book lies in the fresh original observation of lower-middle-class
  life; in its shrewd characterisation and life-like dialogue and
  incidents.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 117. Jl. 28, ’06. 330w.

  “Were it not that he challenges comparison with the classics, we might
  almost call it a great novel.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 172. Ag. 4, ’06. 1230w.


=Denby, Charles, colonel.= China and her people. **$2.40. Page.

  Uniform with the “Travel lover’s library,” this new work is in two
  handy-sized volumes. “The first volume is filled with reminiscences of
  the author’s stay in China and his personal impressions of the land
  and the people, and with accounts of court life at Pekin and social
  life and customs elsewhere in the kingdom. The second volume is
  concerned with Chinese politics and industrial and commercial problems
  and conditions.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The material is arranged in an interesting fashion. The books are
  readable and, more important, reliable.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 416. Mr. ’06. 310w.

  “It must be accepted as the most authoritative of late contributions
  to the literature on Chinese affairs, and is especially valuable in
  its observations on political topics.” John W. Foster.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 130w.

  “In general, the topics dealt with in both volumes are of the sort
  that would naturally interest a man of affairs, and Colonel Denby’s
  method of treating them will appeal particularly to masculine
  readers.”

      + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ’05. 220w.

  “Particularly is it of service to American statesmen and business
  men.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 540w.

  “A few ... inaccuracies ... are but minor blemishes in a very
  delightful and informing book.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 330. Ap. 19, ’06. 670w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 808. N. 25, ’05. 130w.

  “Colonel Denby made good use of the unusual opportunities for
  observation which he enjoyed, and for absorption of the Oriental
  spirit and way of looking at things.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 250w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 284. Mr. 3, ’06. 130w.

  “Especially interesting and important are the late minister’s own
  words on the Boxer rebellion and the missionary question.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 150w.


=Dennis, James Shepard.= Christian missions and social progress. v. 3.
**$2.50. Revell.

  The third and last volume of an encyclopedic work on missions. “This
  entire volume is concerned with the contribution of missions to social
  progress and every phase of the subject is accorded full and careful
  treatment, with abundant illustrations from missionary activities
  under all churches, and in all countries.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work is valuable for reference.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 260. S. 27, ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “The range is cyclopædic the details multitudinous and interesting
  throughout. Altogether, this is a unique work, without which no
  reference library can be considered complete.”

  + + + =Outlook.= 84: 140. S. 15, ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “In the twelve years in which Dr. Dennis has been engaged upon this
  great task, he has accumulated a vast store of interesting facts, most
  of which had never before been classified or grouped in systematic
  order.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 110w. (Review of v. 3.)

        =Spec.= 97: 498. O. 6, ’06. 220w. (Review of v. 3.)


=De Quincey, Thomas.= Autobiography and confessions of Thomas De
Quincey; with photogravure front. por. and biographical and critical
introd. by Tighe Hopkins. *$1.25. Scribner.

  Uniform with the “Caxton thin paper classics.” The volume is prefaced
  by the editor’s introduction.

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  Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 749. N. 17, ’06. 1300w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 530. N. 27, ’06. 10w.


=Devine, Edward Thomas.= Efficiency and relief: a programme of social
work. **75c. Macmillan.

  “The inaugural address of Mr. Edward T. Devine on the occasion of his
  taking the Schiff Professorship of social economy at Columbia
  University.... His subject is ‘Efficiency and relief,’ and he
  discusses modern methods of increasing the industrial efficiency of
  the individual and at the same time of providing adequate relief for
  those who are of deficient wage-earning capacity.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 707. Mr. ’06. 110w.

  “Large and fine as is the outlook of this lecture, it lacks something
  of complete analysis of the aim of charity. The treatment is, indeed,
  broader than the definition; the spirit of the author is wider than
  the programme he outlines; and the lectures which will follow will
  pass beyond the territory which can be accurately named ‘economics.’”
  C. R. Henderson.

    + – =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 423. N. ’06. 180w.

  “Those who are interested in these great problems of social advance
  will find this address most helpful and stimulating.”

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 417. Mr. ’06. 170w.

  Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 842. Je. ’06. 310w.

  “The necessity of the scientific study of these problems in the
  analysis of conditions and the formulation of principles of action are
  clearly and forcefully stated.”

      + =Bookm.= 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 110w.

  “The little book is packed with ideas and is larger than it looks.”
  Chas. Richmond Henderson.

      + =Dial.= 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 150w.

        =Ind.= 60: 402. F. 15, ’06. 70w.

        =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 333. My. ’06. 300w.

  “We commend Mr. Devine’s little volume to all who would intelligently
  co-operate in the work of social betterment.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.

  “We venture to predict that all who get to read it at all will be
  interested readers.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 114. F. 24, ’06. 1070w.


=Devins, John Bancroft.= Observer in the Philippines. $2. Am. tract.

  “The random and indiscriminating observations of a visitor in
  missionary interests.”

    – + =Ind.= 59: 540. D. 28, ’05. 60w.


=Dewsnup, Ernest Ritson=, ed. Railway organization and working. $2.
Univ. of Chicago press.

  “To those acquainted with the literature of railway transportation it
  will not need emphasizing that the book really occupies a unique
  place. The numerous aspects of the railway service which it treats,
  the plain and untechnical way in which every subject is handled, the
  fact that more than a score of railway experts of the highest
  reputation, have collaborated in its production, all combine to make
  the volume indispensable to the ambitious young ‘railroader.’... It is
  also to be hoped that the book ... will have a stimulating effect upon
  the teaching of railway economics in our universities.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Should appeal to serious students of railway economics.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 240w.


=Dexter, Henry Martyn, and Dexter, Morton.= England and Holland of the
Pilgrims. **$3.50. Houghton.

  “The book is strongest on the side of opinion, theology, and
  controversial literature.” William Elliot Griffis.

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 654. Ap. ’06. 860w.

  “A very minute and learned study of the early founders of
  Congregationalism.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 126. Ag. 4. 280w.

  “This work is absolutely unique in thoroness and accuracy.”

  + + + =Ind.= 60: 455. F. 22, ’06. 270w.

  “Lightness of touch this volume does not possess in an eminent degree,
  but it contains a large amount of information which has been digested
  with affectionate and conscientious care.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 810w.

  “This is by all odds the most complete record of Pilgrim origins yet
  published in this country.”

  + + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 150w.


=Dicey, A. V.= Law and opinion in England. *$3. Macmillan.

  “Clear thought, wide scholarship, and lucid writing make the defence
  as strong as the facts will warrant, and the facts are so conclusive
  that few flaws can be found in the proof.”

    + + =Ind.= 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 440w.

  Reviewed by C. J. Hamilton.

    + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 257. Ja. ’06. 860w.

  “While carefully delimiting the field to be covered, presents a wealth
  and variety of fact, suggestion, and speculation on governmental
  concerns.” George R. Bishop.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 16. Ja. 13, ’06. 1180w.

        =Quarterly R.= 204: 229. Ja. ’06. 2380w.


=Dick, Stewart.= Arts and crafts of old Japan. **$1.20. McClurg.

  “After the score of books on Japanese art and art industry, and by men
  who on the ground have studied the art of Nippon, this book seems
  shallow and of slight value.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 140w.

  “The book seems also the best familiar study we have seen of the
  visible tangible work of art which we get from Japan, as distinguished
  from the subtle influences which lie back of it.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 165. F. 22, ’06. 320w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 40w.


=Dickens, Charles.= Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas. $2. Baker.

  The account of the Pickwickians’ Christmas at the Manor farm, of the
  adventures there and tale of the goblin who stole a sexton, and of the
  famous sports on the ice, are here recorded as in the famous Pickwick
  chronicle. George Alfred Williams has written an introduction and has
  illustrated the volume.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 200w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 60w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 110w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 150w.

=Dickens, Charles.= Tale of two cities; ed. with introd. and notes by
James Weber Linn. 50c. Ginn.

  A student’s edition well annotated. The editor’s aim has been
  principally to show the general relation of this novel to Dickens’
  other works, and to point out the devices of Dickens’ art in the
  construction of the plot.


=Dickens, Charles.= Tales from Dickens, ed. by Hallie Erminie Rives.
†$1.50. Bobbs.

  “If the mature reader would enjoy Dickens he must read Dickens; but to
  children or youthful persons not acquainted with the marvelous stories
  of England’s greatest novelist this book will appeal.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 222. F. ’06. 140w.

  “Miss Rives’s book must have a good influence; her summaries of the
  famous novels are lucid, tasteful, and sympathetic; she gives much in
  little.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 340w.

  “Not only is the book well suited to the peculiarities of the child
  mind, but it is also of no negligible value as a book of reference.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 316. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.


=Dickerson, Mary Cynthia.= Frog book. **$4. Doubleday.

  “An enthusiastic recital of close and critical observation.... The
  introductory chapter deals with the distinction between batrachians
  and fishes and reptiles, development and metamorphoses,
  classification, phylogeny, hibernation, poison, voice, color, change,
  behavior, and distribution of the ‘batrachia salientia,’ or frogs and
  toads.... The remainder of the book is given up to a detailed account
  of about sixty frogs, tree-toads and toads, of this continent.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The scope of the work is not too great for the space allotted; the
  treatment is scientific, thoroughly modern and up-to-date, reflecting
  current university standards. The selection of material and the
  completeness and comprehensiveness of the treatment are commendable.”

  + + + =Dial.= 41: 209. O. 1, ’06. 520w.

  “The need of a popular frog book is now well met for Miss Dickerson
  has given just the information wanted by the general nature student
  and in a form which will surely win popular interest for these
  interesting vertebrated animals.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1052. N. 1, ’06. 710w.

  “Notwithstanding some examples of the prevailing nature-study gush or
  cant the style is generally simple and direct. Unmixed commendation
  cannot be accorded either the author or the publishers.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 248. S. 20, ’06. 810w.

  “She gives the fruit of much study and personal investigation with a
  light, though none the less sure, literary touch.” Mabel Osgood
  Wright.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 980w.


=Dickinson, Emily Monroe.= Patriot’s mistake; being personal
recollections of the Parnell family, by a daughter of the house. *$3.
Lane.

  “The history of the great patriot Charles Parnell is too well known to
  need any comment here; but many others of the family, though not
  always through fault or sin of their own, met with misfortune and
  premature death. The entire story is peculiarly sad, but the fearful
  ‘mistake’ of Charles, with the shame and disgrace that followed hard
  upon it, overshadows all the other painful chapters in the
  record.”—Critic.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Extraordinary indiscretion.”

      – =Acad.= 69: 1329. D. 23, ’05. 550w.

  “A narrative of most pathetic interest.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 290w.

  “The radical fault of it lies in the fact that it was ever published.”

    – – =Lond. Times.= 4: 463. D. 29, ’05. 210w.

  “We think that a little more reserve would not have been amiss; but
  there is romance about some of her pages that is real Irish.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 101: 493. Ap. 21, ’06. 160w.


=Dickinson, Edward.= Study of the history of music; with an annotated
guide to music literature. **$2.50. Scribner.

  “It will be a vade mecum for all musicians, students, and music
  lovers.” W. J. Henderson.

  + + + =Atlan.= 96: 854. D. ’05. 100w.

  “It offers a straightforward and scholarly treatment of the subject.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 370w.

  “In its field there is probably no book in any language that can
  compare with this one in completeness, suggestiveness, clearness and
  general usefulness for the student of musical history.”

  + + + =Ind.= 60: 401. F. 15, ’06. 320w.


=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Greek view of life. 3d ed. (new issue).
**$1. McClure.

  “It is an investigation and explanation of the attitude of the Greeks
  toward life, nature and humanity, based upon a study of the Greek
  classics.” (N. Y. Times.) “The book has five chapters.—1. The Greek
  view of religion, 2. The Greek view of the state, 3. The Greek view of
  the individual, 4. The Greek view of art, 5. Conclusion. Each chapter
  has its divisions carefully planned and succintly treated, and
  concludes with a useful summary.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A well-balanced and well-written book from the hands of a competent
  author.” F. B. R. Hellens.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 196. Mr. 16, ’06. 1470w.

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 717. N. 24, ’06. 890w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06, 40w.


=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Modern symposium. **$1. McClure.

  “It is impossible, without more quotation, to do justice to the
  security and ease, the lightness and penetration combined, of Mr.
  Dickinson. The book is as charming as it is suggestive. In its author
  we have one of the few living Englishmen who can really write prose.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 292. Mr. 10. 2260w.

  “A suggestive little volume, well worth reading.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.

  “The book has a genuinely literary character and is entertaining in
  the best sense. The dramatic setting increases the interest; but there
  is a lack of spontaneity in the arranging of the speakers which mars
  the artistic effect; the chairman is too much in evidence.” David
  Phillips.

    + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 140. O. ’06. 220w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 718. N. 24, ’06. 250w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 60w.

  “We have to thank Mr. Dickinson for several pleasing epigrams, and the
  brilliant comparison of America and Europe, put into the mouth of
  Ellis the journalist, makes by itself the slender book worth reading.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 461. Ap. 14, ’06. 1280w.

  “He does his best for all, and he shows remarkable versatility in
  doing it.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 440w.

  “It is, of course, the work of a critic, and its use is to interpret
  men of different opinions to each other. The defect of it is that
  while it throws much light upon opinions, it throws none on the
  problems.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 832. My. 26, ’06. 1880w.


=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Religion: a criticism and a forecast.
**50c. McClure.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 416. Mr. ’06. 170w.


=Dickson, Harris.= Gabrielle, transgressor. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  The scene of this romance, by the author of “The Ravanels,” is laid in
  the colonies. Gabrielle, daughter of a sturdy Frenchman, is married at
  the age of five and left to grow up in a convent. When she has reached
  a woman’s years, but while still a child in mind, she is taken forth
  to meet her husband. Before he arrives, however, an exiled prince of
  Turkey comes into the life of this impulsive young woman and, by his
  mystic suggestions of the Orient, takes her heart captive. The love
  story is especially ardent and has an unexpected ending.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author’s treatment of the theme makes the yarn rather less absurd
  than might have been expected.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 160w.

  “It is an ‘Arabian nights’ tale without the simple faith of the
  narrator which conquers the incredulity of the reader. Hence the
  interest it excites is languid, and it is not easy to follow it to its
  finish.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 400w.


=Dignan, Frank W.= Idle actor in Aeschylus. *50c. Univ. of Chicago
press.

  In his monograph Mr. Dignan shows that the fault of Aeschylus’s
  technique, if it really exists, is due to material limitations and to
  the restraints of tradition.


=Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong.= Book of the spiritual life, with a
memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke. *$3. Dutton.

  “Should be read by everyone interested in the literature of art.”
  Royal Cortissoz.

      – =Atlan.= 97: 278. F. ’06. 70w.


=Dill, Samuel.= Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. *$2.50.
Macmillan.

  “The work is a magnificent piece of historical synthesis. It is drawn
  from many sources, and presents a comprehensive view of the
  intellectual, social, moral and religious conditions of an important
  epoch. Whether the author’s opinions will receive universal acceptance
  may be doubted.” Patrick J. Healy, D. D.

  + + – =Cath. World.= 83: 433. Jl. ’06. 5310w.


=Dillon, Mary.= In Old Bellaire. †$1.50. Century.

  A quaint old Pennsylvania town with its cavalry school and dashing
  young officers at the east end and its students and intellectual
  mentors at the west end furnishes the scene of his story of the early
  sixties. The heroine is a prim little Puritan maiden whom it takes
  four years to convince that Quaker teaching and Northern prejudices
  can be made compatible with her love for a handsome, fastidious,
  daring, Southern-bred lover.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 60w.

  Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 140w.

  “Treats of the war time with the admirable poise and impartial spirit
  we have learned to expect.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 72. F. 3, ’06. 1250w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 110w.

  “To our ears the conversations have an unreal, stilted sound.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 260w.


=Dillon, Mrs. Mary C.= The leader. †$1.50. Doubleday.

  “The story is concerned mainly with the career of a statesman, in whom
  it is the author’s evident intention to picture William J. Bryan, who
  has made himself the leader and the idol of the masses of his party. A
  large part of the narrative is taken up with events connected with the
  last Democratic national convention. There are some spirited
  descriptions of convention scenes, and a very good picture is
  presented of the convention as a whole.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All in all, ‘The leader’ is a great political work—a matchless
  campaign document. It were superfluous to dwell on the evidence that
  its author is as unskilled in the use of the English language as most
  makers of political documents; that the construction of her novel,
  considered merely as a novel, is as shaky as that of many a party
  platform.” Edward Clark Marsh.

    – + =Bookm.= 24: 158. O. ’06. 1030w.

  “One feature of the book, however, is distinctly offensive; that is
  the affectation of British phrasing for the common details of American
  life.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 939. O. 18, ’06. 390w.

      – =Lit. D.= 33: 344. S. 22, ’06. 170w.

  “The veil of fiction cast over these incidents is of the thinnest; the
  writer’s art gives them no fresh meaning.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 210w.

  “Mrs. Dillon’s sole equipment for the writing of fiction is a knack
  for descriptive narrative. The plot of her story could hardly be more
  flimsy or more hackneyed.”

  – – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 500w.

  “A very good story in a conventional way, although the politics are
  rather bookish, and the social background is not specially true to any
  American locality.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 80w.

  Discrepant world: being an essay in fiction by the author of “Through
  spectacles of feeling.” $2. Longmans.

  “The scene is a Scottish village; there is a real story; there are
  several real characters from a lord to a pussy-cat that purred ‘three
  threads and a thrum;’ there are incidents as startling as a murder,
  and there are many deaths.... The author puts his folks into promising
  dilemmas, then ... has recourse to nature’s method—always ready.
  Fortunately the story is told with nature’s own simplicity, and the
  resultant for the reader is a vast cheerfulness in woe.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Nation.= 83: 83. Jl. 26, ’06. 360w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 458. Jl. 21, ’06. 410w.

  “This book is really good.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 85. Jl. 21, ’06. 220w.


=Dix, Beulah Marie.= Fair maid of Graystones. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “The book is alive; now and again it may border on the melodramatic,
  but it is all wholesomely good and healthily sentimental. The
  presentation shows power, skill, and sympathy, and we congratulate the
  author.”

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 563. Ja. ’06. 420w.

  “Miss Beulah Dix is an accomplished artificer of historical romance.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “Is really interesting.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1345. D. 7, ’05. 130w.


=Dix, Morgan=, ed. History of Trinity church in the city of New York;
compiled in large part from original documents, by order of the
corporation. 4v. **$5. Putnam.

  The last volume of the four devoted to the history of Trinity church
  brings the account of the earliest Episcopal church in the city of New
  York down to the accession of the author who is the present rector.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An interest ... far wider than the limits of the parish, albeit the
  largest and most influential parish in the land.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “When the time shall come for the history of this period to be
  written, let us hope that the historian will go back over the contents
  of this fourth volume, and, using the material therein collated, will
  place it in its true historic perspective and in its proper relation
  to the times now present.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 119. S. 1, ’06. 480w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “The work now finished is rather the collection of material for
  history than history itself.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “A variety of incidents that attracted much public interest in their
  time occur in this record.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 4.)


=Dixon, Richard Watson.= Last poems of Richard Watson Dixon. Selected
and ed. by Robert Bridges. *$1.40. Oxford.

  “There are less than two-score pages in this final sheaf of song, and
  more than half of them are occupied by ‘Too much friendship,’ a
  miniature epic having for its hero an Athenian whose fortunes (or
  misfortunes) suggest those of both King Candaules and Job.” (Dial.)
  “Though this little volume holds the last gleanings of a poetic field,
  the ears of corn are firm and sound.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The first-piece, a tale of Roman friendship, is indeed unsuccessful,
  but the more intimate poems have a directness which at once arrests
  attention.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 329. Ap. 7, ’06. 180w.

  “His lyrical faculty which was considerable, shows here somewhat
  laboriously, and yet it is from the purely lyrical pieces that the
  book derives such value as it may possess.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 195. F. 17, 530w.

  “A poet of sincerity and thoughtfulness.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 328. My. 16, ’06. 790w.

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 464. D. 29, ’05. 500w.


=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Life worth living. **$1.20. Doubleday.

        =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 80w.


=Doat, Taxile Maximin.= Grand feu ceramics; tr. by S: E. Robineau.
*$7.50. Keramic Studio pub. co., Syracuse, N. Y.

  The series of articles by the well-known French authority on pottery
  which appeared in the “Keramic studio” during 1903. Part 1 is a view
  of the position of porcelain at the beginning of the twentieth
  century: Part 2 covers the ground of the technical instruction in the
  making of the Grand feu porcelain and grès.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Comprehensive handbook.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 33. D. ’05. 160w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 17. Ja. 4, ’06. 1360w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 280w


=Dodd, Lee Wilson.= Modern alchemist, and other poems. $1.50. Badger, R:
G.

  The author says:

                “I would not have you think me all I seem
                  In these illuding mimicries of dream.”

  Further

                “My art, you see, is just to take a hint
                  Expand and make it permanent in print.”

  Observations of men and things, and retrospect in history’s and
  fancy’s realm have furnished most of the hints of his poems.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is stuff in these poems—deep thought and deep feeling. And
  conjoined with them is a delicacy of touch that shows the artist
  keeping the upper hand of his emotions.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 205. O. 1, ’06. 580w.

  “There is brain work behind Mr. Dodd’s verse, and poetic information.
  There is at present a certain overemphasis in Mr. Dodd’s phrasing
  which blunts his fineness.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 250w.

  “It is a pleasure to take up ‘A modern alchemist.’ It gives no hint
  that a great poem has arisen; but there is an agreeable certainty that
  the author has something to say and has not disdained to learn the art
  of saying it.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 774. N. 24, ’06. 430w.


=Dodge, David Low.= War inconsistent with the religion of Jesus Christ;
with an introd. by Edwin D. Mead. 75c. Ginn.

  This volume contains both of Mr. Dodge’s famous old pamphlets, with an
  introduction which tells the story of his remarkable life and reviews
  his pioneering work in the peace cause in the early part of the
  century.


=Dodge, Henry Irving.= Other Mr. Barclay; drawings by Nella Fontaine
Binckley. †$1.50. Consolidated retail booksellers.

  A tale of Wall street. “The plot concerns a certain Mr. Barclay, who
  was a bear, and went short to such an extent that he was ruined. After
  that he retired to a country town called Cosburg, and filled the place
  with frenzy. For he got the inhabitants interested in a pool, and
  later admitted them all as partners with himself in a joint stock
  grocery concern.” (N. Y. Times.) “The devastation wrought in a sleepy
  village by one stock gambler who fans the spirit of greed is forcibly
  depicted.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Ind.= 60: 1487. Je. 21, ’06. 100w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 265. Ap. 21, ’06. 340w.

  “The author knows his subject and handles it with directness and
  spirit.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.

  “With the narrative goes much shrewd country humor and more than a
  passing insight into the rustic temperament.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 300w.


=Dodge, Henry Nehemiah.= Mystery of the West. $1.25. Badger, R: G.

  A book of stirring verse dedicated to “sea lords strong of soul” who
  boldly discovered new lands, to “the heroic dead” who bled for
  freedom, and to the faithful who guard the state from wrong.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

        =Dial.= 41: 268. O. 1, ’06. 180w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 640w.


=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= Hope of immortality; our reasons for it. *75c.
Crowell.

  The Ingersoll lecture for 1906. Mr. Dole maintains that the hope of
  immortality arises out of a unity of thought, feeling and conduct, and
  he gives cumulative facts in which human life consists and which point
  to the hope of future life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The perusal of this little volume leaves one questioning whether any
  better argument will ever be addressed to doubters of the future
  life.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 180w.


=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= Spirit of democracy. **$1.25. Crowell.

  A timely work dealing fairly and hopefully with the leading problems
  of present-day democracy and showing what real democratic government
  is.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though the book is full of suggestive and helpful thoughts and on the
  whole is a valuable contribution to social progress, it is far
  inferior, we think, to Mr. Henry George’s latest work ‘The menace of
  privilege,’ in which democracy is treated in a far more fundamental
  and able manner.”

    + – =Arena.= 36: 680. D. ’06. 580w.

  “We need an accurate, clear and thoroughgoing description of actual
  social conditions, and a sound, practical, restrained indication of
  ways in which we may better ourselves. To the satisfaction of the
  first of these needs, Mr. Dole has made a worthy and suggestive
  contribution, but we cannot think that his treatment of the second has
  permanent significance.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 355. O. 25, ’06. 880w.

  “Its style is clear; its principles are simple and put with great
  simplicity. It embodies many wise suggestions. But it lacks
  intellectual coherence. On the whole, the book must be described as an
  expression of the author’s social and political ideals, many of which
  are admirable, rather than as an interpretation of historical facts or
  a study of fundamental social principles.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 383. O. 13, ’06. 450w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 130w.


=Dole, Nathan Haskell=, comp. Latin poets: an anthology. $2. Crowell.

  “The selections from the various English translators have been most
  judiciously made.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 110w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 80w.


=Donaldson, James.= Westminster confession of faith and Thirty-nine
articles of the Church of England: the legal, moral, and religious
aspects of subscription to them. *$1.20. Longmans.

  “By the decision of the House of Lords the vast properties of the Free
  church of Scotland pass over to the “Wee Frees,” a little company of
  belated ministers who in 1900 refused to acquiesce in the union of the
  Free church and the United Presbyterian. The ground of the verdict of
  the last court of appeal is that the Free church has departed from the
  literal and rigid terms of the Confession of faith, thereby forfeiting
  its belongings of whatever sort to the insignificant minority who
  still accent the Confession in its original bare, bald literalness.
  This, with its manifold implications is the theme to which the
  principal of St. Andrews addresses himself.”—Am. J. Theol.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Principal Donaldson’s volume ought to awaken serious inquiry in the
  minds of all Christians who are fettered by creed subscriptions, for
  it all goes to show how unwise it is, and how dishonest and how
  morally ruinous, to cling to an outworn creed and outwardly to
  maintain religious tenets which the subscriber knows are no longer
  tenable.” Eri B. Hulbert.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 355. Ap. ’06. 560w.

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 223. Jl. 14, ’05. 960w.

  “This is a deeply interesting book dealing with subjects which are
  smouldering to-day and may be burning to-morrow. We would offer to the
  writer of so thought-provoking a book not polemics but thanks.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 866. N. 25, ’05. 1840w.


=Doney, Carl G.= Throne-room of the soul: a study in the culture of the
spiritual. $1. Meth. bk.

  The synopsis of thirty sermons on the culture of the soul.


=Donnell, Annie Hamilton.= Rebecca Mary; with eight illustrations in
color by Mary Shippen Green. †$1.50. Harper.

  “As a whole the story is an admirable example of that American school
  of fiction which esteems simplicity in art as its highest
  achievement.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 388. Mr. 31. 170w.

  “And she deserves to live in our hearts along with Mrs. Rice’s ‘Lovey
  Mary.’”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1347. D. 7, ’05. 120w.


=Donnell, Annie Hamilton.= Very small person; il. by Elizabeth Shippen
Green. †$1.25. Harper.

  The stories here are about children but their lesson is entirely for
  grown ups who have in their trust the developing child. The little
  comedies as well as the heart tragedies of children grow pathetic when
  there is no one near with whom to share them. It is to such a lonely
  group of children that the author turns in her sketches. It is a book
  for every mother.

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        =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

  “They are written, for the most part, with a delicate art, with a keen
  sympathy for the needs of the childish heart, and a humorous
  appreciation of the workings of the childish mind. The central theme
  of most of the stories, however, lacks freshness both in idea and
  method of treatment.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 260w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “The effect is decidedly morbid.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 796. N. 24, ’06. 80w.


=Dorsey, George Amos.= Cheyenne. 2v. ea. 50c. Field Columbian museum.

  An extensive monograph on the ceremonial organization of the Cheyenne
  which appears in the anthropological series of publications of the
  Field Columbian museum.

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  “A most interesting and valuable account of some of the social
  organizations of the Cheyenne Indians.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 418. Mr. ’06. 90w.

        =Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ’05. 70w.

    + + =Nature.= 73: 300. Ja. 25, ’06. 880w.


=Doub, William Coligny.= History of the United States. *$1. Macmillan.

  “The author has carried the grouping system to the extreme. Among the
  commendable features are the following: the space given to the life of
  the people; comparatively few pages given to accounts of the wars; and
  the large number of well-executed maps.” J. A. James.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 446. Ja. ’06. 520w.


=Dougherty, John Hampden.= Electoral system of the United States; its
history together with a study of the perils that have attended its
operations; an analysis of the several efforts by legislation to avert
these perils, and a proposed remedy by amendment of the constitution.
**$1.50. Putnam.

  Mr. Dougherty’s book “deals with the counting of votes for president
  and vice-president of the United States. Mr. Dougherty tells the story
  of debates over the question and of the settlement of the dispute
  between the Senate and House of representatives in 1877; he reviews
  the judgments of the Electoral commission in Florida, Louisiana,
  Oregon, and South Carolina, and criticises the law of 1877. There are
  also discussions of the dangers of the electoral system and the
  ‘evils’ of the general election ticket system. The book closes with a
  remedy and explanation of it.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While we cannot but think that Mr. Dougherty’s work would have
  profited by condensation, particularly in its summaries of the
  opinions of members of Congress, its historical merits are both sound
  and considerable. So far as he has gone, his work is not likely to
  need doing over again.” Wm. MacDonald.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 154. O. ’06. 750w.

  “Invaluable as a historical treatise.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 400w.

  “The one adverse criticism that can be passed upon the book is that
  the author’s rigid ideals of historical exposition have led him to
  employ such wealth of detail that only the trained scholar will be
  able to keep a clear notion of what is essential in the work.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 1435. Je. 14, ’06. 310w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

  “It is a searching review and criticism of the electoral system now in
  vogue, and altho it undoubtedly fails to take sufficient account of
  the obstacles in the way of radical reform proposed, it is a critique
  of no small value in reference to a subject which has hitherto
  received too little attention considering its importance to the
  Republic.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 100w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 85. Jl. 26, ’06. 790w.

  “Mr. Dougherty has done an excellent piece of work in pointing out the
  evils of the present system.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 770w.

  “All will not agree with his proposed remedies for the defects in the
  existing method of choosing the National chief executive, but none can
  fail to find suggestive value in the successive chapters.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 90. My. 12, ’06. 310w.


=Douglas, James.= Old France in the new world. $2.50. Burrows.

  “The book as it stands is well worthy of careful consideration.”

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 904. Jl. ’06. 780w.

  “Despite all that has been written on Quebec, Dr. Douglas manages to
  give us a fresh, unhackneyed and characteristic volume.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 228. Mr. 15, ’06. 740w.


=Dowd, Alice M.= Our common wild flowers of springtime and autumn.
$1.25. Badger, R. G.

  While this volume will undoubtedly hold the interest of all young
  nature lovers it is intended primarily for school use and to this end
  is divided into four parts for use in four successive school years,
  and excludes those plants which blossom only during vacation days. The
  plants chosen are common to the northeastern part of the United
  States, and their classification follows the sequence of families
  adopted by the most recent botanical works.

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  “There is nothing of a scientific value to be derived from the use of
  such a text. But judged by the existing standards of nature study as
  it actually exists in our schools, the book has much to commend it.”

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 73. S. ’06. 230w.

  “We do not feel quite so sure that the writer is a safe guide in
  matters of teleology, or the doctrine of final causes.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 77. Jl. 26, ’06. 220w.

  “Its author has contrived by careful condensation to pack much
  literary and artistic reference and allusion into its small space.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 473. Jl. 28, ’06. 100w.


=Dowden, Edward.= Montaigne. **$1.50. Lippincott.

  “Professor Dowden’s volume is by no means contemptible, but it is
  unfortunate, like most of this serial piecework, in doing again what
  has been better done already.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 809. Ap. 5, ’06. 260w.


=Downey, Edmund.= Charles Lever: his life and his letters. 2v. *$5.
Scribner.

  The author of “Harry Lorrequer,” and “Charles O’Malley” contributes
  somewhat to his own biography, thru letters and autobiographical
  prefaces to early stories which primarily show him to be a “typical
  good fellow,” with an amount of spring in his temperament and the
  power of enjoying life. The social and literary man, with a warm
  interest in politics, was a “good husband and father; he was honest
  (though his sincerity was sometimes under suspicion from the rapidity
  of his conclusions); he was kind; but he always got through more than
  he earned, and the result is a record of perpetual struggle to meet
  the claims upon him.... His extravagance led to a growing discontent,
  which reached unreasonable proportions. He was incapable alike of
  correcting his proof-sheets and his indulgences and grew embittered,
  unable to keep friends with himself, as the ‘good fellow’ is expected
  to do.” (Ath.)

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  “One would think it were an impossible feat to write a dull life of
  such an author, and yet, we fear, it has very nearly been accomplished
  by Mr. Edmund Downey.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 325. Ap. 7, ’06. 1770w.

  “It consists of materials for such a biography, but needs ... rigorous
  selection. There is a fair index, but the proof-reading has not been
  well done.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 540. My. 5. 2200w.

  “On the whole the brilliant passages in these letters are much fewer
  than would have been expected.” H. W. Boynton.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 625. Ag. ’06. 1350w.

  “He wisely decided to base the work almost entirely upon the letters
  and other autobiographical material at his disposal, and the result is
  very satisfactory, though it might perhaps have been more so if the
  matter had been condensed into half the space.”

  + + – =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 290w.

  “Not even its careful workmanship gives it the flavor of an ideal
  biography. Mr. Downey’s index ... leaves much to be desired.” Percy F.
  Bicknell.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 2090w.

  “Mr. Downey’s biography is a great improvement on the previous one by
  Dr. Fitzpatrick. He is much more careful than his predecessor about
  his facts, and he has had the advantage of using new documents.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 147. Ap. 27, ’06. 1780w.

  “These two volumes will probably be read when his novels are never
  taken from the shelf.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 910w.

  “These letters reveal the man. Nothing, in fact, could give posterity
  a better idea of the Irish novelist.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 353. Je. 2, ’06. 1950w.

  “Mr. Downey’s volumes, however, are avowedly rather a supplement and
  corrective than a substitute [for Mr. Fitzpatrick’s Life.]”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 757. Je. 16, ’06. 1260w.

  “He kept his fun for his books. We cannot blame him; but his biography
  suffers.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 759. My. 12, ’06. 410w.


=Downs, Sarah Elizabeth (Forbush) (Mrs. George Sheldon).= Step by step.
†$1.50. Dillingham.

  An unusually wholesome, possible story for young people. It sketches
  the upward career of an orphan lad who early learns how to operate in
  his life a demonstrable principle of success.


=Dowson, Ernest.= Poems, with a memoir by Arthur Symons. *$1.50. Lane.

  Reviewed by P. H. Frye.

        =Bookm.= 23: 95. Mr. ’06. 280w.


=Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.= Green flag. *50c. Fenno.

  A new popular edition of stories of war and sport which include
  besides the title story: Captain Sharkey, which recounts certain
  adventures in the career of a notorious pirate; The crime of the
  brigadier, in which the criminal himself tells of his strange fox
  hunt; The Croxley master; The “Slapping Sal”; The lord of Châteaunoir;
  The striped chest; A shadow before; The king of the foxes; The three
  correspondents; The new catacomb; The début of Bimbashi Joyce; and A
  foreign romance.

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      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 347. Mr. 17, ’06. 110w.


=Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.= Sir Nigel; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. McClure.

  “Paladin deeds crowd one on another in this story. The plot is highly
  colored, and concerns principally three deeds which Nigel swears to
  perform before he will return from Brittany to claim the Lady Mary
  Buttesthorn. Forced marches and the taking of robbers’ castles, and
  joustings for love of fighting, and real battles for the king, all
  befall on the way. How young Nigel captured ‘The Red Ferret’ and took
  the castle of La Brohiniere, and finally at the battle of Poitiers
  took prisoner King John II. of France, thus accomplishing his vows,
  and how he was knighted by the ‘Black Prince’ and sent home to get
  married is clearly and graphically told in this book.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + + =Acad.= 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 160w.

  “He has taken pains with his authorities, and the result is an
  unqualified success.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 687. D. 1. 360w.

  “As a narrative pure and simple, Sir Nigel deserves unstinted praise.”
  Beverly Stark.

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 279. N. ’06. 610w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 140w.

  “Excellent as the story is in general, it is not flawless—what story
  is? The author is not immune from the besetting sin of the Celtic
  temperament—exaggeration.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 270w.

  “Nor does Sir Arthur ever quite fall between the two stools of
  explanation and action. It is only that the constant jumping from one
  to the other is not always deftly executed. But that is our only
  criticism. The spirit of the fourteenth century is well interpreted.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 386. D. 16, ’06. 480w.

  “As a picture of the times, the book is successful, though the story
  does not seem so gripping as ‘The white company.’”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 631. O. 6, ’06. 320w.

  “The novel is not only a spirited story, but a very carefully drawn
  picture of the age of chivalry, bringing out both the heroism and the
  brutality of that period and interpreting its spirit in its
  activities, ideals, dress, and social organization.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 710. N. 24, ’06. 170w.

  “He can give you, in short, everything in the time and of the time but
  the time itself. That eludes him.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 470w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 180w.


=Dozier, Orion Theophilus.= Poems. $1.25. Neale.

  The third edition of Mr. Dozier’s poems including “A galaxy of
  southern heroes” and other poems of former publications.


=Dresser, Horatio Willis.= Health and the inner life: an analytical and
historical study of spiritual healing theories; with an account of the
life and teachings of P. P. Quimby. **$1.35. Putnam.

  “Mr. Dresser’s book is primarily devoted to rehabilitating the memory
  of Mr. P. P. Quimby whom the author declares to have been the founder
  of the new movement in this country.”—Pub. Opin.

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  “Mr. Dresser’s last book has the great virtue of presenting abstract
  truths concretely, in good literary style.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 100w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 160w.


=Driscoll, Clara.= In the shadow of the Alamo. †$1.50. Putnam.

  “Local color rather than plot is the most conspicuous element in these
  half-dozen sketches of the San Antonio valley. The spirit of the grim
  old Alamo pervades all of them and in one of them, Miss Driscoll tells
  once more the tale of soul-stirring bravery forever associated with
  its walls.”—Critic.

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  “Pathos and passion are both to be found in the stories, but it is the
  atmosphere which is most delightful.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 80w.

  “They stray from probability and lack skill in the telling.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 130w.

  “A lack of literary finish and artistic proportion makes the reading
  somewhat tedious.”

      – =Outlook.= 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 70w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 60w.


=Dubois, Rev. Leo. L.= St. Francis of Assisi, social reformer. *$1.
Benziger.

  A purely sociological study of St. Francis in which “an effort is made
  to describe the steps by which he became a reformer, the work
  accomplished by him, the processes of his mind and the traits of his
  character as far as these affected his reform work, the racial ideas
  and principles on which his reform work was grounded.”

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  “In many ways it does not compare favorably with the well-known
  biography of Sabatier, to which the author gives high praise.”

    + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 175. Jl. ’06. 60w.

    + + =Cath. World.= 83: 258. Ap. ’06. 430w.


=Dubois, Paul.= Influence of the mind on the body; tr. from the 5th Fr.
ed. by L. B. Gallatin. **50c. Funk.

  The education of the reason to control physical health is the watch
  word of Dr. Dubois’ little volume. In his discussion of the reciprocal
  influence which the spirit and body, the moral and the physical, exert
  upon each other, he believes that religion can be efficacious only
  when it creates a living philosophy in him who practices it, that such
  a philosophy has power to order harmony.


=Dubois, Dr. Paul.= Psychic treatment of nervous disorders; tr. from the
French by Smith Ely Jelliffe, and William A. White. *$3. Funk.

  “He does not make any exaggerated claims.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 574. Mr. 8, ’06. 230w.


=Du Bose, William Porcher.= Gospel in the gospels. **$1.50. Longmans.

  “‘The gospel in the gospels’ is their revelation of God in humanity
  and of humanity in God. Christianity is described ‘in its largest
  sense to be the fulfillment of God in the world through the
  fulfillment of the world in God.’ In these three stages are marked—(1)
  the gospel of the earthly life of Jesus, the common humanity; (2) the
  gospel of the resurrection, expressive of the new power communicated
  by Jesus as the conqueror and destroyer of sin and death; (3) the
  gospel of the incarnation, presenting the works wrought by Jesus as no
  mere act of an exceptional humanity, but a work of God, fulfilling and
  completing himself in humanity. These three stages constitute the main
  divisions of the work.”—Outlook.

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  “The former publications of Professor W. P. Du Bose ... have raised
  high expectations, which are justified in this his latest work.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w.

  “The strong point of Mr. Du Bose’s book is, to the mind of the present
  writer, that it offers a logical position to metaphysically-minded
  persons who are already emotionally and spiritually convinced.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 204. Ag. 11, ’06. 1420w.


=Du Cane, Col. Herbert=, tr. War in South Africa. **$4. Dutton.

  An authorized translation of the German official account of the war in
  South Africa. Following a four part narrative of the war’s events is a
  “Tactical retrospect” of the conflict “in which are considered the
  skill of the Boers in the employment of their weapons, the defects of
  their methods of fighting, ‘innocuous’ bombardments, misapplied
  manoeuvres, the ‘essence’ of war, the difficulties confronting the
  offensive, the essential need for mental development.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Colonel DuCane’s translation of the German history has its place
  marked in the library of all soldiers who study their profession in a
  serious manner.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 19. Ja. 19, ’06. 1750w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “While the book is written primarily for military purposes, it serves
  admirably as a history of the war for more general reading.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 82. Jl. 26, ’06. 1090w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 108. F. 7, ’06. 250w.

  “A book of considerable value to students of military matters, whether
  for tactical or historical purposes.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 484. Ag. 4, ’06. 880w.

  “The text is clear, sober, and balanced throughout.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 60w.

  “Admirable translation.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 461. Mr. 24, ’06. 2140w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Duclaux, Mary (Mary Darmesteter) (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson).= Fields
of France: little essays in descriptive sociology. $6. Lippincott.

  “Those who have wandered much in France will enjoy this book, and
  those who have not may by it conceive a desire to do so.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 260w.

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1016. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.


=Dudden, F. Holmes.= Gregory the Great: his place in history and
thought. 2v. *$10. Longmans.

  A biography which portrays “distinctly the Gregory of his own time.”
  (Lond. Times.) The sketch follows a three-fold division: (1) a
  detailed history of the life of Pope Gregory the Great; (2) a
  systematic exposition of Gregory’s theological opinions; (3) an
  account of the political, social and religious characterization of the
  Gregorian age. “Mr. Dudden has fairly faced his difficult task, and
  his industry has been equal to his courage. The book rests upon a
  thorough analysis of the original sources to which, by the way, an
  admirable index serves as guide, whether one use the narrative or not.
  On the other hand, modern authorities, unfortunately, have been almost
  entirely ignored.” (Lond. Times.)

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  “His book is a solid piece of genuine historical work which bears
  witness to conscientious and laborious research. So thorough is his
  method that he scarcely leaves room for a future writer to add
  anything to what will be henceforth the standard work on the subject.”

  + + + =Acad.= 70: 137. F. 10, ’06. 950w.

  “It rests everywhere sanely and safely on a personal study of the
  sources, guided and corrected by a wide knowledge of the researches of
  modern scholars.” George L. Burr.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 635. Ap. ’06. 1100w.

  “Mr. Dudden must be congratulated upon the ample and well-devised
  scheme of his work. He cannot be congratulated upon his omission of
  all reference to the work of other scholars. In the more general field
  of thought and theology of the age Mr. Dudden fails, if at all, in
  completeness. He does not take a wide enough sweep. Gregory’s mental
  peculiarities are treated too much as isolated phenomena. It seems
  ungracious to dwell so much upon what is absent from so laborious,
  honest and interesting a book. Had Mr. Dudden allowed himself more
  time and more liberty of judgment it would have been fully
  successful.” E. H. Watson.

    + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 760. O. ’06. 1560w.

  “Adequate knowledge of the things Gregory said and did, and the sound
  sense to estimate their value; also an intimate acquaintance with the
  men and policies of the pope’s period, and sane historical judgment to
  test them, are conspicuous characteristics of Mr. Dudden’s work: and
  if the biographer has given us many pages—more than are necessary to
  satisfy our bare necessities—we may well forget to grumble, and may
  say our grace with thankfulness.” John Herkless.

  + + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 924. Jl. ’06. 2350w.

  “The style is clear and without affectation.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 29. Ja. 26, ’06. 1920w.

  “Mr. Dudden has succeeded in bringing out in clear relief the truly
  constructive aspects of his work, and in leaving on the reader’s mind
  an adequate impression of one of the greatest of Christian prelates.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 497. Je. 14, ’06. 1040w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 753. N. 4, ’05. 240w.

  “For so thorough and informing a piece of historical labor it is
  wonderfully entertaining.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 655. O. 6, ’06. 2330w.

  “An abler apologist than Mr. Dudden it would be impossible to find;
  because his defense is indirect and implicit, it is all the more
  convincing.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 100: 846. D. 30, ’05. 1670w.

  “By reason of its literary merit, its vitalising power over the past,
  its successful relation of ancient springs of action to living and
  universal movements, and its strictly scientific use of difficult and
  often obscure material, will remain the standard work on the spiritual
  significance of the sixth century in the West.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 753. My. 12, ’06. 2110w.


=Dudeney, Mrs. Henry E.= Battle of the weak: or, Gossips Green; il. by
Paul Hardy. †$1.50. Dillingham.

  A story of love of nearly a hundred years ago is set in a scene
  furnished by a little town of southern England near the sea. “Quaker
  Jay was always a Southerner, passionate and voluble, delighting in
  colour, music, and sunshine. Lucy Vernon, in love with love and with
  Quaker, and as much a child of the summer and sunshine as he, was
  married by arrangement to a husband whose gods were decency,
  self-restraint, and domestic order.” (Lond. Times.) From this romantic
  chaos unanticipated order finally emerges.

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  “Lovers of ‘Susan’ will turn eagerly to ‘Gossips Green’, and they will
  not be disappointed.”

      + =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 180w.

  “Its author, in true modern fashion, is concerned less with the theme
  of the story ... than with the manner of telling it; and this manner,
  is in the main, admirable—sympathetic, humorous, artistic, yet
  conveying withal a slight suggestion of insincerity.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 230w.

  “There are many poignant pages in Mrs. Dudeney’s new book, and for
  their sake she may be pardoned the palpable effort she had to make at
  last to secure a happy ending.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 389. D. ’06. 280w.

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 370w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 490w.

      – =Outlook.= 84: 529. O. 27, ’06. 100w.

  “The story ... is not always pleasant reading, and it is extremely
  difficult to believe in the reality of Quaker Jay, the foundling.”

      – =Spec.= 97: 579. O. 20, ’06. 180w.


=Dudley, John William Ward, 1st earl of.= Letters to “Ivy” from the
first Earl of Dudley; ed. with introd. and notes, by S. H. Romilly. *$5.
Longmans.

  “All who are interested in the politics of the period between Pitt’s
  death in 1806 and the great Reform bill of 1832 will be delighted with
  these letters of Lord Dudley to Mrs. Dugald Stewart.” (Sat. R.)
  “Speaking broadly, one-third of the papers may be called unimportant,
  since they are but hasty notes illustrating merely the writer’s filial
  affection for Mrs. Stewart. The other two-thirds consist of moderately
  long epistles—epistles, at any rate, which are long enough to disclose
  the nature of Ward’s tastes and mind.... The correspondence here
  published runs parallel during the greater part of its course with the
  ‘Creevy papers,’ and covers some of the ground traversed by the first
  volume of Grenville.” (Nation.)

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  “The book is efficiently edited ... the one objection that we have to
  make against it is its title.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1071. O. 14, ’05. 1150w.

  “Mr. Romilly’s chapter-prefaces are, in general, excellent, but his
  notes are too exclusively political.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 573. O. 28. 2090w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 100. Jl. 12, ’06. 520w.

  “In these letters he is seen at his best. They are a rich feast for
  all who enjoy the lighter phases of politics, literature, society and
  travel.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 440. D. 15, ’05. 2850w.

  “The interest attaching to these letters is much greater than that
  belonging to the average volume of eighteenth-century correspondence,
  and, quite apart from their service in recalling the memory of an
  extraordinary man, they bring us much nearer to Dudley himself than do
  any of his other writings.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 101. F. 1, ’06. 1650w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 641. S. 30, ’05. 280w.

  “As a lively contemporary view of the men and events of that critical
  period they possess something of the attraction which belongs to those
  of Horace Walpole himself for a period slightly earlier.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 25. Ja. 13, ’06. 1070w.

  “Next to their keenness and geniality, their predominant note is
  extreme sanity. Written in an easy and affectionate style, and full of
  shrewd judgments on politics and society. We cannot praise too highly
  the editorial work of Mr. S. H. Romilly.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 100: 593. N. 4, ’05. 1650w.

  “Not only are they excellent in themselves, but they reveal a strange
  and curiously attractive figure, somewhat of a mystery to his
  generation, and almost forgotten nowadays save by diligent students of
  memoirs.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 611. O. 21, ’05. 1750w.


=Dudley, M. E.= Tangled threads: a tale of Mormonism. 50c. Badger, R: G.

  An anti-mormon poem which in nine cantos of rhymed couplets tells the
  direful story of the handsome Mormon Rolland, of the wives he married,
  and of his death which finally set them free.


=Duignan, W. H.= Worcestershire place names. *$2.40. Oxford.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 466. Ja. ’06. 30w.


=Duke, Basil W.= Morgan’s cavalry. $2. Neale.

  Gen. Duke “who has fought under John Morgan gives some accounts of
  various raids in which he took part. His point of view is that of a
  Kentucky man who went South; and what is of most interest in the
  volume is the description of the straits to which the Kentucky
  secession regiments were driven in the last period of the war,
  especially after the secession of Lee and Johnston.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is really a long time since there has come into this office a
  Civil-war book affording such unmixed satisfaction.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 140w.

        =Nation.= 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 70w.

  “It contains, moreover, a vast deal of interesting and picturesque
  matter—in spite of the fact that Gen. Duke is not always cunning at
  narrative—and throws as much light on the actual state of affairs in
  the Western army, especially as to the weaknesses of that army, as any
  contribution to the subject that we now recall.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 465. Jl. 21, ’06. 740w.

  “His is a well-written narrative, direct, simple, aglow with human
  interest, rich in anecdote, and free from animosity against those who
  brought his leader’s and his own efforts to naught. As a military
  history it is somewhat open to criticism, but corrective readings can
  easily be obtained, and it is undoubtedly deserving of a wide
  audience.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 50w.


=Dumas, Alexandre.= Count of Monte Cristo; complete rev. tr. with
biographical sketch by Adolphe Cohn. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.

  Compactness and utility are foremost among the characteristics that
  recommend the thin paper two volume sets. This “Monte Cristo” with its
  two thousand pages will occupy no more than two inches of shelf space.
  A biographical sketch of Dumas and an introduction make the book
  desirable from a student’s viewpoint.


=Dunbar, Agnes B. C.= Dictionary of saintly women. 2v. ea. *$4.
Macmillan.

  “We have found the references, as far as we have been able to verify
  them, exact and correct. No Catholic library ought to be without this
  useful work.”

  + + + =Cath. World.= 82: 118. Ap. ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Howdy, honey, howdy. **$1.50. Dodd.

  “Tho they are songs without notes, they have a lilt by which they sing
  themselves for the reader. Mr. Dunbar’s poems are much the better of
  the two, but some of the photographs reproduced in ‘Banjo talks’ have
  the greater artistic merit.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 284. F. 1, ’06. 250w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.


=Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. **$1. Dodd.

  “Every poem in this little collection counts.”

      + =Reader.= 7: 453. Mr. ’06. 250w.


=Duncan, Norman.= Adventures of Billy Topsail. †$1.50. Revell.

  The second edition of a book that can delight the heart of a real boy.
  The author says “All Newfoundland boys have adventures; but not all
  Newfoundland boys survive them.” Billy Topsail is among the lucky
  survivors of prank and adventure. He captures a huge devil fish, goes
  whaling, is lost on a cliff, runs away to join a sealer, and is
  equally ready in calm or gale, high tide or low to beat any
  companion’s emergency record. A wholesome book with the right spirit
  for boys.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A rare style marks the book.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 140w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 130w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 110w.

  “‘The adventures of Billy Topsail’ ... are not in themselves of
  absorbing interest, and Mr. Duncan’s style is rather spasmodic and
  impressionistic, but they have the virtue of being out of the
  ordinary.”

    + – =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 50w.


=Duncan, Norman.= Mother. †$1.25. Revell.

        =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ’05. 60w.

      + =Reader.= 6: 719. N. ’05. 120w.


=Duncan, Robert Kennedy.= New knowledge: a popular account of the new
physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of
matter. **$2. Barnes.

  “Is a book on science for the layman that will rank among the best of
  its kind.”

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 170w.


=Dunham, Curtis.= Golden goblin; or, The Flying Dutchman, junior: a
pleasant fantasy for children based on the most fascinating of all
undying legends; told in prose and verse; pictures by George F. Kerr.
†$1.25. Bobbs.

  A fantastic tale of the experiences of two little shipwrecked Dutch
  children who were picked up by the phantom ship, the Flying Dutchman.
  Even the most imaginative child will have to exert himself to keep
  pace with the swift panorama of sea adventures.

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        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.


=Duniway, Clyde Augustus.= Development of the freedom of the press in
Massachusetts. *$1.50. Longmans.

  A monograph which won the Toppan prize of Harvard University in 1897.
  “After the preliminary chapter on the control of the press in England,
  the author transfers his investigations to Massachusetts, and traces
  in chronological order the events which marked the decline of
  authority over the press in the New World.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A valuable addition to the ‘Harvard historical studies’ series in
  which it is published.” Andrew McFarland Davis.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 145. O. ’06. 1220w.

  Reviewed by Ellis P. Oberholtzer.

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 345. S. ’06. 700w.

  “Hereafter anyone who wishes to know anything on this subject will
  refer to this monograph.” Theodore Clarke Smith.

    + + =Atlan.= 98: 704. N. ’06. 160w.

  “Abundant footnotes, with references and appendices, attest the
  scholarly investigation, the authoritativeness, and the excellence of
  this study of the early press in Massachusetts.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 168. S. 16, ’06. 270w.

  “A real contribution to the study of the evolution of liberty in
  America.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.

  “The development of a free press in the United States has never before
  been traced so adequately or so authoritatively.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1232. N. 22, ’06. 670w.

  “He comes nearer than any other writer to being the historian of the
  free press in the Anglo-Saxon world.”

  + + + =Nation.= 83: 248. S. 20, ’06. 1020w.

  “Is in all respects scholarly, authoritative, and interesting.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 255. N. ’06. 270w.

  “Mr. Duniway’s narrative is ... excellent.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 24. Jl. 7, ’06. 190w.

  “In Professor Duniway’s excellent monograph a subject requiring
  exhaustive research is developed with thoroughness, with logical and
  historic continuity, and flanked by a large array of authorities,
  personal and documentary.” C. Deming.

    + + =Yale R.= 15: 328. N. ’06. 630w.


=Dunn, Martha Baker.= Cicero in Maine, and other essays. **$1.25.
Houghton.

  “Rather too self-consciously light and airy in tone.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 70w.


=Dunne, Finley Peter (Martin Dooley).= Dissertations by Mr. Dooley.
†$1.50. Harper.

  Mr. Dooley’s observations here recorded deal with such thoroly modern
  topics as short marriage contracts, automobiles, the Irish question,
  oats as food, the Carnegie-Homer controversy, gambling, oratory and
  the comforts of travel. He is at his best and Hennesy as ever a
  willing foil.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His present series of dissertations deserves a place with its
  forerunners.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 70w.

  “He shows no diminution in wisdom or the power to express himself, and
  his dissertations are all up to date.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 777. N. 24, ’06. 170w.

  “Shrewd and whimsically humorous as ever in many of his recent remarks
  on questions and sensations of the day, in others Mr. Dooley seems
  rather heavy-handed, and the old-time Archery road machinery creaks a
  little here and there.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 110w.


=Dunning, Harry Westbrook.= To-day on the Nile. *$2.50. Pott.

  This book was “written primarily for the benefit of prospective
  tourists.... The Boston Transcript concisely sums it up, in saying:
  ‘The volume is at once a history and description of the country, and a
  guide-book, valuable and interesting in each of these respects.’...
  When the traveler starts he would be well advised to drop a copy of
  Dr. Dunning’s book into his steamer-trunk.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Contains not a little substantial information, and affords a graphic
  view of modern Egypt.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 190w.

  “Popular but scholarly chapters on Egyptian history and mythology.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 33. Ja. 18, ’06. 270w.


=Dunning, William Archibald.= History of political theories from Luther
to Montesquieu. **$2.50. Macmillan.

  “The history of political theories has exceptional interest, and the
  recent English literature devoted to it, already comprising a
  considerable number of volumes, includes no work more noteworthy than
  that of Professor Dunning.” Alfred H. Lloyd.

  + + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 368. Ja. ’06. 1660w.

  “If I were to venture to name the distinguishing excellence of this
  volume, I should say that it is the fine sense of proportion that
  guides the author in the distribution and arrangement of his ponderous
  material.” I. A. Loos.

  + + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 575. Ja. ’06. 740w.

  “For one who desires a general survey of the ideas of political
  writers of the period, the book will fill a long-felt want, but there
  is a decided lack of critical analysis, which, to the student of
  political institutions, leaves much to be desired.” Ward W. Pierson.

    + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 428. Mr. ’06. 860w.

  “For a bird’s-eye view of the subject it could scarcely be surpassed.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 297. Mr. 10. 130w.

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 339. F. 8, ’06. 830w.

  “Professor Dunning’s volume covers ground which has often been before
  traversed, and sometimes with much greater attention to detail, and,
  it must be admitted, with greater learning.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 258. Jl. 20, ’06. 900w.

  “This second volume on the ‘History of political theory,’ like the
  first by the same author, is a credit to American scholarship.” Isaac
  Althaus Loos.

    + + =Yale R.= 15: 319. N. ’06. 1130w.


=Dunton, Theodore Watts-.= Coming of love, Rhona Boswell’s story and
other poems. *$2. Lane.

  The seventh and enlarged edition of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s “Coming of
  love” includes in addition to the poems of previous editions those
  that had been “lent to friends in manuscript and mislaid” among them,
  “Haymaking song,” and “The haunted girl.”

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  “The freshness of this poem is amazing, almost as amazing as its
  audacity and simplicity. This poem is a triumph of artistry.” J. S.

    + + =Acad.= 70: 225. Mr. 10, ’06. 1720w.

  “It is in structure, as well as imaginative quality, one of the most
  original poems written during the past century.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 256. Mr. 3. 2270w.

  “As interesting as the story itself, is the prefatory explanation by
  the author as to the growth and final evolution of ‘The coming of
  love’ as it now stands.” Edith M. Thomas.

      + =Critic.= 49: 218. S. ’06. 480w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 310w.

  Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 1660w.


=Durham, M. Edith.= Burden of the Balkans. $4. Longmans.

      + =Spec.= 96: 227. F. 10, ’06. 60w.


=Durstan, Mrs. Georgia Roberts.= Candle light; il. by Katharine H.
Greenland. $1.25. Saalfield.

  The imaginative child and his dreams, the active child and his busy
  work and play are portrayed in rhyme and color for little people.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A series of child verse with agreeable qualities.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1411. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

    + – =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 120w.


=Dyer, G. W.= Democracy in the South before the Civil war. $1. Pub.
house of the M. E. ch. So.

  “A strong protest against the theory usually advocated by our
  historians, that affairs in the South in ante-bellum times were
  largely controlled by an oligarchy of slave-holders, who kept down the
  average white man, who made labor disdained, who kept the South
  agricultural, while the great mass of the people were idle,
  illiterate, and lazy.”—Am. J. Soc.

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  “While its substance is of very uneven value, the style and thought
  are vigorous, and the book deserves attention as a product of its
  time.” Ulrich B. Phillips.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 715. Ap. ’06. 450w.

  “The syllabus suggests a most interesting line of work, which, if
  carried out without prejudice or passion, of which unfortunately there
  are traces, ought to yield results of great value to the student of
  American social and economic history.” J. W. Shepardson.

    + – =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 699. Mr. ’06. 180w.

  “Some of his statements are, to say the least, open to question, and
  more of his conclusions. Nevertheless, its general thesis is sound.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 89. My. 12, ’06. 90w.


=Dyer, Henry.= Dai Nippon: a study in national evolution. *$3.50.
Scribner.

  “The book is interesting, modern, and very thoughtful; having the
  outlook of a man of scientific training, who is yet conscious of the
  deeper currents of individual and racial life.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 338. S. ’06. 380w.


=Dyer, Thomas Finninger Thiselton-.= Folklore of women, as illustrated
by legendary and traditionary tales, folk-rhymes, proverbial sayings,
superstitions, etc. **$1.50. McClurg.

  An anthology, concise and classified, of the proverbial sayings,
  folk-rhymes, superstitions, and traditionary lore associated with
  women.

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  “He displays as usual a great industry and a minute knowledge. But his
  work would be more illuminating if he had chosen fewer facts, and
  written of each one with more suggestion and fancy.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 494. O. 20, ’06. 140w.


                                   E


=Eastman, Henry Parker.= Negro, his origin, history and destiny. $2.
Roxburgh pub.

  “The intention of the author in writing this book has been to reveal
  and demonstrate beyond all question the origin of the negro; to trace
  his history from the beginning to the present, and to state what he
  believes to be the true solution of the race problem.” The work
  contains a reply to “The negro, a beast.”


=Easton, H. T.= Money, exchange, and banking, in their practical,
theoretical, and legal aspects. $1.75. Pitman.

  A complete manual for bank officials, business men and students of
  commerce. “The nature and use of money, the mechanism of exchange, and
  the development of banking in various parts of the world—but with
  special reference to England and the money market—are fully explained.
  But, in addition, the organization of a bank, the duties of its
  various officials, and the manner in which the books of a bank are
  kept and the balance sheet prepared are dealt with.” The legal side of
  banking and the most important points in connection with bills of
  exchange, cheques, and the relationship between banker and customer
  are carefully considered.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Easton’s book appeals neither to the theorist nor to the
  accomplished banker, but to the average student of such matters, and
  it will serve his purpose well.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 130w.


=Easton, M. G.= House by the bridge. †$1.50. Lane.

  Transplanted from sunshiny regiment life in India to a gloomy English
  home steeped in a skilfully guarded mystery, the sensitive heroine of
  this tale grows wise among people who “appear either to have mated
  with the wrong person or suffered troubles of the heart.” The tragic
  element of the story is fully offset by a romantic interest that grows
  up about Joan and guides her interests into pleasanter ways.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book shows great promise of better things to come. Like many
  modern novels it has far too much plot.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 310. Mr. 31, ’06. 280w.

  “The ’prentice hand betrays itself in an exuberance of incident and
  coincidence which gives a sense of overcrowding. The plot is, however,
  well constructed, and the mystery successfully sustained.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 446. Ap. 14. 140w.

  “Here is a story done all in gray and brown and black, with scarcely a
  gleam of sunshine.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      – =Bookm.= 23: 541. Jl. ’06. 310w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 296. My. 5, ’06. 270w.


=Eckel, Edwin C.= Cements, limes and plasters: their materials,
manufacture, and properties. *$6. Wiley.

  “It is probably one of the most complete treatises which has been
  published up to the present day on this subject.”

  + + + =Nature.= 73: 457. Mr. 15, ’06. 470w.


=Edgar, Madalen G.= Stories from Scottish history. 60c. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Children’s favorite classics.” A bright series of
  narratives based on Scott’s “Tales of a grandfather,” running
  continuously from the struggle for freedom under Wallace and Bruce to
  the union of the crowns.

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  “It is well, however, for the reader to bear in mind the fact that Sir
  Walter Scott was a Tory and his historical tales are sometimes
  strongly tinged with the deep reactionary prejudices he entertained.”

    + – =Arena.= 36: 572. N. ’06. 180w.

        =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 80w.


=Edghill, E. A.= Inquiry into the evidential value of prophecy: being
the Hulsean prize essay for 1904; with preface by Rt. Rev. H. E. Ryle.
$2. Macmillan.

  “An accomplished scholar, at present a young Anglican curate, presents
  in this volume both the maximum and the minimum estimate of the
  validity of the prophecies relating to the Messiah of the Hebrew hope,
  which conservatively applied criticism may be well considered to
  justify.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 299. S. 15. 660w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 579. Jl. 7, ’06. 160w.

  “His book is not only a conscientious and well-reasoned presentation
  of his own point of view; it will also assure his readers, whatever
  their own prepossessions, of the adherence of the best instructed
  among the younger clergy to the ancient lines of the faith.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 551. N. 3, ’06. 1060w.


=Edwards, A. Harbage.= Kakemono: Japanese sketches. *$1.75. McClurg.

  Reverently and simply the author sets before us these dainty sketches
  of Japan and her people, her faith, her art, her gods, and the heart
  of her. They are dedicated “To my teachers, the people of Japan,” and
  they breathe the spirit of the cherry blossoms and whisper to our
  modern commercialism of a something we have lost, or never gained.
  “‘What is the soul of Japan?’ asked the poet. ‘It is the mountain
  cherry-tree in the morning sun.’ But a soul so simple, the civilized
  nations, of course, disdain.”

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  “Written with reverence and without adulation.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 510. My. 26, ’06. 430w.

  “Pleasantly written sketches. These pictures are drawn with restraint
  of colour and line and display no little insight into Japanese life.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 513. Ap. 28. 430w.

  “His is a book of tender meditations, of sympathetic insight. He has
  made a mosaic out of his many brief chapters which glistens with
  beauty and has a peculiar charm.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1113. N. 8, ’06. 340w.

  “While he sees temple and landscape with something of a painter’s
  vision, his style is too self-conscious and aesthetic to be a source
  of pleasure.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 150w.


=Edwards, Tryon.= Our country; historic and picturesque. $4.
Perrien-Keydel co., Detroit, Mich.

  A complete story of our country’s development and progress from the
  first discovery by the Northmen to the present time, embellished by
  many hundreds of engravings illustrative of war and historic incidents
  and the grandeur of American scenery.


=Egan, Maurice Francis.= Ghost in Hamlet, and other essays in
comparative literature. **$1. McClurg.

  There are ten essays in this volume. The ghost in Hamlet, Some phases
  of Shakespearian Interpretation, Some pedagogical uses of Shakespeare,
  Lyrism in Shakespeare’s comedies, The puzzle of Hamlet, The greatest
  of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Imitators of Shakespeare, The
  comparative method in literature, A definition of literature, and The
  ebb and flow of romance.

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  “He has a felicitous knack of presenting in an original manner,
  established judgments of first-class criticism. And he has the gift of
  the born teacher, which is to know how to present his ideas luminously
  to his readers and his audience. This excellent little volume is
  replete with suggestion and information for those who, without some
  commentator, are not always equipped to extract a full share of profit
  and pleasure from the mines of literature.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 84: 103. O. ’06. 1140w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 190w.

  “Is a book of real vitality. Dr. Egan’s style ... is not quite worthy
  of his theme.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 630w.

  “If the book is not strongly original, it is interesting, and not
  without its importance to current literary discussion.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 269. Ap. 28, ’06. 970w.

  “He is never dull or commonplace. With his criticism as a whole most
  readers will be in sympathy, because it is founded on common sense,
  largely free from vagaries, and based on knowledge of life rather than
  on theories of life.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 410w.


=Eggleston, George Cary.= Blind alleys. $1.50. Lothrop.

  The characters who find themselves groping in the “blind alleys” of
  modern New York life as they strive honestly to be helpful to those
  less fortunate are a young newspaper man who has become separated from
  the wife he loves, a young doctor who received funds for his education
  from some mysterious source and knows not his own parentage, a
  fabulously wealthy spinster and the girl who passes as her ward, and
  others who are hedged about by circumstances more or less unusual. The
  story of their various complications and how they are finally
  straightened out is given in great detail.

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  “No doubt the book will appeal to those who are interested in
  settlement work and in civic philanthropy in general.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 270w.

  “The characters of the story are lifelike and typical.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

  “Mr. Eggleston’s story has not the smallest relation to life. Two
  merits, however, it has: It is readable, and many of the opinions
  expressed in the conversations ... are striking and suggestive.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 690w.

  “It tells a good story with a wholesome love interest, and it is full
  of situations and incidents that suggest and stimulate thought.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 80w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 50w.


=Eggleston, George Cary.= Life in the eighteenth century. **$1.20.
Barnes.

  “In this companion volume to ‘Our first century,’ Mr. Eggleston
  carries his story through the eighteenth century. The plan pursued is
  essentially the same as in the first book, the author seeking to give
  his narrative as human a meaning as possible, and merely touching upon
  the events which are treated at length in the conventional school
  history.”—Pub. Opin.

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  “The author has dealt too largely in generalities, included too much
  vain repetition of the matter contained in the very volumes to which
  this one should be auxiliary, and omitted too many of the picturesque
  minor details which more than anything else reveal what the life of
  any past epoch really was.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 86. F. 10, ’06. 430w.

  “The new road, which Mr. Eggleston seeks to break, is interesting, and
  there can be no doubt that as a preparation for more serious work
  ‘Life in the eighteenth century’ is of value.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 316. Mr. 10, ’06. 90w.


=Eichendorff, Joseph Karl Benedikt, freiherr von.= Happy-go-lucky; or
leaves from the life of a good for nothing; tr. from the German by Mrs.
A. L. Wister; il. in color. $2. Lippincott.

  A merry youth with the “Wanderlust” upon him follows woodland trails,
  scales mountains, dreams of his Lady fair and plays his beloved
  fiddle. The sketch is of his tramps and chance acquaintances.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Many readers will enjoy these ‘leaves from the life of a
  good-for-nothing’ in their new garb.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 461. D. 16, ’06. 110w.

  “Mrs. A. L. Wister has made an excellent translation of this charming
  German story of irresponsibility and genius.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 90w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 100w.


=Elbé, Louis.= Future life in the light of ancient wisdom and modern
science. **$1.20. McClurg.

  This is a translation of a book which has been creating wide comment
  thruout France under the title “La vie future.” With great care and
  exactness M. Elbé has arranged a plain statement of the discoveries,
  theories, and ideas of the greatest investigators, together with his
  own views and comments, and a mass of authentic information regarding
  the beliefs of the primitive races. The two parts into which the
  treatment is divided are Ideas of the survival as considered by the
  primitive races, and Deductions drawn from the fundamental sciences.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A noteworthy book.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 220w.

  “A work of scientific importance and of reverent philosophical
  treatment.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. Je. ’06. 70w.


Elements of practical pedagogy, by the brothers of the Christian
schools. La Salle bureau of supplies, N. Y.

  This volume “treats as fully as may be done in a small book, every
  side of elementary education—the principles of which regulate the
  physical, the mental, and the moral development of the young; the
  school and its organization; the equipment, the duties, and the
  methods of the teacher; the special methods proper to the teaching of
  the various branches. The treatment of each topic is systematic,
  minute, and, above all, practical.”—Cath. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 117. Ap. ’06. 640w.

  “All students of pedagogy will welcome the appearance of this little
  volume.” Thomas Edward Shields.

      + =School R.= 14: 541. S. ’06. 720w.


=Eliot, Charles William.= Great riches. **75c. Crowell.

  President Eliot’s judicial mind with its eminent fairness is in
  evidence thruout this well organized discussion. He emphasizes the
  obligations as well as the powers and privileges of moneyed people,
  and believes that the only safeguard for the rich man against
  suspicion and adverse judgments is publicity for his methods and
  results.

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  “We sincerely thank Dr. Eliot for his brilliant essay, and shall be
  greatly pleased to meet him again, carrying on his earnest endeavor to
  maintain the standard of plain living and high thinking.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 615. N. 17. 880w.


=Eliot, Charles William.= Happy life. 75c. Crowell.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 70w.


=Eliot, George, pseud. (Mrs. Mary Ann Evans (Lewes) Cross).= Romola;
historically il. and ed., with introd. and notes, by Guido Biagi. 2v.
*$3. McClurg.

  The edition is made valuable by the hundred and sixty illustrations
  which make a historical background for the story. They have been
  carefully selected by Dr. Biagi, librarian of the Laurentian library
  at Florence, who also contributes an introduction on “The making of
  the romance.” He has found it interesting “to attempt an
  investigation, new, curious and engrossing, of the historical
  foundation upon which is based this work of art and fiction, to try to
  discover the hidden scaffolding which supports it, and see what
  materials have been employed in its making.”

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    + + =Dial.= 41: 456. D. 16, ’06. 220w.


=Eliot, George.= Silas Marner. $2. Dutton.

  Charles E. Brock has made this “Silas Marner” especially attractive
  with his twenty-four pictures in color. “He has a most delicate way of
  setting off what is ‘old-fashioned’ through a rare combination of
  lavender, old rose, pea greens, and pale yellows superimposed on
  examples of most careful and suggestive draughtsmanship.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

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  “Annie Matheson’s introduction, we think, adds not much to the
  intellectual adornment.”

    + + =Nation.= 81: 483. D. 14, ’05. 70w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ’05. 100w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 40w.


=Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe (Mrs. John Elliott).= Two in Italy. *$2.
Little.

  “A delightful account of little visits and rambles by the author and
  her husband and chiefly distinguished for its vivid portraits of
  Italian life.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 170w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 21. Ja. 4, ’06. 330w.

  “Whether the stories are true or not, the impressions evidently are”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 47. Ja. 6, ’06. 30w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 30w.


=Ellis, Clara Spalding.= What’s next; or, Shall man live again? $1.50.
Badger, R: G.

  The great question is answered by two hundred living Americans of
  prominence in politics; in the army and navy; in science, art, music,
  and literature; in the mercantile world; in the professions; and in
  the chairs of universities. An expression from secular life only—the
  views of all clergyman being excluded.

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        =Dial.= 41: 462. D. 16, ’06. 60w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 210w.


=Ellis, Edward Sylvester (Colonel H. R. Gordon, pseud.).= Black
Partridge, or, The fall of Fort Dearborn. †$1.50. Dutton.

  Auric Kingdom, a Fort Wayne lad, his chum, Jethro Judd of Fort
  Dearborn, and Black Partridge, the Pottawatomie chief and friend of
  the white man, are the most prominent figures in this story which
  culminates in the destruction of Fort Dearborn. The book is full of
  adventure, of bad Indians, brave settlers, and the woodcraft dear to
  all boy hearts.


=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot in the mountains. †$1. Winston.

  “The special value of the tales, apart from their interest for the
  young, lies in their portrayal of the hardships and perils of the
  early pioneers who blazed the overland pathway to the Pacific.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 334. Mr. ’06. 100w.


=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot on the prairies. †$1. Winston.

      + =Arena.= 35: 334. Mr. ’06. 100w.


=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Hunt on snowshoes. [+]75c. Winston.

  The second of these volumes in the “Up and doing series.” It is an
  account of the adventures of two boys who spend the holidays with an
  old French Canadian trapper. The race for life with a pack of wolves
  at their heels, the escape from a huge bear, the moose hunt, the
  encounter with a panther, etc. all supply aliment for a brave
  imagination.


=Ellis, Elizabeth.= Barbara Winslow, rebel. †$1.50. Dodd.

  “Another historical romance with an English setting, its scene being
  laid just after the defeat of Monmouth at Sedgemoor. Here we have a
  fascinating heroine, arrested for harboring rebels, and a victim of
  Jeffreys and the Bloody Circuit. Sentenced to a brutal punishment, she
  is saved by one of the king’s officers, who thereby becomes himself a
  rebel, and the two take flight together.... Barbara is a young woman
  of the pert and proud type so dear to the romantic heart, and her
  soldier lover has the complementary virtues that the situation
  requires.” (Dial.)

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  “No complaint may be made of it for lack of interest or excitement.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 150w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 300w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 44. Ja. 20, ’06. 290w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.


=Ellis, John Breckenridge.= Stork’s nest. †$1.50. Moffat.

  “A tale of rough life in northern Missouri.... The process of molding
  Emmy, the woodland beauty, into a ‘Person’ suitable to be presented to
  her relatives in St. Louis, is confided to a youth who seeks health in
  the woods. He becomes one of a strange company, in which figure a
  ghost, a weak-minded boy, a brutal counterfeiter, and several tools of
  the last character. Floods and dangers of all sorts interfere with the
  progress of the romance, but love is triumphant over evil in the
  end—the bad people die, and the good live happy ever after.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We cannot help reading to a finish, but we have no desire to reread
  any part of it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 30. Mr. ’06. 240w.

  “The plot is mysterious enough to arouse curiosity, yet not
  sufficiently well managed to prevent annoyance to the reader.”

    + – =Outlook.= 81: 892. D. 9, ’05. 110w.


=Ellison, Mrs. Edith Nicholl.= Childs recollections of Tennyson. *$1.
Dutton.

  These child-hood and girl-hood recollections of Tennyson and the life
  he lived at Farringford began when at the age of three the writer and
  the poet celebrated a birthday together. Many little incidents of
  Tennyson’s devotion to his invalid wife and his two sons are given,
  there are anecdotes of his friends and his friendships and the picture
  of this happily congenial household is a pleasing addition to our
  knowledge of the laureate.

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        =Dial.= 41: 246. O. 16, ’06. 310w.

  “An interesting little book.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 40w.

  “The book was worth writing, and no reader would be sorry to possess
  it.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 429. S. 29, ’06. 80w.

        =Nation.= 83: 241. S. 20, ’06. 200w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 428. O. 20, ’06. 170w.


=Elson, Henry William.= School history of the United States. *90c.
Macmillan.

  A work whose “record of our national development neglects no phase of
  progress—social, industrial, political, or literary—and takes note of
  the underlying causes at work, as well as of the changes wrought. In
  subjects that have been hotly controverted its temper is eminently
  fair and judicial. Designed for young people in their teens, many of
  the elders will find it both interesting and instructive. Foot-notes
  are often skipped, but Mr. Elson’s are so full of anecdote as to
  escape neglect.”—Outlook.

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  “The book possesses two decided merits. The first of them is an effort
  at proportion in dealing with events.”

      + =Bookm.= 23: 218. Ap. ’06. 160w.

  “Excellent text-book.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 30w.

  “The style has charm, vigor and color, and the author’s patriotism is
  stimulating and communicative.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 257. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 673. Jl. 21, ’06. 130w.

  “Mr. Elson has shown us how a history may be made interesting as well
  as instructive.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 80w.

  Reviewed by Marcus W. Jernegan.

    + – =School R.= 14: 458. Je. ’06. 230w.


=Elson, Louis Charles.= Elson’s music dictionary. $1. Ditson.

  A valuable book of reference for musicians, containing the definition
  and pronunciation of such terms and signs as are used in modern music,
  together with a list of foreign composers and artists, with
  pronunciation of their names, a list of popular errors in music, rules
  for pronouncing foreign words, and a short English-Italian vocabulary
  of musical words and expressions.

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  “For the most part, however, this handy dictionary deserves
  commendation.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 807. Je. 30. 190w.

  “We can cordially commend this book to students and teachers alike.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 70w.

  “A marvel of lucid condensation.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 413. My. 17, ’06. 170w.

  “Is rather more inclusive than most books of its class. We cannot
  quite understand why its list of composers and other musical artists
  should not include Americans.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 90w.

  “This is one of the first successful attempts to classify and revise,
  in compact, accessible form, the musical terms which puzzle the
  layman, and which the teacher is constantly called upon to explain.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 100w.

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 102. Ja. 20, ’06. 50w.


=Elton, Oliver.= Michael Drayton. Constable & co., London.

  This little volume by Professor Elton is “as an ‘avant-courier’ to the
  concerted attempt to restore Drayton to his place of eminence in
  English literature ... [and it tells] the prospective reader of the
  poetry all that is known, through the researches of modern scholarship
  of the man and his work.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 69: 1001. S. 30, ’05. 1300w.

  “Here, then, is the preparation one should need for the study and
  proper understanding of Drayton’s voluminous works.” W. A. Bradley.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 10. Jl. 1, ’06. 1740w.

  “As regards the study of Drayton this volume should be more or less
  final. Professor Elton’s style is a trifle too figured for our own
  taste, but he writes well and has produced a book whose real critical
  value is considerably more extensive than one might have expected from
  the subject. There is evidence throughout of long research and
  indubitable scholarship.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 51. Ja. 13, ’06. 1520w.


=Eltzbacher, O.= Modern Germany. **$2.50. Dutton.

  “The author of this very instructive book defines its scope as a study
  of Germany’s political and economic problems, her policy, her
  ambitions, and the causes of her success.” (Sat. R.) The author has
  undertaken to answer the following questions in his discussion: “Will
  Germany eventually supplant Great Britain and take our place in the
  world? What is Germany’s policy towards this country, towards the
  United States, towards Austria-Hungary, and towards Russia? What are
  Germany’s aims, what are her ambitions, and, above all, what are the
  causes of her marvelous success?”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An able and most interesting account of German politics and
  incidentally of German ambitions.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1270. D. 2, ’05. 250w.

  “Taken together the two volumes present admirable general discussions,
  from a strictly British point of view, of the imperialisms of Britain
  and Germany respectively.” Robert C. Brooks.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 251. My. ’06. 800w.

  “Is both instructive and opportune.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 280w.

  “His speculations and asservations would, however, bear more weight if
  he were less prone to trace results to their causes along the lines
  that suit his thesis, and if he had less of a slap-dash way of drawing
  inferences from statistics.”

    – + =Nation.= 82: 513. Je. 21, ’06. 1910w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 789. N. 18, ’05. 330w.

  “There are many assertions and fancies set forth in Mr. Eltzbacher’s
  handy volume with which one must be allowed to differ. He appears to
  the reviewer to arrive at weighty conclusions, now and then, based on
  flimsy or at least insufficient premises. But of this there can be no
  doubt, his book is interesting and full of virile thought.” Wolf von
  Schierbrand.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 469. Jl. 28, ’06. 1670w.

  “In view of the new tariff which is going into effect on the first of
  March, Mr. Eltzbacher’s book will receive a timely welcome. Mr.
  Eltzbacher writes as a protectionist, and his argument is of extreme
  interest; to the general student, however, his book might have been
  more valuable if he had devoted more space to the arguments of his
  opponents. We note his fairness, nevertheless.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 82: 325. F. 10, ’06. 360w.

  “A very keen and informing study of the German Empire. Mr. Eltzbacher
  writes in a clear, suggestive style, and has added an excellent index
  and bibliography to complete his text.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 190w.

  “This survey of the German’s industrial life is extremely well done,
  and we do not know any book which within such moderate limits enables
  one to estimate the ability and energy which are devoted by the State
  to the purpose of furthering the material prosperity and power of the
  German people.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 440w.

  “We would suggest that the latter half of the book, dealing with the
  financial and economic aspects of the German Empire, would have been
  better qualified to serve the requirements of the general public had
  the writer been content to minimise his tables and lists of figures,
  and so far as possible, to avoid such very thorny problems as that of
  the comparative wisdom of the fiscal policies of Germany and Great
  Britain.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 1600w.


=Elzas, Barnett Abraham.= Jews of South Carolina. *$6. Press of J. B.
Lippincott co.

  “The author’s aim has been to show the part taken by the Jew in
  commercial, professional, political, and social activities. The volume
  includes chapters on the beginnings of the Jewish settlements in the
  colony, their religious organization and religious dissensions, the
  part taken by the Jews in the wars and in affairs of government, the
  expansion of the Jews over the State, and short biographies of the
  most prominent members of the race.”—Dial.

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  “He has materially added to our knowledge of South Carolina Jewish
  history, and he might safely have permitted historical students to
  discover this fact for themselves, without attempting to emphasize it
  by belittling all his predecessors.” Max J. Kohler.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 940. Jl. ’06. 470w.

  “In spite of minor defects, the work has a great value as an account
  of one of the influential elements in Southern society.”

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 392. Je. 16, ’06. 590w.

  “His book is of the same order as hundreds of local and genealogical
  histories written about ‘towns’ and old families of New England, but
  appeals perhaps to a larger public.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 534. Je. 28, ’06. 1130w.


=Emerson, Ralph Waldo.= Friendship and character. $1. Century.

  The value of this “Thumbnail” offering is increased by Emma Lazarus’s
  essay on Emerson’s personality which forms the introduction.


=Emerson, Willis George.= Builders. $1.50. Forbes.

  A young New York newspaper man is sent out west by his managing editor
  to write a series of sane minded articles on the futility of western
  investments which will keep eastern money at home. He, however,
  catches the western fever, invests in lots in an unbuilt city, loses
  his position by his enthusiastic reports, and finally stakes his all
  upon a gold mine which to the surprise of everyone “strikes pay dirt.”
  There is of course, a western girl in the story and there are other
  characters chiefly prospectors, western in type and of mingled good
  and evil. The plot of the story is superior to its workmanship.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

  “Yet for all the crudeness of the story and the people there’s a sort
  of romantic quality about Mr. Emerson’s book which tempts the reader
  on from page to page.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 472. Jl. 28, ’06. 650w.


Empire and the century: a series of essays on imperial problems and
possibilities, by various writers. **$6. Dutton.

  “The present volume is intended to give, within the compass of a
  single book, the current views of representative men and women upon
  those special departments of imperial development with which they are
  severally qualified to deal. Its purpose is to give an authoritative
  account of the British Empire, as it appeared to contemporaries at
  this particular moment of its history.” There is an introduction by
  Mr. Charles Sydney Goldmann, and a poem by Rudyard Kipling, called
  “The heritage”; the other writers include J. St. Loe Strachey, J. L.
  Garvin, the Bishop of Stepney, Carolyn Bellairs, R. N.; George Peel,
  Sir Edward Hutton, Prof. J. W. Robertson, Benjamin Sulte, Sir Godfrey
  Lagden, Lady Lugard, Valentine Chirol, Sir Frederick Lugard, Col.
  Younghusband, and many others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The essays often contradict one another, and the whole is somewhat in
  the nature of a collection of magazine articles. On the other hand,
  some of the contributions are full of interest and well worthy of
  attentive consideration.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 715. N. 25. 1380w.

  “Admirable and extensive compendium.” Robert C. Brooks.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 251. My. ’06. 620w.

  “It contains a great deal of political, geographical and commercial
  information hard to find elsewhere.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 70w.

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 377. N. 10, ’05. 2420w.

  “The work is a collection of expert opinion not a methodical
  treatise.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 98. F. 17, ’06. 600w.

  “In every instance the writers are competent to treat of the themes
  allotted to them, and if their views are frequently colored by
  political preferences they are nevertheless informative and deserving
  of close attention.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 276. F. 3, ’06. 350w.

  “This volume forms an extremely valuable contribution to our knowledge
  of Imperial problems.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 1087. D. 23, ’05. 2260w.


English essays, selected and edited by Walter Cochrane Bronson. *$1.25.
Holt.

  “While the volume is in no way designed as a text in the history of
  English literature, it would prove a most excellent companion piece to
  such a course.”

      + =Bookm.= 22: 643. F. ’06. 140w.

  “The book is well suited to its special purpose, and should also be
  welcome to the general reader who is interested in this line of
  literature.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 80w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 50w.

      + =School R.= 14: 232. Mr. ’06. 50w.


=Eno, Henry Lane.= Baglioni: a play in five acts. **$1.25. Moffat.

  A drama founded upon the story of the celebrated Baglioni family who
  ruled in Umbria for over fifty years. “Set in Perugia, in the Italy of
  the fifteenth century, with a plot which swims in a mist of blood and
  tears, it is cast in that antiquated literary style which is always so
  perilous to handle, and which betrays one so easily into turgidity and
  bombast.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The blank verse marches with tolerable, even correctness, but the
  rhetoric is often turgid and we should doubt if the play could be
  found to be actable, though possibly possessing some dramatic
  passages.”

    – + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 100w.

  “He has allowed himself to be distracted by dramatically irrelevant
  circumstances.”

    – + =Ind.= 60: 517. Mr. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “It is worth reading, if one has the time, as a vivacious portrayal of
  the renaissance mood.”

    + – =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 60w.

  “The work, which ought to be biting, almost corrosive from its nature,
  tastes insipid.” Bliss Carman.

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 818. D. 2, ’05. 750w.


=Erb, J. Lawrence.= Brahms. $1.25. Dutton.

  A useful and suggestive introduction to the life of Johannes Brahms
  which appears uniform with the “Master musicians” series. “There are
  no stirring events to recount, no revolution, or hurling of artistic
  thunderbolts; his life is but a record of work, unswervingly pursued,
  and of a homely, simple life of quiet friendships, with rambles
  through Italy or Switzerland in holiday times, though these holidays
  were the opportunities for some of his best work, as is ever the case
  with a true artist.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 69: 1087. O. 14, ’05. 510w.

  “Mr. Erb’s book is not a bad book; he has gathered his materials
  conscientiously and he has not tortured truth in their
  presentation—only he has missed the opportunity to create a fine piece
  of work.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 490. Ag. 16, ’06. 470w.

  “The most useful of these, [biographies of Brahms] for the general
  reader, is Erb’s.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 473. Je. 7, ’06. 90w.

  “His biography is not marked by originality, either of research or of
  critical views; but it will fill a place that has not been exactly
  filled in English.” Richard Aldrich.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 190. Mr. 31, ’06. 60w.

  “Although it is written without any great distinction of style, it is
  decidedly readable.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’05. 190w.

  “Though not on the same level of excellence as Mr. Duncan’s work, is a
  useful and unpretending little book.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 763. N. 11, ’05. 160w.


=Eva Mary, Sister.= Community life for women; with introd. by Boyd
Vincent. 75c. Young ch.

  A little book which advocates the sisterhood idea and organization as
  an authorized part of church order. The subject is treated in nine
  chapters, as follows: The need of religious communities, Vocation,
  Probation, The regular life, The vow, The common life, The temptations
  of the community life, Popular objections to the community life, and
  Helps and hindrances.


=Evans, Florence Adele.= Woodland elf. 60c. Saalfield.

  The stories which the woodland elf reads from the leaves of his
  library bush to comfort Maidie, who is lost in the woods, will
  interest other little people who are not lost for they tell all about
  the chameleon’s color, why snakes shed their skins, why Indian pipes
  grow, why the wild-cat has no tail, why seals wear furs, why wishes no
  longer come true and explain the whys and wherefores of many other
  wonderful things.


=Evans, Henry Ridgely.= Old and new magic; introd. by Dr. Paul Carus.
*$1.50. Open ct.

  “This book begins with the ancient Egyptian magic and comes down to
  such modern prestidigitateurs as Kellar and Herrmann. Scores of
  conjurers’ tricks are explained, with abundant illustration. In its
  introduction Dr. Paul Carus discourses in a readable way about the
  relations between magic, illusion, and miracle from the point of view
  of one to whom the miraculous is the impossible.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A discursive and unpolished but hugely entertaining account of
  necromancy and conjuring.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 770. My. 19, ’06. 290w.

  “No reader need fear to take up this book because of its moral or
  ethical purpose. It contains fascinating reading for everybody.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 290w.

        =Outlook.= 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 128. Jl. ’06. 50w.


=Evans, Herbert Arthur.= Highways and byways in Oxford and the
Cotswolds. $2. Macmillan.

  In this new volume in the “Highways and byways” series the author
  “takes Oxford as a starting-place, and wisely devotes far the larger
  part of the book to less well-known places.... Upper and lower
  Slaughter, Temple Guiting, Chipping Warden, Stow-on-the-Wold.... These
  are the samples of the many quaint names of scores of English villages
  through which the author takes his reader in a leisurely pedestrian
  trip. Everywhere he finds ancient hills, ruined abbeys, picturesque
  cottages, or old-fashioned inns, and his narrative abounds in local
  traditions, legends, and the drift of the side-eddies of history. The
  drawings are by Frederick L. Griggs.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Evans, except for an occasional touch of affectation, writes very
  well, and displays a knowledge alike of architecture, history, and
  botany.”

      + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 417. Ap. 7. 340w.

  “The volume is a thoroly good one, and will be of service to the
  tourist who visits Oxford, for all necessary instructions for
  following the route are given.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 641. S. 13, ’06. 290w.

  “The volume is fully up to the rest of this charming series.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 250. S. 20, ’06. 620w.

  “It is not only attractive, but taking it as a whole it is accurate
  and valuable; between its covers is store both of pleasure and of
  profit.”

    + + =Nature.= 74: 124. Je. 7, ’06. 560w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 103. F. 17, ’06. 330w.

  “Mr Evans writes in a discursive and agreeably rambling way.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 200w.

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 852. D. 20, ’05. 70w.

  “Mr. Evans is fully equal to his task of guide and historian.”

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 645, Ap. 28, ’06. 220w.


=Evans, Thomas Wiltberger.= Memoirs of Dr. Thomas W. Evans:
recollections of the second French empire. *$3. Appleton.

  Dr. Evans, American dentist of the French court, had a particularly
  favorable viewpoint for first hand facts, and in becoming Napoleon
  III’s “eulogist and apologist” he finds “unusual opportunities of
  observing the evolution of political ideas and institutions in France
  and the conditions and causes that immediately preceded and determined
  the fall of the second empire as seen from within.” (Critic.) The
  first absolutely authentic account of Empress Eugénie’s flight from
  France at the time of the Commune is furnished by Dr. Evans, who
  himself aided in her escape.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1308. D. 16, ’05. 1470w.

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 829. D. 16. 1370w.

  “Dr Evans made no pretension to literary ability, but at the same
  time, if these ‘Memoirs’ are in his own words, he knew how to express
  himself in an interesting and picturesque manner.” Jeannette L.
  Gilder.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 82. Ja. ’06. 750w.

  “It is evident that he could, did he choose, throw much light on the
  history of the Empire and its fall. The present volume, intelligently
  edited by his friend and executor, Dr. Crane, is ample evidence that
  he has so chosen. The last [part] is the most interesting, the first
  the least convincing.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 215. F. 10, ’06. 870w.

  “His attempts at assuming political importance leave one unconvinced,
  his judgments on men and things reveal more a mixture of naiveté and
  self-importance than anything else, and yet there is a residium that
  has some claim to attention.”

    – + =Nation.= 82: 185. Mr. 1, ’06. 360w.

  “It is interesting—it ought to be conclusive, but it is not, for some
  reason.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 774. N. 18, ’05. 1390w.

  “The book is thoroughly readable and quotable.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ’05. 140w.

  “The human personal interest in the notes and letters more than atones
  for the lack of literary form.”

    + – =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 290w.

  “His Memoirs lack both authority and charm.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 367. Mr. 24, ’06. 1570w.

  “More ‘Memoirs’ of Dr. Evans may be published. It is to be hoped that
  they will be as interesting as these, but editorially better
  compressed.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 674. Ap. 28, ’06. 1640w.


=Evelyn, John.= Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, esq.; with the
life of the author by Henry B. Wheatley. 4v. *$12. Scribner.

  The bicentenary of the death of John Evelyn has renewed interest in
  the famous diarist who “by a prodigal accident” was a contemporary of
  Samuel Pepys. This four-volume importation contains the diary of John
  Evelyn, selections from his letters, a biographical sketch of the
  author and a new preface.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Wheatley’s edition is second only to his famous edition of
  Pepys.”

  + + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 165. Ag. 11. 570w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

  Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 451. D. 16, ’06. 370w.

  “We may welcome an old favorite in its new dress, although we might
  wish that the volumes were a trifle less bulky—and expensive.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 183. Ag. 30, ’06. 590w.

  “The extreme dryness of the memoir, one may almost say, is a guarantee
  of its authenticity, and in truth it is chiefly, as it almost had to
  be, a summary of the diary itself.” Montgomery Schuyler.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 593. S. 29, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  “This is undoubtedly the definitive edition of Evelyn’s ‘Diary’.”

  + + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 20w.

    + + =Spec.= 96: 712. My. 5, ’06. 1480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Everett, Grace W.= Hymn treasures. $1.25. Meth. bk.

  It is the aim of this book to bring to light some of the hidden
  treasures of hymnody and to show their worth. From the Magnificat and
  the Benedictus sung by Mary and Zacharias, respectively, to the very
  modern songs, the author writes interestingly about the makers of
  hymns and their contributions.


=Ewald, Carl.= My little boy; tr. from the Danish by Alexander Teixeira
de Mattos. **$1. Scribner.

  “Not often does the father of a little boy write his biography so
  humorously, tenderly and sympathetically as does Carl Ewald, in
  telling the story of his little son. The two are comrades, bound
  together by many common interests and pursuits.... The little boy ...
  teaches his father a few lessons, altho the wise man needs fewer than
  most parents; and the little lad learns many lessons, as all boys and
  girls must.... He must be taught strict honesty, and respect for the
  rights of others. The father teaches these things as well as many
  others, truthfulness, fidelity to a trust or to a promise, the cruelty
  of race prejudice, in a way of his own, which is always sympathetic
  and respectful of a child’s feelings.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is the sweetest biography we remember.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1163. My. 17, ’06. 390w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 90w.


=Eyre, Archibald.= Girl in waiting. $1.50. Luce.

  “This story belongs to a class now prevalent in fiction, the short
  extravaganza.” (Ath.) “This is an unpretentious tale of a rich girl
  masquerading as a poor one and coming under suspicion as a dangerous
  character. There is a young man in the case, of course, and
  circumstances shape themselves, equally of course, to bring the two
  together.” (Critic.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It does not lack the modern essentials of the genus—liveliness and
  flippancy. As a whole its tone is not quite equal, as the airs of
  comedy and farce are intermingled a little too crudely.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 324. Mr. 17. 90w.

  “Mr. Eyre writes pleasantly and cleverly and enables the reader to
  avoid ennui for an idle hour.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 60w.

  “Taken all together ‘The girl in waiting’ is almost as good as some of
  the things in the same line which have been done by Mr. Morley
  Roberts. There’s a light touch, a venturesome spirit, an eye for human
  oddities, not a little human sympathy, and a knack of kindly
  caricature.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 580w.

  “A droll little comedy of misunderstanding, although beyond this
  Archibald Eyre has produced an unusual story told in an unusual way.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.


=Eytinge, Rose.= Memories of Rose Eytinge. **80c; **$1.20. Stokes.

        =Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 70w.

  “The book abounds in interesting bits of reminiscence, anecdotes, and
  incidents of public characters, with sidelights on their
  idiosyncrasies,—forming the naïve chronicles and observation of over
  half a century.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 96. F. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “There are spirit and individuality in many of her comments upon
  people.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 150w.


                                   F


=Fairlie, John Archibald.= Local government in counties, towns and
villages. *$1.25. Century.

  Uniform with the “American state series,” Dr. Fairlie’s work is mainly
  descriptive of the present time, reducing historical discussion to a
  brief summary. Such matters are treated as “county officers, police,
  and justices; the town in New England, in the south and the west;
  public education, charities, public health, and local finance in a
  manner suited to the large mass of readers who approach such a subject
  neither as lawyers nor as philosophers.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 60w.

  “He gives a careful and businesslike presentation for the general
  reader or the young person who wants to get the subject up for a
  college course.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 241. S. 20, ’06. 200w.

  “The usefulness of this work will be at once appreciated by any one
  who has attempted to find an adequate treatment of this topic in
  existing text-books.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 200w.


=Fairman, James Farquharson.= Standard telephone wiring for common
battery and magneto systems. *$1. McGraw pub.

  A handbook for telephone men, containing diagrams of circuits for
  straight lines, party lines, plans, sub-stations, private lines and
  intercommunicating systems, with a brief description of the apparatus
  used and rules of the fire underwriters.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is intended primarily for telephone wiremen, and it appears
  to be well adapted to their work.” H. H. Norris.

      + =Engin. N.= 55: 430. Ap. 12, ’06. 130w.


=Fairweather, Mary.= Passion stroke: a tale of ancient masonry. $1.50.
Badger, R: G.

  A mystical tale of the strange passing of the Sibyl of Delphi-Pythia
  and the high-priest, Hiereros of Delphi, and his dual personality. the
  faun thru the two kingdoms of the flesh and of the mind to the great
  third kingdom of life in love. The action centers about the time of
  the burning of the ancient temple of Delphi.


Fairy stories; retold from St. Nicholas. **65c. Century.

  Sixteen fairy tales in prose and rhyme, copyrighted all the way from
  1874 to the present year appear here in an attractively illustrated
  volume for young readers. Among them are Tinkey, The ten little
  dwarfs, The king of the golden woods, Casperl, Giant Thunder Bones,
  and How an elf set up housekeeping.


=Fanning, Clara E.=, comp. Selected articles on the enlargement of the
United States navy. *$1. Wilson, H. W.

  Fifteen articles dealing with material on both sides of the question,
  “Resolved that the policy of substantially enlarging the American navy
  is preferable to the policy of maintaining it at its present strength
  and efficiency” have been reprinted from various magazines to make up
  this little volume. The result is a fund of information on the subject
  which will prove valuable not only to the high school debating league
  but will help all students, club members, or librarians who wish
  information upon this subject in compact form. Articles by Captain
  Mahan, John D. Long, Captain Hobson, and Rear Admiral George W.
  Melville have been included.


=Fanshawe, Reginald.= Corydon: an elegy in memory of Matthew Arnold and
Oxford. *$1.80. Oxford.

  In the 224 Spenserian stanzas which compose this tribute to Matthew
  Arnold “The evolution of the intellectual life of Oxford during the
  last sixty years is traced with knowledge and insight, and there is
  some felicitous literary criticism by the way.... Though the elegy
  abounds in memorable phrases ... depends for its success neither on
  these nor on the beauty of individual stanzas, but rather on the
  orderly progress of the closely knit thought and the sustained dignity
  of the language.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 663. Je. 2. 340w.

  “Mr. Reginald Fanshaw has paid a heartfelt tribute to an institution,
  a man and an intellectual epoch.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 65. Ag. 1, ’06. 330w.

  “In passing from the programme to the performance itself the reader is
  most pleasantly surprised to find it continuously informed by a mellow
  poetic mood, and containing scarcely a lapse from suave and
  accomplished workmanship. The tone is frankly academic and
  traditional, and most successfully so. There is a lack of intensity,
  of original poetic energy in the conception of this that makes against
  its wide and enduring appeal.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 143. Ag. 16, ’06. 500w.

  “He is a little inclined to a surfeit of epithets, but his verse is
  orderly and musical, and he expresses gracefully many genuine, if not
  very startling truths.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 90w.


=Fariss, Amy Cameron.= Sin of Saint Desmond. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

  A tale of the loves of a will-o’-the-wisp girl who allows the marriage
  with the man she does not love to bind her in no way to marital
  allegiance. She finally enthrals a man of supposedly strong nature
  known among his relations as “Saint Desmond.” The story is dramatic,
  even tragic as it finds no better solution than making death a
  punishment for waywardness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 250w.


=Farmer, James Eugene.= Versailles and the court under Louis XIV.
*$3.50. Century.

  “It has been a pleasure to read so historically accurate, and so
  well-balanced a survey of the court of the Grand Monarque.” James
  Westfall Thompson.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 658. Ap. ’06. 730w.

  “The book is therefore likely to be of some value as a work of
  reference, whilst it should also appeal to the general reader. The
  index is unfortunately far from adequate; but we have seldom read a
  book containing so much matter which was so free from printers’
  errors.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 225. F. 24. 2050w.

  “Altogether, this is an entertaining and instructive book, although
  devoid of pretension to profound interpretations of the age of Louis
  XIV.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 350w.

  “In some descriptions Mr. Farmer goes dangerously near the language of
  auctioneers. Though laborious and careful, Mr. Farmer has only
  produced a guidebook of a very superior kind. A visitor to Versailles
  could hardly read anything better.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 51. F. 16, ’06. 610w.

  “One submits to the charm of narrative with the feeling that he is
  resting on absolutely sure ground.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 600w.

  “One could hardly ask for a more intimate life-like and exact picture
  of the first gentleman of Europe and his time.”

    + + =Reader.= 7: 565. Ap. ’06. 630w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 120w.

  “As it stands, it is half guide-book, half history and biography, and
  so arranged that one finds it difficult to read through. Mr. Farmer’s
  selections from the memoirs of the time are made with great judgment.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 713. My. 5, ’06. 1420w.


=Farnell, Louis Richard.= Evolution of religion: an anthropological
study. *$1.50. Putnam.

  Two of the four lectures delivered in 1905 for the Hibbert trust deal
  with the methods and the value of the study of comparative religion
  and its relations to anthropology; the remaining two are special
  studies in the anthropological manner, of the ritual of purification
  and the evolution of prayer from lower to higher forms.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It contains much that is suggestive and valuable, and the two
  chapters on ritual purification and the evolution of prayer are real
  contributions to the study of these important matters.”

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 1258. D. 2, ’05. 320w.

  “This first essay is essentially only a vindication of the comparative
  study of religion. The remaining two essays are excellent specimens of
  constructive work.” F. C. French.

    + + =J. Philos.= 3: 580. O. 11, ’06. 920w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 443. D. 15, ’05. 490w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 749. N. 4, ’05. 270w.


=Farquhar, Edward.= Poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

  “A volume of somewhat remarkable verse not without promise of future
  work, as ambitious in theme, and as widely speculative, yet with all
  mature reflection and more disciplined regard for order.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 110w.


=Farquhar, Edward.= Youth of Messiah. $1. Badger, R: G.

  A poem which is based upon material supposed to have been found in an
  ancient manuscript newly discovered.


=Farquhar, George.= Plays; ed. with an introd. and notes by William
Archer. *$1. Scribner.

  An addition to the “Mermaid series.” The volume contains the
  following, four plays: The constant couple, The town rivals, The
  recruiting officer, and The beaux’ stratagem.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Archer’s edition is, as would be expected, scholarly and
  trustworthy.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 199. S. 1, ’06. 1970w.

  “The ‘Mermaid’ texts are now issued in those thin-paper editions which
  are the detestation of most good book-lovers.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 200. S. 6, ’06. 100w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 60w.


=Farrer, Reginald J.= House of shadows. †$1.50. Longmans.

  “Tempest Ladon, is a north-country squire of ancient lineage, who
  marries a young Italian lady. Elena dies in giving birth prematurely
  to a son, and leaves behind her a casket of love-letters written, she
  says, to her husband, which he promises never to read. The son, St.
  John, in his turn, marries a beautiful middle-class girl and brings
  her home to his father, who hates her as she hates him. Meanwhile
  Tempest discovers that he is dying of sarcoma, and is so afraid of
  hell-fire if he commits suicide that he tries to persuade his son to
  take the chances of damnation and kill him. Ultimately the
  daughter-in-law is tempted into handing him the overdose which ends
  him, but not before he has discovered that Elena’s letters were
  written to an Italian cousin, who is the real father of St.
  John.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is clever enough to make us hope that, when Mr. Farrer has read
  more widely and thought more sanely, he may yet do good work.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 406. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.

  “The characters are drawn with a vivid touch, but not one is genuinely
  agreeable.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 324. My. 17. 250w.

  “A book remarkable for its force and continuity.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 84. Mr. 9, ’06. 480w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 240w.


=Fawcett, Mrs. Millicent Garrett (Mrs. Henry Fawcett.)= Five famous
French women. $2. Cassell.

  Five character studies of French women “of intellect who were born to
  hold the reins of power.” (Acad.) They are Joan of Arc, Renée, Duchess
  of Ferrara. Louise of Savoy, her daughter, Margaret of Angoulême and
  Jeanne d’Albrét, queen of Navarre.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The studies suffer from weak construction, but they are interesting.
  The style is clear, with a certain cheerful colloquialism which is
  rather unexpected.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 352. Ap. 14, ’06. 950w.

  “It is a little difficult to determine what kind of public she has in
  view. Evidences of carelessness in proof-reading are somewhat
  numerous.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 892. D. 30. 280w.

  “As Mrs. Fawcett’s standpoint is a non-Catholic one, she expresses
  some opinions with which we cannot agree; and she hardly applies the
  same weights and measures to the Catholic and Huguenot.”

      – =Cath. World.= 84: 106. O. ’06. 430w.

  “The author is to be congratulated ... for having brought very near to
  modern appreciation a series of remarkable characters.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 309. My. 12, ’06. 680w.


=Fechner, Gustav Theodor.= On life after death, from the German by Hugo
Wernekke. **75c. Open ct.

  “This is a new edition of a book too little known in this country. The
  author, a professor of physics in the University of Leipsic ... is at
  once a scientist and a poet.... His fundamental postulate is the
  continuity of life, and it will commend itself alike to the student of
  the New Testament and the student of philosophy.... The biographical
  sketch of the author which is appended to the volume adds to its
  interest and serves to interpret it.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by W. C. Keirstead.

        =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 556. Jl. ’06. 120w.

  “Dr. Wernekke’s [translation] is the more literal, but Miss
  Wadsworth’s reads more smoothly.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1597. Je. 28, ’06. 360w.

  “The chief defect of the book is its tone of assurance, the author’s
  fancies being affirmed with the same positiveness as if they were
  scientific observations of philosophical deductions.”

    – + =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 190w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 357. Je. 16, ’06. 1210w.


=Fenollosa, Mary McNeil (Mrs. Ernest F. Fenollosa) (Sidney McCall,
pseud.).= Dragon painter. †$1.50. Little.

  The depth of feeling which the Japanese of the passing generation hold
  for Japan and the art that has always been hers is strongly brought
  out in this story of Kano Indara, the last of a line of great artists,
  who views with terror the encroachments of western art. He hears of
  Tatsu, the wild mountain dragon painter and, in his deathless longing
  for an artist-son, he sends for him and gives to him his daughter
  Umè-Ko that he may be indeed his son, and also because he could not
  hold him otherwise, for the youth has painted his dragon-pictures
  merely because his soul was filled with a longing for the dragon-maid,
  his mate thruout all incarnations. When he finds her in Kano’s
  daughter his great love absorbs the artist in him and Kano, who lives
  for art alone, in his rage and disappointment takes the young wife
  from her too-loving husband until, from the depths of his great grief
  and agony of spirit, the artist in him once more emerges, then she is
  restored to him as from the dead.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In our judgment ‘The dragon painter’ is far inferior as a novel to
  either ‘Truth Dexter’ or ‘The breath of the gods.’”

    + – =Arena.= 36: 686. D. ’06. 530w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1494. D. 20, ’06. 590w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 330w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “One does not need to have had any personal experience in the land of
  which Mrs. Fenollosa writes in order to be perfectly certain that
  these pages give a truthful picture of Japanese domestic life and a
  faithful revelation of the inner depths of Japanese feeling—not one of
  those specious translations of Japan in terms of modern ‘Westernism.’”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 650w.


=Field, Horace, and Bunney, Michael.= English domestic architecture of
the XVII. and XVIII. centuries. *$15. Macmillan.

  The authors of this volume on domestic architecture in England in the
  seventeenth and eighteenth centuries “have provided examples of
  smaller buildings, with their measurements and different views of
  them, besides an introduction and many full notes. There are about 100
  illustrations, including half-tone full, double, and half page plates,
  drawings, diagrams, etc. The introduction contains a resume of the
  history of the English domestic architecture followed by a chapter on
  ‘The renaissance evolution in England,’ and then by descriptions of
  the houses presented.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 280w.

      + =Int. Studio.= 28: 274. My. ’06. 310w.

  “The matter of this text is perfectly well thought out and expressed.
  The book is a valuable one from every point of view.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 144. F. 15, ’06. 870w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 44. Ja. 20, ’06. 270w.


=Fielding, Henry.= Selected essays, ed. by Gordon Hall Gerould. *60c.
Ginn.

  “The editor has evidently profited by consulting the best critical
  comment on his author, and his introduction is both full and
  interesting.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 231. S. 9. 190w.


=Finberg, Alexander J.= English water color painters. *75c. Dutton.

  “About two dozen artists are considered in Mr. Finberg’s little book
  on the water-color painters of England and forty-two half-tone
  reproductions of their works are included.... The names include those
  of Samuel Scott, a marine and landscape painter; Paul Sandby,
  sometimes called the ‘Father of the English school of water color;’
  Thomas Hearne, accomplished also as a draughtsman; Alexander and John
  Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Turner, Rowlandson, Blake, Cotman, Cox, Prout,
  Ford Madox Brown, Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Fred Walker, and others.”—N.
  Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An admirable and instructive essay, which it is a pleasure to read,
  even where one is bound to disagree with it.” T. Sturge Moore.

    + – =Acad.= 70: 497. My. 26, ’06. 1160w.

  “Is really a model short treatise.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 140w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 427. My. 24, ’06. 180w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 190w.

  “Both in text and illustration the little book is extremely valuable.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w.


=Finck, Henry Theophilus.= Edvard Grieg. *$1. Lane.

  Volume eight in the “Living masters of music” series is the first book
  in English on the life and personality of this famous Norwegian
  composer. “An invalid, he has lived in seclusion in the Far North; a
  successful pianist, conductor, and composer almost from the beginning
  of his career, happily married to a cousin who could not only inspire
  but interpret his songs—in spite of some dark years and some
  inevitable shadows, he stands for us in the sun; largely as to his
  career, wholly and radiantly as to his warm personality. The
  photographs of him from the fifteen-year-old boy to the sixty-year-old
  man ... are full of charm and of a winning quality that fit absolutely
  into the character of his music.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is much new material relating to the personal side of the
  composer.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 60w.

  “A sound and sympathetic study of this great son of the North.”

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 18. Jl. 1, ’06. 270w.

  “The book is charmingly written, is entertaining from cover to cover,
  and is sure to become popular with all music lovers. Mr. Finck has the
  gift of the true biographer, of nowhere obtruding his own
  personality.” Joseph Sohn.

    + + =Forum.= 37: 526. Ap. ’06. 480w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 200. F. 10, ’06. 710w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 184. Mr. 1, ’06. 1560w.

  “Mr. Finck’s book is an attempt to place him in the very forefront of
  modern composers. There are interesting biographical details in the
  book.” Richard Aldrich.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 750w.

  “In spite of this attitude of fierce worshiper, Mr. Finck has written
  a very readable as well as useful book. He has succeeded in the first
  place in filling it with personality. He has, in the second place,
  brought together much information about Grieg, some old and some new,
  which has not before been easily accessible.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 82: 520. Mr. 3, ’06. 210w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 60w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 130w.


=Findlater, Jane Helen.= Ladder to the stars. †$1.50. Appleton.

  The author “depicts a young woman whose relatives are housekeepers,
  commercial travelers, clerks, as sex or circumstances decree; and she
  invests her with spiritual ambitions with which the local minister
  cannot cope; with social aspirations unintelligible in a circle where
  human society means nothing beyond class-strata; and with intellectual
  ideals that cannot be shared by those in whose eyes ‘two years at Mrs.
  Clumper’s’ are synonymous with a liberal education.”—Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 71: 375. O. 13, ’06. 160w.

  “Her picture of middle-class life in a country town is admirably
  incisive and humorous, and at the same time free from ill-nature. The
  character of her heroine is less satisfactory.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 340w.

  “The writer leaves us with a feeling that the ideas which she
  attributes to her heroine are her own; in other words, the illusion is
  incomplete. If it had been otherwise the book would have been a
  triumph of art; as it is, we have a comedy of manners, wise, kindly,
  and incisive.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 338. O. 5, ’06. 380w.

  “In spite of its stilted and sometimes unreal heroine and its several
  impossible incidents, it will certainly be the exceptional reader who
  will not find himself very much interested and amused.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 684. O. 20, ’06. 710w.

  “The story, of course, is open to the criticism common to all stories
  which turn on the literary ability of their characters, that the
  author can give no proof of this ability, and that the reader has to
  take it on trust.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 404. S. 22, ’06. 280w.


=Firth, Charles Harding.= Plea for the historical teaching of history:
an inaugural lecture delivered on November 9, 1904. *35c. Oxford.

      + =Nation.= 82: 388. My. 10, ’06. 880w.


=Firth, John Benjamin.= Constantine, the first Christian emperor.
**$1.35; **$1.60. Putnam.

  “On the side of institutions, however, the book is distinctly weak.”
  Charles H. Haskins.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 432. Ja. ’06. 370w.


=Fischer, Louis.= Health-care of the baby: a handbook for mothers and
nurses. *75c. Funk.

  Under Part 1, General hygiene of the infant, the author gives chapters
  upon bathing, clothing, training, etc. Part 2, Infant feeding, treats
  of the various methods of feeding and of infant foods. Part 3.
  Miscellaneous diseases and emergencies, includes a detailed treatment
  of the various children’s diseases and a chapter upon accidents.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 40w.


=Fisguill, Richard, pseud. (Richard H. Wilson).= Venus of Cadiz. †$1.50.
Holt.

  “Read him sympathetically and he will reward you with the next best
  thing to tears,—a laugh.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 170w.


=Fish, Carl Russell.= Civil service and the patronage. *$2. Longmans.

      + =Ind.= 60: 799. Ap. 5, ’06. 310w.

  “A careful and useful historical study.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 350w.

  + + – =Yale R.= 15: 330. N. ’06. 440w.


=Fisher, Clarence Stanley.= Excavations at Nippur; plans, details, and
photographs of the buildings, with numerous objects found in them during
the excavations of 1889, 1890, 1893–1896, 1899–1900 with descriptive
text by Clarence S. Fisher. (Babylonian expedition of the Univ. of
Penn.) 6 pts. ea. pt. $2. C. S. Fisher, Rutledge, Delaware co., Pa.

  “The entire work comprises some two hundred large folio pages of
  topographical introduction and descriptive text, abundantly
  illustrated with cuts and photographs, including some splendid
  full-page photogravures, besides many folding lithographic plates
  giving plans and details of the buildings.”—Outlook.

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  “Altogether we may heartily congratulate both the University and Mr.
  Fisher on the first part of a book, which bids fair to be a most
  valuable contribution to science. We have noticed some typographical
  errors ... but these are trifles.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 340. S. 22. 1520w. (Review of pt. 1.)

  + + + =Ind.= 60: 685. Mr. 22, ’06. 1450w. (Review of pt. 1.)

        =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 50w.

  “Mr. Fisher certainly deserves great credit for the manner in which he
  has exhibited the topographical and culture development of Nippur and
  its temple. In this regard his work constitutes an important
  contribution to Babylonian archæology, and scholars will await with
  interest the publication of the remaining five parts, in which, it is
  to be hoped, more care will be bestowed on the proof reading of the
  descriptive text.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 308. Ap. 12, ’06. 740w. (Review of pt. 1.)

        =Outlook.= 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w. (Review of pt. 1.)


=Fitch, (William) Clyde.= Climbers: a play in four acts. **75c.
Macmillan.

  A new volume in the published edition of the plays of Mr. Fitch. The
  climbers, which had a considerable degree of success on the stage, is
  not only a clever satire upon the social climber but contains some
  well-devised situations, which, altho they lose some of their
  effectiveness in book form, make good reading.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “No other play of this author that we have seen so well bears the test
  of print.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 36. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w.

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 50w.


=Fitch, (William) Clyde.= Girl with the green eyes. **75c. Macmillan.

  The first appearance in book form of Mr. Fitch’s four-act play.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 743. Je. 16. 80w.

  “While far from being a distinguished illustration of the literary
  drama, the play reads very well—possibly better than it sounds when
  acted.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 70w.

  “Many passages in this smart piece read well, and the study of
  feminine jealousy it involves has not been surpassed since Colman’s
  ‘Jealous wife.’”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 200w.


=Fitch, William Edwards.= Some neglected history of North Carolina,
including the battle of Alamance, the first battle of the American
revolution. $2. Neale.

  “The value of the book lies wholly in the original documents reprinted
  from the North Carolina Records.” Theodore Clark Smith.

    + – =Atlan.= 98: 705. N. ’06. 210w.


=Fitchett, William Henry.= Unrealized logic of religion; a study in
credibilities. *$1.25. Eaton.

  The author deals with a wide field, and apparently with unrelated
  subjects, but his object is to show that “when widely separated points
  in literature, history, science, philosophy and common life are tried
  by their relation to religion they instantly fall into logical terms
  with it.” Under the headings: History; Science; Philosophy;
  Literature; Spiritual life; and Common life he discusses such subjects
  as; The logic of the missionary; of our relation to nature; of the
  infinitesimal; of human speech; of answered prayers; of unproved
  negatives; and of half-knowledge, in which he gives “examples of the
  innumerable correspondences which link the spiritual and secular
  realms together.”

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  “It is a very strong book. The author has read widely, thought deeply
  and knows his ground thoroly.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 823. O. 4, ’06. 170w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 248. F. 17, ’06. 820w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 572. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.

  “That the words ‘logic’ and ‘logical’ are the most applicable to his
  reasonings we certainly doubt. A few pages of his book suggest the
  obvious criticism that there is much more of rhetoric than logic in
  it. The pertinence of the criticism may be concerned, but it does not
  derogate from the value of the work.”

  + + – =Spec.= 95: 930. D. 2, ’05. 1640w.


=Fitz, George Wells, and Fitz, Rachel Kent.= Problems of babyhood;
building a constitution, forming a character. **$1.25. Holt.

  This two-fold study of the controllable aspects of child development
  furnishes conclusions reached from the standpoint of the physician,
  the teacher, the mother and the father. “It is hoped that thru its
  frank and practical treatment of some of the many problems presented
  by parenthood it may give courage to withstand the criticism of
  tradition and convention, strength to resist the modern tendency to
  indulgence, faith to fight for the child’s birthright of a sane mind
  in a sane body.”

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        =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 70w.

  “There is an air of authority, based on experience and the
  unmistakable certificate of good common sense about ‘Problems of
  babyhood.’”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 90w.


=FitzGerald, Edward.= Euphranor: a dialogue on youth. *75c. Lane.

  “Many will read this charming reprint of a forgotten book not for its
  educational, but for its literary charm, for in it FitzGerald proved
  himself a master of the two crafts.”

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 1330. D. 23, ’05. 950w.


=Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington.= Sir Henry Irving: a biography. **$3.
Jacobs.

  Mr. Fitzgerald’s biography was published during Irving’s life time.
  This issue includes ten years of added happenings, making it a
  complete sketch.

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  “There is still room, however, for a full critical account of Irving
  the actor.” Percy F. Bicknell.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 384. D. 1, ’06. 360w.

  “Mr. Fitzgerald’s volume will hardly be a rival of Bram Stoker’s more
  elaborated and formal one. At the same time, it has a value that is
  quite its own.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w.

  “It would be better if it were a little more conservative and little
  less discursive.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 398. N. 8, ’06. 890w.

  “We commend Mr. Fitzgerald’s biography of Irving to persons who want a
  handsome book about a great actor, containing the story of his life,
  told in a kindly way.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 724. N. 3, ’06. 280w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 757. D. ’06. 180w.

        =Spec.= 96: 505. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.


=Fitzgerald, Sybil.= In the track of the Moors. *$6. Dutton.

  “Ranging over wide fields of knowledge, it betrays ignorance which
  should have deterred the writer ... from venturing anywhere near them.
  Solecisms are sown so thickly that the charitable supposition of
  printer’s errors cannot cover half the sins. Nevertheless, the writer
  has observed many things truly, and said some things well.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 46. F. 9, ’06. 590w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 170w.


=Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty.= Life of Granville. 2v. $10.
Longmans.

  “In every way very competent for it, the biographer has done his work
  sympathetically.”

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 666. Ap. ’06. 2350w.

        =Blackwood’s M.= 178: 792. D. ’05. 6660w.

  “This is not only an interesting and readable book, but, as indeed was
  to be expected, a permanently valuable contribution to our political
  history.” Augustine Birrell.

  + + + =Contemporary R.= 88: 769. D. ’05. 6100w.

  “It is not, I may add, too political for the reading of any American
  who loves to read of the history of his own time in England written so
  absolutely from the inside as is this.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

      + =Critic.= 48: 354. Ap. ’06. 1210w.

  “If these two portly volumes cannot lay claim to full equality of
  style and political insight to John Morley’s monumental work on
  Gladstone, among the lives of the statesmen of the Victorian era, they
  may be ranked second, with Charles Stuart Parker’s ‘Sir Robert Peel’
  forming a close third.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 741. Mr. 24, ’06. 1090w.

  “A work of immense importance in its bearing upon the history of
  England from 1850 to 1890.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 120w.

  “The biographer has done his work well. American readers will find
  amusement as well as instruction in this excellent biography.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 224. Mr. 15, ’06. 2090w.


=Flammarion, Nicolas Camille.= Thunder and lightning; tr. by Walter
Mostyn. **$1.25. Little.

  An abridged form of the French work discussing the victim of
  lightning, atmospheric electricity, the flash and the sound; giving
  the effect of lightning on mankind, animals, trees and plants, metals,
  objects, houses, etc.; showing the curious freaks of fireballs, and
  concluding with a chapter on pictures made by lightning.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The translation is exceedingly well done, and we have noticed but one
  mistake.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 364. Mr. 24. 440w.

        =Dial.= 40: 331. My. 16, ’06. 410w.

  “Apart from the above mentioned differences the English translation is
  well done, and will be found very interesting reading.”

      + =Nature.= 73: 196. D. 28, ’05. 210w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 397. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

  “Seems less concerned to explain the marvelous occurrences by
  recognized laws than to startle the reader and convince him that there
  is much that is inexplicable in electricity.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.


=Fleming, John Ambrose.= Principles of electric wave telegraphy. *$6.60.
Longmans.

  A treatise based to a large extent upon the author’s Cantor lectures
  delivered before the Society of arts in London. It is a three part
  work treating respectively of electric oscillations, electric waves,
  and electric wave telegraphy.

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  “The book seems destined to occupy the same place in the field of
  oscillatory currents as the author’s work on the ‘Alternating current
  transformer’ did in the field of ordinary alternating currents. It is
  a book deserving the careful attention of the student, of the
  physicist, and of the engineer, as well as of the telegrapher.” Samuel
  Sheldon.

    + + =Engin. N.= 56: 54. Jl. 12, ’06. 530w.

  “In Dr. Fleming’s book is to be found a treatment of the subject which
  is exhaustive and thorough both on the theoretical and practical
  sides. It is a book which has been wanted and will be warmly
  welcomed.” Maurice Solomon.

  + + + =Nature.= 74: 291. Jl. 26, ’06. 490w.


=Fleming, Walter Lynwood.= Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama.
**$5. Macmillan.

  “Prof. Fleming’s aim is to trace the course of the civil war in his
  native state ... particularly in its political and social aspects,
  from its beginning to the breaking down of reconstruction in 1874....
  The book is divided into six sections, treating consecutively:
  “Secession,” “War times in Alabama,” “The aftermath of war,”
  “Presidential restoration,” “Congressional reconstruction,” and
  “Carpetbag and negro rule.” All these phases of the theme are
  discussed freely and with a wealth of detail and fullness of
  bibliography that must delight the student’s heart. The general reader
  will also find much that is new, many a story or party episode told in
  such a way as to be truly illuminating.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author’s sympathies are decidedly with the South, but the work is
  free from bitterness or prejudice, and is on the whole as impartial an
  account as one can expect from any writer on this subject.” William O.
  Scroggs.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 943. Jl. ’06. 570w.

  “The spirit in which this book is written and the personal equation of
  the writer are fairly open to criticism. On the whole, the author is
  to be commended for a scholarly and critical treatment of a most
  highly important historical epoch.” Charles C. Pickett.

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 430. Mr. ’06. 1130w.

  “The most comprehensive and valuable work of this kind that has yet
  been written.” James Wilford Garner.

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 150. Mr. 1, ’06. 1040w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 20w.

  “Professor Fleming’s method, for scientific precision and efficiency,
  could hardly be surpassed, even by a guillotine. Nevertheless, we
  consider this volume a very important contribution to the history of
  its period.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 349. Ap. 26, ’06. 1910w.

  “It is diffuse, poorly arranged, notwithstanding the elaborate scheme
  or outline presented in the table of contents. In this the
  subdivisions seem to be so minute as to become a source of
  embarrassment to the author. Another difficulty closely allied to this
  one is the frequent repetition of the same ideas. But despite these
  blemishes—important though they be—the book is eminently worth while.
  It is a magazine of information for the general reader.” William E.
  Dodd.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 34. Ja. 20, ’06. 1440w.

  “An admirable, piece of work.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 89. My. 12, ’06. 400w.

  Reviewed by David Miller DeWitt.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 535. S. ’06. 1800w.


=Fletcher, Ella Adelia.= Philosophy of rest. 75c. Dodge.

  The philosophy of rest is preached in four peaceful little essays
  which this tranquil philosopher calls; The unrest of our day, The
  cultivation of soul-force, The ministrations of nature and silence,
  and To conserve force.


=Flint, Robert.= Socialism. **$2. Lippincott.

  A reprint of the work brought out in 1894. “As becomes its author,
  ‘Socialism’ is a philosophical essay upon cardinal points of doctrine,
  and does not deal with the history and present position of socialistic
  speculation or agitation.” (Nation.)

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        =Ind.= 61: 1058. N. 1, ’06. 580w.

        =Nation.= 83: 348. O. 25, ’06. 80w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 287. S. 29, ’06. 240w.


=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= The saint (Il santo): authorized tr.; with introd.
by W. R. Thayer. †$1.50. Putnam.

  “Piero Maironi, a young Brescian, is summoned from an intrigue with a
  married woman ... to the deathbed of his wife.... In the little church
  adjoining the asylum Maironi has a vision which alters the whole
  course of his life. He leaves the world and adopts the name of
  Benedetto, but remains a layman and joins no religious order. Driven
  from the monastery ... he goes forth to preach to the people and is
  hailed by the peasants as a saint and a miracle-worker. He disclaims
  miraculous power; and a sick man, who is brought to him to be healed,
  dies under his roof.... Naturally Benedetto is discarded by his
  ignorant followers.... And he goes to Rome, where he becomes the
  leader of a movement for the reform of the church. Naturally, again he
  comes into conflict with ecclesiastical authority, and ... he is
  relentlessly pursued by Vatican intrigue ... is practically turned
  into the streets, but is taken in by an agnostic professor ... in
  whose house he dies, apparently a failure but foretelling with undying
  faith the triumph of his cause in the person of his disciples.”—Spec.

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  “The English version reads fairly well as a piece of English, but as a
  translation it is not satisfactory and the author’s meaning is often
  inadequately represented or even distorted. But it will give the
  English reader a very fair idea of the book as a whole, and he will
  miss nothing essential.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 38. Jl. 14, ’06. 1090w.

  “One feels compelled to protest against any confusion of the greatness
  of ‘Il santo’ as a piece of brilliant polemics, a powerful theological
  brief, with its worth as a novel. Frankly, it is not a great novel; it
  is too defective in technique, it lacks on the one hand the rugged
  simplicity of Verga, on the other the melodious rhythm and artistic
  proportions of d’Annunzio. Nevertheless, it remains one of the most
  interesting human documents that have come from Italy in the last
  quarter century.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

  + + – =Bookm.= 24: 261. N. ’06. 1760w.

  “Very acceptable English version now given us.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 281. N. 1, ’06. 1180w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 60w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

  “Fogazzaro’s Italian is not the highly poetical medium manipulated by
  Gabriele d’Annunzio. It is saner, simpler, and more direct, while the
  wide sympathy, kindness of heart, and light, wholesome humor of
  Fogazzaro incite, maintain, and develop the reader’s respect.” Walter
  Littlefield.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 496. Ag. 11, ’06. 2800w.

  “The book has gained a place of power among the factors of coming
  change.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 283. S. 29, ’06. 1430w.

  “It appeals to the intelligence and to the religious instincts on
  every page.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 224. N. ’06. 340w.

  “This task [to illustrate in the guise of romance, with a modern St.
  Francis of Assisi as its central figure, the four ‘spirits of evil’]
  has been achieved by Signor Fogazzaro with such eloquence, and yet
  such reverence and restraint, that the action of the Curia in
  proscribing his work is little short of the inexplicable.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 1043. Je. 30, ’06. 900w.


=Folsom, Justus Watson.= Entomology, with special reference to its
biological and economic aspects. *$3. Blakiston.

  Although planned primarily for the student this volume is intended
  also for the general reader, and gives “a comprehensive and concise
  account of insects.” As a rule only the commonest kinds of insects are
  referred to in the text, in order that the reader may easily use the
  text as a guide to personal observation. The anatomy of insects, their
  physiology, color, relations to plants, other animals, and man, their
  behavior, distribution, etc., are fully treated and the volume is
  profusely illustrated and has a bibliography and an index.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is well adapted to general readers who want books on insects more
  advanced than the small popular works.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 120w.

  “It easily takes rank not only with the best treatises on entomology,
  but among those which modern zoological science has produced. The
  author’s style is simple, concise, and lucid. His treatment of other
  writers is uniformly generous and just.”

  + + + =Nation.= 83: 206. S. 6, ’06. 990w.

  “Here is an abundance of practically useful as well as interesting
  knowledge.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 814. Ag. 4, ’06. 250w.

  “The style is never prolix, and although verbal infelicities are
  rather too frequent, the meaning is rarely obscure. The book as a
  whole is excellent, and will be most useful to the general student.”
  J. G. N.

  + + – =Science=, n.s. 24: 589. N. 9, ’06. 730w.


=Forbush, Rev. William Byron.= Boys’ life of Christ. **$1.25. Funk.

  The author has made a strong appeal to boys thru this vivid and
  natural biography of Jesus. His aim is “to show the manly, heroic,
  chivalric, intensely real, and vigorously active qualities of Jesus,”
  to approach the divine Jesus thru the human greatness.

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  “The author of this work has written one of the most fascinating
  stories for the young, apart from all consideration of the subject,
  that we have read in years.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 221. F. ’06. 280w.

  “It is remarkably well done.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w.

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 150w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 50w.


=Ford, Ellis A.= Challenge of the spirit. **30c. Crowell.

  A monograph whose keynote is sounded in the following: “Life itself is
  revelation,” says Mr. Ford, “in all that I myself have felt or have
  known through watching others I find the triumph of spirit over sense,
  the gain on things unseen through the instrumentality of the seen.”


=Ford, Richard.= Letters of Richard Ford. 1797–1858; ed. by Rowland E.
Prothero. *$3.50. Dutton.

  Mr. Ford’s letters are filled with the inimitable humor that made his
  guide book to Spain so popular. These letters written in 1830 from
  Spain to Henry Unwin Addington, then British minister to Madrid,
  “convey in piquant language Mr. Ford’s first impressions of ‘an
  original peculiar people, potted for six centuries.’” (Ath.) The
  editor says “To the artist, the historian, the sportsman, and the
  antiquary, to the student of dialects, the observer of manners and
  customs, the lover of art, the man of sentiment, Spain in 1830 offered
  an enchanting field, an almost untrodden Paradise. In Ford all these
  interests were combined, not merely as tastes, but as enthusiasms.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Prothero’s connecting narrative is skilful and clear.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 389. Mr. 31. 870w.

      + =Dial.= 40: 265. Ap. 16, ’06. 360w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 64. F. 23, ’06. 950w.

  “A graceful but slight book. Only the ghost of Ford has passed into
  these pages.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 492. Je. 14, ’06. 430w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 256. Ap. 21, ’06. 650w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 40w.

  “Excellent letters ... edited with the utmost discretion.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 1038. D. 16, ’05. 1290w.


=Fordham, Elias Pym.= Personal narrative of travels in Virginia,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky; and of a residence in
Illinois territory, 1817–1818; ed. with notes, introd. and index by
Frederick Austin Ogg. *$3. Clark, A. H.

  This manuscript, hitherto unpublished was written anonymously in
  1817–18 by a young Englishman who assisted Morris Birkbeck in
  establishing his Illinois settlement. The journeys are “rich in
  personalia of early settlers, remarks on contemporary history and
  politics, state of trade, agriculture, prices, and information on
  local history not obtainable elsewhere ... and make accessible to
  historical students much new and important material.”

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  “It might be added that Mr. Ogg’s prefatory description of the
  westward movement during this period, showing the economic condition
  of both Old and New World under which Fordham made his tour and his
  observations, is as interesting as anything Fordham wrote.” Edwin E.
  Sparks.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 150. O. ’06. 4420w.

  Reviewed by Theodore Clarke Smith.

        =Atlan.= 98: 703. N. ’06. 60w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 200w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 357. Je. 2, ’06. 140w.

  “It is a most enjoyable narrative, and of real historical importance.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 100w.

  “The volume contains much new material on the local history of the
  region over which Fordham’s travels extended.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 100w.


=Foreman, John.= Philippine islands. *$6. Scribner.

  This third edition of Mr. Foreman’s “Political, geographical,
  ethnographical, social, and commercial history of the Philippine
  archipelago, embracing the whole period of Spanish rule with an
  account of the succeeding American insular government” is not only
  revised and enlarged but contains several chapters upon our
  administration in the Philippines since February 6, 1899, not found in
  the earlier editions. The volume is abundantly illustrated.

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  “Jumble of facts and fancies, information and misinformation.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 514. Ag. 30, ’06. 980w.

  “Such a work as this is of scant value to anyone.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 201. S. 6, ’06. 350w.

  “The author’s knowledge is so broad and complete that even his
  criticisms (and he does criticise) are likely not to be resented. The
  work fulfills all that is implied in its sub-title; it is so complete
  that it is not possible adequately to catalogue its contents in a
  short notice.” George R. Bishop.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 561. S. 15, ’06. 2230w.


=Forman, Justus Miles.= Buchanan’s wife. †$1.50. Harper.

  Beatrix Buchanan, for two years married to a man whom she does not
  love, finds her lot unbearable. The “droop to her mouth” reveals the
  state of her mind and incidentally betrays the fact that she had not
  made the way all sunshine for her husband. Grown cynical and harsh,
  with the “desperately shy sweetness” entirely crushed having nothing
  to nourish it, Buchanan disappears one night from the world. The day
  of Beatrix’ happiness must dawn. She tricks the man she loves by
  purposely lying when called to identify a body resembling her husband.
  After her marriage a little “gray tramp” steps into her rose garden
  with mind as well as lungs gone. It is the pitiable shadow of her
  husband and in her misery she ministers to him till death. The story
  is one of a woman’s will dramatically expressed.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A preposterous yarn, which has little power to arouse sympathy, and
  which depends for its effects upon trickiness and crude melodrama.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

      – =Dial.= 41: 242. O. 16, ’06. 200w.

  “Really a most remarkable tale, told in a forked lightning literary
  style, that is very shocking to the reader’s nerves.”

    – – =Ind.= 61: 939. O. 18, ’06. 310w.

  “Mr. Forman’s new novel has a rather sensational flavor.”

    – + =Lit. D.= 33: 429. S. 29, ’06. 400w.

  “Nothing and nobody within the covers of the book could possibly have
  happened; all the same it does grip one’s interest.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 519. Ag. 25, ’06. 210w.

  “The weakness of the book lies in its confusion of two literary
  methods, one objective and melodramatic, the other an analysis of
  character and its development.”

    – + =Outlook.= 84: 140. S. 15, ’06. 190w.


=Forman, Samuel Eagle.= Advanced civics: the spirit, the form, and the
functions of the American government. *$1.25. Century.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 643. F. ’06. 120w.

  “It offers to the student a large mass of information, clearly
  expressed, and free from the inaccuracies so common in text books on
  civics.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 80w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 90w.

  “A valuable handbook for every American citizen, an interesting guide
  into the field of politics, and an inspiring counselor to duty.”
  Edward E. Hill.

    + + =School R.= 23: 384. My. ’06. 890w.


=Forrest, Rev. David William.= Authority of Christ. *$2. Scribner.

  “The thesis is that Jesus is not to be regarded as authority in
  matters of literary criticism, to determine the authorship of a Psalm
  or to decide whether the stories about Abraham are legendary or
  historical, but that his authority consists purely in his ‘final
  revelation of religious truth and practice, of “what man is to believe
  concerning God, and what duties God requires of man.”’”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Has something of the heaviness which characterizes doctrinal
  discussions of the older sort. The second chapter of the book,
  however, on ‘The legitimate extension of Christ’s authority,’ is a
  valuable bit of arrangement.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1057. N. 1, ’06. 200w.

    + – =Nation.= 83: 37. Jl. 12, ’06. 250w.

  “Dr. Forrest is careful to give a logical completeness to his
  treatment of his subject.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 643. Ap. 28, ’06. 430w.


=Fosdick, Lucian J.= French blood in America. **$2. Revell.

  The first portion of her work is devoted to a survey of the Huguenots
  prior to their coming to America. Then follow an account of the
  unsuccessful attempts to found Huguenot colonies in North America, and
  the story of the beginnings at Plymouth, New Amsterdam, and Virginia.

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        =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 208. O. ’06. 40w.

  “The purpose of the whole is to exalt the part played by Huguenot
  exiles and their descendants, but the claims advanced are so boundless
  and the critical ability displayed so slender as to provoke
  incredulity.” Theodore Clarke Smith.

    – + =Atlan.= 98: 703. N. ’06. 90w.

  “By reason of loose arrangement, repetition and undiscriminating
  admiration we lose a notable chapter of American history. In this wide
  field, Mr. Fosdick has worked with enthusiasm, tho not with care.”

    – + =Ind.= 61: 941. O. 18, ’06. 450w.

  “Mr. Fosdick appears to have no sense whatever of historical
  objectivity. Apart from its anxiety to prove too much this book is a
  useful recapitulation of what has been accomplished in the United
  States by people of French Protestant origin.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 171. Ag. 23, ’06. 530w.

  “Mr. Fosdick’s book does not rank in scholarship with Douglas
  Campbell’s almost forgotten book, but it is as good as some other
  books of ‘claimings’ and will hold its own for some time to come.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 358. Je. 2, ’06. 280w.

  “The defects of the book are so serious that we cannot recommend it
  either as an authoritative or interesting contribution to its
  subject.”

      – =Outlook.= 83: 528. Je. 30, ’06. 270w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 130w.

  “We cannot help thinking that the book might have been ordered; but it
  was worth writing, and is certainly worth reading.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 174. Ag. 4, ’06. 290w.


=Foster, George Burman.= Finality of the Christian religion. *$4. Univ.
of Chicago press.

  Following an introduction and an historical two parts; “Christianity
  as authority-religion,” and “Christianity as religion of the moral
  consciousness of man.” In the first section the rise, development, and
  disintegration of Christianity as authority-religion is
  historico-critically traced. In the second section, Christianity as
  religion of the moral consciousness is defined in antithesis to the
  extremes of naturalism and clericalism.

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  “Taken altogether, his style has so little in common with the ordinary
  usage of British and American theologians that it is not transparent
  enough to make the reading of the book a pleasure, unless it be to the
  narrowest specialist. What ... is the secret of Professor Foster’s
  success? Plainly, it is the vitality of his constructive idea, and the
  earnest, almost passionate, manner in which he works out its
  legitimate outline. He has neglected no important work upon any phase
  of his subject.” Andrew C. Zenos.

  + + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 529. Jl. ’06. 3190w.

  “He is too closely dependent upon particular German writers.” P.
  Gardner.

  + + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 535. Jl. ’06. 2100w.

  “From the standpoint of a layman, I must confess that the book seems
  to me too much elaborated in many places.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 324. My. 16, ’06. 530w.

  “It is the gravest defect of Professor Foster’s work that he has so
  much to say by way of approach to his subject, and so little, in
  proportion, on the subject itself.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 926. Ap. 19, ’06. 1220w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 80w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 484. Mr. 31, ’06. 1500w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 573. Ap. 14, ’06. 810w.

  “Dr. Foster’s argument is close and learned; not easy to read, but to
  be studied and pondered over.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 370w.

  “Both in source and substance this is a significant book, though
  opening no line of thought quite new.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 86. My. 12, ’06. 850w.


=Foster, John Watson.= Practice of diplomacy. **$3. Houghton.

  The audience reached in this work is mainly that made up of men in the
  diplomatic service of the nation, and the author discusses in an
  informing manner the utility of the diplomatic service, the duties of
  diplomats and their rank qualifications, the consular service, the
  negotiation and framing of treaties, arbitration and international
  claims.

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  “His style is so simple and his chapters are so enlivened with
  interesting incidents and sensible criticisms that even readers
  entirely unfamiliar with diplomatic work will have no difficulty in
  understanding and enjoying him.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 1287. N. 29, ’06. 790w.

  “Tho technical in part as setting forth the rules and procedure of
  diplomatic intercourse, it has been prepared for the general reader
  and, needless to say, it has the literary distinction which
  characterizes the works of this experienced and able writer on
  diplomacy.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 250w.


=Fountain, Paul.= Eleven eaglets of the west. **$3. Dutton.

  The “eleven eaglets” of the title are the states or territories of
  California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah,
  Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. The work “is the record of
  several journeys made by the author in the days when the Wild West
  was, with a few exceptions, still a wilderness. He travelled with a
  strong party, and was usually, if not always, accompanied by a waggon,
  which, with infinite labour and astonishing success, was dragged
  through forests, over rocky heights, and across sandy deserts.... [The
  book] will have permanent interest as an account of the extreme West
  as it was forty years ago.” (Ath.)

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  “He tells the story of his adventures in a simple, straightforward
  way, but the conclusions which he sometimes draws from them are not
  altogether convincing.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 419. Ap. 7. 450w.

  “The pictures which he presents of the western states which have
  already changed so greatly are assuredly worthy of preservation.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 140w.

  “Any one unfamiliar with that section of the continent would carry
  away from the perusal of his book a most confused impression of its
  geographical features, and of either its past or its present social
  and industrial conditions.”

      – =Nation.= 82: 299. Ap. 12, ’06. 200w.

  “One sees that the author is an observer of catholicity. His book,
  though the travels are travels of so long ago, is singularly
  refreshing. Informing enough also, though you need not pin your faith
  too utterly to all the things that are said.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 533. S. 1, ’06. 1350w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 500. Ap. 21, ’06. 150w.


=Fowler, Rev. Charles Henry.= Missionary addresses. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

  A group of seven missionary addresses on the following subjects:
  Missions and world movements. Our opportunity. The reflex influence of
  missions. The message, Home and heathen missions contrasted, The
  field. The supreme need of the heathen and Divinity of the missionary
  idea.


=Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (Mrs. Alfred Laurence Felkin).= The
subjection of Isabel Carnaby. †$1.50. Dodd.

  The reappearance of Isabel Carnaby, married and happy makes this story
  a sequel to Mrs. Felkin’s “Concerning Isabel Carnaby.” “First we have
  our old friend Isabel, who heroically refrains from sacrificing to a
  purely personal whim the whole of her husband’s political career;
  secondly, a half-caste girl, married to a good-natured imbecile of an
  Englishman whom she finds it impossible to love until (in the disguise
  of a man) she has felt the weight of his, literally, heavy hand;
  thirdly a parson whose desertion of his wife, arising from a sequence
  of incredible occurrences, is by her endured with a meekness which is
  happily as incredible.” (Ath.)

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  “In general, the smart and good-natured aphorisms in which the book
  abounds seem to us as remote from reality as is the framework of the
  story.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 330w.

  “In ‘The subjection of Isabel Carnaby’, Miss Fowler has come almost
  within sight of the borderland of the masterpieces.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 200w.

  “Somewhat long and extremely loquacious new novel. The author is far
  too deeply engaged in upholding a thesis to linger for long over any
  of the facts which she chronicles.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 5: 170. My. 11, 06. 530w.

  “The combination of fun with brilliance is her own, absolutely. Her
  ceaseless sense of the incongruity of congruities, and vice versa,
  makes an effect as of punning with ideas. There are a few excellent
  little sermons in the book, and many evidences that the writer thinks
  her thoughts in the language of David and Paul.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 640w.

  “Mrs. Felkin appears to be a good woman and a loving wife who had
  nothing particular to say, and in the course of 357 pages has said it
  very well.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 666. O. 13, ’06. 340w.

  “Miss Fowler is an author of irresistible wit and cleverness.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 809. D. 1, ’06. 90w.

  “This story of her married life is not satisfying, although it is full
  of those clever generalizations for which the writer has a special
  gift.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 120w.

  “The story is neither deep nor vital, but it is entertaining and
  refreshing.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 110w.

  “The reader’s feeling of gratitude to her is not due for any subtle
  analysis of character, but for the brilliant powers of repartee with
  which she invests her characters.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 950. Je. 16, ’06. 220w.


=Fowler, Nathaniel Clark, jr.= Starting in life: what each calling
offers ambitious boys and young men; il. by Charles Copeland. **$1.50.
Little.

  Authoritative and practical is this guide to the selection of a
  calling in life. The author has summoned to his aid successful
  representatives of each of the thirty different lines of work
  discussed. The book represents composite opinions on the advantages
  and disadvantages of all the vocations of life which young men are
  likely to enter.


=Fowles, George Milton.= Down in Porto Rico. 75c. Meth. bk.

  “This is an unpretending little volume, giving in plain,
  matter-of-fact way a description of the island, its inhabitants, and
  their characteristics and customs.”—Outlook.

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  “His account, moreover, is marked by a strong religious bias.” H. E.
  Coblentz.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 260w.

  “It is written in a fair spirit, is neither critical nor eulogistic,
  but simply descriptive, is free from all affectation of fine writing,
  but is not characterized by either brilliance of style, pictorial
  description, or philosophic generalizations.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 90w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 60w.


=France, Jacques Anatole Thibault.= Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, tr. and
introd. by Lafcadio Hearn. †$1.25. Harper.

  A new edition of this delightful story of that dear old man, Sylvestre
  Bonnard, member of the Institute and scholar of world-wide reputation,
  who has lived a long life in the congenial companionship of his books
  and his cat, treasuring thru the years the memory of the love of his
  youth. When he finds the daughter of his Clémentine poor and abused he
  seeks, with a child-like ignorance of the world’s ways, to help her
  and in so doing commits his great crime: but by it he gains his point
  and becomes god-father to Jeanne’s romance and to her children.

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  “Even Lafcadio Hearn’s translation can hardly render in English all
  the charm of this wholly delightful story in which M. France put all
  the grace of style and delicacy of characterization which are his in
  his inspired moments.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 90w.

      + =Dial.= 41: 21. Jl. 1, ’06. 40w.

  “The story has had many translators, but of them all the translator of
  the present edition, Lafcadio Hearn, has been most happy in preserving
  the elusive fragrance of sentiment in this beautiful old rose-jar of a
  book.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 190w.

        =Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 50w.

  “Mr. Hearn’s skill as a translator is admirably shown in this book.
  There are some trifling errors of date in the story.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 190w.


=Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi).= Writings
of Saint Francis of Assisi, newly tr. into English, with introd. and
notes by Father Paschal Robinson. $1. Dolphin press.

  “A simple, tasteful volume containing the work of Saint Francis,
  including a group of six letters translated by Father Paschal
  Robinson, of the Order of Friars Minor. The translator supplies an
  introduction which gives some account of the writings, makes some
  comment on their quality, and gives a brief history of the manuscripts
  and the various editions. A series of notes, an appendix relating to
  doubtful, lost, and spurious writings, and a bibliography, with an
  index, give the volume ... a completeness which many books of this
  kind lack.”—Outlook.

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        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 739. Ap. ’06. 50w.

  “Altogether, the volume is that of a thoroughly devout scholar, and
  should take the place of much of the well-meaning literature of St.
  Francis which has become so common of recent years, but has little to
  commend it except its good intentions.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 450w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 328. F. 10, ’06. 90w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 70w.

  “We may pronounce the apparatus of this book to be the best bit of
  modern work done in English on S. Francis of Assisi. The actual
  translation is to our mind the least unsatisfactory, as it certainly
  is the least important, part of the book.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 320w.

  “Father Robinson has done an excellent piece of work, carefully
  avoiding giving offence to those who, while admiring St. Francis, do
  not accept the Roman obedience.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 240w.


=Frankau, Mrs. Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).= Sphinx’s lawyer. †$1.50.
Stokes.

  A story which perpetuates the spirit of a dead man, a “moral lunatic”
  thru the wife’s unceasing energy to carry on his cult. “Errington
  Welch-Kennard, the lawyer, is apparently the high priest of a band of
  admirers who revolve about the ‘sofa-bed’ of Sybil Algernon Heseltine,
  for the avowed purpose of keeping alive the dead man’s notorious
  memory. At much damage to his reputation, the hero has stood by her
  and her husband through their worst days and now consoles the widow
  with a genuine friendship which the pair are content to let the world
  misunderstand. Sybil’s revenge upon fate is to draw young men under
  the blighting influence of her husband’s life and work, but having a
  real affection for the lawyer, she bestirs herself to find him a wife,
  judging that at forty, after an unsavoury career which has exhausted
  his resources, nothing else can secure him safety and happiness.”
  (Bookm.)

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  “The book is irredeemiably vulgar; vulgar in design, vulgar in
  execution.”

    – – =Acad.= 70: 383. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.

  “A mistake both in its motive and its manner.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 260w.

  “The book is good enough to provoke interest. For the robust, ‘The
  sphinx’s lawyer’ is not insipid reading; and granted her chosen
  milieu, Mrs. Frankau does not needlessly offend the timid.” Mary Moss.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 630. Ag. ’06. 950w.

  “Her book is simply bestial in its implications. There is a skill in
  the exhibition no doubt, but to any right-minded person it is
  disgusting.”

  – – + =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 300w.

  “A clever woman who uses her talent perversely is about what we have
  learned to think of the writer who calls herself ‘Frank Danby.’” Wm.
  M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 240w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 190w.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 447. Jl. 14, ’06. 430w.


=Franklin, Benjamin.= Writings of Benjamin Franklin; collected and ed.,
with a life and introd. by Albert H. Smyth. **$3. Macmillan.

  When complete, this ten-volume work will be “almost certain to be the
  final edition of Franklin’s work and correspondence.” (Outlook.) It is
  authoritative, and is compiled from original sources, with material
  arranged in chronological order. The author “has utilized the Franklin
  papers, obtained in 1903 by the University of Pennsylvania, as well as
  the famous Stevens collection in the Library of Congress, and the
  thirteen thousand documents that are the property of the American
  Philosophical society. He has also ransacked the archives of Great
  Britain and of four continental nations, and has made many interesting
  ‘finds.’ Furthermore, he has taken pains to secure accurate
  transcripts and has corrected more than two thousand errors that had
  crept into former editions.” (Forum.) Two volumes have thus far
  appeared.

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  “What promises to be the most complete edition of Franklin and one of
  the most valuable contributions to American historical and literary
  scholarship. His own labors to add to the materials amassed by his
  immediate predecessor have evidently been very great and successful.”
  W. P. Trent.

    + + =Forum.= 37: 404. Ja. ’06. 2630w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Admirable new edition.” Paul Elmer More.

    + + =Ind.= 60: 98. Ja. 11, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

  “It would be easy to quarrel with Mr. Smyth for the scantiness and
  rather vague purpose of his notes. But in other and more essential
  respects this edition deserves the highest praise. It is far more
  complete than any hitherto published.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 1108. My. 10, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 4–6.)

        =Ind.= 61: 1235. N. 22, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 8 and 9.)

  “As the third general compilation of Franklin’s writings, it must
  stand against the works of Sparks and Bigelow; and if the promises
  made are performed, it will surpass in scope and in utility these
  earlier issues.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 12. Ja. 4, ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “In one instance Mr. Smyth has traced the author of two of these
  rejected essays, and in other instances he omits them because they are
  ‘dull and trivial.’ The editor’s notes are excellent, but it is
  puzzling to know how the name of Jarman should have been explained
  only on its third appearance, and why a reference to Whitefield (p.
  234) is allowed to remain concealed in the initials only.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 179. Mr. 1, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “While Mr. Smyth has not found much that was new in this period, his
  careful observance of textual accuracy much increases the value of
  what is printed.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 429. My. 24, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 3.)

    + + =Nation.= 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 204. Mr. 31, ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 5.)

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 758. N. 17, ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 8 and 9.)

  “In every respect the book is admirably fitted for library use.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ’05. 190w. (Review of v. 1.)

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 180w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “As this excellent edition of Franklin’s writings approaches
  completion its superiority over all former editions is increasingly
  evident.”

  + + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 7.)


=Franklin, Benjamin.= Selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin;
ed. by U. Waldo Cutler. 35c. Crowell.

  “Its carefully chosen selections should be put by the side of the
  ‘Autobiography’ on the shelves of the many Americans who are
  interested in the history and literature of their country, but are
  unable to allow themselves the luxury of owning either of the two best
  editions of Franklin’s works.” W. P. Trent.

      + =Forum.= 37: 399. Ja. ’06. 500w.


=Franklin, Benjamin.= Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; printed from
the full and authentic text, ed. by William MacDonald. *$1.25. Dutton.

  Reviewed by W. P. Trent.

  + + + =Forum.= 37: 400. Ja. ’06. 2520w.


=Franklin, Benjamin.= His life, written by himself; condensed for school
use, with notes and a continuation of his life by D. H. Montgomery, with
an introd. by W. P. Trent. *40c. Ginn.

  The essential portions of Franklin’s autobiography have been retained,
  to which has been added interesting matter drawn from his other
  writings. The text is annotated, and of special importance is
  Professor Trent’s introduction.


=Franklin, Frank George.= Legislative history of naturalization in the
United States. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

  This study covers the subject of naturalization from the Revolutionary
  war to 1861 and in it the author has “sought to exhibit the course of
  opinion” upon the subject “chiefly as it manifested itself in
  discussion, reports, and legislation at the central forum of American
  political life.” A good bibliography and index are appended.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Unfortunately the scope of the work is too narrow to give it more
  than a very limited value to the student of citizenship. As a purely
  ‘legislative history,’ however, there is little to criticize,—except
  that, it should be brought down to date so as to cover recent
  legislation.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 121. S. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “The mass of details given by the author ... prevents the mind from
  clearly grasping the important matter contained in the work. The value
  and importance of the study, however, cannot be overlooked.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 640. S. 13, ’06. 420w.

  “This work presents a careful and exhaustive study.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 140w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 330w.

  “A decidedly useful monograph. The book is not conspicuous for
  literary graces, its author manifestly being wholly absorbed in the
  task of accumulating the facts.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 866. Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.


=Frantz, Henri.= French pottery and porcelain. *$2.50. Scribner.

  In this late addition to the “Newnes’ library of applied arts,” “The
  wonderful variety of French ceramics, from the private factory of Hélè
  de Hengest at Château d’Orion, in the time of Francis I down to the
  marvels turned out by the Sevres ovens and their extraordinary
  artistic and useful achievements in crockery in this book molded into
  a coherent chronicle of events, full of romance and story.... Not a
  town or a hamlet which produced a marvel of Faience escapes notice.
  The wonderful Faience violin, a masterpiece of Rouen as well as the
  polychrome bas-reliefs of Monstiers receive proportional attention in
  text and illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The chief objection to the book taken by itself, without comparison
  with others of the series, is that no attempt is made to carry out the
  promise of the title. There are signs that the work has been written
  by some one not familiar with English, or else translated by some one
  not wholly competent, or not very careful. On the whole, the most
  important part of the book is its illustrations. These have been made
  and the examples selected with considerable good taste and
  thoroughness.”

  – – + =Nation.= 83: 40. Jl. 12, ’06. 1130w.

  “The volume is most comprehensive, particularly in its records of the
  seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 280w.


=Fraser, John Foster.= Canada as it is. $2. Cassell.

  “This volume is a fair example of modern ‘special correspondent’
  book-making. It is clever, confident, readable, and full of salient
  points and hurried slangy presentations of political situations.”
  (Spec.) The author “neglects no aspect of the country—the
  fruit-gardens of Ontario, the factories of Montreal and Toronto, the
  wheat-fields of Manitoba, the passes of the Rocky mountains, or the
  lumber forests of British Columbia. Mr. Foster Fraser has looked into
  every nook and cranny of all these countries with keen journalistic
  eye, and has swiftly penned his impressions.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The writing is always strong, vigorous, effective. Altogether, this
  is one of the best books on Canada that has been produced for a long
  time.”

    + + =Acad.= 68: 563. My. 27, ’05. 700w.

  “Presents a fairly accurate picture of the Dominion and its policy.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 528. Ap. 29. 180w.

  “Gifted with a quick eye, and the wide if not always very deep
  knowledge of the experienced journalist, he has produced an entirely
  readable little volume.” Lawrence J. Burpee.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 279. N. 1, ’06. 380w.

  “Much of this is set forth attractively in Mr. Fraser’s little book.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 266. Mr. 29, ’06. 1550w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 810w.

  “In short, Mr. Foster Fraser’s book on the Dominion is both strong and
  weak in the sense in which his previous work on the United States was
  strong and weak. There is an undoubted fascination in the cocksure
  statements conveyed through short, crisp, though occasionally jerky
  sentences.”

  + + – =Spec.= 95: 502. O. 7, ’05. 460w.


=Fraser, John Foster.= Pictures from the Balkans. $2. Cassell.

  The author’s wanderings led him from Belgrade thru Servia, across the
  Turkish frontier, thru Albania and various parts of Macedonia,
  Bulgaria, in and out thru cities and wild mountainous country. He
  tells, in a pleasing fashion of the people and things which he
  encountered, of the strange medley of nations, governments and
  religions, of all the contending forces which go to make up that
  whirlpool known as the Balkans. Forty full page plates from
  photographs illustrate the volume.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author’s impartiality leads him into a certain amount of
  contradiction.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 570w.

  “Mr. Fraser ... contrives to convey a considerable amount of
  information in an entertaining form, which makes no very exacting
  demands upon the attention of the reader.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 187. My. 25, ’06. 550w.

  “When he avoids politics and mingles with the people and restrains his
  air of British indifference and intolerance, he is quite
  charming—particularly in his descriptions of gardens and
  tobacco-fields and where other elements of natural scenery arouse his
  artistic instincts.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 597. S. 29, ’06. 2320w.


=Fraser, Mary (Crawford) (Mrs. Hugh Fraser).= In the shadow of the Lord:
a romance of the Washingtons. †$1.50. Holt.

  Mary Ball who repulsed an unworthy Scottish lover became the second
  wife of Augustine Washington and sailed with him to Virginia. It is
  the account of these happenings that opens this romance of the
  Washingtons. “In due course George is born, and it is his early life
  which forms the chief interest of the book. He makes an attractive,
  but somewhat pedantic young hero, but is, indeed, too difficult a
  subject for Mrs. Fraser, who writes with far more sympathy of his
  father, a fine old gentleman, and of his mother, a woman who lived and
  died ‘in the shadow of the Lord,’ than she does of the young lad.”
  (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The characterization, which is the mainstay of such a book, is
  excellent throughout.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 260w.

  “Mrs. Fraser’s portrait of Washington hardly fills the frame of one’s
  ideal. Upon the whole, however, the novel is a creditable and
  interesting picture of colonial days.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 290w.

  “She is too ponderous in her study of child life.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 338. O. 5, ’06. 420w.

  “If placed in the hands of an intelligent person who, by some
  anomalous circumstance, had never heard of George Washington, the book
  would still—ay perhaps more—appeal to the heart and mind as a splendid
  biography of a splendid family.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 740w.

  “The story is well arranged, the persons concerned are sufficiently
  lifelike and the general effect ... is dignified, and wholesome.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 120w.

  “It is a mistake to weary the reader with details of domestic events,
  marriages, births, and so on, which have nothing to do with the
  story.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 647. N. 24, ’06. 190w.

  “Mrs. Fraser has made her book hang together rather more closely than
  is the case with most historical novels.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 442. S. 29, ’06. 490w.


=Fraser, William Alexander.= Thirteen men. †$1.50. Appleton.

  Thirteen stories of life in Canada and the East Indies. One of the men
  happens to be a fighting ram, one a king cobra, another a coon, and
  still another a collie dog, but they claim the reader’s interest no
  less than the “squaw-man,” the college-bred man and the Scotch
  lumberman.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One ought not to quarrel with Mr. Fraser’s stories for what they are
  not when they are so much that is clever and interesting. For they are
  about things that grip the heart, and they march along with a brave,
  gay manner that is like a whiff of sea wind.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 320w.

  “In these stories the matter as well as the manner shows the deadening
  influence of facile imitation.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 70w.


=Frazer, James G.= Lectures on the early history of the kingship.
*$2.75. Macmillan.

  These lectures deal with the early history of kingship, and in
  sketching a general theory of its evolution show that “it was as
  sagacious magicians rather than valiant warriors that men first gained
  kingship.” (Outlook.) The first part of the discussion is introductory
  and illustrative of savage beliefs in general, the second part surveys
  the field of savage chieftainship and the third part deals with the
  classical evidence.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The points here mentioned detract little from the charm of the work,
  and those who turn to these lectures for a foretaste of the new
  ‘Golden bough’ will find, as of old, skilful exposition of the
  argument, allied to elegance of diction and no little learning.”

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 1970w.

  “He has made a notable contribution to the literature of primitive
  sociology.” George Elliott Howard.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 864. Jl. ’06. 1030w.

  “It is the effect of a good book not only to teach, but also to
  stimulate and suggest, and we think this the best and highest quality
  and one that will recommend these lectures to all intelligent readers,
  as well as to the learned.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 757. D. 2. 1520w.

  “In his handling of the Mediterranean religions, whether he is
  concerned with legend or with cult, his judgments lack authority and
  the impress of special insight or adequate study.” Lewis R. Farnell.

  + + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 928. Jl. ’06. 2360w.

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 7. Ja. 5, ’06. 530w.

  “Of Dr. Frazer’s charm of style and literary skill in arranging his
  material it is needless to speak, and the points noted above detract
  in no way from the interest of the book, which, indeed, might rest its
  reputation on the classical material alone.” N. W. T.

  + + – =Nature.= 73: sup. 4. N. 30. ’05. 1490w.

  “It would not be hazardous to say that Dr. Frazer has shown himself to
  be the most learned of English scholars. Altogether here as elsewhere
  in recent years, Dr. Frazer shows himself more ingenious than
  convincing.” Joseph Jacobs.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 921. D. 30, ’05. 990w.

  “Not often nowadays does one come upon so ingenious a piece of
  original study as these lectures.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 210w.

  “Interesting and suggestive work.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 112. Ja. 27, ’06. 1140w.


=Freeman, Rev. James Edward.= Man and the Master. 75c. Whittaker.

  The chapters on the life of the Master “simply deal with certain
  phases or aspects of that life and seek to lay emphasis upon cardinal
  characteristics” without attempting to set forth any chronological
  order.

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  “While there is nothing in these pages which has not been said before,
  there is nothing which does not need to be said again and again, and
  it is all said briefly, warmly, impressively.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 92. S. 8, ’06. 60w.


=Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins).= Debtor. †$1.50. Harper.

  “It is the story itself, with its unlovely incidents too often and too
  minutely related, that is disappointing.”

    + – =Acad.= 69: 1176. N. 11, ’05. 380w.

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 860. D. 23. 190w.

  “No better book of the honest, old-fashioned kind has appeared this
  year.”

    + + =Ind.= 59: 1340. D. 7, ’05. 660w.

  “Not worth telling in its bare outlines, it is made into a masterpiece
  of Mrs. Freeman’s method.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 217. F. 17, ’06. 430w.

  “This is the most unconventional story that Mrs. Freeman has written
  ... the dénouement is at once artistically and ethically satisfying.”

    + + =Reader.= 7: 227. Ja. ’06. 430w.

  “The book is full of little vignettes of village life charmingly
  depicted, and the story is well put together.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1129. D. 30, ’05. 280w.


=Freer, William Bowen.= Philippine experiences of an American teacher; a
narrative of work and travel in the Philippine islands. **$1.50.
Scribner.

  “This is a narrative of three years of teaching and travel in the
  Philippines.... It is particularly interesting for the light it throws
  on many phases of life and character not noticed to any extent in
  other books; and the testimony it furnishes of the real progress of
  American educational work in the island is extremely gratifying....
  The book is illustrated with reproductions of photographs of scenery
  and life.” (Critic.) The author hopes that his book “will result in a
  better appreciation of some desirable traits of Filipino character, in
  a stronger conviction of the unwisdom of granting at this time, any
  greater degree of self-government than the Filipinos already possess,
  and in a fuller understanding of the work that is being done in the
  public schools in the attempt to fit the people for the eventual
  exercise of complete autonomy.”

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  “The book is especially valuable for the near views that it gives of
  the everyday life of the islanders, their manners and customs, and
  their personal characteristics.”

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 217. O. ’06. 80w.

  “His story, told with a simplicity that recalls ‘Robinson Crusoe,’
  conveys a more vivid and life like picture of life among the Filipinos
  than is to be found in more pretentious volumes.”

    – + =Cath. World.= 83: 837. S. ’06. 590w.

      + =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 110w.

  “The best part of the book is that which describes the methods
  employed by the teachers.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 71. Ag. 1, ’06. 410w.

  “An easily read, unpretentious, but informative and interesting book.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 995. O. 25, ’06. 440w.

  “His work is a valuable one. The book is especially valuable for its
  pictures of the home life, the personal characteristics, the customs
  of the plain people of the islands. It is a study from the ground up.”
  George R. Bishop.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 484. Ag. 4, ’06. 2480w.

  “Although his style has no distinction, and is sometimes marred by
  carelessness, it is unaffected. The author has shown skill in
  selecting the human, the concrete, the picturesque, to present to his
  readers, and in giving at the same time the impression that he has
  shown the typical.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 335. Je. 9, ’06. 220w.

  “This narrative of his work and travel in the islands therefore sheds
  more light on the special conditions which we were called on to face
  there than all the works of dilettante political economists who have
  sought to tell the needs of the islands and the short comings of
  American rule.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 541. Ap. 28, ’06. 1140w.

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 150w.


=French, Allen.= Pelham and his friend Tim. †$1.50. Little.

  A stirring story for boys in which two chums have various exciting
  adventures, the chief of which grows out of a mill strike. The tale
  teaches wholesome lessons of comradeship and charity.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. French has infused vigor and action into his pages.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 130w.

  “A good, wholesome book for boys, and one that will hold their
  interest from the first page to the last.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 150w.


=French, Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French) (Anne Warner, pseud.).=
Seeing France with Uncle John. †$1.50. Century.

  France as seen with Uncle John is a veritable scenic railway, for the
  lively and loquacious old gentleman drags his two nieces over the
  entire map of that interesting country at a rate which makes not only
  their sightseeing, but the conduct of their love affairs, of which he
  disapproves, a difficult proposition. His running comment upon the
  places and things visited is most amusing and forms a clever satire
  upon the Uncle John type of American. There is much wit, and under the
  wit wisdom, and the traveler may profitably read it not only for
  entertainment but as an example of how not to see France.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “Falls so far below what she has taught her readers to expect that
  even her enemies, if she has any, must be sorry that she has published
  it. The book provides merely a mild sort of entertainment.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 320w.

  “It is quite impossible to read this little satire by Anne Warner
  without laughter.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 180w.


=French, Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French).= Susan Clegg and her
neighbors’ affairs, †$1. Little.

  Susan Clegg once more—nor has she forgotten the little matter of
  occupying the gossip-stage’s center, and doing the principal bit of
  talking herself. Mrs. Lathrop is as cheerful a listener as ever, and
  readily susceptible to Susan’s versions of neighborhood happenings.

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  “We do not think, however, that the present volume is quite up to the
  former short stories by this author, and from our point-of-view it is
  very inferior to ‘The rejuvenation of Aunt Mary.’”

    + – =Arena.= 36: 334. S. ’06. 120w.

  “Latent pathos, the soul of true humor, is entirely absent from the
  book. The author nearly always relies on grotesque situations, and
  here her skill is such that the counterfeit often rings like the
  current coin.”

    – + =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 320w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 430. Jl. 7, ’06. 170w.

  “Her observations are marked by philosophy as well as wit.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 200w.


=French, Lillie Hamilton.= Mrs. Van Twiller’s salon. †$1.50. Pott.

  Mrs. Van Twiller gathers about her various types of New York
  society—an artist, a scribe of social doings, a professor, a major,
  various men of the world, etc.—and dominates the group in
  characteristic modern salon fashion.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An amusing volume on the order of the ‘Potiphar papers.’”

      + =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ’05. 10w.

  “The book is not only eminently readable, but very suggestive.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 765. N. 11, ’05. 310w.


=French, Samuel Livingston.= Army of the Potomac from 1861 to 1863.
$2.50. Pub. soc. of New York.

  A “concise and effective” history of the movements of the army of the
  Potomac whose purpose is to award the honors impartially, and to frame
  an absolutely unbiased and correct judgment concerning the various
  commanders.

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  “Purports to set forth ‘an absolutely unbiased and correct judgment
  concerning the various commanders.’ The volume consists largely of
  extracts from documentary material, which the author uses in such a
  way as effectually to thwart the purpose stated above.”

      – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 210. O. ’06. 50w.

  “The volume is composed mainly of extracts from official documents and
  letters, chosen to bolster up the rather absurd and discredited
  positions taken by the author.”

      – =Dial.= 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 220w.

  “Unfortunately excerpt and comment are jumbled together without
  sufficient typographical distinction between the two, and it is often
  difficult to tell what is official record and what is Mr. French. The
  proofreading, moreover, is frequently of a sort to add to the reader’s
  distress. But the matter collated is of the greatest value.”

    – + =Ind.= 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 220w.

  “He succeeds in shedding considerable new light upon many acts of the
  Army of the Potomac and its commanders.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 2, ’06. 150w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 250w.


=Frenssen, Gustav.= Holy land; exclusive authorized tr. of
“Hilligenlei;” tr. from the German by Mary Agnes Hamilton. †$1.50.
Estes.

  “It is less a continuous tale than a collection of charming
  scenes—simple poetic, realistic—of the lives of humble folk working
  and striving in a little harbour town in Holstein. The keynote of the
  book is struck by Hule Beiderwand, ever watching for the coming of a
  ‘brave man who shall bring the whole land beneath his sword until it
  is a holy land in deed as in name.’”—Acad.

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  “Is an exceptionally interesting book, informed throughout with strong
  and tender feeling. Miss Hamilton’s translation is excellent,
  especially as reproducing the atmosphere of poetry and romance and of
  spiritual enthusiasm which is essentially a charm of the original
  work.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 332. O. 6, ’06. 150w.

  “Recommend it most heartily to all who regard the art of fiction as
  something more than a clever spinning of plots and a pleasant
  arrangement of words.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 400. O. 6. 180w.

  “The fundamental impression which it is the author’s purpose to
  produce is created by a long succession of delicate touches, working
  upon the subconsciousness of the reader, and gradually combining in
  cumulative effect.” Wm. M. Payne.

  + + + =Dial.= 41: 282. N. 1, ’06. 860w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 448. Mr. 24, ’06. 1290w.

  “With the exception of a few passages which bear evidence of a
  struggle with the style of the original, the translator’s painstaking
  work has been successful.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 360w.

  “Though the preacher Frenssen may justify some chapters by his
  seriousness of ethical purpose, the artist can offer no apology for
  his offenses against the canons of good taste.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 595. S. 29, ’06. 910w.


=Frenssen, Gustav.= Jorn Uhl; tr. by F. S. Delmer. †$1.50. Estes.

  “To quote his own comment on a German landscape, ‘It was all clearly
  and finely and most lovingly painted, with a touch of plain rustic
  honesty, and a rough, hearty fruitfulness in it.’” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 160w.

  “Frenssen tells his story with unique power. He tells it from his own
  soul. He is a vivisector of his subject’s soul. He probes to the
  primitive spring of action and of feeling. The style is just the
  vesture which such truth would seem to demand. It is direct,
  primitive, and as a rule, bald. It is also live, searching and
  moving.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 31: 318. S. 2, ’05. 1070w.


=Friedenwald, Herbert.= Declaration of independence. **$2. Macmillan.

  “Dr. Friedenwald would do well to simplify his style, which is
  curiously involved.”

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 422. Ja. ’06. 1000w.


=Friedrich-Friedrich, Emmy von (Emmy von Rhoden, pseud.).= Young
violinist; tr. from the 12th ed. of the German of Emma von Rhoden, by
Mary E. Ireland. $1. Saalfield.

  A pathetic story with a happy ending following the hardships and final
  happiness of Mignon Marconi, who, when her father died had as an only
  inheritance her beloved violin. She runs away from cruel treatment, is
  cared for by a band of traveling musicians and finally becomes the
  adopted daughter of a lady bountiful.


=Friswell, Laura Hain.= In the sixties and seventies. **$3.50. Turner,
H. B.

  “A pleasing volume of personal impressions of literary and social
  people of note.... The author is the daughter of an English essayist
  and novelist who had agreeable and friendly relations with Thackeray,
  Cruikshank, Thomas Cooper the Chartist, Kingsley, and other noted men
  of his generation, while Miss Friswell has many anecdotes of her own
  acquaintance, Sir Walter Besant, his collaborator, Mr. J. S. Rice, Sir
  Henry Stanley, William Black, and many writers of our own
  day.”—Outlook.

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  “Is unfortunately disfigured by a good deal of triviality; some
  egotism, for which, however, the author apologizes handsomely; and one
  or two indiscreet passages.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 830. D. 16. 280w.

  “As a record of ‘Impressions of literary people and others,’ it is
  vivid, rapid, thoroughly entertaining and seldom frivolous, and,
  despite occasional carelessness ... generally well written.” Percy F.
  Bicknell.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 188. Mr. 16, ’06. 2240w.

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 770. My. 19, ’06. 200w.

  “The contents are not quite worthy of the excellent paper and print of
  this handsome volume. They would have been more in place in a
  magazine. This is mainly because there is nothing whatever of
  political interest and it is usually their politics that make English
  memoirs worth reading.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 184. Ag. 30, ’06. 420w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 20. Ja. 13, ’06. 240w.

  “Her book is of interest.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 271. Ap. 28, ’06. 960w.

  “The book is cheerful reading, and, while it is occasionally trivial,
  is in the main a good specimen of a class of books which entertain
  one’s leisure hours in a most satisfactory way.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 130w.

  “The book is curiously without ‘purple patches’ ... but it is good to
  read.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 260w.

From servitude to service: the history and work of Southern institutions
for the education of the negro. *$1.10. Am. Unitar.

  “By its freedom from the polemic spirit and by its adherence to actual
  facts and conditions, this book is a valuable contribution to our
  understanding of what is happening to the negro.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 418. Mr. ’06. 160w.

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 520. Mr. 3, ’06. 210w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 150w.


=Frothingham, Eugenia Brooks.= Evasion. †$1.50. Houghton.

  “About two men and a girl. The weak-willed Apollo cheats at cards, and
  the strong Antaeus shoulders the blame. The girl marries Apollo out of
  pity and to help her family, regretting it only once, but for a long
  time.” (Pub. Opin.) “‘The evasion’ contains a plot absorbing enough to
  hold one’s attention tensely to the end, but it will be remembered
  longer for its vivid portrayal of the lives of the idle rich and the
  convincing contrast drawn in its pages between these seemingly useless
  members of society and the big majority that counts.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Her style is cosmopolitan and her point of view that of the dweller
  in both continents, but her spiritual outlook is of the younger world,
  and to the end we are left in doubt whether she is on the side of
  authority, or of negation.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 551. Je. 9, ’06. 350w.

  “There is much that is admirable about the volume. But the prologue
  strikes the wrong note.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 415. Je. ’06. 640w.

  “It is so good that one wishes it were better. Miss Frothingham should
  studiously avoid the morbid and overstrained effects which are her
  most serious menace as a novelist.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 130w.

  “The great army of happy folk who need no warning will find its
  picture of Boston as accurate as the picture of New York in ‘The house
  of mirth.’”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 210w.

  “The story is interesting, well constructed, and written with charm
  and spirit.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 560w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + – =North American.= 182: 927. Je. ’06. 70w.

  “The story is strong, and like many strong things not especially
  pleasant.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 480. Ap. 14, ’06. 70w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 20w.


=Fuchs, Karl Johannes.= Trade policy of Great Britain and her colonies
since 1860, tr. by Constance H. M. Archibald. *$2.50. Macmillan.

  “It is marked by so much of a scientific spirit as to be a really
  useful aid towards the study of our fiscal history during the period
  which it covers.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 643. Ap. 28, ’06. 390w.


=Fuller, Caroline Macomber.= Flight of puss Pandora. †$1.50. Little.

  Weejums, the alley cat’s kitten, has a formidable rival in Pandora,
  the apartment cat. Miss Fuller’s pets have a way of opening homes and
  human hearts for near inspection. But the scrutiny results in lessons
  of observation and human kindness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An animal tale which will please all children who love cats.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 90w.


=Fuller, Hubert Bruce.= Purchase of Florida; its history and diplomacy.
*$2.50. Burrows.

  “This elaborate monograph ... was suggested by the author’s conviction
  that the epoch identified with the acquisition of Florida and with our
  early entanglement with Spain had not received adequate treatment at
  the hands of historians, and that a careful elucidation of this period
  and of the events which marked the struggle to secure New Orleans and
  the Mississippi would contribute a pregnant and interesting chapter in
  our national history. For his material Mr. Fuller has gone direct to
  original sources.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The result of these investigations has enabled him to present in a
  new light many momentous episodes in the early diplomatic history of
  the nation.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 180w.

  “Excellent as is Mr. Fuller’s book and valuable as are the new facts
  that it contains, it is open to two serious criticisms. The material
  upon which it is based is inadequate, and the knowledge which it
  displays of European diplomatic situations is insufficient.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 536. D. 20, ’06. 1340w.

  “Mr. Fuller’s account of this whole affair is the best we know of.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 757. N. 17, ’06. 1130w.

  “Close revision should be had in the event of another edition, and the
  work thus be made still more valuable to historical students, who will
  undoubtedly welcome it if only because it gives ready access to much
  documentary information hitherto not generally available.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 280w.

  “A scholarly monograph.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 50w.


=Fuller, Robert Higginson.= Golden hope a story of the time of King
Alexander the Great. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “The story is told in a style in which care and the exactness of
  historical detail are nicely mingled with the charm of genuine
  sensitiveness to the romantic situation. The book is a fine story of
  adventure.”

      + =Reader.= 6: 722. N. ’05. 170w.


=Fyvie, John.= Some literary eccentrics. **$3. Pott.

  Eleven studies whose best present Landor, Hazlitt and George Wither.
  The other “eccentrics” are Thomas Day, Crabb Robinson, Douglas
  Jerrold, King James I, Sir John Mandeville, Babbage, Beckford and John
  Buncle.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Taken for no more than it professes to be, the book is a good one.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 245. O. 16, ’06. 490w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 665. O. 13, ’06. 1320w.

        =Putnam’s.= 1: 383. D. ’06. 130w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 140w.

  “They are hardly worth binding up into a book. They add very little to
  our knowledge, and they are not a work of a writer alive to the
  picturesqueness of the past or sensitive to the harmonies of the
  English language.”

      – =Spec.= 96: 906. Je. 9, ’06. 1170w.


                                   G


=Gale, Zona.= Romance island. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  The charm of this story does not lie in the plot, indeed one does the
  book an injustice in sketching the course of St. George’s love affair
  with the New York heiress whose father has been made king of Yaque, a
  mysterious island in the eastern seas, which has been ruled by
  hereditary monarchs since 1050 B. C. and whose civilization is what
  the world will be a thousand years from now. St. George, an
  ex-newspaper man now a millionaire, meets the heiress thru an attempt
  to murder her, and follows her in behalf of his old paper, to Yaque
  where she is offered her father’s throne and a royal husband. All
  this, however, is merely a framework about which Miss Gale winds a
  series of charming fancies. It is a dainty and illusive romance from
  cover to cover in which pure sentiment, vivid imagination, practical
  newspaper routine, humor, satire and good character drawing are
  marvelously blended.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story is thrillingly exciting from cover to cover. Those readers
  who do not demand the element of probability, or even of possibility,
  in their novels, will enjoy ‘Romance island.’” Amy C. Rich.

    + – =Arena.= 36: 688. D. ’06. 170w.


=Galloway, Julia Rebecca.= When the lilacs bloom, and other poems. $1.
Badger, R. G.

  Songs of springtime give place to poems of feast days, and these to
  patriotic themes in this little volume of unpretentious verse.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There are echoes of many greater poets on the pages, yet sincerity is
  manifest.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 140w.


=Galloway, Thomas Walton.= First course in zoology: a text-book for
secondary schools, normal schools and colleges. *$2.50. Blakiston.

  A thorogoing text-book whose plan of treatment has been tested in the
  author’s own class room. By its use he has secured good interest and
  fine spirit in the study of animals and animal life on the part of
  beginners ranging from the third year of the preparatory school to
  freshmen in college.


=Gannett, Henry=, =Garrison, Miss Carl Louise=, and =Houston, Edwin
James.= Commercial geography. *$1.25. Am. bk.

  This three-part text book on trade treats commercial conditions,
  commercial products and commercial countries respectively. Numerous
  illustrations accompany the text.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Teachers of geography will find the book most useful.” W. S. J.

      + =El. School. T.= 6: 439. Ap. ’06. 260w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 340w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 128. Ja. ’06. 50w.

  “One of the faults of this generous inclusiveness is the difficulty in
  the logical distribution of emphasis. Some errors have crept in.” J.
  Paul Goode.

    + – =School R.= 14: 457. Je. ’06. 930w.


=Gapon, Father George.= Story of my life. *$3. Dutton.

  “A valuable and interesting contribution to the history of the Russian
  revolutionary movement. All suspicious sensationalism is avoided....
  The story of a great organization is convincingly, straightforwardly,
  and clearly told.” (Lond. Times.) “The story of Gapon’s boyhood, the
  description of the massacre of January, 1905, the account of his
  escape are good. So are the pictures, which, though few in number,
  give interesting glimpses of Russian life in town and country.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 297. Mr. 10. 500w.

  “Told with vigor and deep feeling.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 472. My. ’06. 200w.

  “It is instructive also as to the motives and methods of the
  revolutionists, and as to the corruption, cruelty, and tyranny of the
  autocracy.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 395. Je. 15, ’06. 190w.

  “His book is very modest in tone.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 416. D. 1, ’05. 1220w.

  “The opportunity thus furnished for the study of a curious character
  has considerable value, from a psychological point of view.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 371. My. 3, ’06. 1000w.

  “The story of Gapon’s life is told without dates, or without more than
  the vaguest reference to time. This deficiency greatly diminishes the
  value of the book.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 138. Mr. 3, ’06. 220w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 138. My. 19, ’06. 250w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 332. Mr. 17, ’06. 830w.


=Gardenhire, Samuel Major.= Long arm. †$1.50. Harper.

  Le Droit Conners, artist from inclination and training,
  non-professional detective from pure “love of the game” figures in a
  series of fascinating mysteries upon which he brings to bear not
  clumsy machine-made discretion and discernment, but a finer quality of
  penetration which expresses itself as an original art study well worth
  etching. He is an apologist for erring humanity up to the point of a
  crime’s outraging even the primal instinct then he becomes pitiless.
  There are eight baffling mysteries in the group.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Personally, we do not find LeDroit Conners as entertaining as Old
  Sleuth, although perhaps his methods are more subtle.”

    – + =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 50w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1166. My. 17, ’06. 120w.

  “In every instance the plot is ingeniously and skilfully worked out,
  while the ‘dramatis personae’ from Conners himself to the humblest
  fourth villain, reflect on Mr. Gardenhire’s part an intimate knowledge
  of human nature.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 710w.

  “All of the stories are good not only from the detective point of
  view, but from the novelist’s as well, and their ingenuity by no means
  overshadows their human interest.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 143. Mr. 10, ’06. 640w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 80w.

  “This new member of the detective fraternity is quite worthy to
  succeed his illustrious predecessors.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 110w.

  “The book belongs to that large category which is suitable for reading
  in railway trains or in other places of detention; but Le Droit
  Conners cannot be called a very noteworthy creation.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 190w.


=Gardiner, John Hays.= Bible as English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.

  “A work which confines its attention to the literary character of the
  Bible as it appears in the authorized version, though recognizing and
  indorsing the main principles and results of historical criticism.”
  (Bib. World.) The larger portion of the book is given to the Bible
  itself “in the original tongues,” and the remaining part to the
  translations.

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  “An excellent work of its kind.”

      + =Bib. World.= 28: 351. N. ’06. 30w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 375. N. 1, ’06. 1060w.

  “Has a value limited only by the extent of its circulation, which
  cannot be too wide. What one particularly enjoys about it is, that
  though distinctly scholarly, it is distinctly not academic. It is
  literary as distinguished from, and opposed to pedagogic.” Montgomery
  Schuyler.

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 697. O. 27, ’06. 2650w.


=Gardiner, Ruth Kimball.= Heart of a girl. †$1.50. Barnes.

  “All of Mrs. Gardiner’s gifts of intuition, memory, imagination, and
  observation have been marshalled in the depiction of Margaret Carlin,
  and her years of training in the art of writing stand her in good
  stead.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 150w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 80w.


=Gardner, Alice.= Theodore of Studium: his life and times. $3. Longmans.

  “Miss Gardner presents her present volume as ‘a sketch of a notable
  man, who lived in notable times,’ as one in whose life ‘were focussed
  many great historical tendencies which gave their character to the
  Churches and the civil societies of the Middle Ages.’” (Am. Hist. R.)
  “The iconoclastic controversy, though its history is much less
  well-known than that of the great theological controversies which
  preceded it, is yet, as Miss Gardner points out, of more practical
  interest to us at the present day; and the other conflict in which
  Theodore was engaged, that as to the marriage of Constantine, ... was
  based upon a true moral principle.... After an introductory chapter
  dealing with the earlier history of iconoclasm we have a detailed
  narrative of Theodore’s life, followed by an account of his services
  to hymnology and calligraphy, translations of some of his hymns, a
  short sketch of the succeeding history to 1057, and a bibliography of
  Theodore’s works, while the book is embellished by excellent
  photographs of the remains of the Studite monastery.” (Eng. Hist. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Miss Gardner is at her best—as is natural in one of her training and
  associations—in vivid presentation of the history of the time, yet she
  never fails to perceive its psychological bearing upon the
  individuality of her subject. In a future edition the author will
  doubtless correct some errors and omissions in the index, and a few
  mistakes of facts and nomenclature pardonable in an author not
  personally acquainted with the Orient.” H. H. Spoer.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 637. Ap. ’06. 1020w.

  “Is an attractive narrative, well put together and based upon careful
  study, especially of Theodore’s own works.” E. W. Brooks.

      + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 352. Ap. ’06. 940w.

  “Whether, however, we agree or disagree with Miss Gardner’s estimate
  of the merits of the controversy, we can be wholly grateful to her for
  a work which submits the documents to a fresh examination and draws
  from them an account so lucid, so discreet and readable, of a
  little-known age.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 192. My. 25, ’06. 1120w.

  “This is above all a scholarly work. With all her skill in handling
  her topic she has not succeeded in turning out an interesting book.”
  W. v. S.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 1430w.

  “This is a very learned work, if somewhat marred in execution by the
  writer’s prepossessions.”

  + + – =Spec.= 95: 764. N. 11, ’05. 390w.


=Gardner, Percy.= Grammar of Greek art. **$1.75. Macmillan.

        =Outlook.= 83: 688. Jl. 21, ’06. 250w.


=Gardner, William.= Life of Stephen A. Douglas. $1.50. Eastern pub.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 480. Ja. ’06. 100w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 344. F. 8, ’06. 60w.


=Garland, Hamlin.= Witch’s gold; il. by W. L. Taylor, with colored
decoration by H. A. Linnell. †$1.50. Doubleday.

  A recast of “The spirit of Sweetwater.” It has been restored from its
  cut down serial form to meet the more expensive requirements of a
  holiday edition.

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  “In its present form is a simple healthful love-tale of the West,
  adapted to beguile an idle hour.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 90w.

  “The story does not represent Mr. Garland at his best; it is simply an
  amiable frontier romance, altogether barren of the grim power of
  ‘Main-travelled roads.’”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 390w.

  “The tale probably most attractive in a cruder and more elusive form,
  suffers in the lengthening.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 581. S. 22, ’06. 550w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 338. O. 6, ’06. 220w.


=Garnett, W. H. Stuart.= Turbines. *$2.75. Macmillan.

  This volume “while written with a view to interest amateurs, calls
  special attention to those points and problems deserving the more
  particular notice of students. It has been the author’s object to
  trace the development of the science of turbines as it appears to have
  grown in the minds of the inventors responsible for its material
  manifestations. The two parts into which the book is divided deal
  respectively, with water and steam turbines. Appendices contain
  tables, notes on the ‘Behavior of gas,’ some mathematical principles,
  and other matter. There are eighty-three illustrations in the
  book.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a popular work of a most excellent sort—the sort that is
  calculated to instruct rather than merely to interest or amuse, and in
  which the instruction is given in such plain and simple terms that it
  can be understood by the non-technical reader. On the whole the book
  is one which we can heartily recommend to American purchasers.”

    + + =Engin. N.= 56: 52. Jl. 12, ’06. 480w.

  “A book which will do much, it is probable, to make the layman take a
  more intelligent interest in this the latest and most striking
  development of the skill of the mechanical engineer.”

    + + =Nature.= 75: 53. N. 15, ’06. 380w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 443. Jl. 7, ’06. 270w.


=Garrett, John Henry.= Idyllic Avon: being a simple description of the
Avon from Tewkesbury to above Stratford-on-Avon; with songs and pictures
of the river and its neighborhood. **$3. Putnam.

  A fifty mile pilgrimage which the author and some companions made up
  Shakespeare’s Avon. “With songs and anecdotes and riverside pictures,
  John Henry Garrett has written a half-personal, half-historical volume
  to show that the Avon has other personalities than that of
  Shakespeare, other towns of interest than Stratford.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is pathetic that a man who can make such good pictures and write
  pretty good prose should be tempted into making such very bad verse.”
  Anna Benneson McMahan.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 201. O. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “Will be a valuable guide for anyone who wishes to follow his steps.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 160w.

  “Is one of the most thorough of its kind.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 349. O. 25, ’06. 280w.

  “All in all, he has written a delightful book—anecdotal, historic,
  poetic, and especially personal and intimate.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 490w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 30w.

  “We hear about the history, about the antiquities of the country,
  about its natural beauties, about the inhabitants and their manners
  and customs, and hear it in such a way and in such proportions that we
  are never tired. It is not a book to criticise; it is one to enjoy.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 338. S. 8, ’06. 310w.


=Garriott, E. B.= Long-range weather forecasts. U. S. Dept. of
Agriculture.

  “The bulletin is a formal denunciation on the part of the Government’s
  meteorological bureau, of weather forecasters and forecasts that
  pretend to describe the main features of the weather for long periods
  ahead: periods much longer than those covered by the geographical
  progression of storms, floods, cold waves, and the like across the
  corresponding areas of observation.”—Engin. N.

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  “The bulletin may serve many an engineer as an interesting bit of
  reading for hours of relaxation.”

      + =Engin. N.= 53: 532. My. 18, ’06. 330w.


=Garrison, William Lloyd.= Words of Garrison. **$1.25. Houghton.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 480. Ja. ’06. 160w.

  “With what Garrison said and with what he did, admirably summarized,
  the reader is now provided with something worthy of the name of ‘A
  reformer’s handbook.’” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 116. Ja. ’06. 170w.

  “It is impossible to believe that a richer selection could not have
  been compiled, even if also this were attained partly by omission of
  what is here presented.”

    + – =Ind.= 59: 1344. D. 7, ’05. 280w.


=Gasiorowski, Waclaw.= Napoleon’s love story; tr. by the Count de
Soissons. $1.50. Dutton.

  The romantic relations between Madame Walewska and Napoleon furnish
  the subject for this novel, written by a follower, of the school of
  Sienkiewicz. “The scenes are in Warsaw, Vienna, Paris. The plot shows
  how the Polish patriots sought to use the emperor’s interest in Mary
  for their own ends, and for those ends inspired in a noble and tender
  girl a sort of sacrificial fire—a sacrificial fire which was
  transfigured in due time to something quite different.” (N. Y. Times.)
  “The central, all-compelling figure of the book is Napoleon; whether
  present or absent he is the determining force, the master-spirit in
  whom everyone is merged.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have read every word of the story with the greatest pleasure and
  interest.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 686. Jl. 1, ’05. 530w.

  “The translation is well done, but for a certain spasmodic method of
  conversation and a few slips of idiom.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 42. Jl. 8. 230w.

  “This romance is chiefly remarkable for its length, caused by a
  remorseless spinning out of dialogue and elaboration of descriptive
  detail.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 153. Mr. 1, ’06. 150w.

        =Ind.= 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 330w.

        =Nation.= 82: 117. F. 8, ’06. 70w.

  “Even a translation rendered utterly inadequate by a purely mechanical
  knowledge of the English tongue fails to conceal the fine skill and
  dramatic power of the author and the romantic and human interest of
  the story.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 30. Ja. 20, ’06. 430w.

  “It is too long and treats of an unpleasant theme ... but it is a
  strong piece of work, with passages of rare dramatic power and some
  fine characterizations.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 276. F. 3, ’06. 180w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 767. Je. 16, ’06. 60w.

  “The novel is very long-winded, full of somewhat tedious
  conversations: the dialogues translated do not run at all easily, and
  for an understanding of the intrigues which surround the heroine a
  knowledge of Polish politics is required which few Englishmen
  possess.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 100: 251. Ag. 19, ’05. 410w.

  “M. Gasiorowski, in short, has shown delicacy as well as power in his
  treatment of a difficult theme.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 359. S. 9, ’05. 820w.


=Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson).= Works of Mrs. Gaskell.
8v. ea. $1.50. Putnam.

  There will be eight volumes to complete the “Knutsford edition” of
  Mrs. Gaskell’s works. The old favorites are being recast in modern
  book form and the preparation is in progress under the editorial
  supervision of Dr. Adolphus W. Ward, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge,
  who contributes a general introduction to the issue and a special one
  to each volume based upon material of important biographical and
  critical interest. The volumes are as follows, “Mary Barton;”
  “Cranford;” “Ruth;” “North and South;” “My Lady Ludlow;” “Sylvia’s
  lovers;” “Cousin Phyllis;” “A dark night’s work;” etc.; and “Wives and
  daughters.”

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      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 300. S. 15. 300w.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 334. S. 22. 100w.

  “The ‘Knutsford edition’ of the works of Mrs. Gaskell, to which we had
  looked forward eagerly, is, it must be confessed something of a
  disappointment. The paper is so thin that the print shows through from
  one side to another. ‘The Life of Charlotte Bronte’ is omitted ... the
  introductions, though breathing a very sympathetic spirit of
  admiration, contain little that we did not know already.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 5: 312. S. 14, ’06. 2630w.

  “This attractive edition, is substantial and tasteful without being
  too elaborate.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 170w.

      + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 150w.

  “The ‘Knutsford edition,’ well printed and in convenient-shaped
  volumes, will prove a real godsend both to those who have not read
  Mrs. Gaskell, and to the older generation who are anxious to revive
  their memories of her pure and admirable style.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 437. S. 29, ’06. 1650w.


=Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson).= Cranford; ed. with an
introd. and annotations by William E. Simonds. 30c. Ginn.

  A student’s edition of “Cranford” prepared for college entrance
  purposes.


=Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Francis A.= Henry the Third and the church. *$4.
Macmillan.

  “Dr. Gasquet shows a wide acquaintance with the sources for this
  period, and seldom makes serious mistakes, but there is evidence here
  and there that he has hardly concerned himself sufficiently with the
  criticism of the authorities which he had used, while there are also
  to be found some indications either of unfamiliarity with the details
  of thirteenth-century history or of carelessness in passing his book
  through the press.” T. F. Tout.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 780. O. ’06. 1000w.


=Gates, Eleanor (Mrs. Richard Walton Tully).= Plow-woman. †$1.50.
McClure.

  “Two girls with their crippled father come up from Texas to settle
  on a ‘section’ in Dakota. One, the plow-woman has to be the man of
  the family, and her strong body and brave, steadfast spirit carry
  her nobly through many hardships. The evil intrigues of the man
  who asserted a prior claim to their section, the dangerous
  outbreak of Indian captives from the near-by fort, the menace of
  disorderly ‘Shanty town’ filled with camp followers, all combine
  to prevent anything like monotony in the active lives of three
  Lancasters.”—Outlook.

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  “Ingenuity is one of the author’s conspicuous endowments. Situation
  after situation keeps interest expectant up to the last. No less is
  her skill in definition of character, although here and there a bit
  may be judged out of drawing.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 374, N. 1, ’06. 450w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 674. O. 13, ’06. 150w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “Altogether the varied group of men and women, the graphic
  descriptions of scenery and conditions in the West, indicate the
  unusual powers of the author, and her wisdom in writing about what she
  knows so well.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 210w.


=Gates, Errett.= Disciples of Christ. **$1. Baker.

  “This is the first adequate statement of the history of the Disciples
  of Christ since the Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, published in 1868.
  Will be counted a distinct contribution, not merely to the
  understanding of the Disciples of Christ, but of the religious life of
  America as well.” E. S. Ames.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 361. Ap. ’06. 330w.

  “This is the first real history of this religious body. It is written
  in a clear style, with impartial judgment.”

    + + =Bib. World.= 27: 320. Ap. ’06. 60w.

      + =Outlook.= 81: 939. D. 16, ’05. 80w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 90w.


=Gates, Mrs. Josephine (Scribner).= Little Red, white and blue; il. by
Virginia Keep. †$1.25. Bobbs.

  The author of the “Live dolls” series has offered in this story book
  for children a delightful sketch of an army captain’s child. Her
  babyhood loyalty to the stars and stripes furnishes a bright lesson in
  patriotism.


=Gates, Mrs. Josephine (Scribner).= Live dolls’ house party; il. by
Virginia Keep. †$1.25. Bobbs.

  In continuation of the “Live dolls” doings Mrs. Gates tells of a
  doll’s house party in the little town of Dollville, the hostess being
  the queen of the dolls. A pretty story, prettily told, with enough of
  doll romance to satisfy the most imaginative child.


=Gaussen, Alice C. C.= Woman of wit and wisdom: a memoir of Elizabeth
Carter, one of the “Bas-bleu” society. *$3. Dutton.

  All those who care to know more of eighteenth-century literature and
  life in England will be interested in this sketch of the long and
  uneventful life of the scholar, linguist, and translator of Epictetus.
  “It has been made chiefly through the unpublished letters and papers
  possessed by members of the family today and by the Carter institute
  at Deal where Elizabeth Carter lived. Johnson, Fanny Burney and
  Richardson appear in these pages.... Poulteney was another friend of
  hers.” (Sat. R.)

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  “Miss Gaussen’s book is disappointing: her narrative is so desultory
  and broken that we have found it difficult to derive a clear
  impression of the central figure.”

      – =Acad.= 70: 496. My. 26, ’06. 660w.

  “Miss Gaussen has made little of excellent material.”

  + – – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 442. Ap. 14. 920w.

  Reviewed by J. H. Lobban.

        =Blackwood’s M.= 180: 462. O. ’06. 4110w.

  “Her volume is handy and attractive and shows evidence of zeal and
  industry.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 168. S. 16, ’06. 470w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 141. Ap. 20, ’06. 960w.

  “Rather a flimsy volume.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 830w.

  “Is an easy and pleasant sketch. On the whole the memoir is well worth
  reading.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 730. Je. 9, ’06. 240w.


=Gauthiers-Villars, Henry, and Tremisot, G.= Enchanted automobile; tr.
from the French by Mary J. Safford. $1. Page.

  In this addition to the “Roses of Saint Elizabeth series,” is told the
  story of Coco and Touton, the twin boy and girl of King Crystal IX of
  Bohemia, who lived a long time ago in the days of the fairies. The
  twins were ignorant little things and hated study until one day they
  went out into the world in the enchanter Merlin’s wonderful automobile
  and there they met many interesting people and learned the true value
  of work.

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        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.


=Gautier, Theophile.= Russia, by Theophile Gautier, and by other
distinguished French travelers and writers of note; tr. from the French,
with an additional chapter upon the struggle for supremacy in the Far
East, by Florence MacIntyre Tyson. 2v. **$5. Winston.

  “In general, it may be said that it stands the test of time
  wonderfully well.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 102. F. 1, ’06. 1350w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 82. F. 10, ’06. 310w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 100w.


=Gaye, R. K.= Platonic conception of immortality and its connexion with
the theory of ideas. *$1.50. Macmillan.

    + – =Quarterly R.= 204: 63. Ja. ’06. 190w.

    + + =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 110w.


=Gayley, Charles Mills, and Young, Clement C.= Principles and progress
in English poetry. $1.10. Macmillan.

  “Everything may be readily pronounced excellent; many of the ideas
  stated or implied are debatable ... but everything is well and
  carefully done. It is a book that any student of literature will find
  useful.” Edward E. Hale, jr.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 102. Mr. ’06. 1110w.


=Geffroy, Gustave.= National gallery (London); with an introd. by Sir
Walter Armstrong. ¼ vel. *$10. Warne.

  “Is a book of intelligent and pleasant talk. Printed in handier form
  and with better illustrations, ... it would make a first-rate popular
  guide; but under the circumstances it is unlikely to deprive Mr.
  Edward T. Cook’s well-known volume of its vogue.” Royal Cortissoz.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 282. F. ’06. 60w.

  “(His) method has the merit of keeping the text within reasonable
  limits ... but it does not bring the collection vividly before one and
  fails to give a measure of the extraordinary variety of the old
  masters brought together in this particular one of London’s museums.”
  Charles de Kay.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 325. My. 19, ’06. 1390w.

  “M. Geffroy’s brief introduction is pleasant and unpretentious, and
  marked with knowledge and good sense. A handy book of reference.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 80w.


=Geiermann, Rev. P.= Manual of theology for the laity: being a brief,
clear and systematic exposition of the reason and authority of religion
and a practical guide-book for all of good-will. *60c. Benziger.

  The plan followed in this volume is first, to investigate the
  fundamental ideas of religion as proposed by reason and history;
  second, to study the revealed religion both in its supernatural truths
  and in its divinely ordained practice; and third, to show how the true
  religion of to-day logically follows from these two premises.


=Geikie, James.= Structural and field geology for students of pure and
applied science. *$4. Van Nostrand.

  “The different chapters seem of unequal value.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 160w.


=Geil, William Edgar.= Yankee in pigmy land. **$1.50. Dodd.

  In his bright, fully illustrated narrative of a journey across Africa
  from Mombasa through the great pigmy forest to Banana, Mr. Geil
  touches mainly upon the lion hunters, the sleeping sickness and its
  victims, the lost caravan, nights alone with savages, the greatest
  wild-game region of the earth, The Congo rule, the work of
  missionaries including a biographical sketch of Bishop Tucker, and the
  “Land of laughter” itself with its tiny inhabitants and their simple
  life.

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  “Both text and pictures are tremendously realistic, and, to be frank,
  excite both disgust and pity.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 250w.

  “The real value of his journey lies in his account of the home and
  habits of the little brown Tom Thumbs of the great Pigmy forest.” H.
  E. Coblentz.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 233. Ap. 1, ’06. 380w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 874. Ap. 12, ’06. 120w.

  “A narrative that never flags, dealing in a fresh way even with the
  homes of which much has already been said by others.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 130w.

  “The humor in which he indulges in his narrative is carried too far
  and becomes wearisome.”

    + – =Nation.= 81: 525. D. 28, ’05. 380w.


=George, Henry, jr.= Menace of privilege: a study of the dangers to the
republic from the existence of a favored class. **$1.50. Macmillan.

  The author “begins with the assertion that ours is a land of
  inequality, and, proceeding to an analysis of that inequality, he
  distinguishes between various types of ‘princes of privilege.’ A
  somewhat pessimistic chapter describes the physical, mental and moral
  deterioration of the masses. Mr. George devotes a chapter to the
  danger of unionism, and several chapters to what he calls weapons of
  privilege, chiefly the use of the courts, and corruption in politics.
  The proposed remedy of all these inequalities and wrongs, as one would
  naturally infer from Mr. George’s well-known predilections, is to be
  found in the single tax.”—R. of Rs.

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  “The book is clear in presentation and logical arrangement. It is a
  valuable contribution to the study of our social and industrial
  problems—a book of unusual merit and interest.” Scott E. W. Bedford.

  + + – =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 851. My. ’06. 490w.

  “One need not agree with all the conclusions of the author to profit
  by his arguments. The volume deserves careful study.”

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 418. Mr. ’06. 300w.

  “No more important work dealing with the grave problems that confront
  the American republic to-day has appeared in months than Mr. George’s
  strong, clear and logical work.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 438. Ap. ’06. 4700w.

  “In the analysis of social conditions, it is not a whit in advance of
  ‘Progress and poverty.’” Winthrop More Daniels.

      – =Atlan.= 97: 844. Je. ’06. 460w.

  “Mr. George’s book is to be chiefly condemned, not because it is
  essentially an aggregation of all sorts of material, largely gathered
  from newspapers and magazines, but because this miscellaneous stuff
  has been arrayed and employed, with no little rhetorical skill and
  dexterity, to simulate an honest investigation and a comprehensive
  discussion of the great questions with which the author professes to
  deal.” R. W. Raymond.

    – – =Cassier’s M.= 29: 510. Ap. ’06. 2680w.

  “It is a challenge clothed with dignity, as well as a plan of reform
  that is not devoid of charm. If the work may serve to awaken the
  public seriously to the tendencies which are so fraught with danger,
  one will readily pardon the faults of logic and exaggerated inferences
  which it contains.”

    + – =Cath. World.= 83: 829. S. ’06. 700w.

  “This is an able, sincere and elaborate indictment of modern society,
  resting fundamentally on the highly questionable assertion that the
  rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 350w.

  Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 230w.

        =Engin. N.= 55: 317. Mr. 15, ’06. 890w.

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1047. My. 3, ’06. 340w.

  “In detail, his pages contain little or nothing that will be new to
  the careful observer of prevailing conditions, or the student of
  contemporary magazines and newspapers from which he has derived most
  of his abundant illustrative material.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 610w.

  “In developing his thesis, Mr. George has given us a book of
  first-rate interest and importance. It is written forcefully and
  brilliantly, and, merely as good reading, it will take a high place in
  the literature of economic and political discussion. As a picture of
  present-day conditions it is a remarkable piece of description and
  analysis.” Franklin H. Giddings.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 61. F. 3, ’06. 1990w.

  “The style is excellent, the spirit earnest, the

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 760. Mr. 31, ’06. 980w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 130w.


=Geronimo (Apache chief).= Geronimo’s story of his life; taken down and
edited by S. M. Barrett. **$1.50. Duffield.

  The atmosphere of legend and incident pervades this story of Geronimo,
  the seventy-seven-year old Apache chief. He begins his story with the
  account of the origin of the Apaches. “One finds in these grandiose
  legends traces of the familiar mythical cosmogonies of the East, and
  it might be of advantage if scholars gave them more attention.”
  Geronimo’s object in telling his life story is to secure freedom and
  justice for his people.

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  “The narrative of the fierce old chief’s bloody career in his struggle
  with the invading whites is a moving one, and is as full of exciting
  and picturesque incident as any of Cooper’s novels. It is told with
  that wealth of imagery for which the Indian is noted.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 240w.

  “His story is simple, straight-forward, and interesting, and should
  find a large number of readers.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 600w.

  “It goes without saying that the old chief has an interesting
  autobiography, and the work is further important as giving the Indian
  side of a long and notable controversy with our government.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 120w.


=Gerould, Gordon Hall.= Sir Guy of Warwick. $1. Rand.

  “A fine old story of knighthood, recast and retold in plain modern
  English for those who find the ancient romances archaic and stilted to
  read.”—Outlook.

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      + =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 70w.

      + =Outlook.= 80: 936. Ag. 12, ’05. 20w.


=Gerstacker, Friedrich Wilhelm Christian.= Germelshausen; tr. from the
German by Clara M. Lathrop. *50c. Crowell.

  In this quaint little German classic, which has been excellently
  translated, a young artist in the course of his wanderings in the
  forest, comes upon a beautiful girl who is waiting on the highway for
  a lover who never comes. She leads him into her village where he sups,
  dances, and falls in love with her. But just before midnight she takes
  him into the outskirts of the town and leaves him,—until the hour
  shall strike. Then, when it is too late, he discovers that the village
  was Germelshausen, which lies forever sunk in the swamp save for one
  day in a hundred years when it comes to life, and this was the day,
  the village has sunk again, and Gertrude is lost to him forever.


=Gettemy, Charles Ferris.= True story of Paul Revere. **$1.50. Little.

  Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 112. Ja. ’06. 200w.

  “The book is a fine example of acute historical criticism, not
  cynically applied to overthrowing the basis for a healthy patriotic
  sentiment, but good naturedly correcting the facts, while leaving the
  sentiment intact.”

      + =Ind.= 40: 929. Ap. 19, ’06. 390w.

  “Mr. Gettemy’s reserved but commendable study does not probe deep, but
  it is truthful and scrupulous in its intent. He has not, however,
  over-stated his indebtedness to E. H. Goss’s previous work.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 124. Ag. 9, ’06. 1300w.


=Gibbon, Perceval.= Vrouw Grobelaar and her leading cases. †$1.50.
McClure.

  In this new volume of tales the author “deals with the back-world of
  Boer superstition, the kind of story we may believe to be told round
  winter fires on lonely farms. The Vrouw Grobelaar, the narrator, will
  capture the affections of every reader with her shrewd common sense,
  her sharp tongue and trenchant philosophy of life.... The tales
  themselves range over every variety of subject, from the idyllic to
  the purely horrible.” (Spec.) The collection includes The king of the
  baboons, Piet Naude’s trek, The sacrifice, Vasco’s sweetheart, Avenger
  of blood. A good end, Her own story.

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  “His English is as plain as the English of the Bible, and the Boer men
  are like the men of the Old Testament.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 126. D. 2, ’05, 310w.

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 832. D. 16. 1030w.

  “On the whole ‘Vrouw Grobelaar’ presents the most gripping and
  vision-enlarging group of stories since Kipling’s ‘Plain tales from
  the hills.’”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 530w.

  “Some transplantations and an occasional forgetfulness to make the old
  narrator speak in character are not a serious detraction from the
  attraction of the stories. They are deftly woven together; and the
  humour of the vrouw and the liveliness of her little circle qualify
  their love of horror.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 433. D. 8, ’05. 460w.

  “In ‘Vrouw Grobelaar’ lies waiting a genuine sensation for the lover
  of short Stories. Unless the reviewer is at fault, they will recall to
  the reader the hour wherein he tasted his first Maupassant, and that
  other hour when the new Kipling swam into his ken.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 480w.

  “In the light they throw upon a unique people, the Vrouw Grobelaar’s
  leading cases are worthy of careful reading. They are full of
  informing hints as to the Dutch of the Transvaal, their attitude
  towards the Kafirs, their mingled superstitions and piety, their
  courage and obstinacy.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 350w.

    – + =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 90w.

  “The Leading cases which long observation of her would have supplied
  as guides to conduct cover most sides of South African life.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 785. D. 16, ’05. 280w.

  “Altogether, it is a collection to be heartily commended, for to most
  readers it will open up a new world, and the style and method are
  those of a true artist in fiction.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 152. Ja. 27, ’06. 260w.


=Gibson, Charles.= Among French inns: the story of a pilgrimage to
characteristic spots of rural France. **$1.60. Page.

  “The guide-book information with which the story is interrupted, is
  generally sound.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 140w.

  “A substantial volume which might well serve as a guide to travelers
  eager to get off the beaten tracks and to see France in its most
  characteristic features; and is also a very readable and interesting
  volume.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 180w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 795. My. 19, ’06. 280w.


=Gibson, Charles Dana.= Our neighbors. **$4.20. Scribner.

  “The present volume is a worthy companion to those that have preceded
  it.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 160w.


=Gibson, Charlotte Chaffee.= In eastern wonderlands. †$1.50. Little.

  What all writers who know the east are doing for a grown-up world
  to-day the author has tried to do for little people, she has helped
  them to an understanding of what is to be found nowadays in eastern
  lands by describing a real trip around the world as taken by three
  real children. She has deftly blended those things which interest with
  those things which instruct, and has illustrated her account with
  photographs, until Japan, China, Ceylon, India, the Red sea and Egypt
  lose their vague outlines and become as familiar to her little readers
  as they did to Alice, Fred and Charlotte who saw them all.


=Gifford, Mrs. Augusta Hale.= Italy, her people and their story.
**$1.40. Lothrop.

  A popular history of the beginning, rise, development, and progress of
  Italy from the time of Romulus down to the reign of Victor Emanuel
  III.

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  “The history is given with considerable attention to details and
  altogether the volume is of exceptional value, both from its
  historical accuracy and its popular style.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 530w.

  “It has little of the literary distinction of the other, pays
  inadequate regard to the dignity of historical writing, and is not
  always as critical as could be desired. Nevertheless, it, too, conveys
  much substantial information in respect to the past and present of the
  Sunny Peninsula and its vein is ... decidedly entertaining.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 160w.

  “A readable volume. In the latter part, written in Italy and under the
  direct influence of contemporaneous conditions, she very often
  succeeds in giving us observations and impressions which bring her
  narrative to a commendable, authoritative, and vital end.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 114. F. 24, ’06. 540w.

  “This volume may find popular acceptance. As a discriminating writer,
  however, the author is open to criticism.”

    + – =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ’05. 90w.

  “For the person who has not time to take up history in a professional
  way and who wishes to get a fairly comprehensive idea of the Italian
  situation, Mrs. Gifford’s book will be a valuable auxiliary.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.

  “A well-sustained, complete history of Italy.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 90w.


=Gilbert, Charles Benajah.= School and its life. $1.25. Silver.

  “This volume, the fruit of wide experience both as a teacher and
  school superintendent, deals with life rather than the mechanism of
  schools. It conceives of teaching as a spiritual process, of education
  as the wholesome development and adaptation of life to its
  environment, and finds the conditions of successful teaching in
  conforming to the common laws of life and growth. Its aim is to secure
  to children the educative influence of a natural, sane, and wholesome
  school life as a part of the larger world-life. Its successive
  chapters discuss the vital problems arising in the management and
  organization of schools and school systems.”—Outlook.

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  “A sane, practical, and comprehensive work on school management.”

      + =Bookm.= 24: 73. S. ’06. 280w.

        =Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 150w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 90w.


=Gilbert, Rosa Mulholland (Lady John Thomas Gilbert).= Life of Sir John
T. Gilbert. $5. Longmans.

  Lord Gilbert’s unusually fortunate career is felicitously sketched by
  his wife. “Copious correspondence, embracing letters from scholars,
  historians, archæologists, Irish Franciscans in Rome and in Portugal,
  noblemen, and public officials enliven the narrative, and,
  incidentally, bear witness to the conscientious, painstaking method of
  the historian.... The curtain that screens the sanctities of domestic
  life is drawn aside just enough to give us a glimpse of the fine,
  noble, sunny gentleman, an earnest Catholic, of high culture and
  simple tastes, ambitious only of a competence sufficient to guarantee
  him the opportunity to prosecute his work of study and composition,
  which he loved, not for the fame that it brought him, but for itself.”
  (Cath. World.)

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  “Well-written and delicate panegyric of a notable man.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 859. D. 23. 1160w.

  “Lady Gilbert has discharged her task with excellent taste.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 402. Je. ’06. 660w.

  “His widow, besides giving some account of her husband’s career,
  prints copious selections from his correspondence, with the object of
  illustrating the character of his work, and the interest of his
  ‘unusual and many-sided personality.’ We do not think Lady Gilbert has
  been very successful in achieving this object.”

    – + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 623. Jl. ’06. 260w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 532. S. 1, ’06. 590w.

  “We have never taken up a ‘life’ so distended by trivial and ephemeral
  letters.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 730. Je. 9, ’06. 230w.

  “The facts are here, but they should have been put together for
  readers who will not, and indeed cannot, search for them. We see the
  pictures of a single-minded-worker, but have but a vague idea of what
  he actually did.”

    – + =Spec.= 96: 387. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.


=Gilder, Richard Watson.= Book of music: poems. **$1. Century.

                 “For though I can no music make, I trust
                         Here’s proof I love it.”

  Such does Mr. Gilder vouchsafe in the opening lines of his prelude.
  There are about thirty poems which show the “love that in him burns
  for the fair lady of Melody.” There are tributes to Mme. Essepoff,
  Paderewski. Macdowell, Beethoven, Rubenstein and others, there are
  lines to Handel’s Largo, the violin, and the ’cello, and there is a
  poet of music’s appreciation of the Music at twilight, in moonlight
  and in darkness.

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      + =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 130w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 613. O. 6, ’06. 400w.


=Gilder, Richard Watson.= In the heights. *$1. Century.

  “Few know as well as he how to find the fitting word or a felicitous
  phrase with which to celebrate a friend, or a cause, or a memory.” Wm.
  M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 310w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + + =North American.= 182: 756. My. ’06. 230w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 50w.


=Gilliam, Charles Frederic.= Victorious defeat: the story of a
franchise. $1.50. Roxburgh pub.

  A political novel which deals with the rights of the laboring classes.
  Robert Barker, champion of the people, loves Irene, the daughter of
  Judge Henly who is pitted against him in a political contest. Irene is
  torn between her duty to her father and her love for the masterful
  young leader, who, her sense of honor tells her, is in the right. The
  election results in a defeat for the judge and his constituents, but a
  defeat which the losers themselves count victorious in the end.


=Gillman, Henry.= Hassan: a fellah. [+]75c. Little.

  A new popular edition of this story which appeared in 1898.


=Gilman, Daniel Coit.= Launching of a university. **$2.50. Dodd.

  A volume of papers and addresses, nearly a third of which are devoted
  to the founding and early years of Johns Hopkins University, and the
  remainder to educational addresses delivered on occasions such as the
  Yale Bi-Centennial and the dedication of the Princeton library
  building.

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  “In one respect, the reader of historical proclivities may be inclined
  to find fault with ‘The launching of a university.’ President Gilman
  resolutely keeps back all references to the occasional misfortunes and
  unpleasantnesses which harassed him and his colleagues.” Robert C.
  Brooks.

  + + – =Bookm.= 24: 358. D. ’06. 1020w.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 240w.

  Reviewed by F. B. R. Hellems.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 289. My. 1, ’06. 2320w.

  “Cicero would have given his approval to this book.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1104. My. 10, ’06. 230w.

  “Taken as a whole, President Gilman’s book is notable alike as a
  history of the university with which he was so long connected, as a
  discussion of some vital questions of the day, and as a contribution
  to the story of American educational progress.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 531. Ap. 7, ’06. 810w.

        =Nation.= 82: 240. Mr. 22, ’06. 140w.

    + + =Nature.= 74: 123. Je. 7, ’06. 880w.

  Reviewed by Edward Cary.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 157. Mr. 17, ’06. 1320w.

  “It is a rich ‘sheaf of remembrances’ that he has preserved in
  noteworthy reminiscences and characterizations of gifted men, set
  forth in finished literary form with here and there a gem of
  pleasantry and wit.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 260w.


=Gilman, Lawrence.= Edward MacDowell. *$1. Lane.

  An eighty page monograph of the “American Grieg” uniform with the
  “Living masters of music” series. “That MacDowell is, ‘in a singularly
  complete sense the poet of the natural world,’ yet no less the
  ‘instrument of human emotion;’ that the range of his emotional
  expression is astonishing; that he has a remarkable gift for extremely
  compact expression; that his music is ‘touched with the deep and
  wistful tenderness, the primeval nostalgia;’ that much of its charm
  lies in its spontaneity and the utter lack of self-consciousness; that
  no musician has felt the spell of the ocean as has MacDowell ... these
  and other characteristic points, Mr. Gilman dwells on, thus giving his
  readers as good an idea of the music as can be obtained without
  hearing it.” (Nation.)

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  “In spite of some annoyances of style, a love of high-sounding but
  little meaning words and phrases, Mr. Gilman manages to depict the
  character of his subject’s work in such a way as to convey a distinct
  impression.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 310w.

  “Mr. Gilman has given a sympathetic and reasonably comprehensive
  account of his life and work.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 100w.

  “The least satisfactory of Mr. Gilman’s chapters is that on the songs,
  the most satisfactory that on the sonatas. It is to be regretted that
  no bibliographic note has been appended.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 268. Mr. 29, ’06. 990w.

  “He has written in a high-pitched key of praise. His book would be
  more agreeable reading if he would improve his style, which is
  ‘precieux’ in the extreme.” Richard Aldrich.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 560w.

  “Mr. Gilman deserves all credit for his abstention from irrelevant
  personalities. The value of this sympathetic essay is considerably
  impaired by the laboured preciosity of its style.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 170w.


=Gilpin, Sidney.= Sam Bough, R. S. A.: some account of his life and
works. $3. Macmillan.

  “Sam Bough was a true Bohemian, who lived from hand to mouth, and
  threw away his best chances of worldly success for the sake of the
  indulgence of some passing whim.” (Int. Studio.) It is as a Cumberland
  painter of types native to his district that he demands recognition,
  and the biographer has produced from letters, anecdotes and personal
  estimates, a sympathetic sketch of the man and the artist.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Nor are these documents remarkable except for the constant recurrence
  of a certain breezy jocularity, which doubtless was delightful to
  those who were in a position to appreciate the point of it.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 272. Mr. 3. 300w.

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 150w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. 28, ’05. 300w.

    + – =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 70w.

  “It is an interesting record of a man of versatile powers. There are
  scarcely as many good stories in it as one might expect.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 125. Ja. 27, ’06. 160w.


=Gilson, Roy Rolfe.= Katrina: a story. †$1.50. Baker.

  “The quaintly humorous middle-aged newspaper worker whose ability as a
  writer is joined with whimsical peculiarities of character, finds in
  the little girl Katrina, whom he accidentally meets, the child of the
  girl he loved many years ago. His friendship with the little girl and
  his care of her and her optimistic and intellectual but unpractical
  father make a delightful narrative.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He combines a sympathetic understanding of the young child’s point of
  view with an equally rare understanding of the sorrows and
  disillusions of age.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 247. N. ’06. 440w.

  “The author has such use of his faculties as a bird has of its wings
  in mid air, and he has told his story with that whimsical, bright
  movement of the mind which accounts in part for its indescribable
  charm and grace.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1499. D. 20, ’06. 290w.

  “A tale full of naiveté and tenderness.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 120w.

  “A satisfactory bit of writing.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 130w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

  “It is written with a certain tenderness and quiet humor which may
  almost be said to give it distinction.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13, ’06. 100w.


=Gilson, Roy Rolfe.= Miss Primrose. $1.25. Harper.

  The simple sweetness of Letitia Primrose, whose life was one long
  sacrifice of service to her father, to other people’s children, and
  finally to another woman’s home, gives to the book its dainty charm,
  while the characters of David, the boy who dreamed of Rugby, Butters,
  the editor who printed her father’s classic poems in the village
  paper, and others who came under the spell of her sweet innocent
  personality give to the story both young life and humor.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is almost wholly devoid of plot, and although it is written
  with no little literary skill, the average reader will find it lacking
  in interest.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 67. Jl. 21. 210w.

  “The story as a whole is rather cloying.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 192. Mr. 31, ’06. 470w.

  “There are gentle pathos and quaint humor to be found throughout.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 50w.


=Gissing, George Robert.= House of cobwebs and other stories. $1.50.
Dutton.

  “The fifteen stories included in this posthumous volume are prefaced
  by an introductory survey of the work of their lamented author [by Mr.
  Thomas Seccombe].... The stories themselves, slight as is their
  texture, are ‘admirable specimens of Gissing’s own genre.’ They
  manifest the delicate tenderness of his feeling not for, but with
  those to whom life has not been kind.... As Dickens was the novelist
  of the recognized poor, Gissing is the novelist of those poorer poor
  who belong of right to another class.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 479. My. 19, ’06. 880w.

  “But what is certain, and is rendered positive by this book, is that
  he had little artistic sense of the short story. These are mere
  blotches of feeling, studies of atmosphere; they are never stories.
  They might have found their use in corners of a long novel. They have
  neither beginning nor ending, only being; and they might well leave
  off before or after their conclusion. Never was there a more glaring
  lack of the ‘dramatic’ than in Mr. Gissing.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 10. Jl. 7. 490w.

  “Mr. Seccombe has prefaced this volume of remains ... with a
  discriminating essay of considerable biographical and critical
  interest.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 208. Je. 8, ’06. 1100w.

  “The observation in these sketches is originally fine, and then highly
  selective; the English of great purity and incisiveness; and, that a
  certain thinness of tone and lack of humor are necessary results of
  gruelling personal experience with the matter in hand. It is a book
  for those who love impeccable workmanship.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 450w.

  “The volume is well worth making one’s own, not only because of these
  last characteristic sketches by a dear and vanquished hand, but
  because of Mr. Seccombe’s illuminating essay, invaluable to all who
  care to enter into an intimate comprehension of Gissing’s novels as
  related to their author.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 519. Ag. 25, ’06. 950w.

  “To us this collection of short stories is more valuable for the
  excellent and readable introductory survey of Gissing’s work, written
  by Mr. Thomas Seccombe, than for the stories themselves, although some
  of the latter are wrought out with care and have literary form.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “In point of workmanship, observation, and the philosophy of life
  which they set forth they show him at his best and sanest.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 835. My. 26, ’06. 1070w.


=Gladden, Rev. Washington.= Christianity and socialism. *$1. Meth. bk.

  “Full of good advice to both employers and employed, and he endeavors
  to reconcile their differences in a truly irenic spirit.” Edward
  Fuller.

      + =Critic.= 48: 214. Mr. ’06. 330w.

  “Like all Dr. Gladden’s utterances, these discourses are characterized
  by what has been well termed ‘sanctified common sense’ and are
  thoroughly stimulating and suggestive.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 310w.

  “It were well if all clerical pronouncements on social questions were
  marked by Dr. Gladden’s thoroness of information and his earnest
  sympathy with the problems of the men who work.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 156. Jl. 19, ’06. 120w.

        =Yale R.= 14: 444. F. ’06. 80w.


=Gladden, Rev. Washington.= The new idolatry, and other discussions.
**$1.20. McClure.

  “A volume of discussions in protest against commercializing of
  government, of education, and of religion; against the growing
  tendency in church and state to worship power and forget the interests
  of justice and freedom; against the dethronement of God and the
  enthronement of Mammon.” The contents include the new idolatry;
  Tainted money; Standard oil and foreign missions; Shall ill-gotten
  gains be sought for Christian purposes? The ethics of luxurious
  expenditure; The church and the nation; Religion and democracy; Rights
  and duties; The new century and the new nation; The Prince of life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One does not have to agree with all that is said to appreciate the
  importance of the subjects discussed.”

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 419. Mr. ’06. 110w.

  “The essays are really adapted only for oral delivery. They verge upon
  platitude and will scarcely stimulate thought.”

      – =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 60w.

      + =Dial.= 40: 131. F. 16, ’06. 270w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 20. Ja. 13, ’06. 710w.

  “Its spirit and lessons are both needed by the American people.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1087 D. 30, ’05. 90w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 120w.


=Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson.= Wheel of life. †$1.50. Doubleday.

  Miss Glasgow has taken a plunge with Mrs. Wharton into the very thick
  of New York’s smart set life. She throws upon her society screen a
  complexity of types, which with ingenious detachment appear at one
  time pathetically human, again beggarly moral, and most often
  impersonally conventional. “The three women represent as many types;
  Gerty a mondaine of the better sort ... holding her silken skirts
  above the soil of scandal, and underneath a mocking mask, keeping a
  pinioned soul; Connie Adams, a silly moth, fluttering in endless
  gayeties outside the more exclusive circles ... and the cloisteral
  Laura, not only a genius, but a consummate flower of womanhood. Of the
  men, Perry Bridewell and Arnold Kemper are not unlike—pleasure-seeking
  men of the clubs.... Bridewell is not much more than a well-groomed,
  handsome body; Kemper is Bridewell with intellect added. Adams, on the
  contrary, is the absorbed man of letters ... caring for no pleasure
  outside his work.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The average level of the tale is extraordinarily high, but it does
  not rise to anything that matters very much anywhere.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 416. Ap. 7. 270w.

  “‘The wheel of life’ is a serious attempt. If it be only partially
  successful (as compared with the great works of all time), the quality
  of success is of the best, it is not cheap. The essentials are there.”
  Mary Moss.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 91. Mr. ’06. 1890w.

  “It is a pity that Miss Glasgow’s humor does not shine forth more
  abundantly; her work needs it.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 435. My. ’06. 460w.

  “As compared with ‘The deliverance’ for example, this work is an
  inferior production.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “Miss Glasgow’s stories of her native South were better, and the
  little group of Southerners ... are decidedly the best thing in it.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 284. F. 1, ’06. 440w.

  “Is not up to Miss Glasgow’s level, but this seems largely due to her
  trespassing upon an alien field.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 491. Mr. 31, ’06. 690w.

  “Its reach is greater than that of its predecessors; its author has
  gone down into the deep places, and the distinction, the lift that is
  all its own is that in the last analysis it is the apotheosis of
  goodness.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 32. Ja. 20, ’06. 2210w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + + =North American.= 182: 922. Je. ’06. 400w.

  “There are broader contrasts of character than in ‘The house of
  mirth,’ though not quite the same sureness of touch, the same sense of
  intimacy with the most illusive aspects of a well-defined though
  loosely ordered social group.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 756. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.

  “All of these [four groups of characters] are faithfully and well
  wrought, and each adds its increment of genuine substance to the sum
  total effect of an admirable book.”

      + =Reader.= 7: 448. Mr. ’06. 680w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 80w.

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 625. My. 19, ’06. 100w.

  “The novel is a study of manners, and is extremely clever, very
  subtile, and slightly disagreeable.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 718. My. 5, ’06. 310w.


=Glyn, Elinor (Mrs. Clayton Glyn).= Beyond the rocks. †$1.50. Harper.

  Danger ground is trodden from the first page to the last in Mrs.
  Glyn’s story of hearts. Theodosia Fitzgerald, young and beautiful,
  marries Josiah Brown, rich but fifty and stupid. In spite of her
  attempt to be faithful she falls in love with an English lord and the
  ardent love of the two runs a riotous course in the face of
  conventionality and duty.

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  “Mrs. Glyn’s picture of the unscrupulous, sensual, bridge-playing set
  would give a ludicrously false impression, both of that set and of
  English society in general, to any reader who was unable to correct it
  by his own observation. Nor is Mrs. Glyn much happier with more
  reputable people.”

      – =Acad.= 70: 503. My. 26, ’06. 380w.

  “Lack of good taste and deficiency in technique are serious handicaps,
  and in fact this novel is drawn back by them from the domain of good
  art into the republic of the second-rate.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 230w.

  “All the parents who were in doubt about letting their debutante
  daughters browse upon ‘The visits of Elizabeth’ may turn them loose
  upon ‘Beyond the rocks’ without a twinge of misgiving.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 450w.

  “The whole moral atmosphere of the book is of a decidedly unwholesome
  and vitiated character.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 771. N. 24, ’06. 960w.

  “Continues to be sprightly in her manner, but her latest story moves
  in conventional grooves, its characters are mere puppets, its plot is
  thin, and its emotionalism feeble.”

    – + =Outlook.= 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 40w.


=Goddard, Dwight.= Eminent engineers: brief biographies of thirty-two of
the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress.
*$1.50. Derry-Collard co.

  “In selecting the 32 subjects for these biographies, the honors were
  equally divided between American and European engineers. The American
  sketches are headed by Benjamin Franklin and John Fitch, and concluded
  by James B. Eads. Arkwright, Newcomen and Watt head the Europeans, and
  Bessemer and Sir William Siemens close the list.... In selecting the
  names, the object was to include men who had ‘accomplished something
  of importance in the development and application of power and
  machinery.’”—Engin. N.

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  “The volume, as a whole, brings together, in convenient and readable
  form, brief biographies of men whose careers are of interest to every
  engineer.”

      + =Engin. N.= 55: 433. Ap. 12, ’06. 140w.

  “Mr. Goddard’s English is careless, but he has written a book of
  interest.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 401. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.


=Godfrey, Edward.= Structural engineering, bk. 1. Tables. $2.50. E:
Godfrey. Monongahela bank bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.

  The author “has selected the most necessary elements of the ‘Pocket
  companion,’ of ‘Osborn’s tables’ and of other similar works, put some
  of the material into improved form, and added an equal amount of new
  matter, comprising diagrams, tables and drawings.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is in many respects distinctly ahead of anything yet published in the
  English language. As a whole, the book represents a very useful
  collection of structural tables, and a very compact one. But its
  varied contents are so heterogeneously mixed up, so lacking all
  orderly arrangement, as to excite one’s surprise.”

  + + – =Engin. N.= 55: 193. F. 15, ’06. 300w.


=Godfrey, Elizabeth, pseud. (Jessie Bedford).= Bridal of Anstace.
†$1.50. Lane.

  “Love, battling with race and religion, is the foundation of Elizabeth
  Godfrey’s latest romance. At the outset of her story London is
  astounded by the marriage of an English girl Anstace, with the Count
  Basil Leonides. The wedding is performed with the ceremony of the
  Orthodox Greek church. In the midst of the reception that follows, the
  bridegroom receives a telegram. He reads it, and without showing it to
  his bride, begs her to prepare for instant departure. While she is
  making her preparations, however, he slips from the house alone and
  disappears. Why he went, and where, the sudden reappearance of the
  earlier wife whom he thought dead, and all that followed therefrom
  makes up the substance of the story.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Miss Godfrey tells her story in easy, flowing style, and handles her
  unwieldy cast skilfully.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 599. Je. 23, ’06. 100w.

  “The picture shows experience of life, powers of reflection, and a
  simple and flowing style which would cover more sins than are to be
  found here.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 9. Jl. 7, ’06. 270w.

  “A plot somewhat over intense and morbid is relieved in this novel by
  much delightful character-study.”

    – + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 200w.

  “It would be easy to pick holes in Miss Elizabeth Godfrey’s novel. No
  amount of uncertainty of handling in minor matters, or allegiance
  divided between observation and convention, can destroy our pleasure
  in the gentle light that beams through an engaging, almost a childlike
  story.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 226. Je. 22, ’06. 320w.

  “Manners, customs, and pronunciations come in with the breath of
  research in their garments. But these easily-seen inequalities do not
  prevail over the fine and interesting features of the story. In
  construction and in omission, it is the most masterly novel Miss
  Godfrey has yet written.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 15. Jl. 5, ’06. 530w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

  “Though most of the characters are well drawn and the style of writing
  is attractive, the fascination lies in the fact that the mystery is
  not solved until almost the last chapter.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 170w.

    + – =Spec.= 97: 63. Jl. 14, ’06. 150w.


=Gomperz, Theodor.= Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy, v.
2 and 3. ea. *$4. Scribner.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 415. Mr. ’06. 420w.

  “I do not wish to lay down these learned, stimulating, and eloquently
  written volumes without saying that their writer, in a degree true of
  no other historian, has understood how to take the history of Greek
  thought out of its isolation, to relate it to the whole culture of the
  Greeks, and to illuminate it by the civilization of modern times.” Wm.
  A. Hammond.

    + + =Philos. R.= 15: 83. Ja. ’06. 1600w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

  + + + =Quarterly R.= 204: 63. Ja. ’06. 570w. (Review of v. 1–3.)


=Goode, John.= Recollections of a lifetime, by John Goode of Virginia.
$2. Neale.

  Mr. Goode was a member of the secession convention of Virginia, the
  Confederate congress and the congress of the United States. His
  reminiscences, aside from including interesting phases of his life as
  lawyer, soldier, and statesman, give helpful side lights on the men
  and affairs of war times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 214. O. ’06. 50w.

  “Even the general public will find much to entertain, if it reads far
  enough.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 366. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.

  “Outside of the instances mentioned and some good anecdotes, there is
  little that will repay either the general reader or the historian in
  search of material.”

    – + =Outlook.= 83: 53. Je. 30, ’06. 240w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 80w.


=Goodhue, Isabel.= Good things and graces. **50c. Elder.

  “Has a flavor that escapes many a more pretentious effort of its
  class.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 30w.


=Goodloe, Carter.= At the foot of the Rockies. †$1.50. Scribner.

  “Good as the stories are in themselves, they have gained much in the
  telling; for Miss Goodloe has just the right dramatic and artistic
  touch.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 190. F. ’06. 90w.


=Goodnow, Frank Johnson.= Principles of administrative law of the United
States. *$3. Putnam.

  “It is the only book dealing with the entire scope of the subject.”
  Isidor Loeb.

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 174. Mr. ’06. 1220w.

  “Work presents a breadth of view and a freedom from dogmatism which
  entitle it to a high rank in the literature of political science.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 799. Ap. 5, ’06. 370w.

  “In a certain sense he has made the subject his own; but he has not
  made it ours.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 105. Ag. 2, ’06. 1040w.

  “The most serious defect in a work which is otherwise little exposed
  to criticism, and should win wide favor both among students and the
  general educated public, is the fact that, no attempt is made to
  examine the application of administrative principles to the government
  of the Territories and dependencies of the United States.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 37. S. 1, ’06. 750w.

  “We have as a result a comprehensive discussion of administrative
  organization in the United States, in which the organization of the
  general, State, and local governments, the relation of the officials
  to the public, and the forms of control over official action are
  analyzed with a degree of clearness and force which give to the work a
  high position in the literature of American politics.” L. S. Rowe.

    + + =Yale R.= 15: 97. My. ’06. 290w.


=Goodrich, Arthur Frederick.= Balance of power: a novel. $1.50. Outing
pub.

  This novel “deals with a factory situation and the rise of a strong
  young man whose ability is characterized by the word ‘inevitable’; but
  the excellence of the book is in its fiber ... and a statement of the
  plot conveys but little.” (Outlook.) “Among the characters which are
  many and diversified, the most interesting, probably, is the bluff old
  colonel who is a sort of self appointed oracle of the town. This
  Yankee Mars struts through the book with the air of a man who has
  smelt powder and who knows a thing or two, and the way in which he
  imposes what he calls his opinions upon the yokels of Hampstead is
  very wonderful.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A good, readable story, and an interesting contribution to that
  modern type of American fiction which depicts our keen, progressive
  industrial life, alongside of the life of society and of the home.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 249. N. ’06. 270w.

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 473. O. 6, ’06. 160w.

  “Mr. Arthur Goodrich had a good story to tell. He has told it very
  cleverly, too, although with overmuch coquetry with his plot in the
  first third of the book.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 669. O. 13, ’06. 470w.

  “It is one of the truest studies of the phase of American life of
  which it treats that have been made in fiction, and also one of the
  most interesting of the novels of the season.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 100w.

  “The novel is overcrowded. There is excellent material, but too much
  of it. Yet there are evidences of marked ability—occasional touches
  which reveal the fine creative instinct.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 335. O. 6, ’06. 160w.

  “The combination of industrialism and politics and love makes a book
  which rises above the level of most of its contemporaries.”

    + + =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 160w.


=Gordon, William Clark.= Social ideals of Alfred Tennyson as related to
his time. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

  Following an introductory chapter on Literature and social science in
  which the author and literature he treats Social conditions in England
  in the time of Tennyson, Tennyson’s idea of man, Tennyson’s idea of
  woman, The family, Society, Social institutions, and Democracy and
  progress. Restating the main points of his summary and conclusions.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His book is a creditable summary of the forces and conditions
  prevalent in Great Britain while Tennyson was writing.”

      + =Acad.= 71: 391. O. 20, ’06. 740w.

  “It is a painstaking production, provided with many extracts and many
  more for reference.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 50w.

  “As a thesis for the doctorate this essay is an instructive example of
  the bewildering effect of a study of sociology.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 190. Ag. 30, ’06. 670w.

  “Really Mr. Gordon expresses himself very well, and most of what he
  says is true, but mayn’t we hope that a plain man reading his favorite
  poet may yet be permitted to do his own thinking?”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 500w.


=Gorky, Maxim, pseud. (Alicksel Maximovitch Preschkov).= Creatures that
once were men: a story; tr. from the Russian by J. K. M. Shirazi, with
an introd. by G. K. Chesterton. 75c. Funk.

  Mr. Chesterton in his introduction says: “This story is a test case of
  the Russian manner, for it is in itself a study of decay, a study of
  failure, and a study of old age.” “Gorky’s tale is pessimistic and
  contains all the hard, realistic word-painting which is characteristic
  of him.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Story one can hardly call it. It is just one of Gorky’s photographs.”

    + – =Acad.= 68: 280. Mr. 18, ’05. 1090w.

  “Mr. Shirazi has rendered his author fairly well; perhaps he uses a
  little too much slang. The foot-notes are also meagre.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 1: 335. Mr. 18. 210w.

        =Ind.= 61: 398. Ag. 16, ’06. 300w.

  “We have enjoyed Mr. Chesterton’s fifteen pages, however, much more
  than Maxim Gorky’s ninety-four. Anything more dismal ... we have never
  seen.”

    + – =Spec.= 94: 373. Mr. 11, ’05. 160w.


=Goschen, George Joachim.= Essays and addresses on economic questions.
$5. Longmans.

  A statement of Lord Goschen’s economic creed as a business man and a
  statesman, besides being a survey of all the most important economic
  aspects of English history during the period covered, 1865–1893. “The
  most important ‘pieces’ in the present volume are not of a
  philosophical character, but are devoted to the discussion of specific
  remedies for specific economic evils.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We confidently recommend this volume to every student of economics
  and political science.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 58. Ja. 20, ’06. 1820w.

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 719. N. 25. 660w.

  “Lord Goschen’s ‘Introductory notes’ will probably attract more
  attention than the essays to which they are prefixed.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 354. O. 27, ’05. 1360w.

  “In all of them he shows that firm grasp both of facts and of
  principles that has characterized his economic writing.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 228. Mr. 15, ’06. 1160w.

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 753. D. 9, ’05. 1720w.

  “In all of [the various essays] will be found, combined with the gift
  of lucid and forcible expression, the sagacity and almost excessive
  caution, the careful attention to facts and the skillful analysis of
  figures to which the public is accustomed in their author.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 759. N. 11, ’05. 1480w.


=Gosse, Edmund William=, ed. British portrait painters and engravers of
the eighteenth century, Kneller to Reynolds. *$50; *$70. Goupil.

  This volume “is not so much a history of the subject as it is a
  collection of plates after those mezzotints, ‘plain and colored,’ in
  which the enchanting portraits painted by fashionable artists who were
  also men of genius, were reproduced with an elegance and skill
  unsurpassed by the originals.... Mr. Gosse’s text provides an
  instructive accompaniment to the illustrations, but it is as a picture
  gallery in little that this will find its appreciative public.”—Atlan.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The introductory essay on the status of the portrait painter during
  the eighteenth century has afforded Mr. Gosse a theme to which his
  wide knowledge of eighteenth-century literature has enabled him to do
  full justice.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 902. D. 30. 1240w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The plates in their turn are so well made that in some, if not in all
  cases, they actually rival the qualities of the mezzotints from which
  they are taken.” Royal Cortissoz.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 270. F. ’06. 290w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “A perfectly adequate introduction.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 397. F. 15, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “It is not very easy to say on what principle the illustrations are
  here chosen, and it certainly would have been better to arrange them
  according to the painters than to group them alphabetically according
  to the name of the subject. Mr. Gosse’s essay has two great merits. It
  is extremely readable, and it brings out with remarkable clearness the
  extraordinary change that passed over the position of the portrait
  painter after the advent of Reynolds.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 30. Ja. 26, ’06. 940w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Gosse, Edmund William.= Coventry Patmore. **$1. Scribner.

  Reviewed by George Trobridge.

        =Westminster R.= 165: 76. Ja. ’06. 7860w.


=Gosse, Edmund William.= French profiles. *$1.60. Dodd.

  “All in all, Mr. Gosse’s ‘French profiles’ is a volume to strengthen
  the present ‘entente cordiale’ between English and French by
  contributing towards mutual understanding and appreciation.” Arthur G.
  Canfield.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 13. Ja. 1, ’06. 1850w.


=Gosse, Edmund William.= Sir Thomas Browne. **75c. Macmillan.

  “To the master of exquisite expression Mr. Gosse does complete justice
  in the last and best chapter of a book which deserves warm praise for
  its judicial temper and fine insight.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 827. D. 16. 2580w.

  “An admirably balanced estimate of the author of the ‘Religio
  medici.’”

    + + =Contemporary R.= 88: 906. D. ’05. 850w.

  “It has been prepared with excellent taste and judgment.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 50w.

  “Where Mr. Gosse fails in his estimate is in not sufficiently
  recognizing the essentially poetic quality of Browne’s work, apart
  from mere form or style. The absence of a bibliography is the grievous
  fault this book shares with the other volumes of the same series.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 350w.

  “Is not particularly interesting.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1491. Je. 21, ’06. 220w.

  “It presents its subject in so attractive a light that one who has
  never read Sir Thomas Browne’s books will turn to them with eager
  interest, and one already acquainted with them will reread them with a
  new zest.” Horatio S. Kranz.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 4. Ja. 6, ’06. 2820w.


=Gougar, Mrs. Helen Mar Jackson.= Forty thousand miles of world
wandering. $3. Helen M. Gougar, Lafayette, Ind.

  The author’s recent tour of the world has furnished a wealth of travel
  material out of which she has constructed with great accuracy an
  informing, popular work of interest to the traveler who has covered
  the ground no less than the stay-at-home book tourist. The present-day
  phases of life and institutions appeal to her rather than the dead and
  buried aspects. In keeping with the heavy paper, clear type and
  handsome binding are numerous fine illustrations.

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  “This volume will not prove disappointing, and we can heartily and
  conscientiously recommend it to our readers.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 215. F. ’06. 4180w.


=Gould, George Milbry.= Biographic clinics. v. 3. Essays concerning the
influence of visual function pathologic and physiologic upon the health
of patients. *$1. Blakiston.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 180w.


=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Book of the Rhine from Cleve to Mainz; 8
il. in col. by Trevor Hadden and 48 other il. *$2. Macmillan.

  “No attempt has been made to describe objects of interest that would
  be visited by the traveler or to give a complete history of the Rhine.
  Mr. Gould has attempted to supply information concerning ‘sights’ and
  the meaning and purpose of the objects as well as legends about
  them.... A good deal of the text deals with the history of the
  principal cities, taking up only the most significant events of their
  past and connecting these as closely as possible with their present
  condition and importance.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Baring-Gould is severely historical. When he does tell us a
  story, he is careful to say at the end that it is a fable; and he
  disproves it with dates. His book is a treasure-house of dates.”

  + + – =Acad.= 71: 306. S. 29, ’06. 1090w.

  “In a rather happy-go-lucky fashion, but always pleasantly and
  entertainingly, he discourses of kings and bishops, robber-bands,
  altar-pieces, vintages, and various other matters. It would be very
  easy to point out inaccuracies here and there, but it would be unfair
  to judge such a book from the severely scientific standpoint.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 212. Ag. 25. 260w.

  “All told very simply and directly and in a dry-as-dust manner which
  will probably prevent the book from finding many readers except those
  who take the journey which it describes.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 624. O. 6, ’06. 260w.

  “Mr. Baring-Gould’s book is, as all admirers of his genius would wish
  it to be, eminently characteristic. He has a keen eye for Nature, and
  a keener for objects of interest, archaeological and historical, and
  also a considerable gift of satire, for which, it must be allowed,
  Germany affords not a few occasions.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 498. O. 6, ’06. 240w.


=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Book of the Riviera. **$1.50. Dutton.

  Beginning with Provence the author lures his readers on to Le Gai
  Saber, then to Marseilles, Aix, Toulon, Hyères, Draguignan, Cannes,
  Nice, Monaco, Mentone, San Remo, Alassio, and other places by the way,
  ending at Savona, describing the charm of each town, giving hints to
  travelers, telling little stories of the natives, and interspersing
  all with well chosen bits of history, literature and sentiment. Forty
  good photographs of scenery illustrate the volume.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A good map and a better index would greatly improve this book.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 850w.

      + =Dial.= 41: 72. Ag. 1, ’06. 280w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 872. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 414. My. 17, ’06. 920w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 99. F. 17, ’06. 500w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 40w.

  “‘The Riviera’ furnishes Mr. Baring-Gould’s facile pen with a subject
  full of variety. Whatever the theme, it seems to be equally at home.”

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 645. Ap. 28, ’06. 170w.


=Graham, George Washington.= Mecklenburg declaration of independence,
May 20, 1775, and lives of its signers. $1.50. Neale.

  A monograph upon the Mecklenburg declaration of independence which was
  read before the Scotch-Irish society of America in June of 1895. It
  has been enlarged and revised to meet the requirements of publication
  in book form.

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  “Will be found decidedly interesting. It is not equally convincing,
  for, altho it must be conceded that he adduces more documentary
  evidence than did any of his predecessors, Dr. Graham, has, like them,
  seen fit to rely largely on the testimony of assumption and hearsay
  already made familiar through their efforts but inadmissible in the
  court of history.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 801. My. 26, ’06. 1860w.

      – =Nation.= 82: 475. Je. 7, ’06. 1360w.

  “The work, as an effort to validate the document, is one of
  supererogation. As a historical monograph by a high authority,
  however, it deserves to be read.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 460w.


=Graham, Harry (Col. D. Streamer, pseud.).= Misrepresentative women. $1.
Duffield.

  In “this villainous collection of abominable verse” this modest author
  sings merrily of Eve, Lady Godiva, Marie Corelli, Mrs. Mary Baker
  Eddy, Mrs. Grundy, Dame Rumor, and other good souls who have achieved
  fame in one way or another; then he passes on to, The self-made father
  to the ready-made son, and other extraneous matter.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 100w.

  “The point of view as well as the lines are nevertheless clever enough
  to cover a multitude of shortcomings in technique and mere
  construction.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1399. D. 13, ’06. 50w.

  “Harry Graham’s jingles about ‘Misrepresentative women’ are in the
  same vein as those in his previous volumes of comic verse, and it
  bears some evidence that the vein has been slightly overworked.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 160w.

  “Is the best kind of fooling.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 931. D. 8, ’06. 110w.


=Granger, Anna D.= Skat and how to play it. $1. Matthews.

  Miss Granger has prepared the first real American treatise on skat,
  and offers the student the fundamental principles that govern the
  game.


=Grant, Percy Stickney.= Ad matrem, and other poems. Kimball.

  “Something akin to Miltonic richness meets us in the outset of ‘Ad
  Matrem,’ in the lines depicting the rout of the Greek godheads, before
  the Lux mundi shining over Judean hills.” (Critic.) “The collection of
  poems is not large, but it is stamped throughout with elevation of
  tone, dignity, and often charm of manner.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Edith M. Thomas.

      + =Critic.= 48: 272. Mr. ’06. 260w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.

  “It shows unusual feeling for the resources of difficult meters and
  unusual skill in handling them.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 283. Je. 2, ’06. 500w.


=Grant, Robert.= Law-breakers and other stories. †$1.25. Scribner.

  Besides the title story there are six others in the group,—“George and
  the dragon,” “An exchange of courtesies,” “The romance of a soul,”
  “Against his judgment,” “A surrender,” and “Across the way.” They
  “belong to the literature of exposure.... Each story has a definite
  problem, or rather thesis, clearly stated and logically argued.... The
  question argued in the title story is one that might well form a topic
  for a debating society. It is this: Is a man who cheats the custom
  house officer so fundamentally untrustworthy in character that a good
  woman should not trust her life to him? For the particulars in the
  case and the verdict of the author we must refer our readers to the
  book.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The impression of the entire collection is one of discouragement.”
  Mary Moss.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 435. Je. ’06. 690w.

  “Is a distinctly stimulating book.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 60w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1047. My. 3, ’06. 170w.

  “Upon the whole, they do not measure up to what we have learned to
  expect from him.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 334. My. 26, ’06. 280w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

  “As a whole the stories will strike most readers as not up to the
  level of Judge Grant’s best work.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 814. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.


=Grant, Robert.= Orchid. †$1.25. Scribner.

  “You merely feel that he is stating a condition, never that he tells
  you the story of one person or group of people.” Mary Moss.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 52. Ja. ’06. 270w.

  “The book, though it contains an appalling story, is written with
  persiflage and an irony, which is, from first to last, carefully
  concealed.”

      + =Reader.= 6: 91. Je. ’05. 720w.


=Gratacap, Louis Pope.= World as intention: a contribution to teleology.
*$1.25. Eaton.

  “The volume is written in a serious, straightforward manner.”

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 165. Ja. ’06. 170w.


=Graves, Algernon=, comp. Royal academy of arts. per v. *$11. Macmillan.

  “It deserves to rank with such an enterprise as the ‘Dictionary of
  national biography.’ to which, indeed it is a complement, and like it,
  should be in every institution, public or private, worthy of the name
  of library.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 342. S. 9. 2180w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “On the whole, however, Mr. Graves is continuing to perform his
  onerous task with every reasonable care, and the more frequently one
  refers to his volumes the more valuable do they seem.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 205. F. 17. 2960w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 705. Je. 9. 2030w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “We have noticed a good many slight slips, which are probably the
  fault, not of Mr. Graves, but of the compiler of the original
  catalogues.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 79. Jl. 21. 1730w. (Review of v. 6.)

  “As a work of reference for the historian, whether dealing with the
  Academy or with any one of a tremendous company of artists, this
  handsomely printed compilation commends the warmest praise.” Royal
  Cortissoz.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 273. F. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Every page, indeed, bears witness to the painstaking accuracy with
  which the thousands of references have been extracted from the
  records.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 28: 276. My. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 2–4.)

  “We have said enough to indicate the curious interest of these
  laborious volumes. Much might have been added, both as to the earlier
  and the modern men.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 66. F. 23, ’06. 1480w.

  “Has all the interest of the first.”

  + + + =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ’05. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It will take its place among the indispensable works of reference.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 340. Mr. 17, ’06. 530w. (Review of v. 2–4.)


=Gray, Charles H.= Lodowick Carliell. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

  “His work is deserving of all praise.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 28. Ja. 6. 280w.


=Gray, John Thompson.= Kentucky chronicle. $1.50. Neale.

  “Among the Virginia emigrants to The Falls, was Reginald Thornton, a
  stately, kindly gentleman of the old school.” He established himself
  at Lastlands, a few miles from The Falls, and it is the life of his
  children, his grandchildren, their friends and enemies that goes to
  make up this chronicle which is “more than a romance, it is a wisdom
  book.”


=Gray, Maxwell, pseud. (Mary Gleed Tuttiett.)= Great refusal. †$1.50.
Appleton.

  “The ‘great refusal’ is made by the hero, who renounces wealth and
  position to become a common workingman, and eventually embarks in a
  socialistic venture having for its object the establishment of a
  Utopian commonwealth in Africa. These are not his only sacrifices, for
  love also is cast aside, and it is not until the end of much suffering
  that his early passion is replaced by one fixed upon far surer
  foundations. The characterization is excellent, alike of the two
  women, the devoted hero, and his masterful father, whose money seems
  to the son too tainted for legitimate enjoyment.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author fails chiefly because she has not defined exactly what she
  would be at. In regard to the condition of the poor, her hero is an
  ignoramus.”

    – + =Acad.= 70: 173. F. 24, ’06. 1440w.

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 416. Ap. 7. 270w.

      – =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 140w.

  “A singularly charming and appealing book. The style of the novel,
  also, is natural as to dialogue, and charmingly allusive as to
  description.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “The tale is a really thoughtful one, written with a purpose; but
  buried so deeply beneath value the motive at its true worth.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 170w.

  “Upon the whole, however, the characters are consistent with
  themselves, and the author shows her art by being just to all of
  them.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 1350w.

  “The best thing in the novel is the rapid-fire exchange of
  sociological epigrams and paradoxes between a group of Oxford
  undergraduates.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 160w.

  “The book is certainly above the average in readability as well as in
  ideals; and though the workmanship does not always reach the level of
  the conception, the main part of the story amply repays the reader for
  wading through what must be acknowledged to be the extreme dullness of
  the first two or three chapters.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 350w.


Gray mist, a novel; by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.”
**$1.50. Harper.

  The fleecy grayness of a Breton mist permeates this story of Pierrek,
  the child who is sent by the sea to the empty arms of a woman whose
  wits are wandering because of the loss of her own baby boy. With true
  Breton faith in the miraculous he is considered hers, grows to manhood
  on the Breton cliffs, marries the girl of his choice, becomes a loving
  husband, and a happy father, only to learn thru a woman’s jealousy
  that his mother of mothers is not his own and that his wife is his own
  sister. Then indeed the grey mist envelops him and he goes back to the
  gray sea leaving those he loves in sorrow and facing a hopeless future
  which the impenetrable mists of life and death envelope like a shroud.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It cannot be called satisfactory as a whole, and the conclusion is
  too annoying to be tragic.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 300w.

  “The whole tone of the present volume is as false as possible—little
  short of maudlin.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 771. N. 24. ’06. 240w.

  “A pleasantly written story, but it is curiously deficient in the
  dramatic quality which justifies a tragic ending, and there is every
  reason for averting the final catastrophe.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 70w.


=Greely, Adolphus Washington.= Handbook of Polar discoveries. $1.50.
Little.

  Following the topical method of treatment, General Greely has compiled
  from original narratives “such data of accomplished results as may
  subserve the inquiries of the busy man who often wishes to know what,
  when, and where, rather than how.” All important Arctic geographic
  additions to knowledge are given as well as the more important
  scientific investigations. The table of contents includes; Early
  Northwest voyages to 1750, Nova Zembla, The northeast passage,
  Spitzbergen, Behring strait, The northwest passage, Franklin’s last
  voyages, North-polar voyages, The islands of the Siberian ocean, Franz
  Josef land, The Antarctic regions in general, and chapters upon the
  African, Australian, Pacific and American quadrants.

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  “It is a great public service to have these voluminous narratives
  studied, digested, criticised and reported by the foremost authority
  on the subject.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1117. N. 8, ’06. 120w.

  “A few ... serious misstatements or misprints ... have crept in as the
  result of imperfect revision of the earlier text.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 493. D. 6, ’06. 490w.

  “It is the polar vade mecum in English.” Cyrus C. Adams.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 845. D. 8, ’06. 340w.


=Green, Allen Ayrault.= Good fairy and the bunnies; 11 full-page il. in
col. and 10 chapter headings by Frank Richardson. $1.50. McClurg.

  The purpose of this story is to relieve the grief of boys and girls
  who lose pets by suggesting to their minds the possibility that the
  good animals of the earth are, after death transported to a beautiful
  land on a star above.

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        =Ind.= 61: 1411. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 90w.

  “There are plenty of pictures in colors ... but their style is not of
  the best.”

      – =R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 20w.


=Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).= Circular study. *50c.
Fenno.

  A popular edition of a story which appeared first in 1900. It is a
  mystery story whose crime, discovered to have been committed in self
  defense, involves a dramatic tale of revenge and love.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 110w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 293. My. 5, ’06. 70w.


=Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).= Woman in the alcove.
†$1.50. Bobbs.

  A mystery story which runs a rapid and exciting course to the
  inevitable solution opens upon a brilliant private ball. A gorgeously
  appareled woman with a diamond on her breast too vivid for most women
  is murdered in an alcove, and the gem hidden in the woman’s gloves is
  discovered later in the possession of innocent Rita Van Arsdale. Her
  lover is accused of the deed, and the interest of the story becomes
  identified with this determined young woman’s efforts to free him from
  the charge of guilt.

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  “It is one of the best of Anna Katharine Green’s detective novels and
  displays all the remarkable ingenuity that marks the best work of the
  famous author of ‘The Leavenworth case.’”

      + =Arena.= 36: 107. Jl. ’06. 190w.

        =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 80w.

  “One does not look for character drawing or social analysis in such
  books, but it requires no small skill to write them as acceptably as
  does Mrs. Green, who pleases her large constituency well.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 338. Ag. 9, ’06. 130w.

  “Anna Katharine Green’s hand has assuredly lost its cunning if ‘The
  woman in the alcove’ is to be accepted as the criterion of her present
  workmanship.”

      – =Lit. D.= 32: 918. Ja. 16, ’06. 120w.

  “One of the most fascinating books of its kind, superior in content,
  it seems to us, to either ‘The filigree ball’ or ‘The millionaire
  baby,’ and as absorbing in the reading as those or any of their
  predecessors.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 293. My. 5, ’06. 280w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

  “This is a fairly good detective story, but not the best.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 60w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 950. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.


=Green, Evelyn Everett-.= Secret of Wold Hall. †$1. McClurg.

  “It belongs to the innocuous class of respectable mediocrities, and is
  not bad to rest one’s mind upon.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 4. Ja. 6, ’06. 200w.


=Greene, Charles Ezra.= Structural mechanics, comprising the strength
and resistance of materials and elements of structural design; with
examples and problems. *$2.50. Wiley.

  “Published in 1897, this book has become well known. It stands
  intermediate between the ordinary textbook on Mechanics of materials
  and such books as Johnson’s Framed structures.... The book is
  evidently framed for use; and one who has studied mechanics and has
  the general fundamentals fixed in his mind will, in the shortest time,
  find out what to do, or the information necessary for action.... The
  new edition, now under review, contains 240 pages, whereas the 1897
  (first) edition contained 268 pages; this, too, notwithstanding the
  insertion of explanatory and introductory sentences in various parts
  of the text.”—Engin. N.

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  “The chief feature of the book is compactness of treatment without
  sacrifice of clearness of statement.” W. Kendrick Hatt.

  + + + =Engin. N.= 55: 74. Ja. 18, ’06. 2060w.


=Greene, Cordelia Agnes.= Art of keeping well; with a biography by
Elizabeth P. Gordon. **$1.25. Dodd.

  A memorial volume by virtue of the sketch of Dr. Greene’s life to
  which the last half of the book is devoted. “The part contributed by
  Dr. Greene contains some eighteen articles on subjects connected
  rather with hygiene than with medicine, all of them supporting the
  title given to the book.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 230w.

  “A sensible book of advice.”

        =Outlook.= 82: 715. Mr. 24, ’06. 80w.


=Greene, Frances N., and Kirk, Dolly Williams.= With spurs of gold.
†$1.50. Little.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 104. F. 17, ’06. 260w.


=Greene, Maria Louise.= Development of religious liberty in Connecticut.
**$2. Houghton.

  “A welcome and creditable addition to the small list of valuable works
  on American ecclesiastical history.... The chief bones of contention
  in Connecticut were, of course, the Halfway Covenant and the Saybrook
  Platform; and to the development of these great statements, and of the
  controversies which centered round them, Miss Greene pays detailed and
  patient attention.... The bibliography lists the principal
  authorities, including much contemporary material hitherto little
  used.”—Nation.

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  “Careful and scholarly treatise.”

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 687. Ap. ’06. 620w.

  Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 358. Ap. ’06. 430w.

  “With much learning and insight into the meaning of events, with a
  lucid style and without prejudice, Dr. Greene has written a valuable
  religious history of Connecticut.” George Hodges.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 413. Mr. ’06. 330w.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 120w.

  “The treatment of this subject is admirable, and is a distinct
  contribution to the history of our national development. The placing
  of the references to authorities in the appendix seems to us an
  objectionable arrangement.”

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “Miss Greene is neither partial nor hostile, and her work, if it errs
  somewhat in feeling, is well stored with facts.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 201. Mr. 8, ’06. 310w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 120w.

  “The volume as a whole is one to be welcomed by students of
  Connecticut history.” Williston Walker.

      + =Yale R.= 15: 96. My. ’06. 480w.


=Greene, Robert.= Plays and poems; ed. by J. Churton Collins. 2v. *$6.
Oxford.

  Prof. Collins says, “I determined to spare no pains to make this
  edition, so far at least as the text was concerned, a final one.” “It
  preserves the original spelling not even removing the confusion of i
  and j, of u and v. Such indications of scene and stage business as the
  editor contributes himself, or as he takes over from Dyce, he sets
  apart in brackets. He transcribes in full from the Alleyn treasures at
  Dulwich, the manuscript part from which the actor studied Orlando in
  Greene’s ‘Orlando Furioso,’ a most interesting fragment, which sheds
  light on the customs of the Elizabethan playhouses. He collects all
  the songs out of Greene’s novels. He discusses in detail, with full
  knowledge and with robust common sense, all the many uncertainties
  connected with the biography and with the bibliography of his author.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

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  “Although, the value and interest of this research is unquestionable,
  we must yet take exception to Dr. Churton Collin’s arrangement of the
  actual text of the plays. The general introduction is long and
  learned; but it is in many respects disappointing. The special
  introductions are, however, of marked importance.”

    + – =Acad.= 69: 1252. D. 2, ’05. 1430w.

  “Prof. Collins cannot be charged with an excess of enthusiasm in this
  venture. There are signs of weariness in the attempt to correct and
  improve upon his predecessors.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 471. Ap. 21. 1740w.

  “In fulness and accuracy it is, as it should be, up to the level which
  has long been required in the case of the Greek and Latin classics,
  and, we might add also, in the case of writers of the mediaeval
  period. The notes especially are replete with learning.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 410. My. 17, ’06. 2240w.

  “It is pleasant to be able to welcome the ‘Greene’ of Prof. Churton
  Collins as a worthy companion to the ‘Kyd’ of Prof. Boas.” Brander
  Matthews.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 222. Ap. 7, ’06. 1590w.

  “What we are glad of is the opportunity of reading him at large in so
  delightful a text.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 261. Mr. 3, ’06. 1990w.

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 537. Ap. 7, ’06. 1200w.


=Greene, Sarah P. McLean.= Power Lot. †$1.50. Baker.

  Power Lot, God Help Us is the full name of this bleak little Nova
  Scotia hamlet, and the story of its people as Captain Jim, a sailor on
  the Bay of Fundy, tells it, is quaint and very human. The main plot,
  concerns Robert Hilton, a dissolute youth who has been wasting his
  inherited wealth in New York and who is marooned by the family doctor
  upon these windswept cliffs, and Mary, the girl whom Captain Jim
  himself loved but could not win. The regeneration of Robert thru work
  and right living finally brings out his real character and makes him
  worthy of both Mary and his great wealth, and to show how this is
  accomplished the rugged life of the coast inhabitants and their
  constant fight against poverty is pictured with sympathy and humor.

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  “So much of the psychology of ‘Power lot’ is true, and not without
  interest, whether the reformation of the hero be credible or
  otherwise.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 756. S. 27, ’06. 380w.

  “Whole chapters might be omitted with advantage, but the story itself
  is a real story, full of quaint turns of humor and sentiment, and told
  with a peculiar eloquence and a strong feeling for dramatic effect.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 553. S. 8, ’06. 600w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 239. S. 22, ’06. 70w.

        =Putnam’s.= 1: 319. D. ’06. 50w.


=Greenidge, Abel Hendy Jones.= History of Rome during the later republic
and early principate. 6 vols. v. I, *$3.50. Dutton.

  “The work is disappointing as a whole from its lack of directness,
  proportion, and continuity.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 414. Ap. 7. 890w.


=Greenshields, E. B.= Landscape painting and modern Dutch artists. **$2.
Baker.

  A history of landscape painting from the awakening of art in the
  thirteenth century to the recent French impressionists and the modern
  revival in Holland. The author’s object is to lead the art student to
  separate the “thought and the personal vision” of the master from the
  great technical skill which is the servant that makes possible its
  expression on canvas. This detachment leads to the subjective study
  that interprets individuality.

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  “The text is concise and to the point.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 377. Ap. ’06. 90w.

  “Mr. Greenshields, who has established himself as an authority on the
  artists under discussion, has approached his task with ardor, and has
  assembled his material with an eye keen both to the true and the
  interesting.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 300. My. 1, ’06. 300w.

  “This is largely composed of somewhat imperfectly fused essays,
  neither profound nor novel, but agreeably written and giving
  information that will be helpful to many in teaching them how to see
  pictures.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 805. Ap. 5, ’06. 210w.

        =Nation.= 82: 279. Ap. 5, ’06. 150w.

  “A pleasing typographical as well as convenient feature of the book
  will be found in its marginal notes.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 245. Ap. 14, ’06. 560w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 542. Ap. 28, ’06. 140w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 767. Je. ’06. 50w.

  “Without adding anything fresh to our knowledge, the writer gives an
  excellent summary of the rise and development of landscape painting
  from early Renaissance times to the present day.”

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1011. Je. 30, ’06. 130w.


=Greenslet, Ferris.= James Russell Lowell, his life and work. **$1.50.
Houghton.

  “It is the more surprising therefore, that a man who is steeped in
  Lowell should on occasion himself write so vilely.”

    – + =Acad.= 70: 201. Mr. 3, ’06. 1100w.

  “There is a manifest danger that some of the merits of substance may
  be hidden by the tricks of manner. The genuine merits are so many and
  so positive that it would be the greatest of pities for the
  apprehensive reader too quickly to take alarm and lose the benefits of
  Mr. Greenslet’s searching study of Lowell the man and the writer.” M.
  A. De Wolfe Howe.

  + + – =Atlan.= 97: 111. Ja. ’06. 740w.

  “A compact record of this many-sided life and a really judicial
  discussion of the poet’s place in literature—the first essentially
  critical biography of Lowell yet attempted.” W. E. Simonds.

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 119. F. 16, ’06. 1290w.

  “The book as a whole is well done, the smaller details being handled
  with fondness for such details, and the critical notes touching all
  the sensitive points.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 286. F. 1, ’06. 300w.

  “A very painstaking and creditable, but uninspired, monograph.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 101. Mr. 23, ’06. 570w.

  “It is hardly possible to speak too highly of Mr. Greenslet’s
  performance. In addition to an unusually ample literary outfit, he
  possesses the critic’s instinct and insight, and his almost unfailing
  touchstone.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 180. Mr. 1, ’06. 2130w.

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 205. Mr. 8, ’06. 2130w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 40w.

  “Mr. Greenslet’s book is an excellent performance. A better portrait
  of the man one could not wish to see.”

  + + + =Spec.= 96: 228. F. 10, ’06. 610w.


=Greenwood, James Mickleborough=, ed. Successful teaching: fifteen
studies by practical teachers; prize winners in the national educational
contest of 1905; with an introd. by J. M. Greenwood. *$1. Funk.

  Fifteen essays which “are intended to help teachers in their daily
  work; to give them broader views of teaching certain subjects, better
  methods of presentation, and deeper insight into the thoughts,
  feelings, emotions, desires, passions, and aspirations of a developing
  human soul.”

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  “The book will prove valuable as an additional book of reference to
  teachers who have available the more systematic and exhaustive
  treatises.”

      + =Bookm.= 24: 296. N. ’06. 140w.

  “The contributions are of varying merit, tho on the whole excellent.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 936. O. 18, 06. 90w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 50w.


=Grey, Edward C. W.= St. Giles’s of the lepers. $1.50. Longmans.

  This large London parish took its name from the hospital for lepers
  founded by the queen of Henry I. The author who labored here for
  thirty years sketches the history and describes the recent attempts to
  uplift the people who are sheltered within its limits. Among the most
  interesting chapters are those which tell of the author’s experiences
  as a Guardian of the poor, and his account of the founding of the
  Boys’ institute.

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  “Had [Mr. Grey’s] life been spared, the few errors we have come across
  would doubtless have been corrected, and his work, as a book of
  reference, rendered more valuable by the addition of an index.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 477. Ap. 21. 590w.

  “His reminiscences are not so valuable as his history, but they round
  out a book unpretending, but very interesting.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 893. D. 16, ’05. 620w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 180. F. 10, ’06. 130w.

      + =Spec.= 95: 872. N. 25, ’05. 330w.


=Griffiths, Arthur George Frederick.= Passenger from Calais. †$1.25.
Page.

  This story which records a series of adventures that begin in a
  sleeping-car between Calais and Basle, and come to an end on the north
  African shore as sprightly as one could wish. Briefly told, Lord
  Blackadder divorces his wife. She wishes to escape with her child whom
  the father also cares to possess. In order to facilitate her flight by
  confusing the confidential agents who might follow her, she and her
  twin sister gowned alike, and accompanied by maids closely resembling
  one another journey in different directions, the one with the child
  and the other with a dummy. The flight and the pursuit give rise to
  numerous exciting situations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The trouble with ‘The passenger from Calais’ ... is the lack of a
  certain magnetic something which in the story of mystery leads the
  reader onward more or less breathless, through a mass of details
  cunningly arranged to impede his progress and inflame his curiosity.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 81. F. 10, ’06. 280w.


=Grinnell, William Morton.= Social theories and social facts. **$1.
Putnam.

  A discussion of the subject of the economic and social conditions of
  to-day with the following chapter headings: Natural and artificial
  laws; Trusts; Competition; Socialism; Legislation; Labor; The Cost of
  living; Course of wages; Railway rates. “The chief value in Mr.
  Grinnell’s book is that it points out the difference between political
  and industrial socialism and in so doing emphasizes both the true
  function and the real value of the corporation as a contrivance for
  the distribution of wealth.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Nowadays it is comparatively rare to find anyone holding so
  consistently a laissez faire policy as does the author in this little
  volume.”

    + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 419. Mr. ’06. 150w.

  “It is not a closely reasoned exposition, nor one characterized by
  breadth of view. The facts are not critically examined to determine
  their real meaning, and they are not always accurate. Occasionally
  sweeping statements are made as if the facts were well established.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 150w.

  Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.

        =Dial.= 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 150w.

  “It is impossible to find in the book a central idea or a consistent
  standpoint.”

      – =Ind.= 60: 1286. My. 31, 06. 130w.

  “It is unfortunate that the author of this book, by his assumptions,
  extravagances and inaccuracies, not to say errors, impairs the worth
  of a work which contains some very valuable suggestions.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 572. Mr. 10, ’06. 490w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 90w.


=Grove, Sir George.= Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; new ed.
thoroughly rev. and greatly enlarged; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. 5v.
ea. **$5. Macmillan.

  + + + =Acad.= 70: 483. My. 19, ’06. 700w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It is, of course, impossible for Mr. Maitland to verify every
  statement made in old articles and in those of new contributors.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 458. Ap. 14. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “No exception can be taken to the scholarly character both of the
  revised and the new matter.”

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 267. Ap. 16, ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Americans do not receive quite as full treatment as might have been
  asked for them legitimately in a book intended just as largely for the
  American as for the British market.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 155. Jl. 19, ’06. 480w.

  “In dealing with matters of smaller importance the level reached and
  sustained is a high one. The work has been conspicuously well done, as
  regards both editing and production ... we have been hard put to
  discover flaws.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 2620w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The shortcomings of the new ‘Grove’ are few compared with its many
  sterling qualities.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 413. My. 17, ’06. 580w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “There is a table of corrections of errors in the first volume at the
  end of this, and there will doubtless be more corrections in the third
  volume.” Richard Aldrich.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 253. Ap. 21, ’06. 1110w. (Review of v. 2.)

  + + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Grundy, Mabel Barnes-.= Hazel of Heatherland. †$1.50. Baker.

  Hazel of Heatherland is a head-strong young heroine whose refractory
  doings are refreshing and forgivable. Her whims form a sort of
  froufrou of caprice against the background of Robert Underwick’s
  plain, sturdy qualities. The romance of these two is aided by clever
  Aunt Menelophe who is not so much a match-maker as a tactful student
  of “fluffy bits of inanity.” So she characterizes some women, and
  would be of service to them.

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.

  “The author evidently knows rural England as well as how to write a
  pleasing story.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 90w.

  “Is freshly and amusingly written.”

      + =Sat. R.= 99: 601. My. 6, ’06. 140w.


=Guerber, Helene Adeline.= How to prepare for Europe. **$2. Dodd.

  A popular handbook “How to prepare for Europe” is a “comprehensive
  work written in a popular vein. There are chapters on the history of
  each country, its literature and art, a vocabulary in six languages,
  bibliographies of history, art, travel, etc., and other material for
  the European traveler.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The tourist should by all means secure this book as a supplement to
  his indispensable Baedeker.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 394. Je. 16, ’06. 260w.

  “These bibliographies would have been more useful, if price,
  publisher, and some indication of their relative value had been
  given.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 70w.

  “A useful little book that need not be depreciated as over-ambitious,
  since it is light in the hand and most compact and clearly printed.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 420w.

  “A useful handbook, covering a different field from any single volume
  of which we know.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.


=Guerville, A. B. de.= New Egypt. **$5. Dutton.

  “A book of description combining history, geography, and travel.... M.
  de Guerville has found that there really is a new Egypt, and that,
  moreover, it is quite willing to be studied and analyzed.” (R. of Rs.)
  “For the most part the illustrations in the present work are portraits
  of well known natives, types, and scenes, as well as pictures of
  English and French personages connected with Egypt’s recent history.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

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  “If scandal is more amusing to his mind than politics, we do not blame
  him, for the scandal adds colour and merriment to his narrative. Nor
  should it be forgotten that his observation is as honest as it is
  quick.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 279. Mr. 24, ’06. 130w.

  “A very entertaining book, which no one who concerns himself with
  things Egyptian can afford to pass by.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 590w.

  “We commend the book for its valuable information, for its pungent
  style, and for its sprightly gossip about things Egyptian.” H. E.
  Coblentz.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 235. Ap. 1, ’06. 360w.

  “His account of the rapid advance of civilization into the Sudan will
  be as surprising as it is interesting to most readers.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 150w.

  “A book as readable by reason of its style as by its intrinsic merit.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 370. My. 3, ’06. 1820w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 320w.

  “On the whole, the book is one of the best on its subject yet
  published.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 190w.

  “Despite occasional blemishes, the book is worth reading.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 350w.

  “Entertainingly written.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 130w.


=Guinan, Rev. Joseph.= Soggarth Aroon. $1.25. Benziger.

  Chapters from the experiences of an Irish country curate, first
  appearing in the “Ave Maria” and now amended and enlarged.


=Gull, Cyril Arthur Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.).= Lost cause. †$1.50.
Putnam.

  Mr. Thorne’s preface states: “‘Protestantism’ within the church is a
  lost cause, it is dying, and for just this reason the clamor is
  loudest, the misrepresentation more furious and envenomed.... The
  author ... attacks those of the extreme ‘Protestants’ whom he believes
  to be insincere and who rebel against the truth for their own ends....
  Finally, the noisiest ‘Protestants’ are hitting the Church as hard as
  they can. The author has endeavored to hit back as hard as he can.”
  The book treats this theme with dramatic intensity.

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  “Mr. Guy Thorne is not very skilful at handling even the small craft
  he has set sail in. His devices are of the easy and conventional order
  and his people lack vitality and breadth of human souls. His book is
  not one to be regarded except as a warning and example of the
  sacrifice of literature to opinion.”

      – =Acad.= 69: 821. Ag. 12, ’05. 920w.

      – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 171. Ag. 5. 280w.

  “The venom of the book is, upon the whole, confined to its preface,
  and it portrays some exalted Christian characters, and at times a
  spirit truly catholic, in the accepted sense of the term.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 114. F. 24, ’06. 520w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 90w.


=Gull, Cyril Arthur Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.).= Made in His image.
†$1.50. Jacobs.

  How Charles Bosanquet, minister of industrial affairs, framed a
  measure which settled for a time the problem of the great army of the
  unemployable in London, and what came of it, is the burden of this
  story. First the starving masses are drawn, hideous, menacing,
  parasites upon the working poor; then comes the minister’s solution;
  those whom the courts deem unfit for society are to be made slaves for
  life. This is the beginning of that awful thing, the slave colony in
  the Cornish hinterland at which the Christian world stood aghast. Thru
  all this a love story is developed. Bosanquet and his old friend, John
  Hazel, now his political opponent, both love Muriel, an active worker
  in the anti-slavery league. And then the day comes when the slaves
  break loose!

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Strange though its theme and remarkable the treatment, this novel
  shows its greatest touch of genius in its ending.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 240w.


=Gunne, Evelyn.= Silver trail; poems. $1.25. Badger, R. G.

  The author has followed her silver trail to learn its mystery. Her
  verse goes hither and yon for themes, sometimes beyond the mountain,
  to the sunset, more often far afield. The lines all breathe
  possibility, hope, buoyancy.


=Gunsaulus, Frank W.= Paths to power; Central church sermons. *$1.25.
Revell.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1541. D. 28, ’05. 180w.


=Gwatkin, Henry Melville.= Eye for spiritual things: and other sermons.
*$1.50. Scribner.

  “Some twenty-eight sermons.... English sermons of the best type....
  The ... volume ranges over a wide class of subjects, though no theme
  is handled which is not of importance in the religious life. The point
  of view is indicated in the following sentence: ‘The knowledge of God
  is not to be learned by sacrificing reason to feeling, or feeling to
  reason, by ascetic observance or by orthodox belief; it is given
  freely to all that purify themselves with all the force of heart and
  soul and mind.’”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Strong and thoughtful sermons.”

    + + =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 10w.

  “They are chaste and dignified, orderly and quiet, without screaming
  for oratorical effect, conveying a happy sensation of established
  faith and power held in reserve.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 36. Jl. 12, ’06. 210w.

  “They have real originality and independence of thought, a fine power
  of description, and an eloquence which is free from mere rhetoric; on
  the other hand he drags in controversy sometimes when it is not
  necessary, and it is just when he denounces dogma and tradition and
  the Roman Church that he deteriorates and tends to become
  commonplace.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 190w.


=Gwatkin, Henry Melville.= Knowledge of God. 2v. *$3.75. Scribner.

  “These volumes present in rearranged form the Gifford lectures at
  Edinburgh in 1904 and 1905 by the Professor of Ecclesiastical history
  in Cambridge, England. What man has discovered concerning God through
  God’s revelation of himself to man is the theme given by the title.
  The first series discusses the reality and character of such a
  revelation and discovery of God in the universe and in man. The second
  series is devoted to a historico-critical survey of its development
  from the stage of primitive religion to the present.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is studded with memorable phrases and incisive comments, and
  rises at times to serene and lofty eloquence. The value of the book is
  that it is a sort of philosophy of history by a man intimately
  acquainted with every detail of the subject, and entirely free from
  the bias of the ecclesiastic. We cannot help thinking that Prof.
  Gwatkin would have strengthened his book by a more sympathetic
  attitude. For all that it is stimulating, and by its very decision,
  useful, and above all things, interesting and brilliant.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 265. S. 8. 1450w.

        =Lond. Times.= 5: 274. Ag. 10, ’06. 1540w.

  “With the work as a whole one must confess to disappointment. Dr.
  Gwatkin would appear to be most broad and tolerant in many respects,
  but his manner toward Roman Catholics is sometimes offensive.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 310. O. 11, ’06. 540w.

  “Whatever defects may be attributed to his work, its philosophic
  thought and warmth of feeling make it a worthy continuation of the
  work of his predecessors in the Gifford lectureship.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 711. Ag. 18, ’06. 520w.

  “It is a pity that the value of these lectures is seriously
  compromised by a singular inability to do justice to any form of
  Christian thought except the Evangelical.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 489. O. 20, ’06. 1820w.


                                   H


=Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August.= Last words on evolution: a
popular retrospect and summary; tr. from 2nd ed. by Joseph McCabe. *$1.
Eckler.

  Three lectures which reiterate Professor Haeckel’s views of human life
  and destiny as affected by the doctrine of evolution. They are as
  follows: The controversy about creation, The struggle over our
  genealogical tree and The controversy over the soul.

        =Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 80w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1291. N. 29, ’06. 480w.

        =Nature.= 74: 27. My. 10, ’06. 330w.

        =Spec.= 97: sup. 467. O. 6, ’06. 300w.


=Hagar, Frank Nichols.= American family: a sociological problem. $1.50
Univ. pub. soc.

  “The author brings to his task the special training of a lawyer and
  considerable reading in the history of institutions. He discusses sex,
  theories of primitive and historical forms of domestic life, the
  decadence of the Yankees, occupations of women, matrimonial law,
  divorce, free love, education, industrial influences, democracy....
  The volume illustrates the fact that men with legal training can
  render a valuable service to sociology by calling attention to the
  obstacles which the law itself presents when it is no longer fitted to
  contemporary conditions.”—Am. J. Soc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a serious work with a conservative purpose. Perhaps the most
  useful and instructive parts are the discussions of the decadence in
  the Yankee stock, the danger of foreign inundation, and the law of
  property affecting husband and wife.” C. R. Henderson.

      + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 703. Mr. ’06. 300w.

  “Dispatching many of the grave questions connected with the family in
  sweeping generalizations, the author is too generally loose, vague,
  and incoherent. His wide discursiveness has resulted in a work lacking
  in due proportion and unity.”

    – + =Cath. World.= 82: 415. D. ’05. 770w.

  “It is a decidedly interesting and by no means contemptible argument.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 527. Ag. 12, ’05. 580w.


=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Ayesha: the return of “She.” †$1.50.
Doubleday.

        =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.

    + – =Ind.= 59: 1537. D. 28, ’05. 250w.


=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Poor and the land; being a report of the
Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England;
with a scheme of national land settlement, and an introduction by H.
Rider Haggard. 75c. Longmans.

  “The report deserves a wide reading here, and careful consideration.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 160w.

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 333. S. 9. 840w.

  Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 843. Je. ’06. 390w.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1538. D. 28, ’06. 320w.

        =Quarterly R.= 204: 243. Ja. ’06. 1600w.


=Haggard, Henry Rider.= Spirit of Bambatse; a romance. †$1.50. Longmans.

  The ingredients out of which H. Rider Haggard’s story is compounded
  are “Zulu warriors, buried treasure, underground passages, a standard
  villain, an English maiden of surpassing beauty and bravery, much
  hypnotism on the part of the villain, and considerable sonorous
  prophecy on the part of an ancient native priest.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Here is the old touch, the old fascination; and the tale—a constant
  stream of excitement—ends as such tales should end, happily.”

      + =Acad.= 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 160w.

  “A story bristling with adventure and thoroly readable. It reminds us
  of ‘King Solomon’s mines’ and certain other of Mr. Haggard’s stories
  but that may be its best passport to popularity.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 330. S. 22. 120w.

        =Lond. Times.= 5: 329. S. 28, ’06. 330w.

      – =Nation.= 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 190w.

  “The man who likes his interest kept at white heat and who doesn’t
  mind having his feelings harrowed a bit, will find in this book plenty
  of the diversion and entertainment he seeks.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 594. S. 29, ’06. 410w.

  “Mr. Rider Haggard is treading an old road with wonderful buoyancy.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 433. O. 6, ’06. 230w.


=Haile, Martin.= Mary of Modena, her life and letters. *$4. Dutton.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 30w.

  “Mr. Haile has told the story fully, and with a judicious use of
  documents.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 661. Je. 2. 760w.

  “The author of this biography has made good use of the wealth of
  materials which in recent years have become available for his
  purpose.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 397. Je. ’06. 330w.

  “While clearly in sympathy with his subject, Mr. Haile writes in a
  calm, temperate manner, and has produced a readable biography.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 310w.

  “Is a distinct addition to the historical literature of the close of
  the Stuart era.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1285. My. 31, ’06. 290w.

  “Mr. Haile has done as well as he could do on behalf of his heroine,
  and several of the documents he includes are well worth exhuming.”

      + =Nation.= 81: 530. D. 28, ’05. 540w.

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1007. Je. 30, ’06. 2370w.


=Haines, Henry Stevens.= Restrictive railway legislation. **$1.25.
Macmillan.

  Reviewed by H. Parker Willis.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 83. F. 1, ’06. 680w.

  “On the whole it is an exceedingly lucid and fair-minded review of the
  railway situation in its present-day aspects.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 281. F. 1, ’06. 150w.

  “The breadth of view manifested in his analysis of problems is not
  always found in men who are doing things.”

      + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 122. F. ’06. 390w.

  “Where he speaks as a technical expert, he is surest of his ground.
  Where he essays a theory of reasonable rates, he is weakest. Where,
  finally, he attempts a philosophic resume of the underlying forces
  which have been operative in our railroad history, he attains a very
  high degree of success.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 204. Mr. 8, ’06. 970w.

  Reviewed by Frank Haigh Dixon.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 150. Mr. ’06. 760w.

  “Mr. Haines has written one of the best treatises on this bothersome
  and much-discussed problem which we have seen in recent years. His
  book is to be recommended to all who desire an unprejudiced view.”

  + + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 218. F. 17, ’06. 320w.


=Hains, Thornton Jenkins.= Voyage of the Arrow to the China seas: its
adventures and perils, including its capture by sea vultures from the
Countess of Warwick as set down by William Gore, chief mate. $1.50.
Page.

  A tale of thrilling sea-adventure thru which runs the romance of the
  Arrow’s first mate and the captain’s niece. The reader is subjectively
  a part of the boat’s company, breathes the salt air, enjoys the rough,
  out-spoken ways of the captain, delights in the Irish grit of Larry
  O’Toole and enters into the thick of the fight with the convict
  pirates. There is swift action in the narrative, and many a strong
  dramatic climax.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is written with feeling and conviction, without gross negligence
  of truth, and with a swing and zest which should commend it
  particularly to young people.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 363. S. 29. 150w.

  “That the author of this tale knows the ocean and the men who sail
  upon it is undeniable, and he writes with a zest reminding one of Mr
  Clark Russell, though he has not that novelist’s literary skill.”

    – + =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 110w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 230w.


=Haldane, Elizabeth S.= Descartes: his life and times. $4.50. Dutton.

  “Miss Haldane has hit upon a fortunate analysis of the life of
  Descartes, and its distribution under three general heads: His
  education, from 1596 to 1612; his ‘Wanderjahre,’ from 1612 to 1628,
  spent in seeing the world, in travel and warfare, and, finally, what
  may be called his constructive period, ‘after his warfare was over,
  and this dates from 1628 to 1650.’... In tracing his experience in
  each of the periods Miss Haldane gives much and very intelligent
  attention to the environment, historical and personal, in which it was
  passed; and this has the merit not only of bringing out more
  distinctly the true picture of Descartes, but of rendering the general
  reader, for whom obviously the work is done, more at home with the
  man, since he is realized in his surroundings.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If Miss Haldane’s ‘Life of Descartes’ smacks rather of a description
  of genius in a dressing gown, what it lacks in breadth of outlook it
  certainly gains in possessing the personal note, no small merit when
  we consider how comparatively uneventful was the philosopher’s
  history.”

  + + – =Acad.= 71: 82. Jl. 28, ’06. 660w.

  “Miss Haldane has given us the standard life of Descartes. Its
  interest is not merely biographical, for it throws light on many
  points of difficulty in Descartes’s philosophy, and on his relations
  to the philosophers and scientists of his time.” R. Latta.

    + + =Hibbert J.= 5: 205. O. ’06. 1580w.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1538. D. 28, ’05. 320w.

  “Is by far the fullest and most interesting account of Descartes’s
  life and times in English.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 35. F. 2, ’06. 1640w.

  “The nature and character of the man are insufficiently considered.
  The style of the book is easy and unperiodical; a little too much so,
  perhaps.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 242. Mr. 22, ’06. 1870w.

  “It is Descartes the man that appeals to her, and she traces the
  course of his experience and development patiently, minutely, with
  sympathy, and with simplicity that verges on the naïve. The style is
  unaffected, direct, almost colloquial.” Edward Cary.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 77. F. 10, ’06. 1380w.

  “Has finely told the story of the honest, constructive skeptic.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 568. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.

  “Miss Haldane’s interesting biography of Descartes will be welcomed by
  the student of philosophy as well as by the general reader.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 402. S. 22, ’06. 1630w.


=Haldane, Joseph.= Old Cronnak. $1.50. Decker pub.

  Here the muck-raker is at work and brings to view the evil side of
  life as it defies the code of the moral law. Incontinence is bared for
  the negative lesson’s sake, and characters are set forth which do not
  easily find their way into books. Yet in the midst of all this shines
  the strong, pure love of Joseph Haldane and Alice Carter, which forms
  the main thread of the story.


=Hale, Edward Everett.= Man without a country. $1. Century.

  Uniform with the “Thumb-nail series” this volume contains an
  introduction and the author’s preface to the edition of 1897.


=Hale, Edward Everett.= Man without a country. **50c. Crowell.

  A holiday edition of Mr. Hale’s great lesson in patriotism.


=Hale, Edward Everett.= Tarry at home travels; il. **$2.50. Macmillan.

  Dr. Hale’s description serves as a field glass to the ordinary
  observer. These travels are concerned with New England mainly, with an
  exception made of the state of New York and of the city of Washington.
  “It is a talkative sort of book, with bits of description and bits of
  history and bits of geology and bits of agricultural and horticultural
  information and bits of biography all run in together and fused into a
  coherent whole by Mr. Hale’s long knowledge of men and events and his
  active participation in the life of his time.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It contains much that is old—old enough, for the most part, to have
  become new again to Dr. Hale’s readers; and it is laden with
  reminiscences from a day more remote in feeling than in time.” Wallace
  Rice.

      + =Dial.= 41: 390. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

    + – =Nation.= 83: 398. N. 8, ’06. 330w.

  “Rapid as has been his survey, he has said more things and opened more
  avenues of interest and stimulated the reader’s thought more than do
  most books of travel either at home or abroad.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 843. D. 1, ’06. 340w.


=Hale, Louise Closser.= Motor car divorce. †$1.50. Dodd.

  Peggy Ward fostering notions from her club that preaches “liberty of
  thought,” “wider horizon,” and “freedom after ten years from the
  tyrant man,” has a whim for divorce and is humored in it by her
  husband. “Hence ‘A motor car divorce.’ It was in this clever way the
  author found a peg on which to hang the description of a tour in
  Europe.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Lacks coherence as a piece of fiction.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “The chief ingredients thereof are modern slang, trivial humor, frothy
  sentiment, and pickings of a guide-book information.” Wm. M. Payne.

      – =Dial.= 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 110w.

  “Her work is filled with a kind of wit that is delightful because it
  is real humor, and more because it is really womanly.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 510w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

  “A gay and rather foolish tale.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.

        =Sat. R.= 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 120w.


=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Christian belief interpreted by Christian
experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

  “Even as a study in homiletics no minister should lose sight of this
  volume.” W. Douglas Mackenzie.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 376. Ap. ’06. 830w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 30w.


=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Universal elements of the Christian religion:
an attempt to interpret contemporary religious conditions. **$1.25.
Revell.

  Six lectures delivered before Vanderbilt University, dealing with
  religious conditions as distinguished from theological systems. “In
  these lectures Dr. Hall has tried to discover the deeper tendency of
  the religious thinking of the present time, in which the critical
  movement, the modern view of the Bible, the declining interest in
  sectarianism, the increased cosmopolitanism, and the large
  reconception of world Christianization are powerful elements. He
  speaks from the point of view of one holding the Pauline and Johannine
  view of the Person and work of our blessed Lord.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Clarence Augustine Beckwith.

        =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 373. Ap. ’06. 1460w.

  “They contain an arraignment of sectarianism as earnest as it is
  gracious, and a plea for church unity full of noble and convincing
  eloquence.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 270w.

  “Dr. Hall’s lectures are not only pervaded by this spirit of
  open-mindedness ... but no less by that spirit of devotion which is so
  distinctly characteristic of oriental thinking, and so often,
  unhappily, lacking in our occidental thinking.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 39. Ja. 6, ’06. 1510w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ’05. 200w.


=Hall, Clare H.= Chemistry of paints and paint vehicles. *$2.50. Van
Nostrand.

  “The general scheme which the author has attempted to follow is to
  take up in Chapter 1 the elementary constituents of paints with the
  quantitative methods for their determination; in Chapter 2 the dry
  materials entering into the manufacture of paints with a short
  description of their physical properties and the separation of their
  elementary constituents by methods given in Chapter 1; in Chapter 3
  the analysis of samples consisting of a mixture of two or more of the
  raw materials described in Chapter 2; in Chapter 4 an interpretation
  of results previously obtained where it is desired to duplicate the
  sample analyzed; and finally in Chapter 5, descriptions and methods
  for determining the purity of paint vehicles.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The scope of the volume is indeed extremely limited, since it deals
  with the examination of only a few common pigments, and by no means
  exhaustively even with these; about some vehicles and diluents the
  information to be found in these pages is less meagre. This little
  book, with all its imperfections and its immaturity, is not destitute
  of merit.”

    + – =Nature.= 75: 4. N. 1, ’06. 640w.


=Hall, Florence Howe.= Social usages at Washington. **$1. Harper.

  The social usages of Washington, the seat of federal government and
  the home of a large official world, differ in many important respects
  from those of the rest of the country and these differences are made
  clear in this little volume which “covers not only the fixed etiquette
  of official circles but also the new social issues that have come up
  under the Roosevelt administration.” It will prove of value to all
  visitors at the national capital who wish to enjoy its public
  functions and meet its public people without being entangled in the
  intricacies of its etiquette.


=Hall, H. Fielding.= People at school. $3. Macmillan.

  Mr. Hall says: “Some years ago I wrote ‘The soul of a people.’ It was
  an attempt to understand the Burmese, to see them as they do
  themselves, to describe their religion and its effect on them. This
  book is also concerned with the Burmese.... This is of the outer life,
  of success and failure, of progress and retrogression judged as
  nations judge each other.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 70: 450. My. 12, ’06. 630w.

  “‘A people at school’ will never, we think, attain the popularity of
  ‘The soul of a people:’ the tonic is never sought like the sweet. But
  it deserves to be read in conjunction with the other book, and no one
  can read it without learning much about some ten millions of our
  fellow-subjects.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 322. Mr. 17. 1340w.

  “The work has little literary charm, but it is sane, lucid and
  instructive.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 770. My. 10, ’06. 130w.

  “Interesting if not very exhaustive, nor always entirely convincing.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 162. My. 4, ’06. 880w.

  “Despite ... errors of fact and judgment and the decline in style as
  compared with the previous volume, there is an honesty in Mr. Hall
  which makes his studies attractive, and it is always refreshing to get
  a first-hand impression.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 680w.

  “That this book is rather suggestive than conclusive is one of its
  charms, and no one who cares for the mysterious and vanishing East
  should fail to read this study of a people at school.” Archibald R.
  Colquhoun.

    + – =Nature.= 74: sup. 7. My. 3, ’06. 930w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 156. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.

  “If there be any to whom the secret of England’s genius of empire is
  still hidden—in spite of all that Mr. Kipling has done to reveal
  it—the unenlightened one has only to read understandingly H. Fielding
  Hall’s ‘A people at school.’”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 1460w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 760. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.


=Hall, Henry Foljambe=, ed. Napoleon’s notes on English history made on
the eve of the French revolution; illustrated from contemporary
historians and refreshed from the findings of later research. **$3.
Dutton.

  Of Napoleon as a student of eighteenth century history, the compiler
  says: “Napoleon’s almost invariably right judgment seems marvelous,
  and his verdicts, generally the very opposite of those of his author,
  who kept to the orthodox ruts of eighteenth century opinion, are those
  of a hundred years later.” Further Mr. Hall discusses the “note
  books,” and furnishes notes on Napoleon’s probable authorities—Barron,
  Rapin, and Carte.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 70: 203. Mr. 3, ’06. 550w.

  “Mr. Foljambe Hall appended very complete notes to this volume,
  respecting the manner in which Bonaparte used his authorities; and it
  is here, of course, that the chief value of the book lies. On certain
  topics, perhaps, the notes are needlessly full, and we have noticed
  occasional slips.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 710w.

  “Nowhere are they illuminated by any of that prodigious precocity
  which hero-worshippers like to find. There are, however, some
  entertaining passages.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 360w.

  “The value of the book is not in the editor’s work, but entirely in
  the translation.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 62. Ja. 18, ’06. 490w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 876. D. 9, ’05. 820w.

  “Mr. Hall’s own observations are original and instructive, albeit not
  always as critical as could be desired.”

    + – =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 120w.

  “Napoleon’s notes are worth reading for their own sake; as given in
  this volume, with abundant—if not superabundant—and minute
  explanations, they constitute a most valuable survey of a most
  important portion of British history.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 646. Ap. 28, ’06. 530w.


=Hall, Prescott F.= Immigration and its effects upon the United States.
*$1.50. Holt.

  Volume one of the “American public problems” series, edited by Ralph
  Curtis Ringwalt, is a handbook upon immigration intended for the
  American people at large. Part 1, Immigration and emigration, presents
  the history, causes and conditions of immigration; Part 2, discusses
  The effects of immigration, Part 3, Immigration legislation, gives the
  history of past immigration and describes various proposed remedies
  for existing evils; Part 4 deals with Chinese immigration. Appendices
  contain copies of the federal immigration acts now in force.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Notwithstanding blemishes ... the book seems to me a valuable summary
  of the recent history and the present aspects of a great national
  problem; and with the exception of Mayo-Smith’s book the best general
  discussion of immigration into the United States.” W. F. Willcox.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 921. Jl. ’06. 810w.

  “The volume under review is the most comprehensive book on the subject
  of the last decade. It discusses practically all of the questions
  which have arisen and of the suggestions made for avoiding the
  dangers. It deserves careful attention in spite of its very serious
  defects.” Carl Kelsey.

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 346. S. ’06. 650w.

  Reviewed by Robert C. Brooks.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 653. Ag. ’06. 660w.

  Reviewed by Cyrus L. Sulzberger.

    – – =Charities.= 115: 924. Mr. 31, ’06. 5830w.

  “The book reads well, and one is struck by the author’s skill in
  condensation where the temptation to more or less diffuse writing must
  have been very great.” Frederick Austin Ogg.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 258. Ap. 16, ’06. 440w.

        =Ind.= 60: 983. Ap. 26, ’06. 710w.

  “The book would make an even more favorable impression if the
  footnotes did not sometimes indicate a lack of discrimination in the
  use of materials. It may be accepted, however, as a trustworthy
  general guide; and to college debating societies ... it should prove a
  godsend.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 280. Ap. 5, ’06. 190w.

  “Mr. Hall writes with conviction, but not with prejudice or passion.
  He holds a brief, but his argument is sober and reasonable. Perhaps
  nowhere else can be found equally full and conveniently arranged
  statistics, and as good an epitome of legislation.” Edward A.
  Bradford.

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 141. Mr. 10, ’06. 1200w.

  “He gives, with evident intention of fairness, both sides of the
  various questions he raises; but he reaches certain definite
  conclusions which he urges upon his readers. In some respects we think
  he argues upon false premises.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 577. Jl. 7, ’06. 630w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 30: 509. Ap. ’06. 80w.

  “Taken as a whole, the book is a well-balanced treatment of the
  subject, and does not deserve the violent criticism which it has
  received in some quarters.” William B. Bailey.

  + + – =Yale R.= 15: 332. N. ’06. 310w.


=Halpin, Rev. P. A.= Apologetica: elementary apologetics for pulpit and
pew. *85c. Wagner, J. F.

  “This volume, whose author has frequently given proof that he reads
  the signs of the times, is a step in the right direction. It presents
  the fundamental facts of Christianity in the light of reason, with the
  least possible appeal to revelation.... Every one of his fifty-two
  sketches deals with an objection that is in the atmosphere which
  Catholics breathe to-day, and against which they require the
  strengthening tonic of sound instruction, as frequently as it can be
  administered.”—Cath. World.

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      + =Cath. World.= 83: 268. My. ’06. 120w.


=Hamilton, Angus.= Afghanistan. *$5. Scribner.

  To material gathered from various books and official papers the author
  has added his own first hand information producing more of a gazetteer
  than a volume of travel in the ordinary sense. “He gives trade
  statistics for every town, elaborate measurements of all railway lines
  and distances, and he endeavours to set out the kind of detail as to
  the various defences which might be expected in a confidential report
  to some Army intelligence department.” (Spec.)

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  “If the author has erred at all, he has erred in not restricting
  himself to his subject.”

  + + – =Acad.= 71: 58. Jl. 21, ’06. 800w.

  “The book is not to be commended on literary grounds. It contains a
  great deal of repetition. The map is far from good.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 11. Jl. 7. 1490w.

  “Is heavy, but it is substantial and instructive reading.” H. E.
  Coblentz.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 239. O. 16, ’06. 1090w.

  “To those who know something of Afghanistan, to soldiers and
  statesmen, the work of Mr. Angus Hamilton will be welcome; but to the
  general reader the painstaking and admirably minute descriptions of
  the divisions and routes of Afghanistan will be difficult and perhaps
  tedious.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 246. Jl. 13, ’06. 1410w.

  “The book is heavy reading, for Mr. Hamilton is not concerned with the
  usual traveller’s picturesque account of the strange manners and
  customs of a strange country. He gives us statistics ... such data as
  appeal to the man who wants a thorough working knowledge of Central
  Asian affairs.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 900w.

  “To the serious traveller, the politician, the trader, and the soldier
  Mr. Hamilton’s work has great value. It is a compendium of all that is
  known about one of our most permanent frontier questions, and though
  the author prefers facts to generalizations, there is ample guidance
  in his book as to the greater questions of policy.”

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 232. Ag. 18, ’06. 1460w.


=Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith.= Staff officer’s scrapbook during
the Russo-Japanese war. *$4.50. Longmans.

  “Facts as they appeared to the First Japanese army while the wounded
  still lay bleeding upon the stricken field.” From the standpoint of
  the soldier of insight there are impressions of the Japanese army, its
  leaders, some acquaintances, the march from Tokio to the Yalu, the
  battle of the Yalu, an account of the visit from the Chinese General,
  entertainments for the attachés, and “snap shots” and impressions and
  opinions of other battles in which the First army engaged and which
  Hamilton witnessed.

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  “Although in many respects a disappointing production ... is a very
  welcome addition to the extensive but unsatisfying literature that has
  been the outcrop of the campaign. In certain instances Sir Ian
  Hamilton succeeded where others failed in piercing the veil of secrecy
  at least partially.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1224. N. 25, ’05. 1840w.

  “Sir Ian Hamilton’s book is of great interest, though the volume forms
  but a fragment and breaks off suddenly.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 755. D. 2. 1690w.

  “Under the above modest title Sir Ian Hamilton has produced by far the
  most interesting book on the Russo-Japanese war that has yet appeared
  from the pen of an eye-witness.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 414. D. 1, ’05. 1020w.

  “Attractive for its personal or literary quality. Sir Ian evidently
  became highly popular at the Japanese headquarters, and obtained much
  technical information not generally accessible. His ‘Scrapbook’ is not
  only valuable for this reason, but delightful for the personality of
  the writer.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 330w.

  “The author gives almost no dates. His is a good book by a good
  observer. Even if one is tired of war, he can read this with
  interest.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 87. F. 10, ’06. 1100w.

  “Sir Ian will often amuse his readers, he will certainly startle them,
  and he will occasionally instruct them. So we welcome a very readable
  volume. There is in fact a fatal want of ballast about the book.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 100: 752. D. 9, ’05. 1320w.

  “We might indeed search the whole army through without finding such a
  combination of qualities as this distinguished General brings to the
  making of his book. Not only is he a soldier revelling, as some old
  pagan hero would revel, in the grand game of war, but he is poet,
  humorist, sentimentalist, and descriptive writer as well. The result
  is that his scrapbook, most fitly so called, is a delightful medley of
  grave and of gay, of pleasing sentiment and excellent good sense.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 1124. D. 30, ’05. 2170w.


=Hammond, Harold.= Further fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. †$1.50. Century.

  Recollections of a real live healthy boyhood in a country town must
  lie behind these stories of boy fun and boy ingenuity; for Pinkey
  Perkins is as full of wholesome mischief in this story as he was in
  the earlier volume which bears his name and his experiences as his own
  Santa Claus, as a philanthropist, a visitor at the County fair, or
  midnight adventurer, will not hurt the boy of to-day and will bring a
  reminiscent chuckle to the boy of yesterday.

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 80w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 30w.


=Hammond, Mrs. L. H.= Master-word. †$1.50 Macmillan.

  “Taken in its place, it is full of significance, and should be
  neglected by no one who wishes to follow contemporary conditions.”
  Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 70w.


=Hamp, Sidford Frederick.= Dale and Fraser, sheepmen: a story of
Colorado sheep raising; il. †$1.50. Wilde.

  The wool-grower’s west is pictured from real happenings. There are
  descriptions of the wolf hunt, the great sheep drive, the prairie fire
  which threatened the ranch and the western blizzard.

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        =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.


=Hancock, Harrie Irving.= Physical culture life: a guide for all who
seek the simple laws of abounding health. **$1.25. Putnam.

  “It is certain that were much of the advice in this book generally
  followed, a lot of doctors’ shingles would very speedily come down.”

      + =Reader.= 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 230w.


=Handel, Georg Friedrich.= Songs and airs; ed. by Ebenezer Prout. pa.
$1.50; cl. $2.50. Ditson.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 120w.

        =Ind.= 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 50w.

  “Ebenezer Prout ... displays, both in the introduction and in the
  editing of the songs, the scholarship which is expected of him.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 130w.

  “Dr. Prout has made his selections with great discrimination.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 90w.


=Hanks, Charles Stedman (Niblick, pseud.).= Camp kits and camp life.
**$1.50. Scribner.

  “This is a compilation of explicit and prac- shooting, fishing, or
  merely rusticating. There are excellent chapters on camps and
  campfires, camp cooking, what to do when lost in the woods, some
  remedies for sickness or accidents in camp, and other topics of
  suggestive interest to intending campers.”—R. of Rs.

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      + =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 180w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1369 Je. 7, ’06. 120w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 449. My. 31, ’06. 290w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 80w.

    + + =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 110w.


=Hannah, Rev. Henry King=, comp. Bible for the sick. **$1. Whittaker.

  Selections have been made from the Old and New Testament alike which
  are intended for the sick to read themselves.


=Hanotaux, Gabriel.= Contemporary France, tr. from the French. 4v. ea.
*$3.75. Putnam.

  “The book is more than a history, it is the reflection of attitudes of
  mind of a contemporary Frenchman of fine type. This enhances the value
  of the book which aims to interpret for us contemporary France.” Henry
  E. Bourne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 295. My. 1, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The translator ... has performed his task far better than in the
  previous volume, and it must be allowed that the pregnant and
  spasmodically emphatic style of M. Hanotaux is one very difficult to
  translate into clear and idiomatic English.” P. F. Willert.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 400. Ap. ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Compared with Justin McCarthy’s popular ‘History of our own times,’
  this volume by Hanotaux ... is less picturesque, less witty, more
  solid, more detailed and more given to philosophising.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 694. S. 20, ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “M. Hanotaux, shines more by his pen than by his philosophy. We do not
  feel that he has got to the bottom of the question he discusses.
  Nevertheless the book is most interesting—as interesting a piece of
  contemporary history as has appeared for many a year.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 533. Je. 28, ’06. 1630w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “M. Hanotaux shows here to more advantage than in his first volume. On
  the whole the translation is satisfactory. M. Hanotaux must study
  compression.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 206. F. 17, ’06. 1690w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Harben, William Nathaniel (Will N., pseud.).= Ann Boyd. $1.50. Harper.

  Ann Boyd had been unfairly dealt with by her fellow-villagers, her
  reputation sullied, her finer sensibilities crushed. Yet,
  single-handed she ran her farm, made money, invested it and became the
  envy of all her maligners. The two forces fighting for mastery in Ann
  are hatred born of resentment and the power of love which is awakened
  thru the one soul which she considers white—that of her protégé, Luke
  King. The love interest centers about Luke and the daughter of Ann’s
  bitter enemy. The tangle finally straightens and Ann forgives and is
  at peace with the world.

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  “In some portions of the book the writer has succeeded in imparting a
  suggestion of the rude pathos and unaffected sentiment that we
  associate with the peasant pictures of Millet.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 200w.

  “There is difficulty in reaching the old enthusiasm over ‘Ann Boyd.’”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 669. O. 13, ’06. 740w.

  “The story is injured by the tendency of the characters to excessive
  monologue.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 335. O. 6, ’06. 240w.

  “The story has a certain elemental vigor which is characteristic of
  all Mr. Harben’s work.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 120w.


=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Pole Baker; a novel. †$1.50. Harper.

  “In the shuttling of these well-proven motifs of the book, Mr. Harben
  shows himself a practiced and skillful craftsman, keeping his threads
  caught up and unbroken, and working out a clear, bright design. The
  result is a texture not especially dainty or beautiful, but a homespun
  stuff of fast color and good wear.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 620w.


=Hardie, Martin.= English coloured books. $6.75. Putnam.

  A recent addition to the “Connoisseur’s library” which enlightens the
  reader on the various processes employed in the production of colored
  illustrations. “Premising that, like Gaul of old, the subject is
  divisible into three parts, the author gives an account first of
  coloured illustrations printed from wood blocks, secondly of those
  printed from metal plates, and thirdly of those printed from stone,
  devoting special chapters to men who have played a leading role in
  evolution of colour printing in this country.” (Int. Studio.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A manual for the use of collector’s and students is urgently
  required, and it could not come from a better source than from a
  librarian in the Art library at South Kensington, nor appear under
  better auspices than those of Mr. Cyril Davenport.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 555. N. 3. 1430w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 13, ’06. 270w.

  “Mr. Hardie’s exposition throughout is clear and concise, and he
  writes with the authority of one whose knowledge of the subject is
  probably unequalled.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 480w.

  “There can be nothing but praise for Mr. Hardie’s thorough treatment
  and pleasant style.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 266. Jl. 27, ’06. 760w.

  “Appendixes valuable to book and print collectors, an index, and many
  color prints beautifully reproduced make this volume a necessary book
  for certain libraries. Along with the text that keeps the reader’s
  interest there is a mass of information which gives the advantage of a
  book of reference.” C. de Kay.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 380w.

  “From the point of view of the bibliographer and the printer the
  volume could hardly be improved.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 210w.


=Hardy, Rev. Edward John.= John Chinaman at home. **$2.50. Scribner.

  “Writes in a very bright and breezy way of his observations in China.
  The account is rambling, jumping from city to city with no special
  attempt at system.”

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 130w.

    – + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 834. D. 16. 820w.

  “He furnishes a readable book, without notable characteristics.” John
  W. Foster.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 544. Ap. ’06. 90w.

  “This is one of the most readable books about the country whose
  population and peculiarities are permanently exaggerated in most of
  our text-books.” W. E. Griffis.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 200w.

  “Not at all distinguished, not always in the best of taste, but
  readable throughout, and well adapted to the needs of the middle-class
  book-buyer.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 250w.


=Hardy, Edward John.= What men like in women. **$1. Dillingham.

  From invincible youth to graceful age, the author sketches the likable
  characteristics and qualities of women. In every chapter he sounds the
  depths of the permanent and trustworthy elements that make for life
  happiness.

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  “Out of the serious often cometh forth humor. The wheat is in about
  the same proportion to the chaff as history is to fiction in an
  historical novel.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 150w.


=Hardy, Ernest George.= Studies in Roman history. *$1.60. Macmillan.

  “A new edition of the author’s well-known work on ‘Christianity and
  the Roman government,’ supplemented by half a dozen other essays, two
  of which originally appeared in the English historical review, three
  in the Journal of philology, and one as part of an introduction to an
  edition of Plutarch’s ‘Lives of Galba and Otha.’”—Nation.

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  “At its first appearance Hardy’s work was not marked by much
  originality, and hence it is questionable whether any justification
  can be found for a second edition in which no account has been taken
  of recent developments. Some of the special studies ... which form the
  concluding portions of the book are decided contributions to the
  literature of Roman administration.” Patrick J. Healy.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 931. Jl. ’06. 410w.

  “Present volume is indispensable to all serious students of the Roman
  empire.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 576. My. 11. 990w.

  “All are of a most scholarly, some even of an extremely technical
  character; and hence all are deserving of the careful attention of the
  special student.”

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 455. Je. ’06. 130w.

  “Dr. Hardy presents his case with utmost candour of mind and cleanness
  of language, and there is no point of importance on which the present
  writer is unable to accept his conclusions. Altogether the book is one
  which will certainly be read with interest and deserves to be studied
  with respect.” W. A. G.

    + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 610. Jl. ’06. 450w.

  “They show what instructive results a patient reading of inscriptions
  may yield to any one with sufficient knowledge to find and hold the
  clue.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 386. N. 16, ’06. 700w.

        =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 190w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 377. Je. 9, ’06. 670w.

  “Eminently sane and judicious. The work is always accurate and
  reliable. Their tone is admirable, and the writer does his best to set
  out the particulars fairly and fully. The author writes with less
  obvious prepossessions than almost all who have attempted to deal with
  the matter.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: 271. S. 1, ’06. 630w.

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 301. S. 1, ’06. 710w.


=Hardy, Thomas.= Dynasts: a drama of the Napoleonic wars. In three
parts. Part 2. *$1.50. Macmillan.

  The first part of this work of nineteen acts and one hundred and
  thirty scenes appeared about two years ago. With the completion of
  this second part “There is a disposition ... to look into the matter
  more closely and more reverently. As its huge proportions are slowly
  developed, this drama of the making of history takes on grandeur in
  the reviewer’s eyes. They are no longer troubled to identify,
  reasonably, the Spirits sinister, the Chorus of the pities, the
  ancient spirit of the years, the Recording angels These are but
  personifications of human and normal influences after all.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

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  “The great drama of ‘The dynasts’ ... proves him not merely a great
  novelist but an essayist, a poet and a dramatist and, I might add, an
  acute historical critic.” Robert Ross.

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 206. Mr. 3, ’06. 1080w. (Review of pt. 2.)

  “The poetry of the piece is not so much in the brickish verse as in
  some of the stage directions in prose.” Ferris Greenslet.

    + – =Atlan.= 96: 422. S. ’05. 220w. (Review of pt. 1.)

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne,

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 325 My. 16, ’06. 1090w. (Review of pt. 2.)

  “There is probably little, if any, great dramatic poetry throughout
  the multitude of scenes; but there is some good, and a great deal of
  passable verse; there is some excellent prose; and there is a
  continuous manifestation of imagination and intelligence for which I
  am glad to acknowledge myself deeply grateful.” W. P. Trent.

  + + – =Forum.= 38: 86. Jl. ’06. 4150w.

  “‘The dynasts’ is a gloomy and powerful epic, but it is not a drama.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 807. Ap. 5, ’06. 320w. (Review of pt. 2.)

        =Lit. D.= 32: 609. Ap. 21, ’06. 1580w. (Review of pt. 2.)

  “There can be no possible question of the importance and high literary
  excellence of his latest book. ‘The dynasts’ is a work of exceptional
  power. It is a thing compact with imagination.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 49. F. 16, ’06. 2120w. (Review of pt. 2.)

    + – =Nation.= 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 530w. (Review of pt. 2.)

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 132. Mr. 3, ’06. 270w. (Editorial on pt. 2.)

  “This work has in it the substance, in short, of a true prose
  masterpiece. Mr. Hardy has nothing of the poet in him.” H. W. Boynton.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 1910w. (Review of pt. 2.)

  “It is absolutely hopeless as a poem.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 808. Ap. 7, ’06. 260w. (Review of pt. 2.)

  “However it all may strike the historian’s mind as a spectacle of
  predigested history, to the lay mind Mr. Hardy has made a wonderful
  gift. He has invented a new sensation.”

  + + – =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 570w. (Review of pt. 2.)

  “The diction is strained, and when metaphysics begin we flounder among
  quasi-technical platitudes. But in spite of a hundred faults, there is
  a curious sublimity about the very immensity of the scheme.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 645. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w. (Review of pt. 2.)


=Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, and Baddeley (Welbore) St. Clair.=
Sicily. **$1. Dutton.

  The guide-book prepared by the late Augustus C. Hare is now published
  in a new edition revised and brought admirably down to date by St.
  Clair Baddeley. The volume is pocket size and contains maps and
  photographs.

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  “In general the practical information which it contains has been
  brought up to date. The historical sketch with which the volume opens
  is clearly written, and will be helpful to the traveler who has not
  read Freeman; but it is defective in one or two points.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 500w.

    + + =Ind.= 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.

  “The author’s great fund of information is presented in compact style.
  The style might have been made somewhat clearer, however—especially
  with regard to ambiguity in the use of relative pronouns—without any
  necessity of increasing the text.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.


=Hare, Christopher.= Dante the wayfarer. *$2.50. Scribner.

  “Mr. Hare’s fine compilation is fitted to be of such incalculable use
  to the earnest student of Dante that it seems needful, if a little
  ungracious, to point out the fact that the text of the present edition
  teems with minute typographical errors.”

  + + – =Atlan.= 97: 558. Ap. ’06. 780w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 650w.


=Hare, Christopher.= Queen of queens, and the making of Spain. **$2.50.
Scribner.

  “There are few more striking figures in European history than Isabel,
  the Catholic, Queen of Spain.... The subject of the book is wide. It
  is by no means a study of the Queen’s life alone, but a good swift,
  picturesque sketch of the history of Spain, beginning with the
  conquest of the Moors in A. D. 711, and going on to the gradual
  recovery of power and territory by the Christian Goths who fled before
  them to the mountains of Asturias. Then comes the rise of the
  Christian kingdoms ... then the fusion of these, after much fighting
  and confusion and many romantic episodes, including the immortal story
  of the Cid, into the two kingdoms of Castile and Leon and Aragon and
  Catalonia.”—Spec.

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  “The book adds little to our knowledge; at its best, it summarizes the
  chapters in some unrevised edition of Prescott’s work, and it is
  disfigured by interpolated errors which could never have been made by
  any one acquainted with Spanish. Decidedly this is a book not to be
  trusted.”

    – – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 12. Jl. 7. 470w.

  “He quotes too much from others to produce a vivid effect, and most of
  the lines in his portrait are those common to the great ladies who
  lived at the same time as Isabella.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 218. Je. 15, ’06. 980w.

  “The historian would be scientific, in sad truth, whom Isabella the
  Catholic would not carry off his feet. That he seems hardly to have
  read his proof-sheets is another matter; to be balanced perhaps by the
  excellent illustrations.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 419. N. 15, ’06. 780w.

  “Mr. Hare is not himself an eloquent writer, and the most of his
  purple patches, especially those dealing with the Moorish wars and the
  story of the Queen’s dealings with Columbus, are taken verbatim from
  Irving.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 515. Ag. 18, ’06. 570w.

  “Mr. Hare always writes with evidence of so much research, and with
  such a real enthusiasm for his subject, that we cannot help regretting
  some literary lapses in his style. This book, for instance, would have
  been greatly improved in value and dignity if he had read through his
  proofs more severely, cut out various ornamental passages, and
  tightened up certain slovenly sentences. As we have already said, the
  book is agreeable and picturesque, and we have read it with interest
  and enjoyment.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 987. Je. 23, ’06. 1400w.


=Harker, Mrs. Lizzie Allen.= Concerning Paul and Fiammetta; with an
introd. by Kate Douglas Wiggin. †$1.25. Scribner.

  While in England a year ago, Kate Douglas Wiggin discovered in the
  children of Mrs. Harker’s “A romance of the nursery” such delightful
  little people that she asked for the privilege of introducing to her
  own American readers Mrs. Harker’s next story. And so Paul and
  Fiammetta have come to take their place beside Rebecca, Timothy and
  Polly Oliver. “‘Fee’ is a travelled, hotel-bred child, who had learned
  experience without losing her good manners.” (Lond. Times.) Paul has a
  mania for reading, and is devoted to dogs no less than to his friend
  Tonks.

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  “The story has many appealing qualities,—its gayety, sympathy, humour,
  and lifelikeness; and perhaps to American readers one of its chiefest
  charms will be that it is so thoroughly English,—as English as a
  hedge-rose or a bit of pink hawthorne,—yet, with all its local colour,
  sounding the human and universal note.” Kate Douglas Wiggin.

        Foreword to book.

  “It is easy to imagine many parties both in the school room and
  downstairs where these sketches will be read aloud and approved
  enthusiastically.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 288. Mr. 24, ’06. 210w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “In the main, the book is rather about children than for them.
  Children ... would never notice the delicacy, the strength, and the
  sympathy with which Mrs. Harker has worked.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 104. Mr. 23, ’06. 450w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 30w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 193. Mr. 31, ’06. 420w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.

  “The way in which the four children are differentiated and each
  endowed with a well-marked individuality is extremely clever. In a
  book which strikes so true a note all through the critic may be
  forgiven for wishing that the simplicity of the original keynote has
  been preserved to the concluding sentence.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 700w.


=Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf.= Expansion of Christianity in the first
three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. *$3. Putnam.

  “There are certain dangers into which the modern aggressive historian
  is apt to fall, and does fall if Harnack and Knopf are to be taken as
  fair representatives of the class. If he has successfully found his
  way out of the swamp of sectarian prejudice on the one hand, he seems
  likely to wander, on the other, into the dense forest of conjecture,
  wherein he will see all sorts of fantastic forms in the dim light.”
  Andrew C. Zenos.

    + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 334. Ap. ’06. 1420w.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 413. Mr. ’06. 460w.

  “Dr. Harnack, in fine, has produced what is as yet the most
  satisfactory, if not the most striking and original, of the noble
  series of works in which he is casting new light upon Christian
  history. We wish that we could say that a worthy translator had been
  found for him.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 19. Ja. 6, ’06. 740w.


=Harper, William Rainey.= Critical and exegetical commentary on Amos and
Hosea. **$3. Scribner.

  “Students of the Old Testament have now, for the first time in many
  years, an adequate commentary on Amos and Hosea. The treatment of the
  text is on the whole conservative, the emendations adopted being
  generally those which the soberest scholarship of the present day
  would approve.” Charles Torrey.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 309. Ap. ’06. 1840w.

  “Judging from his own point of view Dr. Harper has succeeded fairly
  well. He has not the initiative of Marti, but when he selects from the
  emendations of others, he may count on the approval of most
  liberal-conservative scholars.” T. K. Cheyne.

  + + – =Hibbert J.= 3: 824. Jl. ’05. 4710w.


=Harper, William Rainey.= Priestly element in the Old Testament: an aid
to historical study for use in advanced Bible classes. *$1. Univ. of
Chicago press.

    + + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 375. Ap. ’06. 340w.


=Harper, William Rainey.= Prophetic element in the Old Testament. $1.
Univ. of Chicago press.

  “For the student who is willing to do his own thinking, and to reach
  his own conclusions, there will be found in this volume stimulus,
  suggestion, and guidance, such as will be found, in this particular
  form, nowhere else.” John E. McFadyen.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 317. Ap. ’06. 440w.

  “A careful study of this work would lead to a highly specialized
  knowledge of the subject. This suggests the only criticism that might
  be ventured on the book. Is it not too taxing upon the average
  student, except when used by such a pedagogical genius as Dr. Harper
  himself?” Kemper Fullerton.

  + + – =Bib. World.= 28: 154. Ag. ’06. 320w.

  “For one interested in the analysis of modern biblical criticism, this
  manual will be in a high degree valuable; and if one is in an early
  stage of scriptural study, it will be almost indispensable.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 82: 703. F. ’06. 330w.


=Harraden, Beatrice.= Scholar’s daughter. $1.50. Dodd.

  “Geraldine Grant is the daughter of an austere and self-centred
  scholar who lives a life of seclusion in a lonely country house,
  engaged in the compilation of a colossal dictionary. Soured by the
  unfaithfulness of his wife, shortly after his daughter’s birth, no
  woman is admitted to his house.... Heredity it is to be supposed will
  out and Geraldine practices her powers of fascination on the three
  middle-aged men secretaries who assist her father.... A lightning
  love-tale and the very obvious identification as his wife of a famous
  actress, Miss Charlotta Selbourne, on her casual appearance at the
  professor’s house make up this slender story.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We venture to think that this story would do better as a light play
  than as a novel.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 182. F. 24, ’06. 200w.

  “Compared with ‘Ships that pass in the night’ and even with one or two
  of the succeeding novels, this story is a grievous disappointment.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 259. Mr. 3. 150w.

  “It all savours pleasantly of comic opera, with soothing little
  melodies running through it; and undeniably leaves a pleasant, if
  transitory, taste behind it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 416. Je. ’06. 330w.

  “The book is amusing reading for an idle hour.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 40w.

  “If we consider the book as a serious novel, its superficiality
  irritates us, or if we take it as a short story we are wearied by the
  protracted explanations.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 260w.

  “There is a freshness and strength in the pen-painting of people who
  inhabit this new novel.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 306. My. 12, ’06. 370w.

  “Is a triumph of ‘manner.’”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 401. Mr. 31, ’06. 280w.

  “A highly agreeable romance, suffused with graceful sentiment and
  containing a half-a-dozen pleasant portraits.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 263. F. 17, ’06. 740w.


=Harriman, Karl Edwin.= Girl and the deal. †$1.25. Jacobs.

  “The very kind of a tale to rest an overtired brain or to relieve the
  tedium of a long journey.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 223. F. ’06. 200w.


=Harriman, Karl Edwin.= Girl out there; il. by A. Russell. †$1.25.
Jacobs.

  Mr. Harriman finds his heroine of the title in a little rural town
  whither a young journalist goes to recuperate after a run of fever.
  The simple folk of the village from Alec Truesdale, the close-fisted
  man who nibbles crackers by the hour in the little weather-grayed
  grocery, much to the discomfiture of the owner, to Herb Jenkins, stout
  of heart and generous of purpose, are cleverly sketched. The new comer
  wins the heart of the girl that Herb Jenkins loves, and how Herb
  crushes his own hope and gains for the two the blessing of an obdurate
  father is an example of fine unselfishness.

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  “As a study of the ways and manners of the inhabitants of a small New
  England village the book is not without merit, but it lacks both plot
  and incident.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 110w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.


=Harris, J. Henry.= Cornish saints and sinners. †$1.50. Lane.

  “The fabled land of Lyonesse is supposed to lie under the sea off the
  coast of Cornwall, and the country abounds in legends of saints,
  giants and fairies to say nothing of numerous tales in which his
  Satanic majesty figures more or less prominently. Many of these old
  folklore stories are retold by Mr. Harris as he heard them from the
  natives, but with an added touch of humor all his own.”—Arena.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We find Mr. Harris feebly and coarsely imitating Mark Twain at his
  very worst, with the result that the feelings of any person of taste
  must be shocked.”

    – + =Acad.= 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 160w.

  “Delightfully humorous account of the travels of three friends.” Amy
  C. Rich.

      + =Arena.= 36: 211. Ag. ’06. 160w.

  “Many more pretentious chronicles of travel have been less
  entertaining.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 283. S. ’06. 170w.

  “In spite of these mistaken efforts, most of the book is agreeable
  reading, and Mr. Harris shows real interest in Cornwall, and sympathy,
  mixed with a certain condescension, for the people he describes.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 420w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 439. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.


=Harris, William Charles, and Bean, Tarleton Hoffman.= Basses,
fresh-water and marine. **$3.50. Stokes.

  “The brook brings you into pleasant contact with nature, even if the
  trout refuse to rise, and if one possesses a fairly active imagination
  the book may do the same, even if it fails to satisfy all applicable
  objective tests of good literature. It is chiefly from this point of
  view that we must commend the sumptuous volume which Mr. Rhead has
  devoted to the basses.” (Nation.)

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  “If any important facts about the bass have been overlooked it would
  be difficult to specify what they are.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 70w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1371. Je. 7, ’06. 140w.

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 120w.

  “One does not really find any striking positive merits to distinguish
  it from other literature available on the same subject.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 268. Mr. 29, ’06. 530w.

  “While the volume is mainly intended for the fisherman, the natural
  history side has not been forgotten.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 110w.

  “It is a carefully planned survey of the entire field. The joys and
  trials of the fisherman’s life are so charmingly described that the
  book is an exceptional companion for the shore or library.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 80w.


=Harrison, Constance Cary (Mrs. Burton Harrison).= Carlyles, The: a
story of the fall of the confederacy. †$1.50. Appleton.

  A Civil war story whose opening chapters give a detailed account of
  the evacuation of Richmond. When the city is set on fire, the home of
  Monimia Carlyle is protected by a Union officer who supplants in the
  young maiden’s affection the place of her accepted Confederate cousin.
  Molly Ball, a Confederate spy “of that never extinct Amazon brood that
  springs from sleep at the trumpet’s call” (Nation) calls the cousin
  off from his initial love pursuits and rather monopolizes the
  remainder of the story.

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  “There is no doubt as to the charm of the book and the accuracy of the
  picture it presents of certain aspects of post-bellum life in Dixie.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 190. F. ’06. 180w.

  “The several parts, though not unrelated, are not smoothly connected,
  and, in the later chapters, the charming heroine is seriously
  neglected for metal less attractive.”

    + – =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 360w.

        =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ’05. 60w.


=Harrison, Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter Henry).= Moon princess. **$1.25.
McClurg.

  “With a simple, unaffected style, the writer has narrated a child’s
  story of lively interest.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 30w.

  “Is full of delicate shades.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ’05. 50w.


=Harrison, Frederic.= Chatham. **$1.25. Macmillan.

  “Care coupled with his style has given us a monograph on Chatham of
  abiding value.” Edward Porritt.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 710. Ap. ’06. 230w.


=Harrison, James Albert.= George Washington: patriot, soldier,
statesman, first president of the United States. **$1.35. Putnam.

  In Professor Harrison’s life Washington’s heart and head unite in
  admirable mastery over problems of humanity, war and state. The sketch
  gives an intimate view of Washington from boyhood up, showing how well
  America’s hero developed his birthright powers to meet the demands of
  leadership. Martha Washington is portrayed as “an ideal of the gentler
  motherhood that preceded the era of the Amazon, and consecrated itself
  altogether to the sacred office of friendship.”

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  “Rhetorical descriptions abound, and there are digressions not a few;
  but the portrait presented in the work is hazy and inadequate in all
  that relates to Washington’s public life.”

    – + =Dial.= 41: 212. O. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “Its style—inflated, involved, obscure, often ungrammatical—furnishes
  a fairly accurate model of all that an historical writer’s work should
  not be.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 5: 374. N. 9, ’06. 90w.

  “The Washington depicted in this volume is the familiar heroic and
  half-deified figure of the older panegyrists. As a whole the style is
  that of the romanticist, embellished with imagery and superlatives. It
  is not too much to say that the quotations are the best part of this
  work.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 286. O. 4, ’06. 490w.

  “We know of no other life of Washington within moderate compass which
  presents so clear a picture of the man and maintains so well
  throughout a pleasing narrative style.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 130w.

  “Has done full justice to his attractive subject, treating it with
  thorough scholarship, patriotic sympathy, and felicity of style.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 130w.

  “Professor Harrison has succeeded remarkably well in presenting an
  eminently readable biography.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 90w.

        =Sat. R.= 102: 370. S. 22, ’06. 50w.

  “The historian has his duty of self-effacement as well as the
  biographer. The biographer must not intrude his own personality; the
  historian must not intrude his style. This is what Professor Harrison
  is perpetually doing.”

      – =Spec.= 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 280w.


=Harrison, Jane Ellen.= Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides.
*$1.75. Macmillan.

  Dr. Harrison sets forth a new view of the character and limits of
  ancient Athens, based on the evidence of Thucydides and the recent
  excavations of Dörpfeld.

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  “She illustrates her book with good plans and photographs, but apart
  from these it is hard to see what useful purpose it can serve.”

    – + =Acad.= 70: 526. Je. 2, ’06. 1020w.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 729. Ap. ’06. 60w.

  “Even those who are not prepared to accept the author’s theories will
  welcome the presentation, in so convenient a form, of the recent
  researches both of other archaeologists and of the author herself.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 521. O. 27. 660w.

  “In her mythological excursions, Miss Harrison is less likely to
  secure the ready reference of her reader.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 590w.

  “In one curious detail in an otherwise convincing argument, Miss
  Harrison has unsuspectingly followed her leader into a gaping trap.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: 367. S. 22, ’06. 1180w.

  “Learned volume.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 150w.


=Harrison, Newton.= Electric wiring, diagrams and switch boards. 15th
ed. rev. and enl. *$1.50. Henley.

  “Mr. Harrison’s work is intended to help practical wiremen to do a
  better grade of work by informing them of the reasons for what they
  do.... The author ... devotes his attention to statements of the
  practical matters connected with the installation of electric
  machines, including the necessary switchboards and the wiring
  connecting these with the supply circuits.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the opinion of the reviewer, the book would be better without the
  last two chapters. It should be useful not only to artisans, but also
  to architects, builders and others who are responsible for the proper
  installation of electric circuits.” Henry H. Norris.

  + + – =Engin. N.= 55: 310. Mr. 15, ’06. 780w.


=Harrison, Peleg D.= Stars and stripes and other American flags; il.
**$3. Little.

  Their origin and history, army and navy regulations concerning the
  national standard and ensign, flag making, salutes, improvised,
  unique, and commercial flags, flag legislation, and many associations
  of American flags, including the origin of “Old Glory,” with songs and
  their stories.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The material is largely undigested but the industry of the author in
  collecting miscellaneous facts and fables pertaining to his subject
  has been immense, and his enthusiasm is contagious.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 826. D. 1, ’06. 1410w.


=Harry, Myriam.= Conquest of Jerusalem. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.

  “This story of modern Jerusalem is really a study of what is known as
  the ‘artistic’ temperament worked out in a morbid fashion. Hélie’s
  apostasy from the Roman Catholic religion upon his marriage with a
  deaconess of a protestant church destroys eventually the religious
  instinct in his nature. Many of the details of the novel are
  revolting.”—Critic.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is unwholesome and unpleasant.”

      – =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 297. My. 5, ’06. 190w.

  “An excellent translation.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 572. My. 5, ’06. 810w.


=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from original
sources by associated scholars. 28v. per. v. *$2. Harper.

  Group II of this series of histories, volumes 6–10, is devoted to the
  “Transformation into a nation,” including Provincial America, by
  Evarts Boutell Greene; France in America, by Reuben Gold Thwaites;
  Preliminaries of the Revolution, by George Elliott Howard; The
  American Revolution, by Claude Halstead Van Tyne; and The
  confederation and the constitution, by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin.
  The first volume of Group III, which division includes volumes 11–15
  and treats the “Development of the nation,” is a discussion of The
  federalist system, by John Spencer Bassett. The author says, “On its
  political side this volume treats of three principal facts; the
  successful establishment of the government under the constitution, the
  organization of the Republican party on the basis of popular
  government, and the steady adherence of the government to a policy of
  neutrality at a time when we were threatened with serious foreign
  complications.” The author follows the program of establishing an
  effective government while the nation faced a new constitution and
  trying international situations.

  Number twelve in this “American nation” series is a discussion of “The
  Jeffersonian system” by Edward Channing. It “emphasizes the innate
  tendency to expansion of territory, of which Louisiana, West Florida,
  and Oregon were all examples. The special and successful purpose of
  the author is to make clear how it was possible for the nation to
  expand in territory and in spirit, and for the federal government to
  gain consequence and authority, while at the same time the government
  was growing more democratic: it is a study in imperial democracy.”

  Number fourteen in this series is the “Rise of the new West” by
  Frederick Jackson Turner of the University of Wisconsin. “Professor
  Turner takes up the west as an integral part of the Union, with a
  self-consciousness as lively as that of the east or south, with its
  own aims and prejudices, but as a partner in the councils and the
  benefits of the national government which, as a whole, it is the aim
  at this volume to describe.” The period covered is that from 1815 to
  1830. The panic of 1819, the Missouri compromise, The Monroe doctrine
  in particular and the tariff disputes, internal improvements and
  foreign trade relations in general are fully treated.

  The fifteenth volume of “The American nation” series is Dr. William
  McDonald’s discussion of “Jacksonian democracy.” The aggressive
  personality of Andrew Jackson is made to dominate the solution of the
  great questions of national policy paramount during the years 1829–37.
  The study reveals the president and man, and shows the evolution of
  the political principles upon which a new democratic party was
  founded.

  In volume seventeen the expansion movement which extended the
  boundaries of the United States from the western edge of the Louisiana
  purchase to the Pacific ocean, is described “in such a way as to
  indicate the real forces which gave it impulse, and how they actually
  worked, and especially to show how it was affected by, and how it
  reacted upon, the contemporaneous sectionalizing movement which
  finally ended in civil war.”

  In volume 18 of “The American nation” Dr. Smith has covered the
  subject of “Parties and slavery from 1850 to 1859,” that transition
  period, which saw old party organization dissolve and new ones
  crystalize. The aim of the volume is “to bring out the contrast
  between the old parties and their aims and the new and imperious
  issues.” The efforts to prevent the crisis which resulted in the Civil
  war, and the rival habits of thought which made it inevitable are
  clearly shown, the effects of the struggle upon parties, legislation
  and the courts as well as the social and economic changes brought
  about by railroad development and the growth of cotton are carefully
  detailed.

  “The first part of volume nineteen in the “American nation” series
  discusses political divergences in the light of sectional rivalry and
  mutual dislike revealed by the election of Lincoln to the presidency.
  The author presents the full significance of the John Brown raid,
  pictures the attitude of Buchanan and his unsuccessful attempts at
  compromise. discusses the status of the federal forts, pays tribute to
  the high minded attitude of Lincoln and closes with the fall of
  Sumter.”

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  “In scholarship and construction he has produced the best synopsis of
  the subject existing within the limits of a single volume, and ... his
  careful references and a valuable bibliography enhance the utility of
  the book to the student who desires to inquire for himself.” M.
  Oppenheim.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 394 Ja. ’06. 2180w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Mr. Greene has handled his problem with the grasp of a true
  historical artisan, and his book is a definite contribution to
  American history.” Carl Russell Fish.

+ + + |=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 411. Ja. ’06. 1310w. (Review of v. 6.)

  “In regard to style it must be pronounced very defective. Summing up
  one is obliged to say that, while the book shows industry and
  knowledge, its faults in regard both to style and to accuracy are so
  numerous as to make it hardly worthy of the high reputation of its
  author.” George M. Wrong.

  + – – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 413. Ja. ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 7.)

  “It may be doubted whether either volume adds much to the thoroughly
  exploited facts in its respective field.” H. A. C.

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 907. Jl. ’06. 1270w. (Review of v. 8 and 9.)

  “More exact dates would be in some of the chapters desirable. The
  volume is quite worthy of recognition as a model history of the time.”
  Austin Scott.

+ + –|=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 916. Jl. ’06. 1910w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “The book itself is so sanely written that it seems ungrateful to call
  attention to what are very small defects.” Worthington Chauncey Ford.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 155. O. ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 11.)

  “Considering the limitations imposed by the nature of the task
  assigned to them, the credit of fully maintaining the high standard
  set in the preceding volumes of the ‘American nation’ series and of
  closely approximating the ideal standard for works of this class must
  be accorded both to Professor Channing and to President Babcock.”
  Marshall Brown.

  + + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 158. O. ’06. 2600w. (Review of v. 12 and 13.)

  “The book is written in an attractive style in which few errors of
  literary taste occur and is pleasing in appearance. The text seems
  free from mistakes: but the foot-notes contain some that are
  troublesome.” Frederick W. Moore.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 162. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 14.)

  “Professor MacDonald’s contribution is, thus far, the best concise and
  brief essay upon Jackson’s two administrations. For a lucid and
  temperate statement of all but one of the dominant questions during
  Jackson’s presidency. Professor MacDonald’s volume is adequate.”
  Charles H. Levermore.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 164. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 15.)

  “One feels, indeed, in this volume as well as in others of the series,
  the inadequacy of treatment of these deeper undercurrents of economic
  and social change, not only as concerns the assignment of space, but
  in the lack of a fresh individual investigation. There is not the
  intimate knowledge of the field evidenced in the chapter on political
  history.” Albert Cook Myers.

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 245. Ja. ’06. 720w. (Review of v. 6.)

  Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 251. Ja. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 10.)

  Reviewed by St. George L. Sioussat.

  + + + =Dial.= 41: 159. S. 16, ’06. 4150w. (Review of v. 8–13.)

  “No better introduction to a detailed study of American history could
  be desired than these excellent volumes.” H. E. E.

    + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 621. Jl. ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

  + + + =Ind.= 60: 1543. Je. 28, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 11–15.)

  + + + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 11–15.)

  “No volume in the series to which it belongs has quite the same charm
  of freshness or fills quite the same ‘long-felt want.’”

  + + + =Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 14.)

  “In purely literary interest, and in the sure feeling for what is
  effective or dramatic in historical events, Fiske’s superiority is
  unquestionable: but in just balance and proportion, in thoroughness of
  research, and in all-round attention to the various aspects of the
  subject ... [v. 9 and 10] are far better, not only than Fiske’s work,
  but also than any other account of the American revolution of equal
  compass. Professor McLaughlin’s presentation of the political history
  of the Confederation is, as a whole, of such merit that we can but
  regret that he has not ploughed more deeply in the economic field.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 161. F. 22, ’06. 2620w. (Review of v. 8–10.)

  “If any criticism is to be passed on the author’s treatment of Western
  history, it is that strictly political matters are presented in scanty
  detail.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 517. Je. 21, ’06. 690w. (Review of v. 14.)

  + + + =Nation.= 83: 18. Jl. 5, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)

  “No volume of this series thus far exhibits more commendable literary
  qualities.”

  + + + =Nation.= 83: 40. Jl. 12, ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 13.)

  “Careful investigation, sane conclusions, clear and orderly
  presentation, are thus the very solid merits of Professor MacDonald’s
  work.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 81. Jl. 26, ’06. 1620w. (Review of v. 15.)

  “The text shows an unexpected number of typographical errors.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 480w. (Review of v. 16.)

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 11.)

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 14.)

  Reviewed by R. L. S.

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 261. Ap. 21, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 12 and
          13.)

  “A scholarly and sympathetic history of the rise of the West.” R. L.
  S.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 810w. (Review of v. 14.)

  “The present is one of the most valuable of the volumes in ‘The
  American nation’ series.” R. L. S.

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 15.)

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 491. Ag. 4, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 16.)

  “Each of these volumes, while giving evidence of thorough research and
  acquaintance with the subject, is devoid of noticeable features.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 894. D. 22, ’06. 690w. (Review of v. 17 and
          18.)

  “Though ... the presentation is not always as ample as might be
  desired, his book should be cordially welcomed by students of
  Revolutionary history.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 8.)

  “From the literary standpoint his work does not reach any high level.
  On the score of accuracy, lucidity, impartiality, perspective, and
  perception of cause and effect, little fault is to be found.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 374. F. 17, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 11.)

  “He has, generally speaking, succeeded in investing the well-known
  facts with a fresh interest. His pages are rich in acute analysis,
  suggestive comment, and clear-cut portraiture; his style is lucid,
  direct, and dignified, his tone judicial.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 12.)

  “Accuracy and impartiality are also distinctive characteristics, but
  from the standpoint of proportion there is no room for improvement.
  Altogether, his is a most creditable addition to this standard work.”

  + + + =Outlook.= 82: 1006. Ap. 28, ’06. 340w. (Review of v. 13.)

  “In some respects Professor Turner’s book differs strikingly from most
  of its predecessors in the series. Most significant, perhaps, is the
  emphasis laid upon the necessity of regarding the development of the
  United States as the outcome of economic and social as well as
  political forces.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 333. Je. 9, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 14.)

  “Much as we must lament the absence of that appeal to the imagination
  which the historian should make, the merits of the treatise are such
  that it may be safely commended.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 766. Jl. 28, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 15.)

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 1004. Ag. 25, ’06. 350w. (Review of v. 16.)

  “Is marked by daring and originality and, it is pleasant to be able to
  add, by scholarship. It is not, however, cast in the most attractive
  form, being monographic rather than unitary in treatment, and being of
  the scientific rather than the artistic school of historical writing.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 17.)

  Review by W. Roy Smith.

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 121. Mr. ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 7.)

  Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.

  + + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 122. Mr. ’06. 830w. (Review of v. 9.)

  Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.

  + + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 124. Mr. ’06. 530w. (Review of v. 10.)

  Reviewed by George Louis Beer.

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 126. Mr. ’06. 940w. (Review of v. 6.)

  Reviewed by George Louis Beer.

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 129. Mr. ’06. 2950w. (Review of v. 8.)


=Hart, Jerome.= Levantine log book. **$2. Longmans.

  “There is also a deal of useful information for the tourist.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 287. Mr. ’06. 100w.

  “In form and illustration the book is as pleasing to the eye as the
  text is to the mind.” H. E. Coblentz.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 234. Ap. 1, ’06. 400w.

  “Has all the ease, breeziness, and entertaining information that won
  such popularity for its author’s earlier travel sketches.”

      + =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 40w.


=Hartley, C. Gasquoine, pseud. (Mrs. Walter M. Gallichan).= Moorish
cities in Spain. *$1. Scribner.

  Mrs. Gallichan “describes in welcome and never wearisome detail
  Cordova, Toledo, Seville, and Granada, and they that dwell therein. We
  have no guidebook detail, however. The reader is supposed to have
  Baedeker or Murray at his elbow. But we do find hints not contained in
  any guide-book.” (Outlook.)

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 759. N. 17, ’06. 310w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 260w.


=Harvey, James Clarence.= In Bohemia. $1.25. Caldwell.

  A medley of verse and prose sketches in which “the author tells the
  uninitiated how to go to Bohemia and what they may reasonably expect
  to find there, making a special point of the distinction between the
  false and the true Bohemianism, whether it is to be found in New York
  or Damascus.” (Dial.)

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  “Some of the verse in dialect is very clever.”

      + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ’05. 80w.

        =R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ’05. 40w.


=Harwood, Edith.= Notable pictures in Florence. *$1.50. Dutton.

  “Is a cheap and useful book for laymen visiting the churches and
  picture galleries of Florence.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 160w.


=Harwood, W. S.= New creations in plant life: an authoritative account
of the life and work of Luther Burbank. **$1.75. Macmillan.

  “The book is far too popular in style and indefinite to be of real
  value to those seriously interested in plant-breeding, and it contains
  very little information meet to be absolutely accredited by the
  impartial observer.”

      – =Acad.= 70: 379. Ap. 21, ’06. 770w.

  “Had it contained more documentary evidence set forth with scientific
  method, it would have commended itself to naturalists in a higher
  degree than it is likely to do at present.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 395. Mr. 31. 820w.

  “Mr. Harwood is anything but scientific but his picture of the
  achievements of Mr. Luther Burbank impresses the reader, as no
  scientific treatise could, with the astonishing command over their
  material now possessed by the breeders of animals and plants.” E. T.
  Brewster.

      + =Atlan.= 98: 424. S. ’06. 160w.

  “It is sufficiently full, tolerably well written, authentic, and
  prepared under the direction of the gardener himself.” Thomas H.
  MacBride.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 47. Ja. 16, ’06. 730w.

  “The author shows no desire or ability to make a critical examination
  of his achievements and to arrive at a just estimate of their
  practical and scientific value.”

      – =Ind.= 60: 803. Ap. 5, ’06. 320w.

  “If he will give us his own experiences in his own words, rather than
  in those of some too partial biographer, the whole world will be the
  gainer, and the value of Mr. Burbank’s work more accurately gauged
  than it can be from the perusal of the present volume.”

    + – =Nature.= 73: 242. Ja. 11, ’06. 800w.

  “Mr. Harwood with a certain dash and journalistic swing has brought an
  important topic from where it might have long remained ambushed by
  scientific languages, and presented it to the people at large in such
  a way that it at once becomes a reality.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 260w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

      + =North American.= 183: 122. Jl. ’06. 270w.

  “Aside from being an account of what is probably the most scientific
  work done in our country of late, Mr. Harwood’s book is interesting
  reading.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 757. D. 9, ’05. 560w.


=Harwood, W. S.= New earth: a recital of the triumphs of modern
agriculture in America. **$1.75. Macmillan.

  The new earth of Mr. Harwood’s work is the cultivated earth, broad
  acres, well kept and stocked, that has risen out of the old—“a fine
  sane resurrection.” It is with the details of this progress as well as
  with the underlying principles that have governed it that this fully
  illustrated volume deals.

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      + =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 110w.

  “Mr. Harwood’s knowledge appears to be in general derived at second
  hand, and he consequently not infrequently falls into error.”

    – + =Dial.= 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 530w.

  “The book should be at once put into all the country libraries,
  especially in the traveling libraries.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1435. Je. 14, ’06. 290w.

  “The volume has a certain scrappiness here and there, as if the
  chapters had first been used in magazines, but on the whole, it is
  consistent and compact.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 65. Jl. 19, ’06. 980w.

  “Though his methods still border a trifle too much towards the
  journalistic for serious book work, he has produced a vivid picture of
  the present-day husbandry.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 490w.

  “The book may be warmly commended to the general reader, and it seems
  to us almost indispensable to the farmer who would make intelligent
  use of the forces now at his disposal.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 530. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 100w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 207. Ag. 11, ’06. 240w.


=Hasluck, Paul Nooncree.= Book of photography; practical, theoretical,
and applied. $3. Cassell.

  Photography in all its professional and amateur aspects is dealt with
  in nearly eight hundred pages, encyclopaedic in scope and profusely
  illustrated.

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  “It will prove a veritable boon to amateur and professional
  photographers alike.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 50w.

  “Mr. Hasluck’s book seems to us to contain everything about
  photography that any one should need know.”

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 55. Ja. 27, ’06. 570w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 80w.


=Hatch, Ernest Frederick George.= Far Eastern impressions. *$1.40.
McClurg.

  “A bright and brisk book.” W. E. Griffis.

      + =Critic.= 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 260w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’06. 70w.


=Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Steuart.= Geology of South
Africa. *$7. Macmillan.

  “Gives an excellent account of the ancient rocks of the interior
  highland.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 261. Mr. 29, ’06. 150w.


=Hatch, Marion P.= Little Miss Sunshine and other stories in verse for
children. $1. Goff co., Buffalo, N. Y.

  A little group of child verse based upon the thought of God’s
  goodness, omnipotence, omnipresence which teaches a child to trust and
  not to fear.


=Hatzfeldt, Paul.= Hatzfeldt letters: letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to
his wife; written from the headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870–71;
tr. from the French by J. L. Bashford. *$4. Dutton.

  “Careful foot-notes give all the necessary information concerning the
  persons mentioned in the letters, and there is an inadequate index.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.


=Havell, Ernest Binfield.= Benares the sacred city. $3.50. Blackie &
son, London.

  These sketches of Hindu life and religion “are not offered as a
  contribution to oriental scholarship, or to religious controversy, but
  as an attempt, to give an intelligible outline of Hindu ideas and
  religious practices, and especially as a presentation of the
  imaginative and artistic side of Indian religions, which can be
  observed at few places so well as in the sacred city and its
  neighborhood—the birthplace of Buddhism and one of the principal sects
  of Hinduism.”

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  “Mr. Havell’s account of Benares is worth more than a passing glance,
  for he is not to be confounded with the crowd of superficial observers
  who every winter visit India and find their way to the sacred city.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 575. N. 10. 2070w.

        =Bookm.= 23: 571. Jl. ’06. 110w.

  “Altogether this scholarly and attractive volume is equally admirable
  in text, illustrations, and topography.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 240w.

  “One appreciates a calm, dispassionate, well-ordered, and studious
  unravelling of the labyrinth of Hindu life and religion. Principal E.
  B. Havell ... has done this in a masterly manner.” H. E. Coblentz.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 361. Je. 1, ’06. 440w.

  “A volume of considerable importance.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 307. My. 12, ’06. 340w.

  “Well-written and sympathetic book.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 340w.

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1015. Je. 30, ’06. 270w.


=Havell, H. A.= Tales from Herodotus. 60c. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Children’s favorite classics.” Herodotus’ gift for
  weaving heroic wars and great personal deeds of the Greeks into “tales
  full of romance and charm” has delighted all ages. Here the tales are
  adapted for children.

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  “The historian’s tales in this book deal very largely with the Greek
  struggle for liberty, and they will prove as helpful and stimulating
  as they will fascinating to the children fortunate enough to enjoy
  their reading.”

    + + =Arena.= 36: 572. N. ’06. 90w.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 69. Jl. 21. 30w.

  “A particularly desirable sort of preparation for children’s
  nourishment.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 90w.

      + =Spec.= 95: sup. 905. D. 2, ’05. 110w.


=Haverstick, Alexander C.= Sunday school kindergarten: a practical
method of teaching in the infant room. *50c. Young ch.

  A book that discusses the order of work for little people in Sunday
  school, the methods, the management and incentives.


=Haw, George.= Christianity and the working classes. $1.50. Macmillan.

  “Eleven papers, dealing with the extent and intensity of the present
  religious defection, its causes and the means that are available for
  counteracting it.” (Cath. World.) Representative Englishmen including
  clergymen, members of parliament and labor leaders are among the
  contributors.

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  “The present volume is well worth serious study.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 691. Ag. ’06. 1720w.

  “Though written for Englishmen amid English conditions, these papers
  give timely and helpful suggestions to those who are studying how to
  cope with similar conditions here.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w.


=Hawkes, Clarence.= Shaggycoat; the biography of a beaver; il. by
Charles Copeland. **$1.25. Jacobs.

  Shaggycoat easily wins and holds every nature student’s attention. He
  is a member of a fast vanishing animal family, but sturdily upholds
  the traditions of his four-footed antecedents. The book reveals the
  habits, haunts and occupations of the beaver, shows how his nomadic
  habit leads him close to his enemies at times, and gives now and then
  a bit of primitive superstition which even greedy trappers heed.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Hawkes gives this important animal biography in a simple,
  straightforward way, and earns our gratitude by leaving it with a
  happy ending in spite of the fact that the beaver tribe is being
  ruthlessly wiped out.” May Estelle Cook.

      + =Dial.= 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 110w.


=Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.).= Servant of the public.
†$1.50. Stokes.

  “A very discreet book, yet losing nothing by perfect decorum.” Mary
  Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 58. Ja. ’06. 340w.

  “His version of the woman of whims happens to be the most piquant and
  interesting one in the season’s books.” Edward Clark Marsh.

  + + – =Bookm.= 22: 516. Ja. ’06. 1060w.


=Hawkins, Anthony Hope. (Anthony Hope, pseud.).= Sophy of Kravonia.
†$1.50. Harper.

  Sophy, an English girl of much spirit and no money goes to Kravonia to
  seek her fortune and, by a strange chance, saves the life of the crown
  prince who falls in love with her. The revolution which follows, the
  struggle between the supporters of her prince and those of his
  half-brother, and the part which Sophy, with the red star burning on
  her cheek, took in it all is stirring reading. Altho, by another
  chance of fate, she loses all she has gained, she carries with her
  from Kravonia a lasting memory of some enemies and many friends, of
  strife and conflict, of a crown won only to be lost, and of a great
  undying love.

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  “To be quite frank and explicit, this kingdom of Kravonia is one of
  the dullest realms in which it has been our ill-fortune to wander.”

    – + =Acad.= 71: 365. O. 13, ’06. 1300w.

  “It is better reading than some of the author’s recent excursions into
  latter-day social life.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 508. O. 27. 440w.

  “Anthony Hope has at last turned imitator of himself. That fact is the
  exact measure of the distance between ‘Sophia of Kravonia’ and ‘The
  prisoner of Zenda’. Well if we can’t have the fine original again, let
  us be thankful for an imitation so nearly perfect.” Edward Clark
  Marsh.

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 380. D. ’06. 1100w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1499. D. 20, ’06. 210w.

  “Wavering between a study of character and a rattling romance, Mr.
  Hope misses both opportunities, and his book, though pleasant to read,
  is disappointing.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 390w.

  “The conspiracy which thickens the plot is capitally developed, and
  long before the matter is solved the reader has quite forgotten that
  at the outset there was a certain sense of oppressiveness in the very
  serious marshalling of documentary evidence, as if for the history of
  a nation or the biography of a nation’s hero.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 352. O. 25, ’06. 260w.

  “Taken all in all is not—in spite of the cleverness and entertaining
  qualities—quite worthy of the author’s genius. Exactly why it is so it
  is hard to say, for it pretends only to amuse the intelligent and it
  certainly serves its purpose.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 380w.

  “Kravonia is much nearer reality than was Ruritania, and Mr. Hope has
  never done anything better in its way than the description of
  intrigues within the palace at Slavna while the old king lay dying and
  the crown prince, having met Sophy, would not set out to seek a royal
  bride.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 220w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 625. O. 27, ’06. 410w.


=Haworth, Paul Leland.= Hayes-Tilden disputed presidential election of
1876. *$1.50. Burrows.

  “This is a complete record of what the writer describes as ‘the most
  remarkable electoral controversy in the history of popular
  government.’ The book is based upon the debates in Congress, the
  evidence gathered by various investigating committees, and the
  proceedings before the Electoral commission.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is the first adequate history of ‘the most memorable electoral
  controversy in the history of popular government.’”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 245. O. 16, ’06. 830w.

  “A scholarly and detailed study of a political episode.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 100w.

  “He does not as yet betray the gifts of an accomplished writer, and
  his style is marred here and there by unnecessary colloquialisms ...
  but even they reflect a mind that deals with a complex matter in a
  spirit of unusual simplicity and candor.” Edward Cary.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 457. Jl. 21, ’06. 1290w.

  “The author, although he writes in a judicial spirit, does not
  indicate that he appreciates the political wrongs perpetrated in the
  south by so-called Reconstruction governments.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 1004. Ag. 25, ’06. 120w.

  “His work is a convenient and valuable digest of a vast amount of
  material not heretofore sifted for general use.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 100w.


=Hawthorne, Nathaniel.= Our old home: a series of English sketches: with
an introd. by Katharine Lee Bates. $1.50. Crowell.

  A “Luxembourg” edition of Hawthorne’s twelve English sketches. The
  introduction gives clippings which record America’s favorable and
  England’s unfavorable comments upon the work when it appeared in 1863.
  Miss Bates also suggests that Hawthorne might have used his note-book
  material to better advantage, mentioning especially the unused
  descriptive bits on the lake country.

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        =Ind.= 61: 1401. D. 13, ’06. 60w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 310w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 385. O. 13, ’06. 60w.


=Hawtrey, Valentina.= Romance of old wars. †$1.50. Holt.

  With a background of war between the French and Dutch of Von
  Arteveld’s time, the author has built up a pathetic love story.
  Matthieu de Châtelfors and Huette de Richecour are betrothed at birth.
  Huette develops into a plain, passionate, rather shrewish young woman
  whom Matthieu delays marrying on one pretext and another. She is too
  proud to insist and time drags on. With a promise to marry her on his
  return, he leaves for the battle-field. There follows a romantic
  meeting with a pretty peasant girl whose refusal of Matthieu’s love
  arouses his determination to wed her. The curtain rings down on the
  death of the one and the repulse of the other at Châtelfors.


=Hay, Alfred D.= Alternating currents: their theory, generation and
transformation. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.

  A book for students and readers who are familiar with the subject both
  from practical and theoretical experience. “While the arrangement is
  logical, it is not systematic enough to make easy reading. Under the
  direction of a competent instructor, with proper laboratory facilities
  available, the book can be used as a text with excellent
  satisfaction.” (Engin. N.)

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  “It is undoubtedly one of the best books on the subject of alternating
  currents, and as a reference book for students, manufacturers and
  users of alternating current machinery it will prove exceedingly
  valuable.” H. H. Norris.

  + + – =Engin. N.= 55: 430. Ap. 12, ’06. 830w.

  “The only drawback is that he has thus crowded the space devoted
  directly to the theory of alternating currents. These chapters should
  have been expanded or omitted altogether.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 210w.


=Hay, John.= Addresses: a collection of the more notable addresses
delivered by the late secretary of state during the last years of his
life. **$2. Century.

  Mr. Hay’s discussion of men and things embodies his maturest thought,
  and his highest ideals of statehood. Among the twenty-four addresses
  grouped here are estimates of Franklin in France, Sir Walter Scott,
  William McKinley, Edmund Clarence Stedman, President Roosevelt, and
  discussions of international copyright, American diplomacy, Grand army
  of the republic, The press and modern progress and America’s love of
  peace.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 240w.

  “Rich in suggestive thought, and at once scholarly and charming in
  style, is a notable addition to the already large body of the literary
  remains of American statesmen.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. ’06. 90w.

  “Contains the addresses by which we think he will be best known. It is
  calculated to make every American reader prouder of our great
  secretary of state; it will also give to every foreign student of our
  affairs a higher opinion of the richest American character and
  attainment.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 580w.

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 383. D. ’06. 310w.


=Hay, Marie.= German pompadour; being the true history of Wilhelmine von
Gravenitz, landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg: a veracious narrative of the
eighteenth century, gleaned from old documents. *$3.50. Scribner.

  “Wilhelmine von Gravenitz was one of the most fascinating women of the
  eighteenth century. More passionate, and vastly more intelligent than
  La Pompadour, her French rival in intrigue and gallantry, she was a
  nobler type of woman, for she was really in love with Eberhard Ludwig,
  the reigning Duke of Wirtemburg, and though she played his dull and
  colorless wife many a cruel trick, and even attempted to assassinate
  her, our sympathies in spite of ourselves are stirred rather in the
  favour of the brilliant mistress than of the highly respectable but
  phlegmatic wife. To depict the life of a woman of this class in a
  lengthy narrative, without making her offensive, demands unusual
  insight into human nature.”—Sat. R.

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  “Her compromise between history and fiction is maintained throughout;
  she is always guiding herself by authentic facts, and her emotions are
  regulated by the documents at her side. And here lies the defect of
  the system. She cannot give her imagination free rein, and yet she may
  indulge it to such an extent that the reader does not know when he is
  reading history and when he is reading fiction. The ordinary reader
  will question whether the record of Wilhelmine might not give off a
  more pungent odour to other nostrils; and still more will he doubt
  whether this vagrant air is potent enough to steep three hundred and
  fifty odd pages with its fragrance. A magazine article or a sonnet
  were the proper vessel for such sweetness.”

      – =Acad.= 71: 81. Jl. 28, ’06. 1170w.

  “A notable piece of work. There is distinction in the style, and the
  writer shows such evident familiarity with the period and place
  involved, that certain objections which we feel should be made to the
  presentation of the narrative may with some show of reason be judged
  pedantic.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 96. Jl. 28. 2050w.

  “The author writes with a clever woman’s knowledge of the human heart,
  but her style occasionally borders on the luscious. It is a book for
  the novel reader, not for the student.” Percy F. Bicknell.

    + – =Dial.= 41. 386. D. 1, ’06. 270w.

  “The literary style is much inferior to the power of the narrative. We
  have unqualified gratitude to the authoress-historian for her labor of
  construction.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 753. N. 17, ’06. 940w.

  “This remarkable first attempt at an historical novel leads one to
  hope that in a future venture Miss Hay will give us, not a more vivid
  story but a more carefully finished one.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 240. Ag. 25, ’06. 730w.


=Haynes, George Henry.= Election of senators. **$1.50. Holt.

  This volume in the “American public problems” series, aims “to make
  clear the considerations which led the framers of the Constitution to
  place the election of senators in the hands of the state legislature;
  the form and spirit of the elections thus made, and the causes which
  have led to the recent and pressing demand for popular control over
  the choice of senators. It attempts also to forecast in some degree
  the probable effectiveness of such popular control, whether exercised
  under a loose construction of the present law, or in accordance with a
  constitutional amendment making possible the election of senators by
  direct popular vote.” Following the eleven chapters into which this
  subject has been divided are the resolutions favoring popular election
  of senators passed by the House of representatives, Recommendations of
  the Pennsylvania joint committee and a bibliography.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 971. Jl. ’06. 90w.

  “Of considerable popular as well as historical interest.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 320w.

  “This volume presents a timely and interesting account of the
  arguments for and against the present system of the election of
  senators.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 397. S. 22, ’06. 320w.

  “The book is so complete and so fair that, but for one circumstance,
  we should not feel called upon to do more than to refer the reader to
  it as a lucid and exhaustive compendium. The argument assumes, of
  course, that the Senate, as it exists, is in need of improvement, This
  part of the book is more labored than is necessary.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 247. S. 20, ’06. 1280w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 180w.


=Hazelton, John Hampton.= Declaration of independence: its history.
**$4.50. Dodd.

  “The book begins with 1774, following with the first steps taken by
  the colonies. Jefferson’s share in the drafting of the Declaration,
  the help of John Adams, the position of Hancock, and an account of
  how, when, and where each member signed the document. There is also a
  description of the effect of the Declaration on this country and
  England. In another chapter the author writes about the present
  resting place of the original document. The limited edition of the
  work will be in two volumes: the regular, in one.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Hazelton has performed creditably a hard task, for which all
  students of the period will be grateful.” George Elliott Howard.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 913. Jl. ’06. 530w.

  “This is not a mere historical canvas filled with stiff figures, but
  rather a series of character studies of live men,—a set of ‘journals
  intimes’, which, to employ the language of John Adams, enables one ‘to
  penetrate the intricate, internal foldings of their souls.’” J.
  Woodbridge Riley.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 289. My. ’06. 1400w.

  “Mr. Hazelton has preferred to send out his material in bullion rather
  than to coin it into currency. As a narrative it suffers in
  consequence, but it has the greater value for the student.” Edwin E.
  Sparks.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 202. O. 1, ’06. 850w.

  “An elaborate work for reference rather than for reading.
  Unfortunately, his methods have serious defects. Notwithstanding the
  author’s care, misprints may be found, and curiously careless
  references to printed books. Yet, in spite of its drawbacks, the
  volume cannot but be highly useful to the student of sources.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 409. My. 17, ’06. 600w.

  “Mr. Hazelton’s work is the result of patient and laborious
  investigation, set forth without any effort to attain literary
  attractiveness. It is valuable for a correct understanding of one
  important phase of the Revolution.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 236. Ap. 7, ’06. 530w.


=Headley, John William.= Confederate operations in Canada and New York.
$2. Neale.

  One with the incendiaries who tried to burn New York City Nov. 25,
  1864, and who escaped amidst the panic to Canada “gives a detailed
  account of the several mad undertakings, each of which proved a dismal
  failure but undoubtedly caused much concern and embarrassment to the
  federal and State authorities. Captain Headley enlisted in the
  Confederate army early in the war, and prior to his Canadian mission
  saw much active service in Kentucky and Tennessee. Of this he also
  writes, his narrative affording fresh glimpses of the campaigns of
  Bragg, Forrest, and Morgan. His book is one of adventurous interest.”
  (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His book is a useful addition to the literature on the war.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 570w.

  “Mr. Headley’s book is mostly an inaccurate rehash of the facts of the
  civil war; but a few chapters contain an account of the New York
  affair that might, if better presented, have been interesting. As it
  is, the style is graceless as the narrative is shameless.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 152. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.

  “Although devoid of literary merit and characterized by a pronounced
  sectional tone, deserves a place on the shelf allotted to literature
  on the Civil war.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 220w.


=Healy, Most Rev. John.= Life and writings of St. Patrick. *$4.50.
Benziger.

  “Dr. Healy gives us, from an inside standpoint, a copious and
  exhaustive history of Ireland’s Apostle. The present work, containing
  over seven hundred and fifty good-sized pages, embodies everything of
  value that is known, or probably ever will be known, on the subject.
  Its chief excellence is the wealth of topographical lore which the
  learned author has brought to his task.... The narrative of St.
  Patrick’s journeyings is greatly enlivened by the Archbishop’s
  identification of the various places and landmarks in the modern
  nomenclature.”—Cath. World.

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  “There is no reason to expect that any subsequent work will supplant
  this ‘Life’ with those who will wish to learn all about the Apostle of
  Ireland, not in the interests of dry scholarship, but from love of
  faith and country.”

  + + + =Cath. World.= 83: 102. Ap. ’06. 870w.

  Reviewed by T. W. Rolleston.

    + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 447. Ja. ’06. 1310w.

  “For any subsequent writer to ignore the close train of reasoning by
  which Professor Bury reaches his conclusions is simply to put himself
  out of the court as a critical authority.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 101: 793. Je. 23, ’06. 860w.


=Healy, Patrick Joseph.= Valerian persecution: a study of the relations
between church and state in the third century, A.D. **$1.50. Houghton.

  “The book as a whole is interesting and valuable.” John Winthrop
  Platner.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 356. Ja. ’06. 740w.

  “The tone of the work throughout is candid and temperate, the style is
  clear and engaging, and the conclusions reached are, with minor
  exceptions justified by the evidence.” Eri B. Hulbert.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 345. Ap. ’06. 350w.

  “We have praised the author’s impartiality: but we may detect a
  certain prepossession in his account of the fate of Emperor Valerian.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 759. Je. 23. 980w.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 415. Mr. ’06. 200w.

  “Both in acuteness and erudition this book is a leader.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 210w.

  “This work is evidently based on a careful study of all the sources,
  ancient and recent, whence our information on the persecution under
  Valerian is derived.” Alice Gardner.

      + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 552. Jl. ’06. 760w.


=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Romance of the Milky Way, and other studies and
stories. **$1.25. Houghton.

  “This posthumous book is full of prettinesses, much of the character
  and value of those admirably set forth in English in the author’s
  former works.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 388. Mr. 31. 870w.

  Reviewed by W. E. Griffis.

      + =Critic.= 48: 222. Mr. ’06. 630w.


=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Some Chinese ghosts. **$1.50. Little.

  Mr. Hearn sought especially for “weird beauty” in preparing the
  legends grouped here. The six tales possess the charm of a poet’s
  touch and are as follows: The soul of the great bell, The story of
  Ming-Y, The legend of Tchi-Niu, The return of Yen-Tchin-Kny, The
  tradition of the tea-plant and The tale of the porcelain god.

  “New and most attractive edition of a delightful book.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 230w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 503. N. 9, ’06. 40w.


=Heigh, John.= House of cards. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 44. Ja. ’06. 200w.

  “The book is of almost painful interest, but is no mere political
  pamphlet.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 219. Ag. 12, ’05. 220w.


=Heilprin, Angelo.= Tower of Pelee. **$3. Lippincott.

  “It will be difficult, even for those geologists who hesitate to
  accept all of Lacroix’s brilliant reasoning and explanation in regard
  to the physical manifestations of Pelée’s eruptions, to agree with
  Professor Heilprin’s views, largely because the manner in which they
  are presented must in many cases fail to convince the reader.” Ernest
  Howe.

  + – – =Science=, n.s. 23: 29. Ja. 5, ’06. 1240w.


=Heilprin, Angelo, and Heilprin, Louis=, eds. Lippincott’s new
gazetteer. *$10. Lippincott.

  The best of all the editions of fifty years has been retained, the
  unnecessary amplification cut out, and the latter-day material which
  the march of improvement orders has been added to this semi-centennial
  volume of Lippincott’s gazetteer. It is complete, condensed and
  monumental.

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  “Is a work of great value and contains an up-to-date, reliable and
  well-selected summary of the most important geographical information.”
  Emory R. Johnson.

  + + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 247. Ja. ’06. 440w.

  “All the modern advances of geography are capably exhibited, as might
  have been expected from the editors.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 136. F. 3. 230w.

  “The latest changes in geographical conditions are to be found in this
  new edition.”

  + + + =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 700w.

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 97. F. 1, ’06. 140w.

  “In omissions and errors the Territory of Alaska fares worst.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 282. F. 1, ’06. 710w.

  “We gladly recognize that it has substantial claims to distinction as
  a reference work of great usefulness to all who require geographical
  information. For such, indeed, there is no other work of equal scope.
  And if only because of this fact it is to be hoped that in future
  editions greater care will be exercised to secure both freedom from
  error and ease of consultation.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 253. F. 17, ’06. 1110w.

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 123. F. 8, ’06. 1340w.

  “There is little with which fault can be found, and abundance to
  praise in the volume.”

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 778. N. 18, ’05. 1150w.

  “In its new form will be as indispensable as is an unabridged
  dictionary.”

  + + + =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 260w.

  “This work of Messrs. Heilprin cannot be too highly praised—the
  devotion to detail has not only been conscientious to a degree, but
  they have also shown an intelligent discrimination which is a large
  portion of the value of the book.”

  + + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 828. D. 23, ’05. 200w.

  “The work as a whole is far more comprehensive in scope than ever
  before. Its treatment of the recently acquired possessions of the
  United States gives it a distinctive value to Americans such as no
  other book of its class now has.”

  + + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 160w.

  “Have done their work of bringing this gazetteer up to date very
  thoroughly.”

  + + + =Sat. R.= 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 70w.

  “As far as we have been able to examine the book, we have found it
  complete.”

  + + + =Spec.= 96: 152. Ja. 27, ’06. 180w.


=Heisch, C. E.= Art and craft of the author; practical hints upon
literary work. *$1.20. Grafton press.

  Miss Heisch’s book is full of practical hints upon literary work. “Her
  advice may be boiled down into the old golden precepts; Be honest; be
  patient; be industrious.” (Acad.) Yet there are specific suggestions
  for a writer along the line of principles which should guide him,
  objects he should keep in view and the methods of carrying them out.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Her advice is always good, and her book is well-arranged and clearly
  written.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 189. F. 24, ’06. 160w.

  “Authors with some experience as well as beginners will find profit in
  these pages.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 140w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 324. My. 19, ’06. 270w.

  “She says judicious things, and she fortifies her precepts with good
  illustrations.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 625. Ap. 21, ’06. 120w.


=Heller, Otto.= Studies in modern German literature. *$1.50; school ed.
*$1.25. Ginn.

  Three essays devoted respectively to Sudermann, Hauptmann and women
  writers of the nineteenth century.

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  “Herr Heller is not a very great or original critic, but he is
  genuinely interested in his subject, and that goes for much; he has
  read and assimilated a great deal of the best German criticism bearing
  on the matter, and his outlook is generally sensible.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 685. N. 18. 530w.

  “Suggestive and interesting work.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 317. S. 29, ’05. 660w.

  “Very able treatise on modern German literature.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 510. Ap. 21, ’06. 160w.


=Helm, W. H.= Aspects of Balzac. **$1. Pott.

  “His book is a useful addition to Balzac literature.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 90w.

  “Mr. Helm’s method furnishes us with a number of unpretentious chats,
  that commend themselves by intelligence and discrimination, and move
  in the middle region of appreciation between fanatical zeal and
  grudging recognition.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 52. Ja. 16, ’06. 110w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 122. F. 24, ’06. 900w.


=Henderson, Charles Hanford.= Children of good fortune: an essay in
morals. **$1.30. Houghton.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 130w.

  “One feels disposed to say that Dr. Henderson has written a most
  immoral book about morality.” Edward Fuller.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 212. Mr. ’06. 270w.


=Henderson, Ernest Flagg.= Short history of Germany; new ed. [2v. in 1.]
*$2.50. Macmillan.

  The two volumes of Mr. Henderson’s history which appeared four years
  ago have been combined in one volume for the present edition. “The
  author assumes, as his starting-point, the preëminence of Germany as
  the guiding thread to lead the student through the intricacies of
  general European history. All the great international struggles, he
  points out, have been fought out on German soil, from the Thirty
  years’ war to the great struggle against Napoleon. The two great
  ever-present factors of the entire medieval period—the Papacy and the
  Empire—fought out their differences on German soil and through German
  personages.... This volume, which is excellently printed and provided
  with indexes and notes, is also supplied with several maps and
  bibliographical lists.” (R. of Rs.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + + =Nation.= 82: 117. F. 8, ’06. 60w.

  “It is a book that is most needful.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 313. My. 12, ’06. 240w.

  “Those who are really interested in German history, however, will not
  be satisfied with such a condensation, admirably as it has been done.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 110w.

  “Not the least valuable part of the book is a careful bibliography
  introducing each chapter and covering the subject matter of the
  chapter.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 541. Ap. 28, ’06. 130w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 160w.


=Henderson, Henry F.= Religious controversies of Scotland. *$1.75. imp.
Scribner.

  Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.

        =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 354. Ap. ’06. 310w.

  “Mr. Henderson’s book is not exhaustive. Full information on the
  religious controversies of Scotland will have to be sought elsewhere.
  The book was manifestly intended to be a popular account of its
  subject, rather than a professional and scientific one.” T. Johnstone
  Irving.

    + – =Bib. World.= 28: 74. Jl. ’06. 720w.


=Henderson, John.= West Indies; painted by A. L. Forrest; described by
John Henderson.

      + =Spec.= 95: 1041. D. 15, ’05. 90w.


=Henderson, M. Sturge.= Constable. *$2. Scribner.

  A late addition to the “Library of art.” The volume furnishes a short,
  condensed life of the English landscape painter, “who, by virtue of a
  naturalism that was unique in two respects—his ‘fearless adoption of
  “unpicturesque” localities as subjects for his pictures, and his
  practice of using fresh, bright color’—pointed out to his successors
  ‘the way to a new kingdom.’” (Ind.) Much of the material has been
  drawn from C. R. Leslie’s “Life.” There are 38 half-tone reproductions
  from the artist’s paintings, sketches and studies.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author not only indulges in restrained criticism, but presents
  the actions and interests of the artist in a vivid and chronological
  manner.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 60w.

  “The beautiful simplicity of Constable’s life and art are admirably
  expressed in this book, and those who read it carefully will learn
  much more than they have known before about the simple and homely but
  great English master.” Walter Cranston Larned.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 256. Ap. 16, ’06. 1350w.

  “His critical comment, besides being sound, has the further merit of
  clear and concise expression.”

  + + – =Ind.= 59: 1483. D. 21, ’05. 210w.

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 32. D. ’05. 140w.

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 374. F. ’06. 50w.

  “It is well enough done, but there was no great necessity of doing it
  at all, and there is nothing in it that is not readily enough to be
  found elsewhere.”

    + – =Nature.= 81: 509. D. 21, ’05. 100w.

  “The present volume challenges comparison with Mr. Holmes’s excellent
  biography published four years ago. Both biographers are notable for
  clearness, vigor, and discrimination.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ’05. 180w.


=Henderson, Mary Foote.= Aristocracy of health. $1.50. Harper.

  The author outlines the path royal for the would-be health
  aristocrat,—the being who achieves strength, self-reliance, success,
  influence long life, and happiness. The way lies close to physical
  culture, abstinence from poisons, and dietetic care. The author views
  the subject of human degeneracy from the standpoint of different
  countries, and so leads up to her suggestion that a national and
  international league be formed for the advancement of physical
  culture.

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  “Laborious and enthusiastic volume.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 659. O. 6, ’06. 480w.

  “The material is thrown into popular form and although it could easily
  be reduced in bulk, the book is readable. As an argument against the
  use of stimulants, it carries weight; as a general philosophy of
  living it has its limitations.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 428. O. 20, ’06. 430w.


=Henderson, T. F.= Mary, Queen of Scots: her environment and tragedy.
*$6 Scribner.

  A biography satisfactory for students because of its wealth of
  footnotes and references. “To sum up, the presentation of Queen Mary
  ... is good and true to nature for the period in which she can be
  observed in freedom, while she displayed to the world her great and
  royal heart, facing her enemies in the field of battle, meeting
  diplomatists in the council chamber, and discharging with grace and
  gaiety the duties of hostess, or the functions of a queen, and Mr.
  Henderson can make allowances for the strong temptations which led to
  her fall. But in her long and cruel confinement he loses touch with
  her. Without adequate conception of her rights, or of the part which
  as a queen and a Catholic she should have played, he considers her now
  as an actress, a devote, a mischief-maker. But her conduct at her
  trial and execution again appeals to him and he concludes with a
  fitting testimony to her great qualities.” (Acad.)

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  “Mr. Henderson’s volume is at least the fourth separate biography of
  her which has appeared during this year alone. Of all these lives Mr.
  Henderson’s is without doubt the best and most thorough. His
  advantages over his rivals are many.” J. H. Pollen.

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 1351. D. 30, ’05. 1530w.

  “His book is both a narrative biography and a critical study. The
  value of the book lies chiefly in its clear presentation of general
  conditions underlying the crises of Mary’s career and particularly of
  the influence of foreign affairs upon their shaping and development.”
  O. H. Richardson.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 890. Jl. ’06. 860w.

  “Some readers will be inclined to question not only the soundness of
  many of Mr. Henderson’s criticisms, but also his presentation of some
  of the facts. The book is vigorously written and displays much
  critical acumen; but some of the phrases are rather inelegant, and one
  or two savor of slang.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 319. Mr. 17. 2030w.

  “It is a pity that several mistakes have been allowed to creep into
  the text, and that, in giving the date of the month, in nearly every
  instance that date of the year has been omitted; also that the author
  has permitted himself the use of so many unusual words.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 472. My. ’06. 400w.

  “He has brought together for the first time many facts that were
  formerly to be sought only in scattered and more or less inaccessible
  books or magazine articles, and he has added not a little entirely new
  matter, important to a proper understanding of the life of Mary Stuart
  and of those around her.” Lawrence J. Burpee.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 63. Ag. 1, ’06. 390w.

  “His survey is thorough, extensive and precise, missing scarcely a
  detail of the stormy and adventurous career.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 917. Je. 16, ’06. 960w.

  “Though we differ widely from Mr. Henderson on many points, his book
  is a valuable contribution to the controversy, and it will be
  indispensable to the student. The general reader will find it fresh
  and clear and well-informed. We feel bound to add that it is to a
  considerable extent spoiled by Mr. Henderson’s irritating habit of
  correcting his predecessors on points of detail. Sometimes he is
  right, but more often it seems to us, there is as much evidence for
  their view as for his.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 449. D. 15, ’05. 830w.

  “His book not only claims to be free from prepossessions, but succeeds
  much better than most works on Mary Stuart in preserving the mood of
  objectivity.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 409. My. 17, ’06. 580w.

  “Mr. Henderson may have Mary’s history at his fingers’ ends ... but he
  has not succeeded in telling what he knows convincingly, or with
  clearness or fullness. Mrs. MacCunn’s biography is not only far more
  interesting, but it is fuller.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 430w.

  “His is a book for advanced students, and these will find it richly
  informative.” H. Addington Bruce.

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 279. S. 29, ’06. 2920w.

  “We have mentioned points susceptible of improvement in the book, but
  it will be very welcome to the relatively large public which studies
  the history of the unhappy queen.”

      + =Spec.= 95: sup. 899. D. 2, ’05. 1780w.


=Henderson, William James.= Art of the singer; practical hints about
vocal technics and style. **$1.25. Scribner.

  The results of twenty-five years of study are summed up for the
  teacher, the student and the lover of singing. “Probably the best
  thing in Mr. Henderson’s book, the ‘Art of the singer,’ is his defence
  of that art. In reply to the declaration of an acquaintance that
  singing is an artificial achievement, he says: ‘The truth is that
  while speaking is nature, singing is nothing more than nature under
  high cultivation.’” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A real acquisition to the library.”

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 271. N. ’06. 560w.

  “While the book is to some extent technical, it is written in a clear,
  comprehensive style and can be enjoyed by the mere lover of singing.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 230w.

    + + =Nation.= 83: 291. O. 4, ’06. 630w.

  “Mr. Henderson’s book is a most valuable and useful one. It makes for
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  spared in the musical world.” Richard Aldrich.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 666. O. 13, ’06. 1080w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 60w.


=Henry, Arthur.= Lodgings in town. †$1.50. Barnes.

      + =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 140w.

  “The intimate, straightforward and lively style in which Mr. Henry
  writes, and his large and convincing optimism, make a strong appeal to
  the reader’s sympathy.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.


=Henry, Arthur.= Unwritten law. †$1.50. Barnes.

  “It is a truer reproduction of contemporaneous cosmopolitan existence
  than are most historical essays that claim to represent things as they
  are, and being instinct with the higher realism ... the work holds the
  interest of the reader from cover to cover.”

    + + =Arena.= 36: 573. N. ’06. 190w.

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 218. Ag. 12, ’05. 270w.


=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Four million. †$1. McClure.

  “In the four million people of New York city their daily living and
  working and playing, Mr. Henry has found the material for comedy, and
  tragedy, for laughter and tears. With a few deft touches he weaves the
  fabric of romance in East side tenements, Wall street brokers’ offices
  or along Fifth avenue. His sketches—they are hardly stories—are
  remarkable for their terseness, sympathy and humor, and for their deep
  insight into the inner life of the great city.”—Pub. Opin.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “These sketches of New York life are among the best things of the kind
  put forth in many a day.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 80w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 161. Jl. 19, ’06. 120w.

  “The work is not even, of course, and some of it is not up to the
  mark—but on the whole it expresses the spirit of New York wonderfully.
  And it is clever and entertaining always.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 640w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 220w.

  “Little stories, each with its individual point, and all pervaded with
  genuine fun and here and there a touch of sentiment or pathos.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 120w.

  “His work is a living proof of the oft-repeated statement that
  literature depends for its value not on the quality of the material
  but on the eye of the beholder.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 120w.


=Henshaw, Julia W.= Mountain wild flowers of America: a simple and
popular guide to the names and descriptions of the flowers that bloom
above the clouds. *$2. Ginn.

  Three hundred plants which the wanderer in mountain regions may meet
  with at any turning are introduced to the reader of this volume by
  both their popular and scientific names, while one hundred of them are
  further identified by means of full-page pictures reproduced from
  photographs taken by the author. The flowers are classified according
  to color, an explanation of all botanical terms used is given, and
  there is one index to the scientific names and another to the English.

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  “Among the best of the numerous popular works on nature issued during
  recent years.”

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 73. S. ’06. 110w.

      + =Dial.= 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 60w.

  “Even one ignorant of botany will be able to make use of the book.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1371. Je. 7, ’06. 120w.

  “Is certain to stimulate as well as delight all tourists to the
  wonderland of our great common Northwest.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 108. Ag. 2, ’06. 540w.

  “An interesting and practical volume to the unenlightened.” Helen R.
  Albee.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 567. S. 15, ’06. 330w.


=Herbert, George.= English works, newly arranged and annotated and
considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. *$6.
Houghton.

  “The edition is an elaborate and worthy monument to the gravely sweet
  and original genius.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 415. Ap. 7. 1700w.

  “He has done a work never attempted before, and it is so final in its
  results that henceforth every student of Herbert must reckon with it.”
  A. V. G. Allen.

  + + + =Atlan.= 97: 90. Ja. ’06. 8090w.

  “Wide and intimate scholarship and a rare insight born of a lifetime
  of close fellowship are met together in this work.” Frances Duncan.

  + + – =Critic.= 49: 183. Ag. ’06. 1640w.

  “Professor Palmer’s essays are terse, direct, and pithy, felicitous in
  their combination of tireless scholarly research and infectious
  enthusiasm.”

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 129. F. 16, ’06. 410w.

  “He has run the risk of misleading the general reader by imposing upon
  the arrangement an interpretation of the poet’s character which is
  peculiarly his own, and unsustained by internal or external evidence.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 1164. N. 15, ’06. 100w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 209. F. 10, ’06. 780w.

  “Excellent as an annotator, the present editor does not appear to us
  so happy as a biographer.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 456. D. 22, ’05. 2050w.

  “It is probably the most complete, and critically speaking, the final
  edition of the English poet’s works.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 110. Ja. ’06. 190w.


=Herrick, Albert Bledsoe.= Practical electric railway hand-book. 2nd ed.
rev. & corrected. *$3. McGraw pub.

  The results of practical experiences along the lines of improvement in
  the operation of electric railways have been arranged here in
  convenient form for reference. “The material is logically arranged in
  the following nine sections: General tables, testing, track, power
  station, line car house, repair shop, equipment and operation.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The second edition of this handbook ... is greatly improved in many
  ways.” Henry H. Norris.

    + + =Engin. N.= 55: 673. Je. 14, ’06. 580w.


=Herrick, Christine Terhune=, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c.
Wessels.

      + =Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 50w.


=Herrick, Robert.= Memoirs of an American citizen. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “The story is told in a clear, personal narrative which never strays
  into a false key.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 43. Ja. ’06. 130w.

  “It is in the life-like portraits of Carmichael and other business men
  that he excels, and in the description of the purely business side of
  life.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 308. Mr. 10, ’06. 100w.


=Herrmann, Wilhelm.= Communion of the Christian with God. Authorized
tr.; new cheaper ed. **$1.50. Putnam.

  A translation of the last German edition issued in a more convenient
  form than the first American issue and at a popular price.

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  “It is assuredly one of the important doctrinal treatises of a
  generation, and it is well that it is rendered into English from the
  text which is likely to be the author’s final revision.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 880. O. 11, ’06. 1050w.

  “It is a book which has entered into the life of our time, and its
  work has been in behalf of sincere piety and true devotion.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 168. Ag. 23, ’06. 590w.

  “We are glad to see so rational and so devout a book published in a
  form which brings it within the reach of others than professional
  students. For it is more than a book of theology; it is an exposition
  and interpretation of religious experience.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 428. O. 20, ’06. 390w.


=Herzfeld, Elsa G.= Family monographs: the history of twenty-four
families living in the middle of the west side of New York city. For
sale by Brentano’s and Charity organization soc., N. Y.

  Miss Herzfeld says, “The object of these studies is to throw light on
  the family of the New York tenement-house dweller. The majority of the
  families studied are fairly typical of the German and Irish, foreign
  and native born, tenement-house population of New York.” While not the
  most thriftless type they live from hand to mouth. The work is based
  on wide sociological observation.

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  “Fragmentary as the study is, it is an authentic document by a shrewd
  observer and interpreter of social motives.” C. R. H.

    + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 706. Mr. ’06. 50w.

  “The monograph is valuable and will be very serviceable to students of
  city life.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 90w.

  “The book is one that the general reader will enjoy; for interest has
  not been sacrificed to scientific colorness, and humor and pathos are
  alike to be found here.” E. A.

    + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 255. Ap. ’06. 130w.

  “It is not, in fact, a literary work in any sense, or a ‘book’ in any
  but the most restricted sense. It is a tract.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ’05. 210w.


=Hewitt, Randall H.= Across the plains and over the divide: a mule train
journey from East to West in 1862, and incidents connected therewith.
$1.50. Broadway pub.

  The untamed West of the Civil war days, with its primitive grandeur
  and unrestraint is reproduced in these pages for the benefit of the
  younger generation. The journey covers a zigzag course from Illinois
  to Washington, over wild country, with no end of perilous encounters.


=Hewlett, Maurice.= Works. Ed. de luxe. 11v. ea. *$3. Macmillan.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 638. My. 19, ’06. 970w. (Review of v. 1–9.)


=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Fond adventures: tales of the youth of the
world. †$1.50. Harper.

  “Here again he shows his virtuosity in creating a magic haze, beyond
  which his mediaeval figures move upon their fate.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 53. Ja. ’06. 340w.


=Hewlett, Maurice.= Fool errant. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “Can it be that Mr. Hewlett after all grows genial?” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 30w.


=Heyward, Janie Screven.= Wild roses. $1.25. Neale.

  Some thirty verses, simple to a fault, upon homey subjects—with a
  touch here and there of strong Southern feeling. The volume opens with
  a poem on Confederate reunion 1899, and closes with The Confederate
  private.


=Heywood, William.= Palio and Ponte. Methuen, London.

  “For the present volume all those who love the history of sport or of
  Italy will be grateful. It is as light as it is learned, while the
  excellent illustrations and pleasant type and form give it an added
  charm.” E. Armstrong.

    + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 153. Ja. ’06. 1000w.


=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Black spaniel and other stories. †$1.50.
Stokes.

  “They have not the epigrammatic flash of his earlier books nor the
  substantial impressiveness of his latest.”

      – =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 130w.


=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Call of the blood; il. by Orson Lowell.
†$1.50. Harper.

  An Englishman ten years younger than his “ugly though brilliantly
  clever and intellectual” bride finds, under the sunny skies of Sicily
  whence they go for their honeymoon, that he cannot resist the cry of
  youth and beauty. The strain of Sicilian blood in his veins is
  responsible for his aptitude in dancing the tarantella and for his
  yielding to the quick call of love—dishonourable tho it be, and tragic
  tho it prove.

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  “It is a full-blooded stirring story—a work which, if Mr. Hichens had
  not written ‘The garden of Allah,’ we might hail as the greatest novel
  of passion in the century.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 150w.

  “Mr. Hichens at any rate is open to the accusation of taking a long
  time to tell a simple story.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29, 370w.

  “Mr. Hichens envelops himself in rather artificial motives and seems
  quite oblivious of the influences that must really move his characters
  to act with consummate naturalness to an inevitable end.” Duffield
  Osborne

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 377. D. ’06. 780w.

  “So far as the matter of scene painting goes, ‘The call of the blood’
  recalls the splendid richness of colour in ‘The garden of Allah’ while
  in all other respects it serves only to emphasize the marked
  superiority of the earlier volume.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 386. D. ’06. 330w.

  “Mr. Hichens, it seems, has committed the strategic crime of not
  making his new novel even better than its predecessor. Yet ‘The call
  of the blood’ is a good book, perhaps even a great book.”

  + + – =Current Literature.= 41: 699. D. ’06. 820w.

  “There is not enough power in this story and too much decadent
  fineness.”

    – + =Ind.= 61: 1229. N. 22, ’06. 710w.

  “The book is entertaining and well worth reading.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 210w.

  “Some of the Sicilian descriptions are quite as remarkable as anything
  Mr. Hichens has done.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 305. S. 7, ’06. 510w.

    + – =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 450w.

  “The story is written with much dramatic power and with fine restraint
  as well. The chief fault of the novel, is that at times, notably in
  the last hundred pages, the action drags.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 690w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “The latter part of the story is tragic and moves with some vigor—but
  too late!”

    – + =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 140w.

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  illumination, no gift for happy phrase, and is never impregnated with
  the sense of character; but it lends itself to the landscape passages
  of which he is fond, and retains throughout a literary finish.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 401. S. 29, ’06. 730w.

  “Mr. Hichens’s style harmonises excellently with his subject. Its
  colour is at times rather hectic, but in the main it seems to heighten
  the effect of a remarkably interesting and dramatic study of the
  survival of pagan and primitive instincts.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 404. S. 22, ’06. 810w.


=Hichens, Robert.= Garden of Allah. $1.50. Stokes.

  “From the standpoint of the author, in so far as he has vouchsafed to
  disclose it, the ending of the story is forced and inartistic.”
  Duffield Osborne.

      – =Bookm.= 24: 378. D. ’06. 760w.

        =Edinburgh R.= 203: 79. Ja. ’06. 2260w.

        =Living Age.= 248: 736. Mr. 24, ’06. 2260w. (Reprinted from
          Edinburgh R.)


=Higgins, Hubert.= Humaniculture. **$1.20. Stokes.

  “A phrase of the author’s states the subject matter of this book:
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  disease.’... It is now known that only through the exercise of the
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  The real significance of this act has only recently been
  demonstrated, and by an American, Mr. Horace Fletcher. The first
  half of Dr. Higgins’s book is devoted to analysis and eulogy of Mr.
  Fletcher’s theories.”—Outlook.

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  “To do him justice there is more truth in his theories than in some
  others with which a long-suffering public has been afflicted.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 60w.

  “Dr. Higgins is neither a ‘crank’ nor a faddist. While his book is,
  unfortunately, diffuse in style and not clear in construction, it is
  worth reading.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 579. Jl. 7, ’06. 410w.


=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.= Part of a man’s life. **$2.50. Houghton.

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 134. F. 3. 300w.

  Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 115. Ja. ’06. 860w.

  “It is pleasant to see, in regard to this intensely human part of a
  man’s life, that he can still point a pen not greatly corroded by the
  rust of days.”

    + + =Ind.= 59: 1341. D. 7, ’05. 670w.

  “Has seldom written to better purpose than in this semi-biographical
  volume of reminiscences and impressions.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 490w.

  “This volume with its rich fund of story and observation, garmented in
  graciousness and adorned with many interesting portraits and autograph
  facsimiles, will win for its author an increasing measure of esteem
  and affection.”

    + + =Reader.= 7: 338. F. ’06. 570w.


=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, and MacDonald, William.= History of the
United States from 986 to 1905. $2. Harper.

  “The revision and enlargement will tend to prolong its space of public
  favor for another score of years.”

    + + =Reader.= 6: 724. N. ’05. 290w.


=Hight, George Ainslie.= Unity of will: studies of an irrationalist.
**$3. Dutton.

  “Mr. Hight’s treatise is quite in line with the present trend of
  philosophy. This, reversing the long-prevalent and still popular
  conception of will as the instrument of reason, recognizes will as
  the master and intellect as its servant, both in the individual and
  in the universe.... By will is broadly meant the self-active
  principle manifested in all loving, hating, seeking, shunning,
  striving.”—Outlook.

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        =Ath.= 1906, 1: 731. Je. 16. 230w.

  “The book was written throughout in an attractive and readable style;
  to this is added the merit of brevity, unusual in philosophic works of
  this sort. At the end a series of ‘First principles’ sums up in
  concise form the main views of the author, which, although, as has
  been pointed out, they do not always fit in with those of one more
  used to a psychological and epistemological method of approach, still
  are calculated to present to all much food for profound and beneficial
  reflection.” Robert Morris Ogden.

    + – =J. Philos.= 3: 715. D. 20, ’06. 1340w.

  “His argument is carried forward with a directness, a logic, a careful
  avoidance of unnecessary technicalities that are admirable.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 499. Ag. 11, ’06. 1760w.

  “Whatever be its defects, Mr. Hight’s line of thought is soundly
  practical, and its effect is tonic and uplifting.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 580. Jl. 7, ’06. 420w.


=Higginbotham, Harlow Niles.= Making of a merchant. $1.50. Forbes.

  A thoroly practical handling of a subject most vital to young men
  entering upon a business career. Mr. Higinbotham writes from
  experience and discusses the foundation, advancement, qualities that
  make a merchant, details that spell success, buying merchandise,
  treatment of employers, the department store and its management, and
  the extension of credit in its various phases.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 200w.


=Hildreth, Richard.= Japan as it was and is: a handbook of old Japan: a
reprint, ed. and rev., with notes and additions by Ernest W. Clement;
introd. by William Elliot Griffis. *$3. McClurg.

  The material of the 1861 edition of Hildreth’s “Japan” has been
  revised and reprinted with copious illustrations and adequate
  editorial matter. The work is no less important now than when it first
  appeared in 1855, for the fact that it is a compilation from all the
  important European writings on Old Japan establishes its permanent
  value. In the revision, the author has harmonized the spelling of
  Japanese words with the modern system of Romanization, and has added
  such other notes and explanations as might be necessary.

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        =Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 80w.


=Hildt, John C.= Early diplomatic negotiations of the United States with
Russia. Johns Hopkins press.

  This volume of the “Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and
  political science” forms an introductory study of the relations of the
  United States with Russia, and narrates “the history of the rise and
  progress of the early diplomatic relations of the American government
  to that country and the steps by which the negotiations were carried
  forward.” The missions of Dana, Adams, and Pinckney, the question of
  consular immunity, Spanish-American affairs, and the treaty of 1824
  all receive careful consideration.

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  “He gives a careful and clear, but pedestrian account, based on the
  printed American materials and, after 1816, on an extensive use of the
  manuscript materials in the archives of the Department of state.”

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 177. O. ’06. 190w.


=Hill, David Jayne.= History of diplomacy in the international
development of Europe, v. 1. **$5. Longmans.

  “But what is much more striking is the industry, the insight, and the
  thoroughness with which, on the whole, even in its vast introductory
  field, he has acquainted himself, as to all points cardinal to his
  theme, with the best and the latest of the teeming literature of his
  subject. As for petty slips ... they are exceptionally few.” George L.
  Burr.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 358. Ja. ’06. 1150w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The misfortune of the volume is, in short, that it lacks a true
  perspective. If, however, the work be considered as merely a new
  general history, on the international side, it has many excellent
  features, being very well written, clear, accurate and even
  entertaining, while the source references at the end of each chapter,
  the lists of treaties, the maps, and a comprehensive index render it a
  valuable reference work.” E. D. Adams.

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 248. Ja. ’06. 570w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “On the whole the book has the qualities of a competent American work,
  being well written, but a little dull, very dependent on European
  scholarship, and lacking in freshness.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 334. S. 9. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “It is valuable, however, for bringing into one view the larger facts
  of the period treated, and emphasizing their influence upon the growth
  of national states.” David Y. Thomas.

      + =Dial.= 40: 9. Ja. 1, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “A word of praise is due to the bibliographies which are appended to
  each chapter, and to the regnal tables, maps, and index.” H. W. C.
  Davis.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 344. Ap. ’06. 920w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Lincoln the lawyer. **$2. Century.

  The author believes that in the vast amount of material on the life of
  Abraham Lincoln too little can be found which sums up the great
  President’s legal career. So this sketch starts with Lincoln’s
  mythical birthright to the law, locates the real source of his
  professional aspirations, follows him through his workshop
  apprenticeship to his admission to the bar, and on, step by step, to
  the presidency. The whole discussion particularizes the stages of
  legal growth that is usually assumed in the presentation of Lincoln
  the statesman.

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  “Is, on the whole, something of a contribution to the Lincolniana
  already so vast.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.

  “Mr. Hill has made a distinct contribution to Lincoln biography. By
  this we mean a contribution of original material, not a new
  interpretation, or new presentation, of material already in
  existence.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 70w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 60w.

  “No layman—not to mention the lawyer—can fail to be interested by
  evidence so carefully sifted and a story so well told. Indeed, many
  parts of the book have almost the value of original documents.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 459. N. 29, ’06. 260w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 841. D. 1, ’06. 520w.

  “Mr. Hill writes for laymen, in a clear, simple, and non-professional
  style, and has made an interesting as well as valuable volume. He has
  done his work so well that we regret that he has not done it better.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 628. N. 10, ’06. 480w.

  “A real contribution to history. Mr. Hill’s researches have brought to
  light a vast amount of interesting data concerning the bench and bar
  of Illinois in Lincoln’s time.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 180w.


=Hill, G. Francis.= Historical Greek coins. **$2.50. Macmillan.

  A sidelight on Greek history. It is “not a popular work in the broad
  sense of the term. It is rather a handbook to the most interesting
  items in the British museum.... The material in the introduction is
  naturally encyclopedic.... It presupposes a general knowledge of
  numismatics on the part of the reader, which is only to be gathered
  from the present volume by careful perusal. The coins are taken up one
  by one—in many cases most excellently reproduced in half-tone—and
  studied from the point of view of their material, pictures, and
  inscriptions, their historical period being described in such a way as
  to bring its customs and manners vividly before the reader.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

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  “The selection of documents can be criticised, of course, both for its
  inclusions and its omissions. But it is quite sufficiently
  representative to serve as an introduction to the use of numismatic
  evidence in historical study, which we take to be the main object of
  the book.” D. G. Hogarth.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 547. Jl. ’06. 700w.

  “The author is the most competent that could be found in this country.
  If we think that, written on a somewhat different plan, it might have
  been more valuable, we hasten to admit that its actual value is very
  great. It will widen the outlook of every historical student who
  consults it.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 880w.

  “Here and there in the volume we find passages containing information
  which long ago should have been employed as footnotes to history.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 606. S. 29, ’06. 520w.

  “The reader will find most of the great problems of Greek numismatics
  adequately discussed, with a laudable terseness and much sound
  judgment.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 400. S. 29. ’06. 810w.

  “Mr. Hill has a way of making his learning attractive.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.


=Hill, George Francis.= Pisanello. *$2. Scribner.

  “Mr. Hill paints his portrait and interprets his art with a skill
  worthy of the theme.” Royal Cortissoz.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 281. F. ’06. 190w.

  “Pisanello, the painter and the medalist, together with his brother
  workers upon the little reliefs, have been comprehended here in a
  distinct and lucid manner.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 50w.


=Hill, Headon, pseud. (Francis Edward Grainger.)= One who saw. $1.50.
Victoria press (Stitt pub. co.).

  There is a mystery in this story which “hovers around a haunted tower.
  The deus ex machina is a small boy with a cockney accent, a bona fide
  burglar (with a jimmy that he calls a James,) for a father, and a
  remarkable facility for climbing up precipices and other apparently
  impossible places, a facility, by the bye, which stands everybody in
  the book in good stead before the end is reached. Of course, the hero
  does nothing but pose and bluster. Of course, the heroine looks
  beautiful and suffers patiently, like the ‘hangel’ that she is to the
  small Tommy. And, of course, the small Tommy in question is, as anyone
  with half an imagination could guess, ‘The one who saw.’” (N. Y.
  Times.)

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        =Ath.= 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1. 300w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 107. F. 17, ’06. 230w.


=Hill, Janet McKenzie (Mrs. Benjamin M. Hill).= Up-to-date waitress.
**$1.50. Little.

  Mrs. Hill, editor of the Boston cooking-school magazine, says “This
  book is intended as a guide to what may be called good, perhaps ideal,
  service for waitresses under all circumstances, and not as a set of
  hard and fast rules from which there is no appeal.” It gives complete
  information on the care of the dining room, the arrangement of the
  table, the serving of food, and the preparing of certain dishes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It should be in every household.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 155. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.

  “It is a most useful and interesting volume. The mistress of the house
  cannot afford to be without it.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 318. My. 19. ’06. 220w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 531. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.


=Hill, Mabel.= Lessons for junior citizens. 50c. Ginn.

  A little text-book in civics which aims to arouse children to take an
  intelligent interest in the activities of their local government. Each
  chapter contains a short story concerning some municipal or political
  function, such as, the police department, board of health, fire
  department, school system, park commission, immigration, and
  naturalization, etc. Each chapter is followed by a series of questions
  which fit the book for school use.


=Hill, Sarah C.= Cook book for nurses. *75c. Whitcomb & B.

  A collection of recipes in a condensed form which will prove valuable
  to nurses and all those who wish to prepare proper food for the sick.
  Various rules for fluid diet, soft or convalescent diet, special diets
  and formulae for infant feeding are given while blank leaves are left
  for additional recipes.


=Hind, Charles Lewis.= Education of the artist. $2.50. Macmillan.

  “How Claude Williams Shaw was educated in art is set forth in Mr.
  Hind’s volume. It tells how, at the age of thirty-three, certain
  persistent glimmerings of a suspicion that life is a larger tapestry
  than the pattern woven by the author of ‘Self-help’ broke into flame;
  how that flame was fanned by an artist who crossed his path; how
  casting about for a way to express his temperament, he decided upon
  painting; how he studied art in Cornwall and in the Paris studios; how
  he traveled through Italy, Austria, Germany, and Belgium, studying the
  pictures of the world in pursuit of his art education; and how in the
  end of the true awakening of his temperament began, and he discovered
  that his education was but beginning.”

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  “The public which delights in his writing will be just the public that
  can only pretend to admire the artists of his choice.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 372. S. 29. 1560w.

  “Is the record of the impressions of an alert, sensitive, and
  cultivated, if rather capricious, taste. We shall find no guide-book
  information, nor quotations from other people; the judgments are
  independent and personal.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 336. S. 28, ’06. 760w.

  “These make pleasant, if not especially profitable reading.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 446. N. 22, ’06. 330w.

  “The book may not interest the serious student; to the beginner it
  should be a kind of Bodley book in art.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 100w.


=Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A. Hinkson).= Dick Pentreath.
†$1.25. McClurg.

  Dick Pentreath, plain gentleman, pursues his way among the
  commonplaces of life buoyantly enough until on the eve of his marriage
  a foolish drinking bout changes the course of true love. Dorothea
  scorns him, and in his anger he rushes headlong into a union with an
  ill-bred woman who brings him shame and humiliation. Had Dick but
  yielded even to the instinct of his dog Sancho who estimated Susan
  unerringly, the mistake would have been averted. His burden is
  lightened now and then by the kindly encouragement of his sister
  confessor Lady Stella, and by the ready devotion of faithful Sancho.
  The journey which “bleached Dick Pentreath white” does finally end in
  lovers meeting.

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  “A story of more substance and a wider range of interest than we
  remember in any of this author’s previous novels, and much better
  written.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1201. N. 18, ’05. 330w.

  “The author can do better than this.”

      – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 829. D. 16. 90w.

  “Everything about the novel is slip-shod.”

      – =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 130w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 270w.

  “It is not equal in charm to many of the novels which Miss Tynan has
  recently given us.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 304. F. 24, ’06. 120w.


=Hishida, Seiji G.= International position of Japan as a great power.
(Columbia univ. press studies in history, economics and public law. v.
24, no. 3.) *$2.50. Macmillan.

  “Dr. Seiji G. Hishida carefully traces Japan’s historic policy in
  dealing with foreign nations. Incidentally he makes frequent reference
  to the diplomatic and commercial history of Europe and America, to the
  principles of international and other law, as well as to certain
  phases of economics and sociology, in order to elucidate with
  scientific precision the relations between the Orient and the
  Occident.... After relating the history of ancient and modern Japan,
  Dr. Hishida describes the Empire’s definite entry into the comity of
  nations, the Russo-Japanese rivalry in Korea, the various struggles of
  the great Powers in China, the Boxer rebellion, and the Russo-Japanese
  war. An appendix appropriately contains the text of the Russo-Japanese
  and Anglo-Japanese treaties.”—Outlook.

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        =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 189. O. ’06. 80w.

  “Mr. Hishida’s work is a thoroughly creditable performance. Were it
  not for the fact that it lacks an index it would serve as a compact
  reference book on the international history of Japan, China and
  Korea.” Frederick C. Hicks.

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 247. S. ’06. 1180w.

  “Exhibits the most ambitious effort yet put forth by an Oriental to
  master the facts and philosophy of Western politics in their latest
  aspects. It contains a mass of general Japanese history, industriously
  gathered and clearly arranged, much of it not generally known, but
  which every American who takes an interest in our international
  relations should be familiar with.” George R. Bishop.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 240. Ap. 14, ’06. 2540w.

  “Dr. Hishida’s volume has distinct value for students of history and
  politics.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 618. Mr. 17, ’06. 340w.

  Historians’ history of the world; ed. by H: Smith Williams. $72.
  Outlook.

  “The index ... seems to have been prepared with intelligence and
  care.” E. G. Bourne.

  + + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 430. Ja. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 25.)

  “The plan and execution betray the uninitiated, and notwithstanding
  the literary ability of the author, the book serves as a good evidence
  that a history of Egypt can be written only by an Egyptologist, at
  least at the present time. These illustrations are, perhaps, the most
  objectionable feature of the well-intending book.” W. Max Muller.

    – – =Bib. World.= 27: 292. Ap. ’06. 1390w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 2.)

  “On the whole ... gives a fair picture of Babylonian and Assyrian life
  and culture. In treating of the religion of the Babylonians, the
  editors have overlooked the latest and best work.” George A. Barton.

    + – =Bib. World.= 27: 295. Ap. ’06. 1050w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 3.)

  “The difficulties met by the editor in fitting together his various
  sources must have been enormous. That he has not succeeded fully in
  overcoming the difficulties will be clear on examination. There are
  too many typographical errors in the work; the references which are
  intended to give the reader knowledge of the sources of the work are
  often too indefinite.” Henry Preserved Smith.

  + – – =Bib. World.= 27: 298. Ap. ’06. 1610w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 4.)

  “Most of its defects are due to the attempt to make a consistent story
  by piecing it together from the works of authors who wrote from
  different standpoints and in different times or ages, some of them
  cautious and discriminating, others credulous and uncritical.” J. F.
  McCurdy.

    – + =Bib. World.= 27: 301. Ap. ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 5.)

  “The chief fault of the general treatment is that in the nomenclature
  no distinction is drawn between districts or countries or races and
  peoples.” J. F. McCurdy.

    – + =Bib. World.= 27: 302. Ap. ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 6.)

  “On the whole, however, one not a specialist would get from this work
  an interesting and tolerably correct picture of the history and life
  of these ancient lands.” George A. Barton

      + =Bib. World.= 27: 297. Ap. ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 7.)

  “The method of compilation employed ... is its least desirable
  feature. The scale of the work is in the main well proportioned. It is
  no exaggeration to say that these volumes devoted to England and the
  United States represent the scholarship of half a century ago.” Edward
  Fuller.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 86. Mr. ’06. 2140w.


=Hobbs, Roe Raymond.= Court of Pilate, a story of Jerusalem in the days
of Christ. $1.50. Fenno.

  The love of Cestus, the young centurion for the beautiful Jewess,
  Myra, and the intrigues of the unscrupulous Paulina, who is high in
  favor at the court of the Roman Procurator of Jerusalem, and who is
  determined to win Cestus at any cost, form the main plot of this story
  but into it are woven accounts of the licentious life at the court of
  the governor, stirring scenes or the clash of Jew and Roman,
  engendered by a fierce race hatred that led to the crucifixion of the
  Messiah, and detailed pictures of barracks, prison, cottage, and
  market place.

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 150w.


=Hobbs, Roe Raymond.= Gates of flame. $1.50. Neale.

  An innocent man is accused and convicted of a crime thru a chain of
  circumstantial evidence. The problems that this sort of legal blunder
  gives rise to are met and handled for general enlightenment while the
  story interest is maintained in the prosecuting attorney’s conflict
  between his duties to the state and his love for the sister of the
  accused man.


=Hobbs, Roe Raymond.= Zaos: a novel. $1.50. Neale.

  Reincarnation is the theme of this story. Hal Raolin, a Harvard
  student, recognizes himself as having lived in Egypt six thousand
  years ago as Phyros, commander of the king’s guards, and the lover of
  Zaos, “the beloved of Thebes.” In a trance state he lives over events
  that marked the tragic course of his life. His vision calls him to
  Egypt whither he goes and where strange adventures befall him.


=Hobhouse, L. T.= Democracy and reaction. $1.50. Putnam.

  “We cannot speak too highly of this excellent piece of work. The
  present treatise will not suffer in comparison with the best writing
  done in England.” John Cummings.

  + + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 181. Mr. ’06. 1350w.


=Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney, and Hammond, John Lawrence Le Breton.=
Lord Hobhouse: a memoir. *$4. Longmans.

  The biography of a conscientious public servant who “was the
  incarnation of the intelligent Liberalism of 1850 to 1870.” (Nation.)
  His official career began with his appointment as a Charity
  commissioner in 1866, and ended with his retirement from the Judicial
  committee of the Privy council in 1901. For the remainder of his life
  municipal affairs occupied his attention. “There is scarcely a stroke
  of humor in the book from one end to the other, and scarcely a touch
  of pathos.” (Spec.) “But it has value for those who care for the kind
  of work in which Lord Hobhouse was engaged.” (Sat. R.)

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  Reviewed by George M. Wrong.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 141. O. ’06. 770w.

  “Compact and eloquent memoir.”

      + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 858. D. 23. 960w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 6. Ja. 5, ’06. 840w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 1650w.

  “It proves substantial reading of a not very exciting kind.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 210. F. 17, ’06. 220w.

  “We read the story of his life with respect, and even admiration, so
  steady and effective a worker was he, but with little sympathy or
  stirring of heart.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 386. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.


=Hobson, Robert L.= Porcelain, Oriental, Continental and British.
**$3.50. Dutton.

  A book whose object is “to give in inexpensive form all the facts a
  collector needs, with as many practical hints as can be compressed in
  a general work of portable size.” He deals with the porcelains of all
  countries showing that paste, glaze and decoration are surer guides in
  classification than the manufacturer’s mark. The work is handsomely
  illustrated.

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  “The chapters on Oriental porcelain will be of special service to the
  amateur, and the illustrations are to be commended, because they are
  chosen, not as supurb specimens, but as typical pieces.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 520. Ag. 30, ’06. 490w.

  “Notwithstanding the great dimensions which ceramic literature has now
  assumed, there is, so far as we are aware, no published work which
  quite answers the purpose which this ‘handy book of reference for
  collectors’ is intended to serve.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 29: 273. S. ’06. 180w.

  “There is a loss of practical usefulness in the failure to study wares
  of recent design and manufacture. What is given in the book is
  generally admirable.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 106. Ag. 2, ’06. 1080w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 369. Je. 2, ’06. 310w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 460. Jl. 21, ’06. 400w.

  “His book accomplishes a great deal in a small space for the education
  of the unlearned and untutored.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 230w.

  “If there are a few points open to criticism in the pages under
  review, notably in connexion with the early employment of bone-ash in
  English soft porcelain, still the ceramic collector and connoisseur
  who desires to possess a trustworthy guide in a single volume of
  moderate dimensions and price, ought to be thankful to Mr. Hobson.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 519. O. 27, ’06. 1200w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 795. My. 19, ’06 50w.


=Hodges, George.= Happy family. **75c. Crowell.

  The very chapter headings of Dean Hodges’ book suggest the practical
  manner of treatment; “The business of being a wife,” “The business of
  being a mother,” and “The business of being a father.” The essential
  qualities and characteristics to be fostered in the home are
  enumerated so humorously that even the reader “hard hit” will smile
  and resolve to reform.


=Hodges, Rev. George, and Reichert, John.= Administration of an
institutional church: a detailed account of the operation of St.
George’s parish, in the city of New York; with introds. by President
Roosevelt, Bishop Potter, and Dr. Rainsford. *$3. Harper.

  In outlining the management and methods of the parish of St. George’s
  church, the authors make record of a great sociological as well as
  spiritual movement. The institutional church of which Dr. Rainsford
  has been the chief organizer and promulgator has been brought to the
  busy working life of the city of New York. The organization and the
  elements that vitalize it stand for the best things in human progress.


=Hodgson, Rev. Abraham Percival.= Thoughts for the King’s children.
*75c. Meth. bk.

  Fifty-two short talks to children on scriptural texts. It is designed
  as a help to all workers among children, leaders in young people’s
  societies and Sabbath school teachers.


=Hodgson, Geraldine.= Primitive Christian education. *$1.50. Scribner.

  Miss Hodgson’s “main purpose is to prove the falseness of the
  statement, often made in exaggerated language, that the Christian
  fathers were enemies of education, and to show, by illustrative
  extracts from the writings of representative teachers of the early
  church, what were really their methods and the character of their
  educational work. A sketch of Graeco-Roman education, as given in the
  schools of the Roman empire, is followed by an account of the
  catechetical system of the fathers. Separate chapters are devoted to
  St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Clement of Alexandria, and St. Jerome. The
  attitude of the Christian teachers to pagan learning is examined, and
  their methods are set forth and justified.” Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 20w.

  “She has searched the sources diligently, but not always used them
  critically, nor constructed from her mass of material a consistent and
  orderly edifice of fact.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 937. O. 18, ’06. 110w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 549. O. 20, ’06. 310w.

  “Miss Hodgson has brought together some interesting and suggestive
  passages, which any student of teaching would gain by reading, and she
  has given pleasant glimpses by the way of the human side of the early
  Christian society.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 126. Ap. 6, ’06. 670w.

  “Miss Hodgson has shed light on a subject imperfectly known.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 44. My. 3, ’06. 110w.

  “On account of its polemical spirit, the book is not very conclusive
  in its argument, and the material, of which there is an abundance, is
  not well organized.”

      + =Yale R.= 15: 337. N. ’06. 130w.


=Hodgson, John Evan, and Eaton, Frederick A.= Royal academy and its
members, 1768–1830. *$5. Scribner

  Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 272. F. ’06. 440w.


=Hoffding, Harald.= Philosophy of religion. *$3. Macmillan.

  The main thesis of Dr. Höffding’s work is that the essence of religion
  consists in a belief in the “conservatism of value.” The subject is
  divided into three parts—epistemological, psychological, and ethical.
  His aim is to treat all of the essential aspects of the religious
  problem “not only with the intellectual interest which cannot fail to
  be excited by so great and comprehensive a subject-matter, but also in
  the frame of mind evoked by the consciousness that he has here before
  him a form of spiritual life in which, for centuries long, the human
  race has stored up its deepest and innermost experiences.”

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  “As compared with the highly concentrated ‘Problems of philosophy,’
  where we never for a moment lose sight of the main issue, this book
  presents a tangled skein. It needs not merely a bold man, but also a
  wise one, to grasp as Prof. Höffding grasps, at the sense of the whole
  and of the parts together—to do justice as he seeks to do, and does at
  once to religion and to the religions.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 569. My. 11. 2140w.

  “There is a personal note which lifts the book above the level of
  professional treatises on philosophy. He speaks as a man to men, and
  his book claims the respectful attention of all who are prepared to
  discuss seriously and without prejudice the ultimate questions of
  human thought.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 286. Ag. 24, ’06. 2630w.

  “A comparison of the translation with a considerable portion of the
  German text shows the rendering to be reasonably correct. As is apt to
  be the case, however, the style does not escape the influence of the
  original. The index which the translator has supplied is a valuable
  addition to the book.” F. C. French.

  + + – =Philos. R.= 15: 554. S. ’06. 420w.


=Hoffding, Harald.= Problems of philosophy; tr. by Galen M. Fisher; with
preface by W. James. *$1. Macmillan.

  “The work contains but four chapters, and they deal, respectively,
  with the problems of consciousness, knowledge, being and values—the
  ethical and religious problems being comprised in the latter. The
  author seeks to resolve these four into one, the problem of
  continuity, and in so doing to show their fundamental interdependence.
  At the same time, the various continuities are defined not as
  absolutes of existence, but as ideals; they are not philosophical
  fact, but philosophical aim.”—Bookm.

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  “Since it is so compact and profound, will be of more service as a
  résumé of philosophic theory for advanced students than as an
  introduction for beginners.” George B. Foster.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 370. Ap. ’06. 380w.

  “‘Small and precious’ ... is the verdict which every lover of
  philosophy will pass on this book.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 441. Ap. 14. 2650w.

  “The book is brief, clear, and concise.” H. B. Alexander.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 526. Ja. ’06. 350w.

  “An abstract discussion of abstract principles, his style carries him
  beyond the possibility of accompaniment by the layman.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “The most general criticism, however ... will be that the compass of
  the work is so restricted. The translation ... is well done.” A. C.
  Armstrong.

  + + – =J. Philos.= 3: 77. F. 1, ’06. 920w.

  “This little book ... is strong meat for beginners, and needs the
  expository preface supplied by Professor James. To digest its
  condensed thought, conveyed in abstract and technical form, this will
  be serviceable as pepsin even to some who are not babes in the
  philosophy.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 891. D. 9. ’05. 180w.

  “Acquaintance with the subject is necessary to appreciate its
  argument, which is often in technical form. The translation is
  apparently ‘faithful, if not elegant,’ as the preface says. An
  occasional roughness in its style may be pardoned for the sake of its
  conciseness.” Edmund H. Hollands.

    + – =Philos. R.= 15: 553. S. ’06. 830w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 70w.


=Holbrook, Richard Thayer=, tr. Farce of Master Pierre Patelin, composed
by an unknown author about 1469 A. D. **$2. Houghton.

  “The first English version of a curious English drama, written about
  1469, and made from the editor’s manuscript copy of the only extant
  exemplar of the Lyons edition, printed about 1486. There is also but
  one copy known of an edition of about 1489, and the present version is
  illustrated with fac-similes of the quaint woodcuts in that edition.
  No earlier samples of these old farces have come down to our day. This
  play was wonderfully popular, and attained a fame unparallelled in the
  history of the early stage and seldom equalled since. All students of
  the drama will be interested in it.”—Critic.

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  “His book is a fine specimen of the scholarship of his country. The
  translation is, like the original, idiomatic and rollicking. Its
  author catches the lights and shades; he sees and renders all the
  humour. He is, at times, it is true a little stilted.”

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 158. F. 17, ’06. 1010w.

        =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 100w.

      + =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 40w.

  “The translator has well accomplished a difficult task.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 146. F. 15, ’06. 440w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 391. Mr. 10, ’06. 250w.


=Holbrooke, George O.= Verses. $1. Broadway pub.

  The humanitarian note is strong in these poems, which give to life at
  its worst hope, altho there is a touch of fatalism, and give to the
  reader picturesque visions of the New York poor. There are also verses
  which tell of a pretty deed done by Lafayette; of the dazed return of
  Knickerbocker to his old haunts; and there are songs of other times
  and other places.


=Holder, Charles Frederick.= Life in the open; sport with rod, gun,
horse and hound in southern California. **$3.50. Putnam.

  “A spirited account of the hunt for hare, wolf, lynx, and fox in the
  foothills of the Sierra Madre, and of the deer, bighorn, and mountain
  lion amid the crags and precipices of the Southern Sierras.... A
  number of pages are devoted to the varied sport which the angler finds
  with tuna, black sea-bass, and yellowtail, with deep-sea trolling and
  still-angling off the shores of Southern California and its adjacent
  islands, and with the trout of the clear mountain streams of the Coast
  range and of the high Sierras. The work is superbly illustrated with
  many reproductions from photographs of scenery, the old missions of
  California, and fishing scenes about Avalo and the famous Santa
  Catalina island.”—Dial.

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  “The weak points of the book, at any rate for a European reader, are
  that too minute topographical detail is tacked on to some of the
  chapters, which consequently have rather the effect of a guide book
  without maps; and the use of local terms which are not generally
  understood.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 590w.

  “The charm of the work lies in its spirited and enthusiastic
  appreciation of out-of-door life, of the possibilities of the
  enjoyment of nature, even though one go a-hunting or a-fishing.”
  Charles Atwood Kofoid.

      + =Dial.= 40: 357. Je. 1, ’06. 320w.

  “Among the books of the season on open air sports, Holder’s ‘Life in
  the open’ is foremost on account of its typographical beauty,
  comprehensiveness and practicality.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1369. Je. 7, ’06. 230w.

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.

  “Will take hold of the book-lover at once, regardless of contents; but
  it would be a pretty exacting reader who could feel any material
  disappointment after its perusal.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 16. Jl. 5, ’06. 530w.

  “We have never read anything that gave so attractive a description of
  any country.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 250w.


=Holder, Charles Frederick.= Log of a sea angler; sport and adventures
in many seas with spear and rod. **$1.50. Houghton.

  One portion of Mr. Holder’s book is devoted to angling adventures
  along the Florida keys, the other portion relates to experiences in
  the waters of Lower California, Texas and the New England coasts,
  while the catch ranges from “turtle to shark, from tarpon to gentler
  and lesser spoil.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the main, keen observation of nature’s secrets, and wide
  experience with the sea and its life, are revealed in these anglers’
  tales, and there is an occasional bit of spirited writing as well.”
  Charles Atwood Kofoid.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 356. Je. 1, ’06. 1150w.

  “All in all we shall be surprised if the present season brings forth
  any comparable offerings in the way of outdoor literature.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 16. Jl. 5, ’06. 530w.

  “One man in a thousand is a fishing enthusiast. But the lay brother
  enjoyed the reading immensely, so, in all probability, will the nine
  hundred and ninety-nine.” Stephen Chalmers.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 920w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 100w.


=Hollams, Sir John.= Jottings of an old solicitor. **$3. Dutton.

  Reminiscences which are a record “of a full, prosperous, happy, and
  honourable life, of strenuous years rewarded by success. But it is
  much more. It is a history, unpretentious, truthful, and vivid, of the
  inner working of English law during more than a half a century. The
  first pages introduce one to a state of things, legal and social,
  which has long passed away; to a London with only one railway open,
  that to Greenwich; to days before the penny post, when letters from
  Kent cost seven-pence, with double postage if there was an enclosure;
  when the invariable price of the best oysters was sixpence a dozen and
  the maximum price for a cigar was threepence.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His book is full of interest.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 638. My. 36. 550w.

  “There is much that will appeal to American lawyers and law students
  who are interested in law as a science, particularly as regards
  changes in law procedure and law reform during the last sixty years.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1060. N. 1, ’06. 220w.

  “In the main the book is written in a cheerful, hopeful spirit, with
  ungrudging recognition of the fact that the great changes which the
  author has witnessed have been improvements, though he sees room for
  many amendments. It is a book for solicitors to study. The oldest may
  profit by it, and the youngest draw from it hope and encouragement.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 210. Je. 8, ’06. 950w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 150w.

  “His volume of reminiscences cannot be called important but contains
  many personal anecdotes of an amusing kind.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 60w.

  “The greater part of this volume is too technical in its criticism of
  the system of judicial procedure to appeal to any but members of the
  profession.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 208. Ag. 18, ’06. 1050w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 333. S. 8, ’06. 240w.


=Holland, Clive.= Warwickshire, painted by Frederick Whitehead,
described by Clive Holland. *$6. Macmillan.

  “Kenilworth, Coventry, Stratford-on-Avon, Rugby, Warwick Castle,
  Birmingham—these are some of the names that catch the eye as one
  glances at the sketch-map of the large, handsome volume on
  ‘Warwickshire,’ and suggest to the most casual reader the wealth of
  historical, literary and architectural material at the disposal of the
  author and artist. Good use has been made of it and ... there are 75
  full-page color-type prints from water-color sketches.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Whitehead ... is at his best in his broader sketches, where his
  vigorous colour touches atone for the weakness of his draughtsmanship,
  and atmosphere is not lost by the over-elaboration of unimportant
  details. Mr. Clive Holland says a great deal about Warwickshire,
  though very little that has not been said sufficiently before.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 163. Ag. 18, ’06. 420w.

  “The book is full of errors which a little more pains would have
  avoided. We cannot help regretting that the text was not entrusted to
  Mr. Sidney Lee or some other writer who had more first-hand knowledge
  of our central shire.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 233. S. 1. 1710w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 754. S. 27, ’06. 110w.

  “On the whole the ‘Warwickshire’ can be heartily commended as both
  beautiful and entertaining.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 626. O. 6, ’06. 580w.

  “Water-color paintings by Mr. F. Whitehead, may be cordially praised,
  with a special word of commendation for the artist’s restraint in
  color-effects. Mr. Holland knows and loves his subject, and deals with
  both its historic and romantic sides thoroughly and agreeably.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 220w.

  “Mr. Holland has packed his chapters so full of historical dates and
  names of men and things—some of which are not by the way
  unchallengeable—that he has left himself little scope for style or
  reflection.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 212, Ag. 18, ’06. 130w.

  “The letterpress is in its way as pleasing as the pictures.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 174. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.


=Holland, Clive.= Wessex; painted by Walter Tyndale; described by Clive
Holland. *$6. Macmillan.

  The Wessex of Mr. Hardy’s novels furnishes the material for Mr.
  Tyndale’s reproduced paintings. “His paintings are landscapes—glimpses
  of green spring with apple blossoms on the hills; golden summer
  meadows, with the willows and rushes and the quiet winding stream;
  autumn on the moors all red and purple; vistas of country roads with
  thatched cottages; sweeps of the shore, with the brown shingle and the
  blue-shadowed sea. Or they are views of sleepy old towns, with the
  church tower dominating or rolling hills with the sky beyond and a
  ruin in the middle distance.... The text treats Wessex historically
  and descriptively by towns and hamlets, and landmarks.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Holland has a very thorough grip of his subject, regarded from
  every point of view.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 29: 89. Jl. ’06. 300w.

  “At first view Mr. Clive Holland’s book seems to be of the progeny of
  Hutchins. In the main it is a slight and agreeable infusion of local
  history made for sojourners and passers-by. Mr. Tyndale’s pictures
  merit special mention.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 224. Je. 22, ’06. 500w.

  “The author conjures you with all the glories of the country and
  weaves in the glamour of all its poets and heroes.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 305. My. 12, ’06. 870w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 120w.

  “It is not one of the type of offensive and tedious adulation, and it
  is easy to see that the author feels what he writes about Dorset. He
  knows the country and cares for it.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 562. My. 5, ’06. 110w.


=Holland, Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3d lord.= Further memoirs of the
Whig party, 1807–1821; with some miscellaneous reminiscences; ed. by
Lord Stavordale. *$5. Dutton.

  Lord Holland’s fourth volume of recollections. “The four books or
  chapters under consideration deal with the period of English history
  between 1807 and 1827—years fraught with interest for the student and
  lover of history.... Lord Holland distinctly states that the aim and
  object of his labors were to record any incidents, anecdotes, or
  intrigues which were not generally known at the time, and which were
  unlikely to be found in the recognized histories, periodicals, or
  journals.” (N. Y. Times.)

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  “Though Lord Holland was inclined to take himself and his affairs a
  trifle seriously, his Memoirs are an interesting commentary upon the
  politics of a bygone age, and they may be read with pleasure, if
  seasoned with a pinch of critical salt.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1251. D. 2, ’05. 1190w.

  “[Lord Stavordale’s] introductions to the various chapters supply just
  the right kind of information that Lord Holland’s somewhat discursive
  and allusive style requires by way of commentary.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 791. D. 9. 1550w.

  “Lose much interest because they come after and not before the Creevy
  papers.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1284. My. 31, ’06. 390w.

  “A historical work of uncommon interest.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 180w.

  “It is written with thorough knowledge, and yet with a singular
  absence of vanity, egoism, or self-assertion.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 379. N. 10, ’05. 2230w.

  “Of new information it contains little or nothing; the topics with
  which it is filled can but slightly interest the readers of to-day.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 432. My. 24, ’06. 2450w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 259. Ap. 21, ’06. 270w.

  “Concise historical summaries ... invest the book with greater
  interest for the general reader, without impairing its value as a
  storehouse of information for the historian.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 625. N. 10, ’06. 1940w.

  “Lord Holland’s forte is in giving ‘characters’ of the great men he
  had known.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 100: 657. N. 18, ’05. 1690w.

  “We lay down the book with a feeling of gratitude both to its author
  and its editor.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 818. N. 18, ’05. 1120w.


=Holland, Rupert Sargent.= Count at Harvard: being an account of the
adventures of a young gentleman of fashion at Harvard university. $1.50.
Page.

  The publishers claim that this book is “the most natural and the most
  truthful exposition of average student life yet written.” “Mr. Hall
  relates the count’s doings with sufficient gusto and vividness to make
  the count a living person: we see him playing tennis, playing golf,
  playing base-ball (this game we found a little hard to follow); we are
  with him in the editorial den of the Lampoon; with him as he conducts
  the rehearsal of his opera; in the examination-room, where he behaves
  shamefully; at his late breakfasts and his early morning suppers—and
  his company is always or nearly always pleasant, for he is amusing and
  irresponsible.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 260w.

  “The book is written in good English, and with a careful avoidance of
  Americanisms. The author’s constant efforts at brilliancy of
  conversation occasionally become tiresome.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 150w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 460w.


=Hollander, Jacob H., and Barnett, George E.=, eds. Studies in American
trade unionism. *$2.75. Holt.

  This collection of essays is the result of the detailed study and
  investigation of certain aspects of the trade-union undertaken by
  members of the Economic Seminary of the Johns Hopkins University. The
  eleven essays represent the work of nine investigators and Dr.
  Hollander has provided an excellent introduction. The subjects treated
  are: The government of the typographical union; The structure of the
  cigar makers’ union; The finances of the molders’ union; The minimum
  wage in the machinists’ union; Collective bargaining in the
  typographical union; Employers’ associations in the union;
  Apprenticeship in the building trades; The beneficiary features of the
  railway unions; and the knights of labor and the American federation
  of labor.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 479. Ap. 21. 140w.

  “Without exception the writers show painstaking research and fairness
  of judgment.” R. C. B.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 654. Ag. ’06. 260w.

  “These tasks were faithfully performed and the product is a careful
  and concise presentation of various phases of the labor problem.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 40. Jl. 16, ’06. 240w.

  “An examination of the essays amply justifies the editors in their
  conclusion to publish, and it is sincerely hoped that their plans of
  further work will be fulfilled.” John Cummings.

    + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 454. Jl. ’06. 740w.

  “It really consists of material gathered with much industry, but
  without any attempt at digestion or co-ordination.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 342. O. 12, ’06. 2460w.

  “Excellent studies brought together in this volume.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 280. Ap. 5, ’06. 270w.

  “The book may be recommended to both employers and employes who are
  interested in the topics indicated above, as the treatment is
  impartial and thorough.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 161. Mr. 17, ’06. 830w.

  “The present volume is essentially in the nature of a preliminary
  inquest. But the scope of its contents is so broad, and its writers
  have explored their respective topics with such assiduity, that it may
  unquestioningly be accepted as suggesting a graphic and accurate
  picture of the constitution and activities of typical American labor
  organizations.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 674. N. 17, ’06. 870w.

  “While the chapters give promise of excellent work and fully justify
  the pedagogical plan, we must look for the real contributions to
  economic science and labor problems in the further inquiries of the
  investigators.” John R. Commons.

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 722. D. ’06. 640w.

    + + =Spec.= 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 280w.


=Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.).= Samantha vs. Josiah:
being the story of a borrowed automobile and what came of it. †$1.50.
Funk.

  The cautious Josiah begins by hitching his old mare to the borrowed
  auto, thus combining to his satisfaction “fashion and safety,” but
  later he becomes more reckless and he and his wife meet with many
  characteristic adventures. A large part of the book is taken up with
  lively argument in which Josiah by powerful and amazing reasoning,
  wholly masculine, attempts to refute certain instances of spiritual
  manifestation brought forward by his wife, who has developed a sudden
  and alarming belief in ghosts.

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  “In these latest controversies with Josiah the humor is genuine, and,
  as usual, there is much good sense mingled with it.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 60w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 432. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.


=Holmes, Samuel Jackson.= Biology of the frog. $1.60. Macmillan.

  This book “aims to introduce college students to all phases of
  zoölogical study by means of a careful examination of all aspects of
  the structure and life of the common frog, ‘the martyr of zoölogical
  science.’ The plan of the book is similar to the now classical
  ‘Crayfish: the study of zoölogy,’ by Huxley. It is a text book
  intended to supplement suitable laboratory work. In addition to its
  place in colleges, it will be a useful reference work for the
  biological laboratory in high schools.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Bookm.= 23: 568. Jl. ’06. 140w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.

  “Brought together from reliable sources a large amount of useful
  information. As in most works of the kind, there is too little
  recognition of the fact that, in many respects, the frog like man, is
  a morphologic monstrosity.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 34. Jl. 12, ’06. 290w.

  “The book is one that will prove useful to every teacher of elementary
  biology, and its usefulness would have been enhanced by a
  thorough-going biological treatment and simplification of the
  anatomical details.” F. W. G.

    + – =Nature.= 74: 560. O. 4, ’06. 770w.

  “A most useful addition to our textbooks on the frog.” E. A. A.

  + + – =Science=, n.s. 24: 112. Jl. 27, ’06. 1080w.


=Holt, Hamilton=, ed. Life stories of undistinguished Americans as told
by themselves; with an introd. by Edwin E. Slosson. †$1.50. Pott.

  Sketches of sixteen men and women including “a representative of each
  of the races that go to make up our nationality and of as many
  different industries as possible.” The aim of the book is to show how
  well America’s immigration policy has succeeded, how incomes have been
  used, how the opportunities offered to earn bread and happiness in
  this broad land have been embraced.

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  “The stories are simply told, with evident sincerity, are most
  fascinating reading, and afford the American an excellent opportunity
  to see himself as others see him.” W. I. Thomas.

      + =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 273. S. ’06. 310w.

  “These stories are as interesting as any novel with the additional
  advantage that they are stories of actual life.”

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 176. Jl. ’06. 220w.

  “This volume is a book of rare interest, but it is far more than that.
  Many chapters are in reality sermons of real value for our people,
  rich in lessons that should be of peculiar worth to young men and
  women.”

    + + =Arena.= 36: 320. S. ’06. 6760w.

  “The book is not less entertaining than curious.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 150w.

      + =Dial.= 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 180w.

        =Ind.= 60: 932. Ap. 19, ’06. 140w.

  “As far as I know, Mr Hamilton Holt, in compiling his book, has struck
  an absolutely untrodden oath in the field of literature. I have not
  seen anything so interesting or suggestive for years as it is.”
  Rebecca Harding Davis.

    + + =Ind.= 60: 962. Ap. 26, ’06. 1740w.

  “These are surely ‘human documents’ in the real sense of that term,
  and they have the fascination of such documents.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 1010w.


=Holyoake, George Jacob.= Bygones worth remembering. 2 vols. *$5.
Dutton.

      + =Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Holyoake, George Jacob.= History of cooperation; rev. and completed.
2v. *$5. Dutton.

  “The preface to this revised and complete edition ... is dated
  January, 1906, and before the end of that month the aged author passed
  away.... It consists of the two volumes previously published, the
  first in 1875, the second in 1879, with an addition carrying the story
  down to the present time. Mr. Holyoake has saved the historian all
  trouble with regard to co-operation.”—Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We cannot praise too highly this record, interesting alike to those
  studying the special subject treated and to the general reader.”

  + + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 168. F. 10. 780w.

  “What co-operation has accomplished and what it stands for is brought
  out in the fullest detail in Mr. Holyoake’s history.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 97. Jl. 12, ’06. 580w.

  “His book is a permanent record, the value of which will only be
  increased by time. No one else could have written it with the same
  intimate knowledge and fullness of detail or with the same grasp of
  principle and personal vivacity. The history is indispensable to
  students of sociological questions.”

  + + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 139. Ap. 20, ’06. 810w.

  “Had it not been for Mr. Holyoake, many of the most interesting phases
  of its early progress would, in all probability, have fallen into
  oblivion.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 170. Ag. 23, ’06. 1020w.

  “Co-operation has been tried. Mr. Holyoake’s two volumes give what is
  unquestionably the authoritative history of these experiments.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 809. Ag. 4, ’06. 700w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 110w.


=Home, Andrew.= Boys of Badminster. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  “A thrilling story of boyish escapades.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 281. Ja. ’06. 15w.


=Home, Gordon Cochrane.= Evolution of an English town. *$3.50. Dutton.

  “It should have been entitled ‘The topography and antiquities of
  Pickering.’”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 249. Mr. 22, ’06. 330w.

    + – =Nature.= 73: 538. Ap. 5, ’06. 980w.


=Home, Gordon.= Normandy: The scenery and romance of its ancient towns.
*$3.50. Dutton.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 427. Ap. 7. 120w.


=Hooper, Charles Edward.= Country house: a practical manual of the
planning and construction of the American country home and its
surroundings; il. by E. E Soderholtz and others. **$3. Doubleday.

  “The book is an attempt to save the would-be builder from such
  expensive and annoying preliminaries by giving him a clear idea both
  of the difficulties he should avoid and the beauties he may attain
  to.” (Dial.) It gives helpful suggestions concerning the site, plans
  of construction, inside and outside finish, the style of doors,
  windows, fireplaces, stairways, plumbing, heating lighting,
  ventilation, water supply, and drainage. Hints are also given for
  interior and exterior beautifying which are aided materially by
  numerous illustrations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To people who are not looking forward to building a country home, Mr.
  Hooper’s book will be interesting as showing what has been done in
  that direction in America. Intending builders cannot fail to profit by
  reading the book.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 200. Mr. 16, ’06. 430w.

  “Here is a perfect iconographic encyclopedia of house-building and
  decorating.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 100. F. 1, ’06. 420w.


=Hope, Laurence. (Mrs. Violet Nicholson).= Last poems: translations from
the book of Indian love. **$1.50. Lane.

  “The poems are all concerned with elementary passions. The lament of
  Yasmini, the dancinggirl, for the lover who was unlike all the others;
  the playing of Khristna on his flute; the laments of a young bride who
  is sold to an old King, and of the Queen who is displaced in the
  zenana by a younger rival: the song of the Camping-ground, which is
  the heart of India; the story of how Sher Afzul revenged himself on
  the mistress who had slain his friend; the plaint of the dying Prince
  who must leave his great possessions.... The finest, to our mind, is
  ‘Yasin Khan,’ the story of the yearning which overtakes a King who has
  found his kingdom for the fierce hunted days when he was still in
  pursuit of it.”—Spec.

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  “The stamp of her individuality is on all her work, so indelibly that
  whether it be translated or direct becomes a matter of small
  importance. Something of the spontaneity and music of the earlier
  books is missing, and neither her theme nor its expression was of the
  kind to gain by a more ordered and deliberate method.”

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 802. Ag. 5, ’05. 1190w.

  “These poems are of a piece with the former work of the author of ‘The
  garden of Kama’ and ‘Stars of the Desert.’ In this last book the
  passion is beginning to seem forced, the colour is fading.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 299. S. 2. 260w.

  “Here, we may claim, if anywhere in our modern day, was the true
  inheritor of the Sapphic fervor, of the Sapphic song,—and, shall we
  not add, of the Sapphic catastrophe?” Edith M. Thomas.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 184. F. ’06. 410w.

  “Here is character and force enough, of surprise something, of beauty
  nothing, of suggestion, or (shall we say?) of the suggestive too much.
  It is force misapplied, character muddied at the source.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 4: 267. Ag. 25, ’05. 140w.

  “Likely to stand rather as a slightly dubious ‘human document’ than as
  an addition to the true poetry of passion. Nevertheless, there are in
  it many pieces of unalloyed poetry.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 440w.

  “All are done with a depth of passion and a haunting music which in
  their kind it would be hard to match. The work has nothing of the
  depth and calm of the great masters, but it has none the less the
  living force of poetry.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 391. S. 16, ’05. 480w.


=Hopekirk, Helen=, ed. Seventy Scottish songs. $2.50. Ditson.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 60w.

  “The editor has had a difficult task and has performed it well. The
  introduction she has written to this volume is a sympathetic
  interpretation of Scottish music.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 110w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 100w.


=Hopkins, Herbert Müller.= Mayor of Warwick. †$1.50. Houghton.

  The college town of Warwick with its campus atmosphere forms the
  setting of this story of a young college professor, of the bishop’s
  daughter and of the Mayor of Warwick, an ex-base ball player and
  street car conductor, who strives to live up to the ideal set for him
  by the wife who has stooped to a secret marriage with him but refuses
  to acknowledge it until he rises to her level. His partial success and
  partial failure form the burden of this story in which his strength
  and weakness are contrasted, and when in the end he gives the young
  professor and the bishop’s daughter their happiness one cannot but be
  sorry for him and for the girl he lost—the bishop’s pretty house-maid.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Hopkins may draw strongly individualised portraits of professors
  and ecclesiastics, but when it comes to the street-car conductors and
  ward politicians he also suggests comparison to the composite
  photograph.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 118. O. ’06. 480w.

  “The chief defect will be found, we think, in the character of the
  bishop’s daughter.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 210w.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

      – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 240w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 218. Jl. 26, ’06. 200w.

  “There are even touches of satire and moments of insight, but it is
  best to call it as a whole a pedestrian reflective novel built of
  melodramatic material.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 810w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 292. My. 5, ’06. 300w.

  “The manner of the book in spite of the drift of the matter to
  politics and the leaping of social barriers, is dignified to the point
  of being academic.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 210w.

  “This story has not sufficient charm or brilliancy in the telling to
  make the plot and characters seem probable.”

      – =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 160w.


=Hopkins, Nevil Monroe.= Experimental electro-chemistry. *$3. Van
Nostrand.

  An introductory chapter discusses the important researches
  and discoveries which bear upon the theories and laws of
  electro-chemistry, then follows the text that aims to provide a
  lecture room and laboratory guide to the subject. There are ample
  experimental evidences for the theories advanced including exercises
  in preparing electrolytic compounds and in isolating metals.

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  “We note that much care has been taken over the illustrations of which
  there are a hundred and thirty. It is disappointing to find that this
  standard of excellence has not been maintained in the text.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 518. Ap. 28. 570w.

  “We advise those interested in electro-chemistry and also those who do
  not believe in it—and there are a goodly few—to read this book.” F. M.
  P.

    + + =Nature.= 74: sup. 6. My. 3, ’06. 1010w.

  “The author has endeavored ‘to produce a book that will prove useful
  both in the lecture room and in the laboratory,’ and the reviewer
  thinks that he has succeeded.” Edgar F. Smith.

    + + =Science=, n.s. 23: 812. My. 25, ’06. 460w.


=Hopkins, William John.= The clammer. †$1.25. Houghton.

  “Only an uneventful love story, with a man of solitary habits, who
  digs clams because it amuses him and makes a garden, and keeps clear
  of his neighbors, a charmingly drawn girl, a rich father who is not
  spoiled, and a proud mother who is humanized by the birth of a
  grandchild. There is a good deal of landscape and sky and sea in the
  narrative, which depends for its charm largely on atmosphere and
  sentiment.”—Outlook.

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  “His is a diction which, one is tempted to believe, is born of William
  John Hopkins, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the various authors of the
  Bible. It is correct without being prim, well-bred but not distant,
  and injected with the whimsical humor which never laughs, but has eyes
  that twinkle.” Stephen Chalmers.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 350w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + – =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “Much might be said in praise of its quiet rather old-fashioned
  style—leisurely, meditative, and well-bred. There is no plot.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.

  “In spite of its verbal facility it must be admitted that there is
  little evidence in Mr. Hopkins’ book of an ability to produce real
  fiction.”

      – =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 240w.


=Hopper, James.= Caybigan. †$1.50. McClure.

  Out of Mr. Hopper’s experience while teaching in the Philippines with
  an imagination riotously at work he has woven an impressionist’s group
  of tales. Among them are the “Failure,” “the story of a human
  derelict, whom alcohol and the physical and moral miasma of the
  tropics have done their best to destroy.” (Bookm.); and “A jest of the
  gods,” a story of a man who, at the height of his manhood strength, is
  stricken by a baffling disease which leaves him bald, and without
  brows and lashes.

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  “There is a strange, exotic, almost morbid strength in these stories.
  In vividness and tensity they are on a par with the shorter stories of
  Joseph Conrad, whose style his own often suggests; a few of them have
  almost the quality of some of Kipling’s. ‘Plain tales from the
  hills.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 246. N. ’06. 940w.

  “These tales, which Mr. Hopper has frankly offered for hasty perusal,
  endure very well a second reading.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 230w.

  “It seems likely that the ‘Caybigan’ stories will serve two excellent
  purposes. They will entertain and they will promote a better
  understanding among stay-at-home citizens of the real nature of the
  insular Oriental.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 739. N. 10, ’06. 530w.

  “They vary greatly as to merit, but they are all marked by crispness
  and vitality, and they are extremely tender where the writer trusts to
  his own vein.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 110w.


=Hoppin, James Mason.= Reading of Shakespeare. **$1.25. Houghton.

  There are studies of Shakespeare’s life and learning, nature and
  style, following which each play is considered separately.

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  “Under Mr. Hoppin’s title a really good and useful book might have
  been written. On a preliminary glance we light upon suggestions that
  are very encouraging, but not followed up.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 211. Ag. 25. 760w.

  “The book is remarkably well written and easy to read and may be
  recommended as a good introduction to the study of Shakespeare. That
  there are wiser and better books of the same sort goes without
  saying.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 292. My. 5, ’06. 330w.


=Hornaday, William Temple.= Camp fires in the Canadian Rockies. **$3.
Scribner.

  “This is the narrative of a hunting-expedition for game in the
  Canadian Rockies, told with literary appreciation of the marvels
  encountered, and appealing not only to the hunter and sportsman but to
  the general reader as well, by reason of the magnificence and novelty
  of the scenes described.”—Lit. D.

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  “He has written in a careless, happy, holiday vein, which makes
  inspiriting reading.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 530w.

  “As was to be expected, the book abounds in vivid descriptions of wild
  animals; and it gives also many extremely interesting pictures made
  from photographs taken at ranges almost incredibly close.” Wallace
  Rice.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 20w.

  “The work is a notable contribution to the recent literature of
  hunting.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 210w.

  “It is valuable as a contribution to knowledge of the country and its
  natural history.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

    + + =Nation.= 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 450w.

  “Mr. Hornaday is in very close sympathy with nature, abounds in humor,
  writes well, and, best of all, he abhors the ruthless destruction of
  animal life.” Cyrus C. Adams.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 733. N. 10, ’06. 690w.

  “Not a scientific book, but a thoroughly readable account of outdoor
  enjoyment in mountain regions of British Columbia.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 130w.


=Horne, Herman Harrell.= Psychological principles of education: a study
in the science of education. *$1.75. Macmillan.

  A five part work dealing with the subject as follows: Part 1 is
  concerned with the general presuppositions of the science of
  education, being a revision of the author’s discussion of this topic
  at the World’s congress of arts and sciences at St. Louis; Part 2
  treats of intellectual education; Part 3 is concerned exclusively with
  what pertains to ‘educating the mind to feel’; Part 4 deals with the
  function, importance, nature and development of the will; Part 5, the
  concluding division of the book, deals with the problem of the
  religious consciousness, and the legitimate and practical means for
  its development.

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  “The features which do most distinguish its subject matter from that
  of the earlier books are its emphasis upon emotional education and the
  inclusion of a separate section, Part 5, on Religious education, or
  Educating the spirit in man. In this latter the author has given the
  most helpful discussion of the topic within brief compass that has so
  far been written.”

  + + + =Bookm.= 24: 296. N. ’06. 170w.

  “If his title is not taken too literally, if the reader is willing to
  admit the inclusion of ethical and religious considerations, not to be
  too insistent that the treatment indicate one consistent attitude, the
  book is likely to prove profitable and entertaining.” Charles Hughes
  Johnston.

    + – =J. Philos.= 3: 666. N 22, ’06 1540w.

  “Among the various merits of this valuable ‘study in the science of
  education’ is to be reckoned that of literary as well as scientific
  finish.”

  + + + =Outlook.= 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 170w.

  “The style is simple and is easily intelligible to junior and senior
  students in college classes and to advanced students in normal
  schools.” Frederic E. Bolton.

      + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 365. N. 15, ’06. 270w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 100w.


=Hort, Fenton John Anthony.= Village sermons. $1.75. Macmillan.

      + =Spec.= 96: 501. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.


=Horton, George.= Edge of hazard; with pictures by C. M. Relyea. †$1.50.
Bobbs.

  An ex-member of Boston’s smart set finds it “hard to be philosophical
  when a man has just lost his girl, his friends and his money.” He
  accepts an appointment to go to Russia to take care of the American
  trading company’s stores at Stryetensk, Siberia. His adventures which
  include being arrested as a spy, and falling under the spell of women
  spies—Russian and Japanese—are chronicled during the days just
  preceding the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war.

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  “A novel written frankly with no other purpose than to entertain, and
  as such it can be heartily recommended.” Amy C. Rich.

      + =Arena.= 36: 107. Jl. ’06. 270w.

  “If Mr. Horton had intended to parody the style of Archibald Clavering
  Gunter, he would deserve to be congratulated on his success.”
  Frederick Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 284. My. ’06. 340w.

  “An excellent story—for people who merely wish to be amused.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 90w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 297. My. 5, ’06. 400w.


=Hough, Emerson.= Heart’s Desire. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “This is a weakly constructed story. The dialogue is occasionally
  amusing, but generally rather laboured; and the characterisation is
  inhuman and machine-made.”

      – =Ath.= 1905. 2: 890. D. 30. 110w.

  “The author of ‘The girl at the half way house’ will probably not
  repeat with his present book the popular success of ‘The Mississippi
  bubble’ ... but in many ways I like ‘Heart’s Desire’ better.”
  Churchill Williams.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 367. D. ’05. 760w.

  “Mr. Hough has surpassed his best previous efforts for our
  entertainment.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.


=Hough, Emerson.= King of Gee-Whiz; with lyrics by Wilbur D. Nesbit; il.
by Oscar E. Cesare. $1.25. Bobbs.

  All about the adventures of Zuzu and Lulu, twins, in the island of
  Gee-Whiz. One has hair of malazite blue, and the other of corazine
  green,—the results of their father’s chemical experiments. Young
  readers will find their adventures in fairyland captivatingly funny.

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        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, 06. 70w.


=Houghton, Mrs. Louise Seymour.= Hebrew life and thought: being
interpretative studies in the literature of Israel *$1.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.

  “The purpose of these papers ... is not to give forth original ideas,
  but to bring the more or less cultured but unscientific Bible student
  into a hospitable attitude toward the new light that scholarship has
  shed upon the sacred page.” The studies include: The day-book of the
  Most High, Folklore in the Old Testament, The poetry of the Old
  Testament, Heroes and heroism, Eastern light on the story of Elisha,
  Love-stories of Israel, A parable of Divine love, Secular faith, The
  search for spiritual certainty, The Hebrew Utopia, and The law and
  modern society.

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  “The studies will be found suggestive and helpful to the average Bible
  student.”

      + =Bib. World.= 28: 159. Ag. ’06. 60w.

  “We are sure that many people who never go near a Sunday-school would,
  if they were to read this book, turn to the Bible with an unaccustomed
  interest.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 250w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 100w.

  “Its treatment is farthest possible from the conventional discussion
  of biblical books, and will infallibly cause any reader to feel new
  admiration and interest in the Bible.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 120w.


=Houghton, Mrs. Louise Seymour.= Telling Bible stories; with an introd.
by Rev. T. T Munger. **$1.25. Scribner.

  “In a deeper vein Louise Seymour Houghton, in her ‘Telling Bible
  stories,’ sketches the best way of outlining the Old Testament for
  young folks.”—Ind.

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  “The woman already somewhat intelligent in the biblical field, and
  sufficiently open-minded to adapt herself to modern ways of dealing
  with biblical material, will find the book most suggestive. Is a
  valuable contribution to the literature on the religious education of
  children, and it is hoped, will be carefully studied by leaders in
  Sunday-school work, and especially those who are planning graded
  curricula, although there may be difference of opinion as to many of
  her conclusions.”

  + + – =Bib. World.= 28: 348. N. ’06. 470w.

  “It is a pity that so excellent a book has no index.”

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 300w.

  “Her discussion is of wider interest than mere educational guidance.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ’05. 30w.

  “This is a book of high value for all who would bring to fruitage in
  mature years the ‘natural piety’ which is latent in the child.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ’05. 190w.

  “Will be found a most valuable help, and we warmly recommend it.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 791. N. 17, ’06. 170w.


=Houston, Edwin James.= Young prospector. †$1.50. Wilde.

  Harry Maxwell and his friend Ned Cartwright, two alert, ambitious
  boys, go West in search of the gold mine where Harry’s father lost his
  life. The book, aside from being full of adventure illustrates how
  information useful to boys may be worked into attractive form.


=Howard, Bronson.= Kate, a comedy in four acts. †$1.25. Harper.

  The modern marriage question, the barter of soulless men and women for
  great wealth and great names, and the final triumph of love and human
  nature is dealt with in this reading version of Bronsor Howard’s new
  play. In the course of four acts entitled, When marriage is a farce,
  Love and legal documents, Stronger than law or rite, and Which would
  be wife, three mismated couples are re-assorted and all are left
  happier than if Kate had won her coronet. The dialogue is startlingly
  frank and pithy, the characters varied and the plot well worked out.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The play is interesting reading, but carries no conviction with it.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 421. N. 15, ’06. 390w.

  “Except that the four chapters are called ‘acts,’ the book looks quite
  like one of those modern novels which are rich in conversation. The
  effect of the method, which is a new one, is excellent, and no
  confusion arises from the circumstance that the form is not that of
  the prompt book.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 685. O. 20, ’06. 880w.


=Howard, Burt Estes.= German empire. **$2. Macmillan.

  In a discussion which aims “to give a broad view of the German
  government, explaining clearly the main features of the Imperial
  constitution and the salient doctrines of German constitutional law,”
  the author gives us “systematic, accurate, unadorned law.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The title of the book has raised larger expectations than the
  contents will satisfy. Thruout the work there are abundant evidences
  of a full acquaintance with the best German publicists, a careful
  study of the original legal documents and a persistent tho sometimes
  belabored accuracy. As things stand now it must go on our shelves with
  our Bryce, Bodley and Bagehot.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 995. O. 25, ’06. 510w.

  “The book, as a whole, will prove a convenient manual of the subject
  viewed in its strictly constitutional aspect.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 90w.

  “The subject has now been further illuminated in very serious and
  thorough-going fashion by Dr. Howard. Clearly, compactly,
  intelligently, discriminatingly, but not very picturesquely, he
  describes for us the founding of the Empire, the individual States
  which compose it, the position of the Emperor, the Bundesrath, the
  Reichstag as the voice of the German people.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 400w.

  “He has done well what he chose to do, and his readers may be
  confident that they are getting from his book the same impressions of
  the fundamental provisions of the constitution which they would derive
  from the elaborate treatises of von Rönne, Laband, Meyer, Schulze,
  Haenel, Zorn, and the rest.” J. H. R.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 708. D. ’06. 470w.

  “The book should be in the hands of all (and among them are not a few
  newspaper writers) who have a hazy conception of the Kaiser as an
  autocrat who can make war when he pleases, whereas in reality he can
  do nothing of the kind, and of the German people as subjects without
  rights.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 383. D. ’06. 130w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 100w.


=Howard, Clifford. (Simon Arke, pseud.).= Curious facts; interesting and
surprising information regarding the origin of familiar names, words,
sayings and customs. 50c. Penn.

  An analysis of “strange beginnings,” of names—family and geographical
  nicknames—familiar words, sayings and customs. The fact of strangeness
  appears only when original forms are compared with present-day
  meanings and usages.


=Howard, John Hamilton.= In the shadow of the pines: a tale of tidewater
Virginia. $1.25. Meth. bk.

  A tale of the Dismal swamp region which spends its energy in clearing
  up the mystery that shrouds the murder of one of the emissaries of
  Napoleon III.

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  “Might have been a good horror story if he had not been afraid to take
  liberties with his imagination.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 100w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.


=Howard, Timothy Edward.= Musings and memories. 75c. Lakeside press,
Chicago.

  Poetic musings upon such subjects as The bells of Notre Dame; Failure;
  The student; and Indian summer, interspersed with memories of The old
  church; The stricken ash; Halcyon days; Youth; Books, and Kindred
  things.


=Howe, Frederick Clemson.= City: the hope of democracy. **$1.50.
Scribner.

        =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 237. Ja. ’06. 200w.

  “If we except Professor Parsons’ ‘The city for the people’ there is no
  volume with which we are acquainted that is comparable to this work.
  It forms an admirable complement to Professor Parsons’ exhaustive
  storehouse of vital facts.”

  + + + =Arena.= 35: 544. My. ’06. 7010w.

  “It has life, vigor, movement. It is imbued with a healthful optimism.
  The truth is, Mr. Howe’s enthusiasm sometimes runs away with his
  judgment.” Winthrop More Daniels.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 845. Je. ’06. 560w.

  “Within its definite rôle, Dr. Howe’s work adds much strength to the
  literature of reform possibly more to inspiration than to tactics;
  more to suggestion than to guidance.”

    + – =Cath. World.= 82: 827. Mr. ’06. 830w.

  “An invaluable contribution to municipal literature. Seldom does a
  writer so successfully justify an ambitious title; rarely is a
  sentiment, which to many must be a contradiction, so ably defended.”
  Charles Zueblin.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 230. Ap. 1, ’06. 2470w.

  “Every leader in city politics will find facts and arguments in this
  book to stimulate his hope and to pilot his activities.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1342. D. 7. ’05. 1150w.

  “The book is a really noteworthy contribution to a discussion of vital
  significance to all Americans.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 215. F. 10, ’06. 1030w.

        =Nation.= 83: 104. Ag. 2, ’06. 900w.

  “The book can hardly take a high place in scientific literature. It
  can not convince anyone not already inclined to accept its
  conclusions. But there are many in that position, and to these the
  author’s evident sincerity of purpose, and even his determination to
  see only one side of the question, will make a strong appeal.” Alvin
  S. Johnson.

    – + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 341. Je. ’06. 1760w.

        =Spec.= 96: 266. F. 17, ’06. 120w.


=Howells, William Dean.= Certain delightful English towns, with glimpses
of the pleasant country between. **$3. Harper.

  To be led thru Exeter, Bath, Wells, Bristol, Canterbury, Oxford,
  Chester, Malvern, Shrewsbury, Northampton, and the country in between
  seems of itself pleasing but to see it all with Mr. Howell’s eyes, to
  catch the real spirit of each spot, to be shown at a glance the charm
  of each place and to enjoy with him the little personal adventures
  which he met with by the way is truly delightful. And should the
  reader wish to see with his own eyes, four dozen full page
  illustrations bid him look.

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  “The book has the usual charming and idiomatic style of Mr. Howells.”
  Wallace Rice.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “Mr. Howells travels with open eyes and after seeing describes the
  thing seen with a keen regard for the value of an incident and with
  full appreciation of the humorous.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 100w.

  “There is nothing essential missed of the historic or literary
  association of these towns, but what one seems to value even more is
  the suave, humorous observation of ordinary things which gives one the
  sense of the highest reality.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

  “What will endear its pages to every reader is its unfailing humor,
  its nice balancing of the emotions and aesthetic impressions by one on
  whom no charm whether of setting or human association was thrown
  away.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 462. N. 29, ’06. 360w.

  “Another permanent contribution to American letters. Throughout the
  book we find the same genial humor we found so delightful in his
  ‘Italian journeys’, and ‘Their silver wedding journey’; the same
  poetically realistic descriptions of places and people; inimitable
  touches, that bring instantly and vividly the scene or person before
  the mind’s eye.” Madison Cawein.

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 789. D. 1, ’06. 1580w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 70w.


=Howells, William Dean.= London films. **$2.25. Harper.

  “The continual references to America are a blemish to the book as a
  whole. But the book as a whole is delightfully characteristic, and
  when we put it down we are left with a very near understanding of an
  invigorating temperament and a charming personality.”

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 1353. D. 30, ’05. 940w.

  “The author’s style, here as elsewhere, is lucidity itself.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 180w.

  “In fact ‘London films’ is quite the kind of book that we should like
  to see written about ourselves by a foreign sojourner who sensitively
  gathered impressions by the way.”

    + + =Reader.= 7: 226. Ja. ’06. 250w.

  “Some of the most charming commentaries on London life and people are
  to be found in William Dean Howells’ latest reminiscent volume.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 128. Ja. ’06. 90w.


=Howells, William Dean.= Miss Bellard’s inspiration. †$1.50. Harper.

  “Mr. Howells’ whole ability (and in reading ‘all the new novels’ one
  learns the worth of such skill as his) is called forth to show three
  hapless men in three stages of engulfment by affectionate
  boa-constrictors.” Mary Moss.

    – + =Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 110w.


=Howells, William Dean, and Alden, Henry Mills=, eds. Under the sunset.
Harper’s novelettes. †$1. Harper.

  This volume of novelettes includes “The end of the journey,” “The
  sage-brush hen,” “The prophetess of the land of no-smoke,” “A little
  pioneer,” “Back to Indiana,” “The gray chieftain,” “The inn of San
  Jacinto,” “Tio Juan,” and “Jamie the kid.” Mr. Howells says: “In the
  immense geographical range of these admirable stories, we have some
  faint indications of the vastness as well as the richness of the field
  they touch.”

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        =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 60w.

        =Dial.= 41: 21. Jl. 1, ’06. 60w.

  “Many of them exceedingly good, and the variety, within the broad
  limits of the Western localization and inspiration, is strikingly
  wide.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 446. Ag. 11, ’06. 230w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 483. Je. 23, ’06. 40w.


=Hoyt, Arthur Stephen.= Work of preaching. **$1.50. Macmillan.

  Dr. Hoyt, professor of homiletics and sociology in the Auburn
  theological seminary, “claims no original and certain method for the
  making of pulpit orators, but his remarks on the preparation and
  delivery of sermons are sane and practical. He has had especially in
  mind the problem and position of the preacher today, and his book
  might well be read by those who are familiar with the older
  homiletical literature.” (Ind.)

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  “However, it would seem that Dr. Hoyt over-estimates the
  authoritativeness of a scripture text with a present-day congregation
  in a progressive community, and thereby fails to appreciate some of
  the largeness and difficulty of the work of preaching in the present
  generation.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 631. Mr. 15, ’06. 160w.

  “They are free from scholasticism, and sensitive to the demands of the
  present time.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 141. Ja. 20, ’06. 220w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 70w.


=Hubback, J. H., and Hubback, Edith C.= Jane Austen’s sailor brothers:
being the adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G. C. B., Admiral of the
fleet and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen. **$3.50. Lane.

  Jane Austen’s sailor brothers “were both captains in the British navy
  during the Napoleonic period, and the extracts from their logs and
  letters here presented, though of no particular importance, give
  occasional glimpses of conditions at the time of the great war that
  are not without interest. The authors attempted to draw a parallel
  between some passages in Jane Austen’s novels and the actual
  experience of her brothers at sea.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There are frequent slips in respect of technicalities.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 490w.

  “When all is said and done it was written for the Janeans, and they
  will best appreciate it.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 472. My. ’06. 150w.

        =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 621. Jl. ’06. 250w.

  “It has been agreeably put together by its joint authors.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 328. O. 6, ’05. 500w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 261. Mr. 29, ’06. 100w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 1090w.

  “It is simply written and it should be of real interest to all members
  of the Austen family. It is impossible to say that public purpose is
  served by it.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 100: 530. O. 21, ’05. 170w.


=Hubbard, Lindley Murray.= Express of ’76, a chronicle of the town of
York in the war of independence. †$1.50. Little.

  An old journal written in Revolutionary days, by General Hubbard, so
  the author says, forms the basis of this romantic novel of the
  campaign in New York. The scenes are set vividly before us with a
  journal’s own detail and, in following the fortunes of Jonathan
  Hubbard, we see something of Washington, Franklin, Putnam, Burr,
  Hamilton and others who are as well known as the battles in which they
  fought. The mysterious lady Claremont, the little Quaker maid, and
  other maidens, some historic, some semi-historic fill out the plot and
  make this tale a typical war-time romance.

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  “The main interest of the book is the intimate approach the reader may
  have to such men as Washington, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, and others,
  who were destined to become great in their country’s service. They are
  well drawn and carry conviction of their manly reality.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 180w.

  “The story is not imaginative or dramatic, but will interest those who
  enjoy an average presentation of historic material.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 90w.


=Hubbard, Mrs. Sara Anderson (Mrs. James M. Hubbard).= Religion of
cheerfulness; an essay. **50c. McClurg.

  Believing that “a sunny disposition is a boon which confers more
  happiness on its owner and more happiness on those with whom one comes
  in contact, than any other which falls to the lot of a human
  creature,” Mrs. Hubbard preaches the religion of cheerfulness
  convincingly, urging that “as age increases cheerfulness should
  increase.”


=Huber, John Bessner.= Consumption: its relation to man and his
civilization, its prevention and cure. **$3. Lippincott.

  A serious volume with a wide scope. Dr. Huber requires that economic,
  legislative, sociological and humanitarian aid be summoned to
  strengthen the medical forces in fighting the white plague. The author
  addresses both physician and layman.

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  “The author has read widely ... but his own style is so peculiar and
  involved as to make the book difficult to read.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 17. Jl. 7. 400w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 940. O. 18, ’06. 450w.

  “The book is written with spirit and should be widely read. The style
  is a little diffuse, but as a whole this is a good and timely piece of
  work.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 34 Jl. 12, ’06. 130w.

  “A thorough and instructive book, made with infinite pains, putting
  before the reader a sane and broad view of a tremendous problem of
  civilization.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 470. Jl. 28, ’06. 1200w.

  “Dr. Huber’s book, which is literally encyclopædic in scope, seems
  primarily designed for the lay reader.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 377. O. 13, ’06. 2690w.

  “Unlike many works in this field. Dr. Huber’s book will be found
  readable, and even entertaining, from cover to cover.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 130w.

  “Several of the chapters in it would make readable magazine articles,
  but taken as a whole it establishes no pretensions to be considered a
  valuable contribution to the literature of tuberculosis.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. O. 13, ’06. 200w.

  “We recommend Dr. Huber’s book to our readers, though we cannot but
  feel that for practical purposes a much smaller volume would have been
  more useful.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 200w.


=Huddy, Mary E.= Matilda, Countess of Tuscany. $3.50. Herder.

  “Mrs. Huddy’s purpose has evidently been to provide a volume of
  instructive, popular reading, rather than a book for the student.
  Edification, too, is her object; and she finds in the brilliant
  virtues of Matilda, and still more in those of Pope Gregory, ample
  resources to set off the depressing pictures of vice, violence,
  cruelty and greed which the chronicler of this stormy period of
  Italian history is obliged to recall.”—Cath. World.

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  “It certainly is not for the sake of any inferences that she draws
  from it that Mrs. Huddy’s narrative is valuable. She is equally
  lacking in the historic and the philosophic sense.”

    + – =Acad.= 68: 194. Mr. 4, ’05. 1690w.

  “Her own pen is fluent, and her book will be a source of considerable
  pleasure and profit, we have no doubt, to readers who have no
  knowledge of the subject, and are able to put up with or even enjoy,
  sentimental exuberance, misplaced rhetoric, and remarks of an edifying
  nature.”

    – + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 11. Jl. 1. 280w.

  “The proportions ... that she has given to the various elements of her
  narrative, sometimes suggests the historical novel as much as they do
  strict history.”

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 564. Ja. ’06. 220w.

  “It is an entirely amateurish and unworkmanlike performance, wholly
  destitute of importance of any and every description. The author’s
  sentiments are womanly; we have no quarrel with her ideals; her
  judgments are usually just. To begin with this important work has not
  yet a shred of an index. The style—the English—is maddening when it is
  not amusing. There are numberless passages in inverted commas without
  any references to the authorities. When authorities are indicated
  volume and page are never given. Not once throughout the whole of this
  ‘important historical work’ is a single Italian authority referred to.
  Nearly every Italian word is misspelled.”

  – – + =Sat. R.= 100: 248. Ag. 19, ’05. 1040w.

  “The book is strongly partisan. Not only Countess Matilda, but Gregory
  VII. and the other Popes, her contemporaries, can do no wrong. We must
  say that the more she deals with historical scenes and facts, and the
  less with personalities, the pleasanter reading her book becomes.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 122. Jl. 22, ’05. 1720w.


=Hudson, William Henry.= Purple land. **$1.50. Dutton.

  A new edition of a story written twenty years ago. “The adventures and
  reflections are ostensibly those of Richard Lamb, a person of English
  birth but oriental temperament. Richard had begun his career by
  stealing from a proud man of Argentina his beloved only daughter. With
  this lovely flower for his bride he fled to Montevideo, and leaving
  the lady in the charge of a grim aunt person, sought his fortune upon
  the plains.” (N. Y. Times.) “Young Richard Lamb rides forth an errant
  knight, and many adventures and desperadoes and fair ladies fall to
  his share. The country, the people, the customs, the moral and
  political ideals, all pass in vivid array before us.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Charming narrative of life in South America.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 50w.

        =Nation.= 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 280w.

  “It appears a rarely fresh, charming and delightful book.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 914. D. 23, ’05. 410w.

  “A narrative of unusual charm. The reader who can appreciate literary
  charm and fresh, almost elemental, or at least mediaeval ideas, will
  enjoy it to the full.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 220w.


=Huffcut, Ernest Wilson.= Elements of business law; with illustrative
examples and problems. *$1. Ginn.

  “The book contains a number of judiciously selected legal forms. It
  would be improved by citations of the authorities for the cases
  presented.” R. M.

    + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 254. Ap. ’06. 120w.

  “A book of good proportion, packed full of important matter,
  attractively and interestingly set forth.” Floyd R. Mechem.

      + =School. R.= 14: 468. Je. ’06. 160w.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 90w.


=Hughes, Rupert.= Col. Crockett’s co-operative Christmas. †$1. Jacobs.

  Col. Crockett of Waco instituted a unique undertaking last Christmas
  of gathering together in the auditorium of the Madison square garden
  “every stranger in New York and his lady.” In two letters to his wife
  he sketches the “before and after” of his plan which proved successful
  beyond his anticipation.

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  “A holiday novelette of the conventional type, varied in this case by
  the introduction of rather more novelty and less probability than are
  customary in similar narratives.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 399. D. 1, ’06. 70w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 40w.


=Hughes, Rupert.= Zal: an international romance. †$1.50. Century.

  “Otherwise, particularly for a first novel, ‘Zal’ shows very good
  workmanship.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 260w.

  “Gives us a sympathetic and accurate presentation of the Polish
  character.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 160w.


=Hugo, Victor Marie, viscomte.= Les miserables; tr. by Isabel F.
Hapgood. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume sets,” this usually large work
  is reduced to the compass of two pocket volumes.


=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Pilots of the republic; the romance of the
pioneer-promoter in the middle west; pors. and drawings by Walter J.
Enright. **$1.50. McClurg.

  “Pioneers’ axe chanted a truer tune than ever musket crooned or sabre
  sang.” And it is the pioneer who with epic courage extended America’s
  boundaries and built up her bulwark that fill Mr. Hulbert’s volume.
  Among them are Washington, Richard Henderson, Rufus Putnam, George
  Rogers Clark, Henry Clay, Morris and Clinton, Thomas and Mercer. Lewis
  and Clark, Astor, and Marcus Whitman.


=Hulbert, Homer Beza.= Passing of Korea; il. from photographs. **$3.80.
Doubleday.

  Mr. Hulbert “compares Korea in its present plight in Japanese hands,
  and with Japanese immigration flooding it with Poland, Armenia, and
  the Congo ‘Free’ State. To save Korea, and he adds it will be to our
  material advantage to do so, we must bring modern education to the
  Koreans, and for this purpose he asks us to open our purses. His book
  is a history of the so-called ‘Hermit’ kingdom from the earliest
  times, concluding, of course, with a survey of present conditions,
  manners, and customs of the people, and the resources of the country.
  It is profusely illustrated.”—Putnam’s.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is written in an attractive style and is a notable addition
  to the recent literature of the Orient.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 250w.

  “Books on Korea may be named by the dozen but this is _the_ book.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 421. N. 15, ’06. 530w.

  “It may be safe to say that, apart from a few conclusions which may be
  regarded as hasty. It is one of the most commendable books on the
  Hermit kingdom that have issued from the pen of foreign authors.” K.
  K. Kawakami.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 749. N. 17. ’06. 2020w.

        =Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 230w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 280w.


=Hullah, Annette.= Theodor Leschetizky. *$1. Lane.

  A recent addition to the “Living masters of music” series. “The story
  of Leschetizky’s career from his birth in 1830 down to 1905, is told
  in the first two chapters of the book. The five chapters following
  describe Leschetizky’s method of playing and technique, his manner of
  teaching, his class, and interest in each pupil, and lastly,
  Leschetizky as ‘the center of the circle.’ There are several pictures
  of the pianist as well as some showing him with certain pupils.” (N.
  Y. Times.)

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  “The story of this concentrated career is well and clearly told by
  Miss Hullah, who makes the discriminating point that Leschetizky is
  emphatically an individualist in his work.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 18. Jl. 1, ’06. 210w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 473. Je. 7, ’06. 210w.

  “Miss Hullah has given a lively picture of a personality prominent in
  the musical world in her work about Leschetizky.” Richard Aldrich.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 520w.


=Hume, Fergus W.= Lady Jim of Curzon street. †$1.50. Dillingham.

  A titled couple badly in debt fail to excite the sympathy of a wealthy
  father in their behalf and resort to the means of a sham death in
  order to secure insurance money. The way of the transgressor was never
  harder than portrayed in Mr. Hume’s story. Lady Jim’s clever wit is
  directed toward the perpetration of fraud that results in betrayal and
  even the contracting of leprosy which is cheated of its lingering
  terror by an overdose of chloral.

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  “It is a pleasure to be able unreservedly to recommend this book. The
  dialogue is all through of the cleverest, and the plot is well
  conceived and elaborated.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 140w.


=Hume, Fergus W.= Mystery of the shadow. $1.25. Dodge, B. W.

  Mr. Hume’s plot centers about the strangling of one Mrs. Gilbert
  Ainsleigh by some one masquerading as the ghost of a monk. An attempt
  is made to trace the crime to no less than five persons, and it is no
  wonder that the reader ejaculates “Pshaw” with the hero when he is put
  upon the wrong trail.

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  “There is ability in the book, but the author has shown himself
  capable of better things.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 417. Ap. 7. 120w.

  “The author has given a good measure of mystery, and has kept the
  assassin’s identity well veiled until the end of the book.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 665. O. 13, ’06. 270w.

        =Sat. R.= 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.


=Hume, Fergus W.= Opal serpent. †$1.25. Dillingham.

  A struggling young writer, disinherited, at least temporarily, by an
  irascible father, and the daughter of a fear-shaken man who is a
  book-stall keeper by day and a pawn broker by night, in the cellar
  below, live thru a succession of mysteries, fears and catastrophes all
  of which seem secretly connected with a jewelled serpent. In the
  tangle-straightening process, Mr. Hume’s usual number of odd types
  appear.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All who retain a partiality for tales of mystery and incident will
  welcome ‘The opal serpent.’”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 268. Ag. 26. 190w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w.

  “The matter is the matter of such yarns from the beginning, the manner
  is the manner or Fergus Hume, which is fair to middlin’—of its kind.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 220w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 150w.


=Hume, John T.= Abolitionists: together with personal memoirs of the
struggle for human rights. **$1. Putnam.

  In his sketch of partly biographical, partly historical significance
  Mr. Hume, a Garrisonian abolitionist, gives many personal
  recollections of the days of the “underground railroad,” and with
  characteristic partisanship recounts his movements among the Missouri
  radicals. “His long life includes the early struggle for human rights,
  when abolitionists were accounted lawful game for mobs. The names of
  its heroes and heroines, and the tribulations they fought through,
  find record in his pages.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In spite of its motif, the volume contains in accessible form much
  information concerning all these matters which will be of value to the
  student.”

    + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 420. Mr. ’06. 140w.

        =Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 240w.

  “It is unfortunate that dates and exact particulars are often missing,
  and are sometimes wrongly given.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1165. My. 17, ’06. 270w.

  “Deserves the widest circulation and calm pondering.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 143. F. 15, ’06. 1380w.

  “Interesting volume.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 921. D. 30, ’05. 1110w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 120w.

  “While some may disagree with him there is no doubt that he has shed
  much light on a very obscure period of our country’s history.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 379. Mr. 24, ’06. 200w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 90w.


=Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.= Wives of Henry VIII. **$4.50. McClure.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 60w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 240w.

  “There is much ... that helps us to understand more fully this
  difficult age, but the great riddles of the Tudor period still remain
  unanswered.” Laurence M. Larson.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 293. My. 1, ’06. 630w.

  “If Mr. Hume has not succeeded in making out a good case, he has
  nevertheless contributed some valuable new material to the study of
  the history of the reign, and has written a capital series of brief
  biographies.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 130w.

  “The plain fact is that Mr. Hume is much too good a man to be wasted
  upon this kind of ‘pot-boiling,’ appealing as it does to the craving
  for personal gossip which is an unpromising characteristic of to-day.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 6. Ja. 5, ’06. 790w.

  “A clever though inconclusive volume.”

    + – =Nation.= 81: 530. D. 28, ’05. 500w.

  “In this book Major Hume sets forth with great clearness, and in a
  most interesting and readable way, the gradual deterioration of
  Henry’s character as he became year by year more of ‘a law unto
  himself.’”

      + =Spec.= 96: 60. Ja. 13, ’06. 1760w.


=Humphrey, Seth K.= Indian dispossessed. **$1.50. Little.

  “The matter set forth in the book is free from emotionalism or
  sentimentalism, being a plain, straight-forward, historic presentation
  of a shameful page in modern history.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 104. Ja. ’06. 530w.

  “The book might have been strengthened by precise references to the
  documents and authorities quoted.”

      – =Cath. World.= 82: 831. Mr. ’06. 250w.

        =Critic.= 48: 191. F. ’06. 60w.

        =Dial.= 40: 21. Ja. 1, ’06. 520w.

        =R of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 120w.


=Huneker, James Gibbons.= Visionaries. †$1.50. Scribner.

  Music, poetry and the plastic arts furnish the field in which Mr.
  Huneker lets his imagination soar. There are twenty stories in the
  group in which “he is merely diverting himself with his pen, letting
  his fancy do what it will with human beings—improvising, as it were.”
  (Pub. Opin.)

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  “The author’s style is sometimes grotesque in its desire both to
  startle and to find true expression. In nearly every story the reader
  is arrested by the idea, and only a little troubled now and then by an
  over-elaborate style.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 116. F. 3, ’06. 700w.

  “With all this straining after the repellent and lawless, the tales
  for the most part miss their designed effect. They are cleverly
  executed, with no insignificant portion of imagination; yet with two
  or three exceptions they fail to be uncanny.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 228. F. 24. 870w.

  “These are pictures, thoughtful, intricate pictures, with a tinge of
  morbid mysticism, better to be enjoyed by reading one, at intervals,
  than devoured wholesale at a sitting.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 150w.

  “With every limitation of Mr. Huneker’s creative faculty recognised
  and even exaggerated, the conviction remains that his is an artistic
  individuality of rare potency and of welcome value to American
  letters.” Edward Clark Marsh.

  + + – =Bookm.= 22: 360. D. ’05. 1090w.

  “His characters look like posters and talk like Mr. Huneker. Nobody
  will deny that the result is interesting, but it is not fiction of the
  first order.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 220w.

  “It seems a pity that any one who can upon occasion write so well
  should so often let his imagination ride him into the country of the
  grotesque.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 30. Ja. 26, ’06. 620w.

  “They are odd in conception and admirably told.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ’05. 40w.

  “Most of them are fantastic, some of them are decadent, all of them
  are intensely modern in method. But what he does he does with subtle
  and finished skill, and the product is interesting reading.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 90w.

  “There have always been touches in Mr. Huneker’s work that suggest his
  possession of positive genius. But ‘Visionaries’ outsteps all bounds
  of reason, is almost wholly fantastic, esoteric, narcotic.”

    + – =Reader.= 7: 226. Ja. ’06. 350w.


=Hunt, Theodore Whitefield.= Literature: its principles and problems.
**$1.20. Funk.

  The disciplinary value ranks ahead of the culture value in the present
  discussion; the high-tension qualities of literature being those
  essential to form and structure. The idea of law and order pervades
  the study, and it outlines the guiding principles and methods of
  literature, its scope and mission, its primary aims, processes and
  forms, the laws that govern its orderly development and its logical
  relation to other great departments of human thought, its specifically
  intellectual and esthetic quality, and its informing genius and
  spirit. Its ultimate aim appears as that of suggestion and stimulus
  along the lines of inquiry that are opened and examined.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For older students who want to do something in literary criticism,
  this book offers a good consideration of the principles and problems
  involved, because it is logically planned in the main and depends on a
  wide knowledge of literature and literary criticisms.” E. E. H. jr.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 453. Je. ’06. 350w.

  “A book that is in many respects stimulating and suggestive. But it
  would be the grossest flattery to say that it is well written, or that
  one’s appreciation of the best in literature is forwarded by the
  perusal of it.”

    – + =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 190w.

  “An unusually able, thoro, and discriminating treatment of literary
  questions and might be read by all serious students and teachers with
  great advantage to the clarity of their ideas.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 180w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 680. My. 5, ’06. 480w.

  “On the topic of literary criticism we find his paragraphs involving
  either a slight self-contradiction or else lack of clearness in
  meaning. In a short chapter on ‘Hebraism and Hellenism,’ we think that
  the author does serious injustice to Mathew Arnold’s position.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 415. My. 17, ’06. 550w.

  “Thoughtful readers will acknowledge this to be a work of rare merit.
  A clarifying and a stimulating work it is, critical and widely
  informing.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 43. My. 3, ’06. 310w.

  “It is comprehensive, capable, and always correct, where accuracy is
  possible.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 130w.


=Hunt, W. Holman.= Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. 2v. **$10. Macmillan.

  “This volume is uniform with the “Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones,”
  and is devoted to a school that did more than any other to restore
  life and vitality and meaning to English art during the last century.”
  “This book has a threefold interest—historical, artistic, and human.
  Mr. Holman Hunt, as every one knows, was one of the original members
  of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.... He is able to tell the story of
  the beginning and early struggles of the most important movement in
  modern English painting more fully than it has ever been told before.
  He is also able to give us a very clear and concise account of the
  intentions of that movement, and of the state of things which it is
  proposed to reform.” (Lond. Times.)

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  “Mr. Hunt has stated his views with a certain literary grace that is
  pleasant to find: he has taken his own part with a great vigour and
  has said trenchant things with a refreshing incisiveness.” Ford Madox
  Hueffer.

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 1290. D. 9, ’05. 1390w.

  “He has indeed a fine gift of narrative, and though he takes his time
  about telling his stories, and the reader of these two substantial
  volumes will do well to take his, no one who has begun to listen to
  him is likely to ask him to stop.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 22. Ja. 6. 2460w.

  “The book is absorbing because it gives with minute particularity the
  reminiscences of a man who was born in 1827, began to paint at an
  early age, has been painting ever since, and, throughout his long
  career, has been a man of original ideas and of interesting
  friendships.” Royal Cortissoz.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 275. F. ’06. 1420w.

  “Taking the book as a whole, it seems, despite its prolixity,
  curiously incomplete. As a history of a movement in art it is a
  failure.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.

      – =Critic.= 48: 529. Je. ’06. 2090w.

  “Holman-Hunt tells his story well, in a style more earnest than
  lively, and with a memory for detail that is truly marvellous.” Edith
  Kellogg Dunton.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 113. F. 16, ’06. 2590w.

    + – =Edinburgh R.= 203: 450. Ap. ’06. 9790w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 572. Mr. 8, ’06. 870w.

  “About that important phase in the history of art the ‘Pre-Raphaelite
  brotherhood,’ no one living can speak with more authority than Holman
  Hunt, but he was too closely associated with the movement to be an
  impartial historian of it.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 40w.

  “Probably few of his readers, at this late day, will fully endorse his
  opinions, but his utterances will no doubt be read with the deference
  due to the long experience and great achievements of so accomplished a
  veteran.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 370. F. ’06. 630w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 315. Mr. 3, ’06. 680w.

  “He was, therefore, the man of all others best fitted to tell the
  story of their prime, and this book of his, though we could wish that
  some passages in it were less bitter deserves to be read with
  attention and reverence. We hope that an index will be added to the
  next edition.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 425. D. 8, ’05. 2330w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 200w.

  “But what much interferes with the value of the work and the pleasure
  of the reader is, that Holman Hunt ... is entirely preoccupied with a
  contention and a grievance.”

    – + =Nation.= 82: 263. Mr. 29, ’06. 1830w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 283. Ap. 5, ’06. 2650w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ’05. 150w.

  “Altogether, Mr. Hunt’s book, valuable as it is with its interesting
  anecdotes of the most interesting set of men England produced in the
  middle of the last century, does not change the verdict of art-history
  as to the inception and influence of Pre-Raphaelitism in the wider
  sense.” Joseph Jacobs.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 157. Mr. 17, ’06. 1560w.

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 810. Ag. 4, ’06. 1610w.

  “It is really a history of the art-development in England for half a
  century, with much that is of fascinating interest in the way of
  biographical, reminiscent, and travel significance.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 170w.

  “A very interesting book.” D. S. MacColl.

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 102. Ja. 27, ’06. 2010w.

  “Singleness of aim and determination of purpose everywhere
  characterise the story of the life recorded.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 499. Mr. 31, ’06. 2300w.


=Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane.= Political history of
England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.

  “Mr. Adams has written an admirable work; scientific—we need hardly
  say—inclining a little to the bald (in the modern manner) in his
  statement of events; but always clear, trenchant and forcible in his
  brief expositions of the results and tendencies of events.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1270. D. 2, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Mr. Brodrick gloried in a style which hung about him like the folds
  of a Roman toga, and on one subject he cultivated prejudices of a
  quite passionate kind. He hated Ireland. With that single exception,
  he possessed, the judicial mind, and a type of mental patience which
  admirably qualified him for the kind of summary work which is required
  in these volumes.”

  + + – =Acad.= 71: 226. S. 8, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 11.)

  “He has showed commendable zeal in research and in the use of
  secondary authorities, and his account is for the most part accurate.
  It is not industry nor honesty that he lacks; it is breadth of mind,
  it is capacity to see both sides of a question, it is an ability to
  put aside national prejudices.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 382. Ja. ’06. 1390w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “Misprints are uncommon. It must be confessed that the whole book is
  without literary grace or adornment, but serious and even pedestrian
  as the style is, it is neither dry nor repellant. His book is informed
  with a large-minded, conscientious desire to see the past as it
  actually was and to represent it truthfully to men of his own day.”
  Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 639. Ap. ’06. 1730w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “On the institutional side Dr. Hodgkin’s work shows very little
  independent research.” Laurence M. Larson.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 114. O. ’06. 1430w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “It covers the field thoroughly, its writer’s views of controverted
  questions are unusually sound, his judgment is excellent, his temper
  almost ideal.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12:139. O. ’06. 1500w. (Review of v. 11.)

  “It is scholarly, clear and interesting. It is rather a sense of
  regret that such an inadequate plan has been adopted for this
  important series, and that so little that is new, stimulating or broad
  is disclosed in this, the earliest volume to appear.” E. P. Cheyney.

    + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 179. Mr. ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “It [the whole series] is certainly not an epoch-making work, it is
  certainly not a pioneer into new paths, it gives no new outlook into
  English history or new synthesis of its elements; but it is full,
  clear, scholarly, moderate, and useful.” Edward P. Cheyney.

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 189. Jl. ’06. 1270w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

  “In the author’s treatment of his theme the most prominent feature is
  his sobriety of style—a sobriety which, it must be confessed, imparts
  a certain dullness. He possesses, however, the merit of a sane and
  broad outlook.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 825. D. 16. 1210w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It is perhaps the first time that the history of the United Kingdom
  during the years 1801–37 has been thoroughly well told in a single
  volume.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 64. Jl. 21. 1570w. (Review of v. 11.)

  “Dr. Adams deals intelligently with his sources; he steers a safe
  course between undue scepticism and undue credulity. Dr. Hunt is
  perhaps somewhat less than fair to the Whigs.” Edward Fuller.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 286. My. ’06. 1100w (Review of v. 2 and 10.)

  “The authors evince a freedom from that spirit of bigotry and the
  denomination of prejudices and prepossessions, which, too often, have
  rendered non-Catholic contributions to English history confirmation of
  the saying that ‘history is a conspiracy against the truth.’”

    + + =Cath. World.= 82: 115. Ap. ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

  “It is the work of an industrious, conscientious. erudite compiler,
  rather than of an original historian.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 400. Je. ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “Of the volumes thus far published that of Adams in the Hunt series
  covers somewhat less ground than that of Davis, but as in the main
  they treat of the same period, they are convenient for purposes of
  comparison. Hunt has made some slight excursions into this unexplored
  realm, but the chief merit of his work consists not in the new
  material brought to light, but in his courage in speaking the truth,
  both about the victors and the vanquished in the contest leading up to
  the independence of the United States.” George L. Beer.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 450. My. ’06. 2210w. (Review of v. 2, 3 and 10.)

  “Taken as a whole, the work of Professor Adams covers a difficult
  period of English history with a combination of unity and depth that
  neither Sir James Ramsay nor Miss Norgate has completely attained.”
  St. George D. Sioussat.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 122. F. 16, ’06. 2140w. (Review of v. 2, 3 and 10.)

  “This richness of suggestion and allusion seems to be the element of
  greatest originality in Mr. Hodgkin’s volume, which is in no sense a
  rival of the works of Seebohm, Maitland, or Vinagradoff.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 92. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Dr. Hunt’s lucid and orderly narrative is of none the less value
  because his conclusions have been inevitably, for the most part,
  anticipated. A modest protest may be allowed against the period of
  time chosen for this volume. The strong qualities of Dr. Hunt as an
  historian are conspicuously manifest in the chapters relating to the
  American war of independence.” Hugh E. Egerton.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 173. Ja. ’06. 860w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “It is well-proportioned and with trifling exceptions, accurate
  narrative, incorporating without unduly obtruding the chief results of
  the minute investigation to which the Norman and Angevin periods have
  of late years been subjected. Its treatment of controversial subjects
  is marked by caution and judicial candour. Yet it cannot honestly be
  said that the book is very readable.” J. Tait.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 566. Jl. ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Dr. Hodgkin has made the best of a not very favourable situation, and
  given us a book distinguished by all the engaging qualities that have
  procured so extensive an audience for his earlier works.” Gaillard
  Thomas Lapsley.

    + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 755. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “With American social and economic conditions of the Revolutionary era
  Mr. Hunt displays but a poor acquaintance.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 984. Ap. 26, ’06. 1230w. (Review of v. 1–3 and 10.)

  “Working within his limitations Dr. Brodrick achieved success.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 334. Ag. 9, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 11.)

  “The editors would have been wiser if they had permitted the writer of
  the volume to deal with matters outside the general scope of their
  series. Uniformity of scheme is uniformly mischievous in all such
  cases. We have laid stress on this weakness of the book, because it
  seems to us fundamental.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 50. F. 16, ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Of political organization he tells us surprisingly little. Dr.
  Hodgkin has performed so well what he endeavored to perform that we
  hardly ought to complain of his not having done something else.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 253. Jl. 20, ’06. 3590w. (Review of v. 1.)

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 407. D. 7, ’06. 930w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “All deductions made, however, (v. 1.) is well written and up to the
  standard of the series. This habit of superficial generalization is
  the great drawback to Professor Adams’s work, and becomes at times
  quite irritating to the careful reader. Professor Tout’s volume ... is
  excellent in every respect. The style is direct, the scholarship
  sound, the judgment sane.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 306. Ap. 12, ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1, 2 and
          3.)

    + + =Nation.= 83: 372. N. 1, ’06. 1620w. (Review of v. 11.)

  “Dr. Hunt makes some errors of fact, but it is his general attitude
  that lays him open to criticism. He should not have attempted a task
  that called so conspicuously for unprejudiced treatment.” Robert
  Livingston Schuyler.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 924. D. 30, ’05. 2670w. (Review of v. 2, 3,
          and 10.)

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 535. S. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 11.)

  “Mr. Adams, it is satisfactory to find, has acquitted himself
  creditably both in narration and exposition. It is in dealing with
  matters of foreign policy that Mr. Tout is weak, and more particularly
  in discussing the Welsh and Scottish wars. Dr. Hunt’s presentation
  makes too great a demand not only on the caution but on the patience
  of the student. On the other hand, his volume, like those of Mr. Adams
  and Mr. Tout, contains a great mass of important, well-digested, and
  well-arranged information not usually found in general histories.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 38. My. 3, ’06. 1470w. (Review of v. 2, 3 and 10)

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 45. S. 1, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 11.)

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)

  Reviewed by Herbert L. Osgood.

  + + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 350. Je. ’06. 750w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “Is a discriminating, accurate and for the most part rigidly objective
  piece of work. With a sound sense of values, the author has weighed
  and marshalled the conclusions of many scholars in his field; he has
  shown the mature judgment of an independent worker in the
  consideration of his materials; and, despite hampering and artificial
  chronological limitations, has presented the whole in a clear and
  measured fashion.” Charles A. Beard.

  + + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 531. S. ’06. 1730w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Dr. Hodgkin’s narrative is readable, accurate and well proportioned.”
  Charles A. Beard.

  + + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 699. D. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “While we fully acknowledge the care and industry with which the work
  has been compiled, it is impossible to describe it as a great book.
  The original authorities have been so much in the mind of the writer
  that he has tended to adopt their methods, and, in consequence, his
  work is somewhat dry and annalistic.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 142. F. 3, ’06. 1440w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Mr. Hunt has a wide knowledge of his subject. He is a judicious
  critic and never hesitates to give his own views, but at the same time
  he does not adopt the futile plan of judging the politics of the
  period which he is describing from the standpoint of to-day.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 207. F. 17, ’06. 1480w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “At every step we find him practising the art of selection and
  rejection. But it is an art which he pursues according to rules of his
  own making.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 400. Mr. 31, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “We believe—and this is very high praise—that this volume is the best
  that Professor Tout has written.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 464. Ap. 14, ’06. 510w. (Review of v. 3.)

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 679. D. 1, ’06. 1150w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “An extremely conscientious and careful volume, which will add much to
  the considerable reputation of its author.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 639. Ap. 28, ’06. 2080w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “We can heartily recommend the work as the most full and succinct
  narrative of our early history with which we are acquainted.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “There are no purple, or even very brilliant, passages in the book,
  much less new and startling theories of political and social
  incidents.”

  + + – =Spec.= 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 11.)

  + + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1219. N. ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Huntington, William Reed.= Good Shepherd and other sermons. *$1.25.
Whittaker.

  Twenty-five sermons by the rector of Grace church, New York, which
  will interest all church-men. They are published under such headings
  as: The wilderness a school of character; A day’s journey away from
  Christ; Priesthood in the light of the transfiguration; The search
  after reality; Facing inevitable change; The contemporary Christ: The
  heavenly friend; The eagle and the stars; The Afro-American; The
  wickedness of war; and “Inter-church,” or Intra-church,—which?

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.


=Hussey, Eyre.= Girl of resource. †$1.50. Longmans.

  A story of “commonplace modern life,” with a heroine who has the habit
  of inflicting quotations and long harangues on any listener, who
  enacts scenes from “Sanford and Merton,” and who is “gifted with a
  keen appreciation of the humorous.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The reader may find it hard to smile as often as is expected of him.
  The fun is from the first to the last a little forced, yet always
  abounding.”

    – – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 238. S. 1. 70w.

  “We suppose we must be sadly dense to find her the very paragon of
  bores, but such she certainly appears upon these amazing pages. And
  yet the writer has facility, and he knows his compendium.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 513. Ag. 18, ’06. 500w.

  “The book is not quite equal to ‘Miss Badsworth, M. F. H.’ in which
  the author exploited an original idea; but it is agreeable, and would
  be even more so had it been a little shorter.”

    – + =Spec.= 97: 135. Jl. 28, ’06. 160w.


=Hutchinson, Horatio Gordon=, ed. Big game shooting. 2v. *$7.50.
Scribner.

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 167. F. 10. 1130w.

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 12. Ja. 12, ’06. 1720w.


=Hutten, Baroness von.= Pam decides; il. by B. Martin Justice. †$1.50.
Dodd.

  “In this sequel to ‘Pam’ we find her twenty-seven years old, on the
  third floor of a Bloomsbury boarding house, and the author of
  twenty-two novels, written since we saw her last.... The title of the
  novel, ‘Pam decides,’ indicates that the readers of ‘Pam’ will be
  relieved from the strain that has been on their minds for over a year,
  for the most experienced novel reader could not anticipate the
  decision of this most capricious of women. We have seldom had a
  heroine on our hands, an attractive heroine, eligible in every way,
  who gave us so much trouble to marry off, and we are so relieved to
  have the matter settled in the last few pages of this volume that we
  do not care to question whether her choice was the wisest she might
  have made.”—Ind.

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      + =Acad.= 70: 479. My. 19, ’06. 330w.

  “The edge of observation seems less keen, the vitality of the picture
  not so high either in the heroine herself or in the surrounding
  figures.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 694. Je. 9. 250w.

  “It is really not a sequel at all in the ordinary sense, but a new
  story—and a strong, well-rounded story too, even better than ‘Pam,’ in
  some respects.” Frederick Taber Cooper

      + =Bookm.= 23: 541. Jl. ’06. 270w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1165. My. 17, ’06. 260w

  “The book is clever and modern.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 409. Je. 23, ’06. 660w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.

  “It exhibits a firmer touch, a more intimate knowledge of human
  character than ‘Pam.’”

    – + =Sat. R.= 102: 21. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.


=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Spain. *$2. Macmillan.

  The first city described is “Fuentarabia, with her narrow streets and
  music and white-dressed women. Then comes San Sebastian ...
  Valladolid, Salamanca, with its university and old monks; Zamora, with
  its decayed Romanesque buildings ... Avila, with her old men and
  infinite silence and beautiful cathedral; and so on and on to the
  grave of Torquemada, to Segovia, to the anomalous city of old and new
  Castile, where the author lingers long at the Prado gallery, and
  discusses with loving sympathy, with knowledge and with critical
  perception the masters of the old Spanish schools.... And then on and
  on again through Toledo ... through the home of Cervantes, Seville,
  Cadiz, and then across the sea to Morocco and back again to Granada.
  Nor are Murcia, Alicante, and Valencia forgotten. Tarragona and
  Barcelona receive their portion of the tourist’s impressions.” (N. Y.
  Times.) There are twenty-four illustrations in color by A. Wallace
  Rimington, and twenty other illustrations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “At its best Mr. Hutton’s style is verbose, artificial, and
  over-charged with colour; at its worst ... it is to us intolerable in
  its violence and exaggeration.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 183. Ag. 18. 940w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1309. D. 13, ’06. 50w.

  “This book is neither good nor bad.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 276. Ag. 10, ’06. 1040w.

  “Series of impressions charming in sympathy and intimacy, satisfactory
  to those who would acquire knowledge through emotions rather than
  through erudition. For all genuine lovers of Spain, Mr. Hutton’s
  volume renders stale, flat, and unprofitable the most comprehensive
  guide books crammed with their lore of statistics and their vague
  attempts to impart practical information.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 800w.

  “Interestingly written and beautifully illustrated.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 769 Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.

  “It is all felt, there is not a dry word in it; thought comes into it
  musically, in cadences perhaps at times a little languid, but
  persuasively, with an engaging frankness.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 269. S. 1, ’06. 1210w.


=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Umbria. *$2. Dutton.

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 113. Ap. ’06. 380w.

  “Taking both matter and manner into consideration, Mr. Hutton’s book
  is perhaps the most exhaustive and attractive of the long list of
  Umbrian books of the past year.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 199. Mr. 16, ’06. 270w.

  “So much of his narrative is plainly imaginary, and the commonest
  things are so distorted in his unreal fashions of speech, that it is
  often hard to know what he would have us take for fancy and what for
  fact.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 107. Ag. 2, ’06. 440w.

  “It is sympathetic and appreciative in tone.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 40w.

  “We applaud delightedly on one page, and our equanimity is sorely
  tried on the next. Still it is the work of a genuine devotee of Italy,
  shedding much light as he goes, and if it needs to be studied
  critically it at least merits to be read lovingly.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 100: 786. D. 16, ’05. 540w.


=Hutton, Richard Holt.= Brief literary criticisms. $1.50. Macmillan.

  A volume of literary essays collected by Elizabeth M. Roscoe from Mr.
  Hutton’s contributions to the Spectator. The author “was a journalist
  in his attitude rather than in the manner of his work, for many of
  these short essays are stamped with genuine literary quality. He is at
  his best in dealing with such subjects as Wordsworth, Cardinal Newman,
  Carlyle and Arnold, and his best means keen criticism, sympathetic
  interpretation, and an eminently readable style.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 70: 223. Mr. 10, ’06. 1780w.

  “We have already hinted that Miss Roscoe’s editorial work has been
  well done; but these essays should not have been issued without an
  index, and one regrets that undue reverence for her author has
  restrained her from occasionally emending his text.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 416. Ap. 7. 530w.

  “These additional gleanings from the late R. H. Hutton’s contributions
  to the ‘Spectator’ are excellent specimens of the reviewer’s art, with
  the exception of a few slight crudities of style and thought
  inseparable from the nature of such work.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 222. Jl. 26, ’06. 280w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 565. Ap. 14, ’06. 1120w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 249. S. 20, ’06. 330w.

  “One cannot say that the volume contains anything like a body of
  critical doctrine. But one can say that it contains a great deal of
  stimulating and suggestive discourse.” Montgomery Schuyler.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 220. Ap. 7, ’06. 1010w.

  “This selection covers a wide range, and brings out the diversity of
  Mr. Hutton’s gifts, the breadth of his sympathies, and the ease and
  clearness of his style.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 160w.

  “Carefully chosen and edited.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 340. Mr. 17, ’06. 30w.

        =Spec.= 96: 426. Mr. 17. ’06. 260w.


=Hutton, Rev. William Holden.= Burford papers: being letters from Samuel
Crisp to his sister at Burford: and other studies of a century,
(1745–1845.). *$2.50. Dutton.

  “A number of letters which passed from ‘Daddy’ Crisp, the friend of
  Fanny Burney, to his sister, Mrs. Gast, who lived in Burford in the
  house now occupied by Hutton himself. The letters contain nothing very
  striking and add but little to our own sum of knowledge of Fanny
  Burney, Johnson, Mrs. Thrale or other famous people of the day.... But
  they were well worth preserving for the charm of their kindliness and
  humour, and the picture of the life of the times which they
  exhibit.... For the rest, Mr. Hutton’s essays are very largely
  concerned with the literary history of the Cotswolds and the
  neighborhood—small beer most of it, but refreshing and pleasant. He
  writes of Shenstone, of Richard Jago ... and other minor poets; and
  winds up with an able study of George Crabbe, a poet whom he
  understands and knows better than most.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Lovers of the Cotswolds and the district cannot do without this book,
  and other people will find it agreeable reading.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1207. N. 18, ’05. 300w.

  “The author has fished in the backwaters of eighteenth-century life
  and thought in England, and he gives us here the results—not very
  grand, perhaps, but novel and, in their quiet way, most attractive—of
  his pleasant labour.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 443. Ap. 14. 3620w.

  “Mr. Hutton is a true lover of his period, and as such is sure to give
  enjoyment.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 4. Ja. 5, ’06. 1470w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 122. Ag. 9, ’06. 1420w.

  “To readers who have the habit of memoirs and ‘ana’ these hitherto
  unpublished letters will be a distinct and valuable find.” M. S.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 429. Jl. 7, ’06. 1190w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 80w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Ja. ’06. 110w.

  “It may be said that the part would have been greater than the whole.
  There are certain chapters of the book which we could easily have
  spared.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 385. Mr. 10, ’06. 1320w.


=Hutton, Rev. William Holden.= Church and the barbarians; being an
outline of the history of the church from A. D. 461 to A. D. 1003. *$1.
Macmillan.

  Within the compass of ten hundred pages the author has essayed to
  write “from the point of view of one who believes that the church is
  charged with the duty of preserving and defending a ‘deposit of
  faith,’ and who assumes that heresy is error and orthodoxy truth.”
  (Outlook.)

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  “Mr. Hutton is overwhelmed by the multiplicity of his facts, and one
  feels in reading his pages that one is examining a skeleton, not
  following the development of an organism. The ecclesiastical bias of
  the writer is somewhat too evident.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 120. Ag. 9, ’06. 230w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 578. Jl. 7, ’06. 70w.

  “Mr. Hutton has certainly struggled hard and has no doubt done his
  best; but the result is a book which takes so much for granted that it
  will be hardly intelligible to the beginner, and which goes over the
  ground so rapidly that it will be of little value to the advanced
  student.”

      – =Sat. R.= 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 140w.


=Hyde, A. G.= George Herbert and his times. **$2.75. Putnam.

  The true George Herbert is the theme of Mr. Hyde’s biography, whose
  burden is the reconciliation of the elements of a complex nature. “The
  story of Herbert’s ‘spiritual conflicts’ has been told once for all in
  the immortal pages of Walton’s ‘Life’; but that golden text requires
  for these modern days a good deal of expansion and comment, and this
  Mr. Hyde has sought to supply in the book before us. He has taken
  pains to collect information about the poet’s environment. He tells
  about the condition of Westminster school during Herbert’s boyhood;
  about the status and duties of the oratorship which Herbert held at
  Cambridge; and he writes chapters upon the church politics of the day
  and on the poet’s friends and contemporaries.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Very interesting, wise and well-written book.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 390. O. 20, ’06. 1340w.

  “He knows nothing about the theories of Professor Palmer, of Harvard,
  as to the chronology of the poems. However, it cannot be said that
  these deficiencies make much difference in a popular book. The merit
  of Mr. Hyde’s volume is its readableness.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 333. O. 5, ’06. 140w.

  “In coming to this theme Mr. Hyde has nothing new to add to our
  knowledge of Herbert’s life or surroundings. But he has a cultivated
  style, is well read in the general field, and from the common sources
  has put together a thoroughly entertaining volume. The weakest part of
  the book ... is that which pretends to deal with criticism.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 329. O. 18, ’06. 670w.

  “An admirably sober and scholarly piece of work, in keeping with the
  spirit of the man of whom it treats, and abundantly appreciative of
  his achievements.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 753. N. 17, ’06. 1020w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 130w.

  “Mr. Hyde has done his part very well.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 583. N. 10, ’06. 730w.

  “This is in every way an interesting book.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 444. S. 29, ’06. 300w.


=Hyde, William DeWitt.= College man and the college woman. **$1.50.
Houghton.

  “A book especially for “people” who are concerned, either as parents
  or teachers or simply as good citizens, with college students. It
  provokes sympathy with the undergraduate’s point of view; it explains
  persuasively what it is in college life that makes it worth while; it
  subjects the college to the tests that the man of plain mind applies
  without sophistry, and shows how the college does, or ought to, meet
  those tests; it puts into intelligible language the educational ideals
  of the enlightened college teacher and administrator; and it states
  effectively what the public attitude toward a college in a democracy
  should be.” (Outlook.)

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  “At every point it is a book that will stimulate reflection at many
  points, one that will provoke debate.”

      + =Bookm.= 23: 655. Ag. ’06. 540w.

  “Should be put on the open shelves of every library.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.

  “Dr. Hyde’s book is uneven. Its parts are not well woven together.
  They are somewhat disparate though not contradictory.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 221. Ap. 7, ’06. 1200w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 333. Je. 9, ’06. 330w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 80w.

  “Nowhere is the function and value of liberal education bettor stated
  than in the first chapter, occupying less than a page.”

    + + =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.


=Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright.= Trials of Commander McTurk.
†$1.50. Dutton.

  “Commander McTurk on the Retired list of the United States navy
  employs himself in getting “professional experience elsewhere,” really
  is struggling to regain lost prestige. His flaxen wig and his red face
  “with its thousand tiny wrinkles” are at variance with his modest
  claim to art. He is amusingly sketched in graphic, lively style, but
  hardly illumined by the vital spark which animated his truculent
  predecessor [Captain Kettle].” (Ath.)

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        =Acad.= 71: 204. S. 1, ’06. 340w.

  “The principal blemish in this collection of stories is that it has
  not been devised primarily for a volume, but for serial publication.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 270. S. 8. 170w.

  “Catholicity of taste is a literary virtue, and readers of rigorous
  health have every justification for enjoying the cumulative
  absurdities of this robustious patriot.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 290. Ag. 24, ’06. 320w.

  “If it were not that he once wrote a book called ‘The adventures of
  Captain Kettle,’ his new work would be hailed, probably as a maker of
  reputation.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 550w.


=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Borderland of psychical research. **$1.50.
Turner, H. B.

  The ground of normal and abnormal psychology is covered in this volume
  in a manner to prepare the layman for the consideration of supernormal
  problems, especially upon the evidential side. The author says “the
  work must not be adjudged from the point of view of the trained
  psychologist as an effort to help scholars, but from the standpoint of
  public education as designed to do what text-books can hardly
  undertake.”

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  “The discussions contained in these 400 pages and more, are long and
  diffuse.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 230w.

  “It treats perplexing questions conservatively, and with a view to
  create an intelligent public interest in the baffling problems of
  psychical research. It is a book which none should neglect who are
  attracted by the recondite mystery to whose solution it looks forward
  and attempts to clear the way.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 629. N. 10, ’06. 250w.


=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Enigmas of psychical research. **$1.50. Turner,
H. B.

  Professor Hyslop looks upon this volume as a supplement to his
  “Science and a future life.” He goes over his whole field of the
  supernormal, includes an exhaustive discussion on telepathy and
  apparitions, and has added much material on crystal gazing,
  coincidental dreams, clairvoyance and premonitions, with some
  illustrations of mediumistic phenomena.

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  “The work is a worthy companion volume to ‘Science and a future
  life.’”

      + =Arena.= 36: 215. Ag. ’06. 1000w.

  “Almost all his evidence had long ago been laid before the curious.
  The book has no index.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 800. Je. 30. 600w.

  Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.

        =Atlan.= 98: 425. S. ’06. 100w.

  “It is to be held fortunate that an exponent of a faith that makes
  slight appeal to those who stand with the reviewer should find a
  spokesman who in general has so capable a comprehension of the
  philosophical implications of his enigmas.” Joseph Jastrow.

  + + – =J. Philos.= 3: 498. Ag. 30, ’06. 1080w.

  “He is careful to preserve an attitude of caution, the attitude, in
  short, of the trained investigator who feels that the end is not yet
  in sight.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 807. My. 26, ’06. 650w.

        =Nation.= 82: 428. My. 24, ’06. 100w.

  “Judging Dr. Hyslop’s book as a whole, it is carefully conservative
  and will appeal to many persons who would be offended by a mere
  theoretical treatment.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 950w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 128. Jl. ’06. 120w.


=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Problems of philosophy; or, Principles of
epistemology and metaphysics. *$5. Macmillan.

  “In thirteen chapters Dr. Hyslop discusses, first introductory
  questions (chapters 1 and 2), then (chapters 3–8) the problems of the
  theory of knowledge, thereafter (chapters 9–12) metaphysical theories,
  with special reference to ‘materialism’ and ‘spiritualism’; and
  finally, (chapter 13) he sums up his results in a general discussion
  of the office, the duties, the prospects, and the ethical significance
  of philosophy. This final chapter, very readable by itself, even apart
  from the rest of the book, is probably the one which the student of
  social and of ethical problems will find the most interesting.”—Int.
  J. Ethics.

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  “Professor Hyslop’s style is vigorous and clear. The book will afford
  valuable collateral readings in philosophical courses, and even where
  instruction takes issue with it, it should prove a healthy foil. In
  certain ranges, as the discussion of materialism and spiritualism, it
  occupies unique territory.” H. B. Alexander.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 526. Ja. ’06. 330w.

  “The questions discussed are fundamental ones. The spirit is that of
  an unassuming, modest, but extremely patient, minute, and laborious
  inquirer, who spares neither his own pains, nor, upon some occasions,
  his reader’s powers of attention. This book has everywhere an
  admirable individuality and an unconventionality of procedure which
  are obvious and wholesome, even when the views themselves which are
  defended, appear to be less original, or even when, to the present
  reviewer’s mind, they are least valuable as results. Dr. Hyslop’s
  English is often unnecessarily hard to follow, not by reason of mere
  technicalities, but by reason of imperfectly constructed sentences.”
  Josiah Royce.

  + + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 236. Ja. ’06. 2320w.

  “It is a book which a hostile or wearied critic would have ample
  excuse for condemning utterly.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 329. Ap. 19, ’06. 520w.

  “It will not fully commend itself to philosophic thinkers in general.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 81: 572. N. 4, ’05. 830w.

  “The most radical criticism of the book would be to deny the
  possibility of making any such ultimate distinction as is here made
  between the theory of knowing and the theory of being.” H. N.
  Gardiner.

    + – =Philos. R.= 15: 312. My. ’06. 2400w.


=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H.
B.

  “Issue must, however be squarely taken with Dr. Hyslop when he denies
  the ability of philosophers to do anything in this field.” Frederick
  Tracy.

    + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 170. Ja. ’06. 530w.

  “We wish that he carried more of his logic into his ‘metapsychics,’
  and that he expressed himself with more clearness and grace.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 697. D. 1. 1460w.


                                   I


=Ibsen, Henrik.= Letters of Henrik Ibsen; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik and
Mary Morrison. **$2.50. Fox.

  Inasmuch as a familiarity with Ibsen’s work is necessary to a full
  understanding of the content of his letters, this volume will appeal
  most strongly to Ibsen students. The letters show the mental habits
  and methods of the great writer; and particularly self-revealing are
  those written to Bjornson in which “Brand” may be followed from its
  inception; and others to Councillor Hegel, Ibsen’s publisher,
  concerning “Peer Gynt”; still others to Hans Christian Andersen,
  William Archer, Edmund Gosse, Grieg, and King Charles of Sweden,
  covering a correspondence of half a century.

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  “The valuable features of the letters is the light they throw upon the
  character and personality of their writer.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1249. D. 2, ’05. 1980w.

  “One great charm of the letters is that they were written without any
  thought whatever of publication.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 280. Mr. ’06. 1290w.

  “These letters have the stamp of absolute sincerity, and reveal one of
  the most impressive personalities of our time.” Wm. M. Payne.

  + + + =Dial.= 39: 429. D. 16, ’05. 2960w.

  “Out of a volume of nearly five hundred pages only a small part is of
  value, and that is imbedded in mere letter conversation.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 164. Ja. 18, ’06. 790w.

  “For correspondence he had no great turn. Amid the clutter of his
  pages, however, it is still possible to trace the main outlines of his
  own character and to some extent the history and spread of his ideas.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 100w.

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 48. Ja. 13, ’06. 1780w.

  “This collection of Ibsen’s letters is offered to us as a substitute
  for an autobiography which he once intended to write, but has not
  written; and the substitution is not entirely satisfactory. The
  autobiography would have been a piece of literature; the letters are
  nothing of the kind.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 430. D. 8, ’05. 1530w.

    + + =Nation.= 80: 416. My. 25, ’05. 570w.

  “The translation is very smooth and readable, but un-Ibsenish, as is
  particularly noticeable in the first half of the work. While the
  proofreading is on the whole satisfactory, certain mistakes should not
  have occurred in a book of this kind.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 243. Mr. 22, ’06. 2710w.

  “The letters are carefully edited, and the introduction is full of
  meat.” James Huneker.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 1. Ja. 6, ’06. 1700w.

  “It is difficult to overstate the interest of this collection of
  Ibsen’s letters. They cover a great variety of subjects, and thus give
  us a sort of index to Ibsen’s inner life.”

  + + + =Outlook.= 82: 321. F. 10, ’06. 1910w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 250w.

  “When the topics are fairly attractive, the correspondence is not
  dull, although the writer had no great individuality of epistolary
  style, and his thoughts, as Polonius would have said, are ‘not
  expressed in fancy.’”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 874. Je. 2, ’06. 700w.


=Iles, George.= Inventors at work; with chapters on discovery. **$2.50.
Doubleday.

  The world, too ready to accept the results of the workings of clever
  minds, here has full opportunity to take a near-by view of the
  processes which lead to many of the great inventions. Mr. Iles tells
  of Bessemer’s great triumph in perfecting his process for steel
  making, tells of the production of dynamite by Nobel, the transmission
  of speech along a beam of light by Bell, of the incandescent gas
  mantle by Von Welsbach, of Edison’s electrical achievements, and
  numerous other scientific achievements. The volume is copiously
  illustrated.

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  “One is struck with three qualities not by any means over-common in
  works of popular science; first, thoroughness and completeness of
  knowledge; secondly, clearness of exposition and regard for the
  demands of the nontechnical reader; third, a broad comprehensive view
  of the relations of science and invention as evolutions of
  civilization.”

  + + + =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 170w.

In the house of her friends. $1.50. Cooke.

  A story by an anonymous writer which “gives us a singularly intimate
  view of what we think must be a unique element in American college
  life. It presents the life of the small college from the standpoint,
  not of the student, nor of the professor, nor of the graduate, nor of
  the outsider, but of the Faculty family that has lived all its days on
  the college campus.” (Bookm.) “The plot is simple, the incidents those
  of the narrow round of life in a small college, the theme the
  old-fashioned one of love, but the book is saturated with life.”
  (Outlook.)

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  “The lover of literature will find pleasure in this leisurely writing,
  so different from much of our day.” Edward E. Hale, jr.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 632. Ag. ’06. 640w.

  “Whatever its defects, ‘In the house of her friends’ is not only a
  book of unusual promise but an unusual achievement. The author has the
  power to make character seen and felt in the community in which it
  moves, to invest it with atmosphere.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 814. Ag. 1, ’06. 410w.

  “The story has a most attractive lucidity. You see the characters as
  you see a landscape in mountain air.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 226. N. ’06. 290w.


=Indiana state teacher’s association.= In honor of James Whitcomb Riley.
50c. Bobbs.

  A group of addresses, in honor of Mr. Riley, made by prominent men at
  a special meeting of the Indiana State teachers’ association.

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 340. My. 26, ’06. 140w.

  “There is no lack of generous estimation of Riley’s poetic power and
  genius in the little volume printed in his honor, but through all that
  is said runs the strain of affection and hearty friendship, making
  altogether a tribute not easily matched in literary annals.” Bliss
  Carman.

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 390. Je. 16, ’06. 1530w.


=Inge, Rev. William Ralph.= Studies of English mystics: St. Margaret
lectures 1905. *$2. Dutton.

  “In the spirit of reasonableness in which they write, the best English
  mystics of all ages resemble one another. The note of temperateness
  persists amid the vicissitudes of creed. This is seen very clearly in
  the works of the writers that form the subject of Dr. Inge’s
  suggestive studies. Lady Julian, an anchoress of Norwich, and Walter
  Hylton, Canon of Thurgarton, represent the mystical side of that
  English renaissance of the fourteenth century which is illustrated by
  Langland, Wiclif and Chaucer; William Law is the greatest mystical
  divine of the age of Pope and Addison; Wordsworth is the poet of the
  philosophical mysticism of the Romantic period. Dr. Inge also includes
  Robert Browning as a representative English mystic.”—Acad.

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        =Acad.= 70: 397. Ap. 28, ’06. 1420w.

  “Whatever we may think of Dr. Inge’s own conclusions, let us say
  distinctly that his analysis of these various writers is always lucid,
  tends to understanding and illumination.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 34. Jl. 14. 1530w.

  “Dr. Inge treats his subject with sympathy rather than with
  enthusiasm.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 217. Jl. 26, ’06. 390w.

  “If we are to give a personal impression ... Dr. Inge’s treatment of
  the earlier mystics has something indistinct and hesitating about it.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 225. Je. 22, ’06. 710w.

  “There is much in these six lectures on English mystics that is
  interesting; but the book lacks continuity and coherence.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83. 288. Je. 2, ’06. 160w.

  “When we took up Dr. Inge’s book we found it hard to lay it down. This
  is partly due to his beautiful English, which makes every page a
  delight to read. But it is not only that: he has chosen a subject
  about which he knows a good deal and other people know very little,
  and which is in itself intensely attractive.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 180w.


=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Island in the air. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “It is really full of information and of the spirit of the pioneer.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 50w.


=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Life of animals: the mammals. **$2. Macmillan.

  This is a book upon the mode of life, the history and relationships of
  the most familiar and important class of animals, the mammals—covering
  as the name signifies all animals that feed their young upon milk. It
  is a carefully classified study, fully illustrated, with colored
  plates, reproductions of photographs and drawings.

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  “Is worthy of being classed with the best of recent scientific
  writings, in popular form.”

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 654. Ag. ’06. 220w.

  “It contains just the information about living and extinct species of
  mammals especially those most familiar, which the general
  non-zoölogical reader demands.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.

  “An interesting feature of the volume is the large number of
  well-selected quotations which give from leading authorities
  first-hand information concerning many animals.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 180w.

  “The biographies, even when very brief, are graphic and stimulatingly
  suggestive of deeper research.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 270w.

  “It is the best of its class that has appeared up to the present
  time.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 256. N. ’06. 90w.

  “When Mr. Ingersoll writes about animals he has few superiors in clear
  graphic description.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 60w.


=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Wit of the wild. **$1.20. Dodd.

  Mr. Ingersoll’s book “consists of a series of short articles on the
  characteristics and habits of mammals, birds and insects, written in
  various styles because they were originally written for various
  periodicals, but all interesting and reliable. The book may be
  regarded as a popular postscript to his excellent work on ‘The life of
  mammals,’ published last year, and is particularly adapted for school
  and popular libraries.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Interesting comparisons with man’s ways are the most unique feature
  of the book.” May Estelle Cook.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 150w.

  “Mr. Ingersoll can popularize without misrepresenting, and his
  chapters on some of the facts and factors of evolution are
  comprehensible to anyone, and yet so carefully worded that the most
  rigid scientist could not find fault with them.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1056. N. 1, ’06. 200w.

  “Among naturalists, Mr. Ingersoll has a place somewhat apart, not so
  much for the breadth and minuteness of his knowledge as for a certain
  closeness of sympathy and youthfulness of enthusiasm which are
  infectious.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 100w.

    + + =Nation.= 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 240w.

  “He is an honest and faithful naturalist, and does not let romance run
  away with fact.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 70w.


=Innes, Arthur Donald.= England under the Tudors. *$3 Putnam.

  “It is obvious at a glance that the present work possesses a number of
  admirable qualities. In the first place the proportions are excellent.
  It is totally free from theological bias: it is eminently fair-minded
  and just in its conception of the important characters of the period.
  A closer examination, however, reveals a wide discrepancy in
  knowledge, treatment, and expression between the first part of the
  book and the second. A number of minor errors and inaccuracies reveal
  his inadequate acquaintance with the recent literature of this period
  and his style, in the first part of his book, lacks precision and
  definiteness. But the gravest defect of all is the author’s ignorance
  of continental affairs from 1485 to the accession of Elizabeth.” Roger
  Bigelow Merriman.

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  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 648. Ap. ’06. 760w.

  “In every respect, except in its literary style, it is far superior to
  ... Mr. Trevelyan’s ‘England under the Stuarts.’” Edward Fuller.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 288. My. ’06. 440w.

  “Innes wisely discarded the stiff chronological method and the purely
  narrative style, and adopted a judicious combination of narration and
  description.” George L. Beer.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 451. My. ’06. 120w.

  “He gives ... everything that the student wants by way of reference.
  The narrative itself is written with great judgment and full grasp of
  the subject. Moreover it is eminently readable.” James Gairdner.

  + + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 372. Ap. ’06. 1410w.

  “The product of honest labor over authentic materials, well pondered
  and fused, with no little literary skill.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 801. Ap. 5, ’06. 650w.

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.

  “It may appear invidious to institute a comparison between two books
  each of which is admirable in design and workmanship, but, while Mr.
  Innes’s volume is quite adequate to the purposes of the series, we
  have found it somewhat less carefully wrought than Mr. Davis’s account
  of English life under the Normans and Angevins.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 263. Mr 29, ’06. 590w.

  “A serious, sincere, direct, and graphic narrative in which Tudor
  England stands revealed in all its strength, its weakness, and its
  possibilities.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 40. My. 3, ’06. 530w.

  “A decidedly spirited and well-balanced account of the period of the
  Tudors.”

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 318. Je. ’06. 770w.

  “Mr. Innes’s is eminently a workmanlike contribution, with almost a
  severe air of business about it from first to last. The writing is
  perhaps a little dry and stiff, for Mr. Innes does not let himself get
  out of hand.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 271. Mr. 3, ’06. 1530w.


=Ireland, Alleyne.= Far Eastern tropics: studies in the administration
of tropical dependencies. **$2. Houghton.

  “The humor of the side remarks, the clearness and vigor of the
  statements, the excision of extraneous matter will make the volume
  popular as well as useful.”

    + + =Reader.= 6: 724. N. ’05. 760w.


=Irving, Edward.= How to know the starry heavens: an invitation to the
study of suns and worlds. **$2. Stokes.

  “While it contains a large amount of real information, we fear that
  the matrix is so bulky that the reader to whom the book is intended to
  appeal will find great difficulty in discovering and assimilating the
  real facts.”

    + – =Nature.= 73: 196. D. 28, ’05. 180w.


=Irving, Washington.= Selected works. $2.50. Crowell.

      + =Critic.= 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 80w.

      + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 80w.


=Irving, Washington.= Rip Van Winkle. **$5. Doubleday.

  “As a book we do not think that this edition of ‘Rip Van Winkle’ is
  altogether satisfactory, the illustrations being too much dissociated
  from the letterpress both in the style of printing and the general
  presentment of the work; but as an album of pictures by a great
  artist, it is every way commendable, and can but add to the artist’s
  well-deserved reputation.”

    + – =Int. Studio.= 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 200w.

  “It is not often that works of such high merit as these illustrations
  are produced.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1010. Je. 30, ’06. 240w.


=Irving, Washington.= Sketch-book. 20c. Univ. pub.

  Volume sixty-two of the “Standard literature series,” contains the
  Sketch-book with introduction, suggestions for critical reading and
  notes as edited by Edward E. Hale, jr. The volume is divided into two
  parts: Part 1, Stories; Part 2, Essays, and is designed primarily for
  school use.

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        =School R.= 14: 283. Mr. ’06. 20w.


=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= Chinatown ballads. $1.25. Duffield.

  Seven “rhymed memories” of Chinatown. While there is here and there
  reflected a human strain. “He’s a Chinaman still in ’is yeller heart.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Humor is still the predominant quality, but there are touches of grim
  tragedy, that, coupled with Mr. Irwin’s metrical fluency, telling
  phrase and dramatizing gift, make the book one that cannot only be
  read, but reread.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 60w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 320w.

  “Here we have the hoodlum’s view of the Chinaman, rather cleverly
  rendered in rhyme and with a good deal of fun.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 285. S. 29, ’06. 60w.

        =World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 50w.


=Irwin, Will.= City that was: a requiem of old San Francisco. *50c.
Huebsch.

  The author, who has “mingled the wine of her bounding life with the
  wine of his youth,” has given to his obituary of old San Francisco the
  Arabian nights flavor which makes the reader mourn with him the death
  of that gay, light-hearted city of romance. He has re-created for him
  her life that was, he has drawn the colored panorama of hill and water
  front, Chinatown and “Barbary Coast,” of restaurants and clubs, or
  grey mists and orange colored dawn, and he has peopled it with the
  beautiful women and hospitable men who lived the “life careless” in
  this alluring out-of-doors.

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  “A description so lovingly written, so full of local colored life,
  that we are glad to see it published in book form.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 102. Jl. 12, ’06. 50w.

  “Fine, graphic description.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 50w.


=Isham, Samuel.= History of American painting. *$5. Macmillan.

  “For the student no one could be a more inspiriting or a safer guide
  than Mr. Isham is, among the painters who flourished before the middle
  of the nineteenth century. Mr. Isham is ... the first to write a
  history of American painting on a generous scale, and with modern
  research.” Royal Cortissoz.

  + + – =Atlan.= 97: 278. F. ’06. 620w.

  “If the present offering is manifestly lacking on the scientific side,
  it is at least better printed and better illustrated than any previous
  attempt in the same fruitful and absorbing direction.” Christian
  Brinton.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 192. Ap. ’06. 1190w.

  “This work leaves little to be desired in the way of healthful and
  sound criticism of American painting, if it does leave ‘the history’
  of American painting yet to be written.” Charles Henry Hart.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 86. Ag. 16, ’06. 1940w.

  “In a word the book is a most notable one, marking an epoch in
  American art literature.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 28: 276. My. ’06. 400w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 437. Mr. 24, ’06. 890w.

  “In the lives of his painters, Mr. Isham, so far as we can judge, is
  accurate, and his biographical and critical notices are interesting.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 22. Ja. 19, ’06. 750w.

  “This survey of the history of American painting becomes peculiarly
  readable as well as valuable because of the high lights everywhere
  thrown on the narrative.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 854. Ap. 14, ’06. 1490w.

  “If we may criticise the extent of the work, its intent is more than
  gratifying.”

  + + – =Pub. Opin.= 39: 852. D. 30, ’05. 650w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 320w.


=Ivins, William Mills.= Soul of the people: a New year’s sermon. **60c.
Century.

  A buoyant, optimistic view of man’s present possibilities in working
  out his own salvation, and, in consequence, that of the nation.
  “Better than is to-day has never been” strikes the keynote that Dr.
  Ivins sounds out against the lethargy and incompetency which would
  shift the responsibility of duty to other shoulders.


                                   J


=Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams.= Persia past and present; a book
of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a
map. **$4. Macmillan.

  Professor Jackson, the chief American authority on the Indo-Iraman
  language considers Persia from one central point of view, viz., the
  religion of Zoroaster, and the Magi. It gives an idea of the life of
  the people and their history, and also an account of Transcaspia and
  Turkestan, as the route of the author carried him on into the heart of
  Asia, Mero, Bokara and Samarkand.

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  “Is the best possible guide to Persia that anyone could desire.”

  + + + =Cath. World.= 84: 415. D. ’06. 210w.

  “There is little of importance in the shah’s domains in the field of
  scholarship and literature which Professor Jackson does not touch.”
  Wallace Rice.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 110w.

  “In all, he has given us one of the most instructive and equally one
  of the most interesting and unusual books of travel and research that
  have appeared of late years.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 938. O. 18, ’06. 990w.

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 270w.

  “A masterpiece of its kind. It is one of the really notable books of
  the year.”

  + + + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

  “The book is not very fully indexed, but is profusely and well
  illustrated, and provided with an excellent map. Some slight errors,
  perhaps inseparable from so short a sojourn, are observable.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 376. N. 1, ’06. 1340w.

  “Is of equal value to the student of present day politics, manners,
  and customs, and to the student of history archæology, and religion.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 796. N. 24, ’06. 320w.

  “This exhaustive work ... combines in a happy manner, and in no less
  happy measure, the interests of the scholar with those of the
  traveller.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 379. D. ’06. 140w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 80w.


=Jackson, Charles Tenney.= Loser’s luck. †$1.50. Holt.

  “This lively book may be described as a blend of Bret Harte and Mr.
  Richard Harding Davis, and the mixture is commendable.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 200w.


=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= By love’s sweet rule: a story for
girls, [+]75c. Winston.

  The life of a lonely girl of fourteen living with her “papa checa” and
  stern Aunt Mathilda undergoes a joyous transformation when Aunt
  Mathilda leaves and Margaret Drake full of youth and sunshine takes
  her place.


=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= Wee Winkles and Snowball. †$1.25.
Harper.

  Wee Winkles, who is almost six and a half, Wideawake, who is more than
  two years older, and Snowball, who is a pet pony and does not have
  birthdays, are the really important characters in this story which
  teaches kindness and love toward animals and describes in detail how a
  pet pony should be cared for, harnessed and driven. Lest the book
  should seem too instructive there are picnics and plays, Christmas
  frolics and other things to hold the youthful interest.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 110w.


=Jacobs, William Wymark.= Captains all. †$1.50. Scribner.

  “Mr. Jacobs makes the sayings and the doings of a certain type of
  English low-life irresistibly funny in the telling.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 90w.

  “Are thankful for it and chuckle delightedly as we read.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 112. Ja. 11, ’06. 160w.

  “Each contains some new and unexpected twist of its own that makes it
  irresistible, and they are all tempting morsels of good cheer.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 53. Ja. 27, ’06. 860w.

  “A series of short stories in Mr. Jacob’s best vein.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 30w.


=James, George Wharton.= In and out of the old missions of California:
an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions. *$3.
Little.

  “An extremely valuable work. The author has given us a clear and
  concise description of the different missions.” Amy C. Rich.

    + + =Arena.= 35: 329. Mr. ’06. 850w.

  “Is a thoroughly satisfying book. The author’s historical account of
  the various discoveries, expeditions, and foundations is painstaking
  and accurate, his defense of the padres and their methods is generous,
  his love of the Indians whole-souled and his indignation at the past
  and present treatment by our government passionate but just.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 82: 835. Mr. ’06. 290w.

  “The book is marred by over-much sentimental rhetoric.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 110w.

  “This vivid and graphic description of the California missions is
  rendered particularly valuable by the presentation of several features
  in connection with them which have not been touched upon by previous
  writers.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 876. Ap. 12, ’06. 150w.

  “His book is undoubtedly a notable addition to our historical
  literature, and viewed whether as history pure and simple, as an
  indictment of our Indian policy, or as a contribution to the study of
  American art, will be found of distinct value.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, 06. 500w.

  “In view of the writer’s evident enthusiasm, it is to be regretted
  that his manner of presenting the subject has a certain quality of
  dryness.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 3. Ja. 6, ’06. 440w.

  “The plan followed by Mr. James is excellent.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.

  “A fresh treatment of a theme about which much has been written.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 100w.


=James, George Wharton.= Story of Scraggles; il. from drawings by Sears
Gallagher and from photographs. †$1. Little.

  Scraggle’s autobiography is a record of sweet bird life. Mr. James
  befriended this little, weak, scraggly sparrow, made a pet of it, and
  finally interpreted its thoughts as he set them down in his “Story.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is written in the fascinating style of this wizard with
  words.”

    + + =Arena.= 36: 684. D. ’06. 200w.

  “The three stories of individual animals—‘Scraggles,’ ‘Shaggycoat,’
  and ‘White Fang’—are destined for popularity, with scarcely a choice
  as to which best deserves it.” May Estelle Cook.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 130w.

        =Outlook.= 34: 534. O. 27, ’06. 70w.


=James, Henry.= English hours. *$5. Houghton.

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 578. O. 28. 440w.

  “Even the most hardened reviewer will get genuine pleasure from its
  pages.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 160w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 44. Ja. 4, ’06. 120w.

    + + =Nation.= 81: 528. D. 28, ’05. 820w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 330w.

  “Reasons for liking ‘English hours’ are as plentiful as blackberries.”

    + + =Reader.= 7: 336. F. ’06. 730w.

  “With all respect to the critics, somehow we find Mr. James at his
  best in these impressionistic sketches rather than in some of his much
  more lauded novels.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 120w.

  “Mr. James seldom praises without some qualifying, and more than
  qualifying, blame. And somehow his blame is much more pungently and
  intelligibly expressed than his praise.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 933. D. 2, ’05. 250w.


=James, Henry.= Question of our speech: The lesson of Balzac; two
lectures. **$1. Houghton.

      + =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 190w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 44. Ja. 4, ’06. 1040w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 100w.


=Jane, Frederick T.= Heresies of sea power. *$4. Longmans.

  A book which preaches the doctrine of hatred and declares “a crude
  desire to kill the enemy seems ever to have been a most valuable
  asset.” Part 1, contains much ancient naval history. In Part 2,
  Problems that sea-power does not solve, are discussed and there are
  chapters upon the guerre de course, commerce, defence, bases, secrecy
  and press law, the colonies, etc. Part 3, sets forth the trend of
  naval evolution as regards ships and men, and examines the qualities
  which go to constitute fitness to win.

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  “A book which is interesting, but does not exactly correspond to the
  promise of the title. The book has at least the merit that, whether
  sound or not, it will make the sailors who may read it apply thought
  to certain important points.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 698. Je. 9. 1130w.

  “We have no doubt but that Mr. Jane could write a good book if he
  chose, but in this case we are constrained to say that he has not
  chosen to do so.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 5: 290. Ag. 24, ’06. 810w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 447. Jl. 14, ’06. 1090w.

    – – =Sat. R.= 102: 270. S. 1, ’06. 1460w.


=Janssen, Johannes.= History of the German people at the close of the
middle ages; tr. from the German by A. M. Christie, v. 7–8. *$6.25; v.
9–10, *$6.25. Herder.

  Volumes seven and eight cover the period between the years 1550 and
  1580, recording such events as the religious conference at Worms in
  1557, the Diet of Augsburg in 1559, the Grumbach-Gotha conspiracy for
  a Lutheran empire, the effects in Germany of the religious wars in
  France and the Netherlands, the war against the Turks, the
  establishment and progress of the Jesuits in Germany and the final
  sessions and general effect of the Council of Trent. Volumes nine and
  ten “cover the comparatively brief period from 1580, the year of the
  proclamation of the famous Formula of Concord, to the beginning of the
  Thirty years’ war—a period that included the Cologne catastrophe, the
  introduction of the Gregorian calendar, the rise and fall of the
  Calvinist Chancellor Krell. The four convents’ dispute, the
  regrettable incident of Donauwörth and the great Julich Cleves
  wrangle.” (Sat. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As in the previous volumes, Dr. Janssen’s method of treating the
  events just touched upon is to allow the contemporary documents and
  records as far as possible to tell their own story in their own words.
  The system is an excellent one in many ways. It gives a vividness, a
  reality to the narrative that are invaluable. The author has too
  little of the dramatic instinct which no great historian has wholly
  lacked.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: 834. S. 15, ’06. 1480w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)


=Janvier, Margaret Thompson (Margaret Vandegrift, pseud.).= Umbrellas to
mend. $1.50. Badger.

  This fantastic little story is really an airy satire in which King
  Arthur, in order that he may annex a neighbor kingdom and acquire a
  sufficient range to fire his birthday cannon, urges the marriage of
  his daughter to the heir apparent. The princess, however, is a leader
  in the Current events club and strongminded; she leaves the court and
  wanders about in disguise for two years accompanied by her aunt.
  Meanwhile the prince goes in search of her in the guise of an umbrella
  mender, and in the end the princess accepts the prince but not the
  kingdom.

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 326. My. 19, ’06. 230w.


=Jastrow, Joseph.= Subconscious. **$2.50. Houghton.

  “The plan upon which the volume is organized is simple and natural. An
  opening series of chapters describes certain of the principles of
  normal psychology which are most pertinent to the understanding of the
  operations of the subconscious. This is followed by a group of
  chapters upon the abnormal variants of conscious process in so far as
  these are relevant to the main subject of the book and in so far as
  they fall short of actual insanity. The final portion of the book is
  devoted to an exposition of the theoretical deductions which the
  author advances on the basis of the preceding parts of his
  work.”—Dial.

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  “The style is pleasant, and, save in a few passages of philosophizing,
  lucid. The index is satisfactory. What we do not find satisfactory is
  this: there exists a large body of evidence, confessedly well
  recorded, which cannot be paid for in the currency of official
  psychology, while that currency defrays the expenses of other familiar
  experiences.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 482. O. 20. 1430w.

  “He is always a practical westerner the teacher of college classes,
  for whom the abnormal and the uncanny serve but to explain the
  commonplace.” E. T. Brewster.

      + =Atlan.= 98: 425. S. ’06. 130w.

  “For the psychologist the main value of the work will be in the
  compendious account which it furnishes of a large and significant
  group of related phenomena and its able exposition of a definite and
  frank attitude toward these phenomena. This attitude may be designated
  as that of impersonal empirical science. His pages are always
  picturesque and interesting, but the psychologist sometimes wishes
  that he would speak the language more technically. We must be
  sincerely grateful for an admirable achievement in a field calling
  loudly for such a piece of work.” James R. Angell.

      + =Dial.= 41: 106. S 1, ’06. 1900w.

  “The book ... can hardly be accorded unreserved commendation. It is
  far too diffuse and consequently far too long. And on the theoretic
  side also the work is not remarkable for any great lucidity, strength,
  and insight.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 310w.

  “His work is a valuable contribution to the subject. Occasionally the
  treatment is a little prolix.”

  + + – =Nature.= 74: 535. S. 27, ’06. 470w.

  “The ‘excursions into the abnormal field’ are not only the most
  interesting but the most valuable portions of his work.” L. C.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 499. Ag. 11, ’06. 650w.

  “Very readable and sane book.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 912. Ag. 18, ’06. 380w.


=Jaures, Jean Leon.= Studies in socialism; tr. with an introd. by
Mildred Minturn. **$1. Putnam.

  “The growing strength of socialism on both continents gives even its
  internal discussions of theory and tactics a general interest....
  These ‘studies in socialism,’ present a well-rounded exposition of the
  French leader’s views.... The four papers in the first section
  ‘Socialism and life,’ show us the aggressive and fundamentally
  revolutionary Collectivist.... Those in the second and longer section,
  entitled ‘Revolutionary evolution,’ deal with questions of Socialist
  method. Some of them have now only a historical interest; others,
  especially those in which the writer combats the semi-Anarchistic
  ideals of the anti-Parliamentary socialists, the advocates of the
  general strike, are as timely now as when they were written in
  1901.”—Ind.

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  “The whole making probably the best work that has appeared for general
  readers in search of a brief yet thoroughly intelligible presentation
  of the Socialistic philosophy.”

  + + + =Arena.= 36: 428. O. ’06. 9290w.

  “The chief value of the volume lies not in the introduction named upon
  the title-page, but in Mr. Macdonald’s short ‘Editorial note,’ the
  five pages of which contain an interesting personal pronouncement upon
  the future of the labour party in this country.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 543. My. 5. 280w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 637. S. 13, ’06. 700w.

  Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 432. Jl. 7, ’06. 2390w.

  “The radical defect of this volume as literature is that it is
  composed of essays and addresses put forth at different times and for
  different specific purposes. A common spirit animates them; a common
  philosophy underlies them. But such a collection of fragments cannot
  adequately give what the American student of social problems wants, a
  clear and coherent statement of modern constructive socialism.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 806. Ag. 4, ’06. 710w.

  “One of the greatest merits of this book is its freedom from the
  intolerant spirit which even the greatest socialistic writers display
  toward fellow socialists who disagree with them on matters of
  practical policy.”

      + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 564. S. ’06. 200w.

      – =Spec.= 97: 299. S. 1, ’06. 660w.


=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= World’s Christmas tree. **75c. Crowell.

  A plea to those who, in celebrating Christmas, remember their friends
  and all those near and dear to them but forget humanity, and the one
  for whom Christmas day is named. By gifts the author means not only
  material things but offerings of time, of kindness, of a happy face
  and a joyous spirit, such benefactions to society such gifts hung on
  the world’s Christmas tree, will truly celebrate the birthday of
  Jesus.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ind.= 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 50w.


=Jefferson, Thomas.= Letters and addresses of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by
William B. Parker and Jonas Viles. 56c. Unit bk.

  An edition based largely upon the complete works of Thomas Jefferson
  published under the auspices of the Jefferson memorial society.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “These books are a positive boon for teachers of history in our
  schools.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 97. F. 1, ’06. 70w.

    + + =Lit. D.= 22: 254. F. 17, ’06. 100w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 36. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 40w.


=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= Citizenship and the schools. $1.25. Holt.

  A volume of addresses and essays which aim to give “our teachers the
  viewpoint of social and political betterment as their chief aim in
  teaching.” The essays, which are all upon the nature of public life
  and public duty and the best methods of training children to become
  useful citizens, are entitled: Training for citizenship, The social
  basis of education, The making of citizens, Relation of the public
  schools to business, Education for commerce: the far East, Free speech
  in American universities, Critique of educational values, Policy of
  the state toward education, and Schoolbook legislation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is somewhat marred by repetition ... but the ideas it
  presents are so vital, and yet so generally neglected, that they
  deserve repetition in many volumes such as the one Prof. Jenks has
  given us.” R. C. B.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 653. Ag. ’06. 320w.

      + =Dial.= 41: 212. O. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “Sane and readable essays.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 30w.

  “The subjects treated are peculiarly adapted to the present period and
  would seem to embrace a wider field than that inferred in the title.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 230w.

        =Nation.= 83: 76. Jl. 26, ’06. 110w.

  “The book is so good and has in it so much that is intelligent and
  helpful as to the exceedingly important subject of which it treats,
  that it seems a pity that it has not been more thoroughly worked out
  and presented in a more orderly and symmetrical manner.” Edward Cary.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 481. Ag. 4, 06. 1440w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 1004. Ag. 25, ’06. 80w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 130w.

  “The reader may not agree with all of Professor Jenks’s conclusions,
  but he cannot fail to be inspired by the spirit of these addresses and
  essays.” Edward E. Hill.

  + + – =School R.= 14: 764. D. ’06. 580w.


=Jenks, Tudor.= In the days of Milton. **$1. Barnes.

  “The book is well adapted to promote the study of Milton, and the
  author has appended an excellent bibliography for that purpose.”

      + =Bookm.= 23: 659. Ag. ’06. 390w.


=Jepson, Edgar.= Lady Noggs, peeress. †$1.50. McClure.

  “These stories are amusing.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 182. F. 24, ’06. 180w.

  “Mr. Jepson has done much better.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 166. F. 10. 230w.

  “It is excellent trifling, and the most stolid reader must surely
  succumb to the fascinations of the gracious little figure who carries
  all before her in Mr. Jepson’s story.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 273. Mr. 3, ’06. 340w.

  “The spectacle of the highest officer of State reduced to helplessness
  by an imp of twelve years old might seem essentially farcical, but Mr.
  Jepson contrives to invest it with charm as well as humour.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 100. Ja. 20, ’06. 750w.


=Jespersen, (Jens) Otto (Harry).= Growth and structure of the English
language. *$1. Stechert.

  “The aim of the author is to characterise the chief peculiarities of
  the English language. He attempts to connect the teachings of
  linguistic history with the chief events in the general history of the
  English people, and to show the relation of language to national
  character. His plan is to first give a rapid sketch of the language of
  our own days, especially as it strikes a foreigner. Then he enters
  upon the history of the language, describes its connection with the
  other languages of the Indo-Germanic family, and traces the various
  foreign influences it has undergone. Last, he gives an account of its
  own internal development.”—Acad.

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  “This is a good book. It would form an excellent introduction to the
  historical study of the English language. The writer is not merely a
  swallower of other men’s formulas. There is an independent play of
  thought in Professor Jespersen’s exposition which is not so very
  common in the work of philologists.” A. L. Mayhew.

      + =Acad.= 71: 127. Ag. 11, ’06. 1590w.

  “The style of this excellent work displays a correctness and ease
  which would be highly creditable to a native scholar, and are
  marvelous in the case of a foreigner, while the matter and method
  evince adequate mastery of the intricate subject.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 331. S. 2. 770w.

  “It is the work of a competent scholar, widely familiar with English
  and American literature, and written in the light of most modern
  linguistic science.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 121. S. 1, ’06. 80w.

  “Careful and scholarly history.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 60w.

  Reviewed by O. F. Emerson.

    + – =School R.= 14: 312. Ap. ’06. 600w.


=Jevons, Herbert Stanley.= Essays on economics. *$1.60. Macmillan.

  “The author assumes that nothing is known regarding utility, labor,
  exchange and capital, rent and production and endeavors to arrive at
  the laws, regulating them by reason rather than by experience or
  authority. Especially novel is the attempt to treat these topics by
  the diagrammatic method like Euclidian problems.”—N.Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Jevons fortunately possesses a bright and attractive style.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 449. Ap. 14. 620w.

  “Novelty of treatment rather than of matter is the attraction of this
  book. The book is of high quality.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 127. Mr. 3, ’06. 200w.

  “However little one may be disposed to accept many of the author’s
  views, one must recognize in this little book a quality of vigorous
  thought and of definite expression which is unfortunately rare in much
  of current economic writing.”

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 566. S. ’06. 180w.


=Jevons, William Stanley.= Principles of economics: a fragment of a
treatise on the industrial mechanism of society and other papers.
*$3.25. Macmillan.

  “Altogether, these fragments are good to read, for their vigour, their
  justice, their sanity and their humour.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 120. Ja. 27, ’06. 810w.


Jewish encyclopaedia; ed. by Isidore Singer. 12v. $84. Funk.

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 461. My. 12, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 11.)

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 12.)

  “It would not be difficult to point out shortcomings of various kinds;
  but the work as a whole is very creditable and scholarly.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 666. Je. 2. 450w. (Review of v. 11.)

  “We gladly recommend the ‘Encyclopedia’ to the reading public. It
  should be found on the shelves of all great libraries, and it should
  also be purchased by all those who aim at the collection of a good
  representative private library.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 208. Ag. 25. 1470w. (Review of v. 12.)

  + + + =Ind.= 60: 1286. My. 31, ’06. 270w. (Review of v. 12.)

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 470. Je. 7, ’06. 350w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 923. D. 30, ’05. 1780w. (Review of v. 11 and
          12.)

  “Too much cannot be said in its praise. The work is accurate, and
  despite the twelve volumes, concise.”

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 12.)

  “A work of high value, it is highly creditable to all who have shared
  in its production, together with its publishers.”

  + + + =Outlook.= 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 12.)

  + + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 12.)

  “It should not be inferred, however, that the material embraced in
  this encyclopedia is merely of a narrow, racial interest. On the
  contrary, there is hardly an article in any of the volumes which does
  not contain valuable and important information for the general
  reader.”

  + + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 10 and 11.)

  + + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 12.)

  “These volumes contain some work which is of first-rate quality, while
  the rest may be described as sufficient for the purpose.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 212. F. 17, ’06. 960w. (Review of v. 7–11.)

  “The work has already attained the rank of a standard authority upon
  everything connected with the Jewish race and religion.”

  + + + =Sat. R.= 102: 518. O. 27, ’06. 1460w. (Review of v. 12.)

  “‘Saul’ ... is an article to which one naturally turns. Our chief
  complaint is that Dr. Kohler takes as generally accepted conclusions
  many critical statements which are scarcely worth considering.”

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 96. Jl. 21, ’06. 1440w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)


=Joachim, Harold H.= Nature of truth: an essay. *$2. Oxford.

  Mr. Joachim says in his preface, “The following essay does not pretend
  to establish a new theory. Its object is to examine certain typical
  notions of truth, one or other of which—whether in the form of a vague
  assumption or raised to the level of an explicit theory—has hitherto
  served as the basis of philosophical speculation. If I am not
  mistaken, every one of these typical notions and accredited theories
  of truth fails sooner or later to maintain itself against critical
  investigation. And I have tried ... to indicate in what direction (if
  in any) there appears some prospect of more successful construction.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Joachim’s essay is an examination of three typical notions as to
  what truth is, and will be found most direct of all recent attempts to
  answer Pilate’s question.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 96. Jl. 28. 700w.

  “In view of the fundamental value of Mr. Joachim’s work it seems
  ungracious to allude to secondary blemishes. But it is not easy
  reading, and the author has provided no analysis of argument and only
  a scanty index.” F. C. S. Schiller.

  + + – =J. Philos.= 3: 54. S. 27, ’06. 3520w.

  “His book as a whole shows the possession of the philosophic temper in
  a high degree, and its conclusions are the more valuable because they
  are so carefully and moderately expressed.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 303. S. 7, ’06. 2140w.

  “Up to a point. Mr. Joachim’s work fulfills our expectations. The
  trouble is that, at the end of it all, Mr. Joachim has to confess
  himself beaten. His notion of truth will not work out, and leaves him
  with only negative results, hoping against hope to escape from
  skepticism.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 42. Jl. 12, ’06. 1230w.

  “It claims no positive result, but is an acute, though rather involved
  and at times scholastic criticism of three current conceptions of

  + + – =Philos. R.= 15: 658. N. ’06. 480w.

  “This short essay of under two hundred pages seems to us the most
  important contribution to English philosophy—with the exception of Mr.
  Haldane’s last book—since the appearance of Mr. F. H. Bradley’s
  ‘Appearance and reality.’ In his candour, his freshness, and his power
  of clean-cut definition he has many points of resemblance to the
  latter writer.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 984. Je. 23, ’06. 1870w.


=Job, Herbert Keightley.= Wild wings: adventures of a camera-hunter
among the larger birds of No. America on sea and land. **$3. Houghton.

  “This is emphatically a book to be bought; the ornithologist must have
  it; the lover of nature should have it.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 611. My. 19. 600w.

  “Attractive book.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 1129. D. 30, ’05. 130w.


=Johnson, Burges.= Beastly rhymes; with pictures to correspond by E.
Warde Blaisdell. **$1. Crowell.

  Familiar beasts are put thru clever performances in rhyme as well as
  pictures taxing both their acrobatic skill and animal mentality. “The
  aim of the little book is rather the instruction of Youth than the
  edification of Age.”

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  “Mr. Johnson’s animal verses are as amusing in their way as his
  ‘Rhymes of little boys’ Were in another fashion.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 13, ’06. 70w.


=Johnson, Claude Ellsworth.= Training of boys’ voices. 75c. Ditson.

  All who are interested in the training of children’s voices in school,
  Sunday school, or choir, will find this little text-book useful. The
  chapter headings will suggest its scope: Children’s natural voices,
  Beginning tone production, Voice training, Vocal exercises, Music in
  schools, Boys in church choirs, The selection of music for boys’
  voices.

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  “His remarks on voice training are commendable.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 229. S. 13, ’06. 630w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 70w.


=Johnson, Clifton.= Birch-tree fairy book. †$1.75. Little.

  This companion volume to “The oak-tree fairy book” contains a wide
  variety of stories ranging from simple folk-tales to fairy romances,
  but all have been carefully edited for home reading and while the
  charm remains the savagery and distressing details have been omitted.
  The stories given are; Tom Thumb, The giant with the golden hair,
  Three feathers, Jack the Giant-killer, The ugly duckling, The forty
  robbers, The wizard and the beggar, and a score more old favorites.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Timid parents need not fear to place these stories in the hands of
  the most sensitive child. Savagery, excessive pathos, undue thrills
  are all glossed over or dispensed with.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 80w.

        =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

  “A collection that will suit the ideas of most parents as to
  children’s reading much better than the old versions.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w.


=Johnson, Emory Richard.= Ocean and inland water transportation.
**$1.50. Appleton.

  The general scope of this work is suggested by the chapter headings:
  The measurements of vessels and traffic, The history of the ocean
  carrier, Ways and terminals of ocean transportation, The ocean freight
  service, The ocean mail service, The International express service,
  Rate and traffic agreements, pools, and consolidation of ocean
  carriers, Marine insurance, Aid and regulation by the national
  government, The mercantile marine policy of the United States.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is at once historical, analytical, and descriptive, and it is thus
  of value alike for general reading, as a text-book, and as a work of
  reference.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 864. Ag. 11, ’06. 310w.

  “Topics, which are only imperfectly understood by the average
  landsman, are presented by Mr. Johnson in a clear and interesting
  way.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 70w.


=Johnson, Joseph French.= Money and currency in relation to industry,
prices and the rate of interest. *$1.75. Ginn.

  Of his work the author says: “While it is intended to be a complete
  exposition of the science of money ... its unique characteristics, if
  it possess any will be found in the deep practical significance it
  discovers in the phenomena of price, in its analysis of the demand for
  money, in its exposition of credit as related to prices and the rate
  of interest, and in the clearness it gives to the concepts of
  commodity money, fiat money, and credit money. This book deals with
  money as an independent economic entity, and seeks to bring out the
  fact that ‘price’ in the world of business is a more important word
  than ‘value’.”

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  “He has slurred over certain controverted topics, in order to avoid
  snags which he regards as needless difficulties. Without presuming to
  pass judgment upon these disputed technicalities, it is safe to say
  that the book will be of use as an account of the actual phenomena of
  money and currency.” A. W. S.

      + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 427. N. ’06. 90w.

  “Professor Johnson has rendered a valuable service in his scholarly,
  and at the same time practical, discussion of the money problem. He
  has made a book which is simple in language and readable.” Charles A.
  Conant.

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 192. Jl. ’06. 870w.

  “Aside from his novel classification of the forms of money, the author
  contributes no additional material of any importance to the general
  subject of money.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 218. Jl. 26, ’06. 350w.

  “What should prove the best text in its field. Particularly to be
  commended are the careful analysis of the demand for money, the
  discussion of ‘fiat’ money and the treatment of the difficult subject
  of credit.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 366. My. 3, ’06. 140w.

  “Few or none which will better repay study by the serious merchant who
  wishes help by which to forecast the future and protect himself
  against reverses which come to many unawares and not understood.”
  Edward A. Bradford.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 354. Je. 9, ’06. 2200w.

  “Professor Johnson’s book is a welcome addition to the voluminous
  literature of money, and, with its errors of detail eliminated, it
  will, without doubt, take rank among the best of the general works
  upon the subject.” A. Piatt Andrew.

  + + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 714. D. ’06. 1870w.


=Johnson, Owen, Max Fargus.= †$1.50. Baker.

  A most unpleasing group of people are met with in the course of this
  story, which is interesting because the characters are well drawn, and
  the plot is well handled. Max Fargus, an old miser, rich thru the
  astute management of his oyster houses, meets in the park an
  impoverished actress who shrewdly leads him on and, posing as a
  country girl, actually wins his affections. He has her investigated,
  however, by a shyster lawyer before he marries her and the lawyer
  drives a crafty bargain with the girl, by which, in return for his
  favorable report, he is to receive half her gains. After marriage
  Fargus becomes suspicious and later works out a revenge which succeeds
  so well that all the leading characters are left either dead or
  miserable and the shyster’s partner, who has become his enemy,
  receives the Fargus money.

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  “There is something exceedingly refreshing in the very grimness of Mr.
  Johnson’s new story. It would be high praise—perhaps too high
  praise—to say that the characters are as well drawn as they are
  named.” Firmin Dredd.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 161. O. ’06. 450w.

  “While in general the author has hardly risen to the literary
  possibilities of his theme, his book is not without merit.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 260w.

  “The tale, though, in all its situations, wholly incredible, is told
  with spirit, and an occasional good bit of characterization.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 310w.

  “It is a picture of depravity and simply that, clever enough in
  workmanship, but lacking in motive.”

    – + =Outlook.= 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 160w.


=Johnson, Samuel.= Lives of English poets; ed. by George Birkbeck Hill,
with brief memoir of Dr. Birkbeck Hill by his nephew, Harold Spencer
Scott. 3 v. *$10.50. Oxford.

  This three-volume edition of the “Lives of the poets” is the
  fulfillment of Dr. Birkbeck Hill’s promise made in the preface to this
  edition of Boswell’s “Life.” Mr. Harold Spencer Scott, Dr. Hill’s
  nephew, has prepared this edition for the press, preserving the main
  outlines of the work as they were left by the author. He has further
  contributed a memoir and bibliography of his uncle.

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    + + =Acad.= 70: 133. F. 10, ’06. 1350w.

  “Dr. Hill devoted many years of research to Johnson and Johnson’s
  period and we know no modern talent which can be ranked with his in
  its wonderful grasp of contemporary sidelights on his subject.”

  + + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 162. F. 10. 3020w.

  “A reprint of special importance.” H. W. Boynton.

  + + + =Atlan.= 98: 276. Ag. ’06. 970w.

  “One does not have to proceed far in one’s examination either of the
  notes or of the list of books quoted before one perceives that in this
  posthumous work Dr. Hill cast his nets almost as frequently and as
  widely as he did in his Boswell, and caught almost as many fish, large
  and small, common and strange, in the shape of apposite and
  illuminating quotations from all manner of books and writers.” W. P.
  Trent.

  + + + =Forum.= 37: 540. Ap. ’06. 5760w.

  “A more thorough and accurate piece of revision and verification than
  is represented by the text, notes, and index of the present edition
  will rarely, we imagine, be found in editorial annals.”

  + + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 41. F. 9, ’06. 3000w.

  “It was a happy idea of Dr. Birkbeck Hill to publish the “Lives” in
  what will probably be their final edition.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 37. Jl. 12, ’06. 2130w.


=Johnson, William Henry.= French pathfinders in North America. $1.50.
Little.

  “Written in a style especially adapted for younger readers.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 50w.

  “A useful book for school libraries.”

      + =School R.= 14: 231. Mr. ’06. 20w.


=Johnson, William Henry.= Sir Galahad of New France. †$1.50. Turner, H.
B.

  “It is a harmless little idyl, pleasantly told, a new version of ‘The
  forest lovers,’ plus a race problem, and minus Hewlett’s genius.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 22: 632. F. ’06. 280w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 757. Je. ’06. 60w.


=Johnson, Wolcott.= Old man’s idyl. **$1. McClurg.

      + =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 60w.


=Johnston, Alexander.= American political history, 1763–1876; ed. and
supplemented by James Albert Woodburn. 2v. ea. *$2. Putnam.

  “This volume presents in book form the series of articles on ‘American
  political history’ contributed by the late Prof. Johnston of Princeton
  to Lalor’s ‘Cyclopedia of political science, political parties, and
  political history,’ in the period from 1763 to 1832. The next volume
  will come down to 1876. The editor’s task has been to arrange,
  connect, and supplement Prof. Johnston’s papers so as to present a
  compact and continuous narration. He has also written a brief
  introduction, and an able history and analysis of the Monroe doctrine,
  and some material has been added to bring the history down to date.
  The work, however, remains substantially Prof. Johnston’s.”—N. Y.
  Times.

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  “As it stands the book is hard to use, especially the second volume,
  and can scarcely be handled except by such as are already familiar
  with United States history. The narrowly political standpoint of the
  author gives the work an old-fashioned air. The strong point of the
  essays lies in the clearness and vigor with which political action and
  motives are analyzed, and for this reason the volumes, in spite of
  their chaotic character, will be of permanent value.” Theodore Clarke
  Smith.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 688. Ap. ’06. 840w.

  “Of the worth of the articles themselves there is, of course, no
  question, and the work of the editor seems to have been, on the whole,
  skilfully performed.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 157. F. 22, ’06. 360w.

  “It is valuable rather for its suggestions and conclusions than for
  the mere statement of facts.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 770w. (Review of v. 1.)

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 88. F. 10, ’06. 910w. (Review of v. 2.)

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 120w.

  “His treatment of political parties in the middle third of the
  nineteenth century is especially illuminating and useful.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Johnston, Annie Fellows.= Little colonel’s Christmas vacation. †$1.50.
Page.

  This latest book in the “Little colonel” series tells the story of the
  little Colonel at school, of her breakdown and enforced stay at home,
  of her holiday good times, and of kind deeds she is able to render
  less fortunate ones.

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      + =Ind.= 59: 1388. D. 14, ’05. 60w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 676. O. 14, ’05. 120w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 795. N. 25, ’05. 120w.


=Johnston, Mrs. Annie Fellows.= Little colonel, maid of honor. $1.50.
Page.

  The little Kentucky “colonel,” so much of a favorite with young
  readers, has reached the age for interest in other people’s love
  affairs. The main action of this new page of happenings in the life of
  Lloyd Sherman centers about a southern wedding, so perfectly arranged
  as to give the impression that everything “bloomed into place.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Will be in large demand as a holiday gift.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 120w.


=Joinville, Jean de.= Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville; new Eng. version
by Ethel Wedgwood. *$3. Dutton.

  An old chronicle six hundred years old is reproduced here. It records
  the life and adventures of King Louis of France, known as the “Saint,”
  with special reference to the seventh crusade in Egypt. The book is
  fully illustrated.

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  “We can speak very highly of Miss Wedgwood’s powers of translation;
  she preserves the spirit of her author, and suggests many of the
  qualities of his style.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 270. S. 3. 670w.

  “A new and pleasing translation of one of the most fascinating human
  documents of mediæval times.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 121. S. 1, ’06. 40w.

  “Some omissions in the text have been made. One is apt to think that
  if the book is worth publishing at all, for the student’s use at
  least, it would have been better not to omit these parts of the text
  and to add some bibliographical notes.”

    – + =Ind.= 61: 1352. D. 6, ’06. 300w.

  “The translator, if such a word can be applied to the author, has done
  a worthy piece of work, which will be more useful than popular; more
  lasting to the old than absorbing to the young.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 70w.

  “The diction preserves excellently the general effect of the original.
  It is a very simple diction, by the way, not running too much to the
  archaic.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 477. Jl. 28, ’06. 700w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 210w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 60w.

  “This is one of the most delightful books we have come across for a
  long time. The translation is spirited and excellent; the preface and
  notes are just what a reader wants; and no more than he wants, for
  intelligent enjoyment of one of the great stories of all time.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 655. N. 3, ’06. 1650w.


=Jones, Chester Lloyd.= Consular service of the United States, its
history and activities. $1.25. Pub. for the Univ. of Pa. by Winston.

  A monograph dealing with the subject under the following headings:
  Legislative history, Organization, Rights and duties of consuls, Extra
  territoriality, Consular assistance to the foreign trade of the United
  States, European consular systems, and Suggestions for the improvement
  of the service.

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        =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 208. O. ’06. 50w.

  “The work is a welcome addition to the too meagre literature
  concerning our foreign trade.” George M. Fisk.

    + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 580. N. ’06. 320w.

  “Mr. Jones has collected a large number of facts connected with his
  subject and has brought them together in convenient and readable
  form.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 471. Jl. 28, ’06. 620w.

  “This is a rather more ambitious and comprehensive history of our
  ‘trade ambassadors’ abroad than has been published before.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 70w.

  “An exhaustive, scholarly monograph.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 70w.

        =Yale R.= 15: 337. N. ’06. 160w.


=Jones, Harry Clary.= Electrical nature of matter and radioactivity. $2.
Van Nostrand.

  The author has brought together here articles that were published as a
  series in the Electrical review. The treatment is more popular than
  technical, yet accurate scientifically.

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  “We think that he has produced a book which should prove useful to
  those whose mathematical attainments do not permit them to study the
  larger and more difficult works of Prof. J. J. Thomson and Prof.
  Rutherford.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 306. S. 15. 840w.

  “His vigor carries one along at such a rate that, did one not know
  better, he would be convinced of certain statements often not proved,
  or forget that there is another side to the question.” Charles
  Baskerville.

    + – =Engin. N.= 56: 53. Jl. 12, ’06. 680w.

  “The facts are clearly stated and neatly summarized, but without any
  attempt at adventitious ornamentation to catch the attention of the
  casual reader.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 457. Ag. 23, ’06. 460w.

  “Well adapted to bringing one’s physics up to date.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 203. S. 6, ’06. 60w.

  “The book as a whole gives a comprehensive and interesting survey of
  the radio-activity of matter as it is interpreted by the
  disintegration hypothesis. Perhaps the best chapters are those dealing
  with the reproduction of radio-active matter and the theory arising
  therefrom.” F. S.

  + + – =Nature.= 74: 632. O. 25, ’06. 750w.

  “The subject is recondite, yet its presentation is sufficiently
  simplified for easy comprehension.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 910. Ag. 18, ’06. 250w.


=Jones, Samuel Milton.= Letters of labor and love. **$1. Bobbs.

  “No man or woman can read this book without being made purer, nobler
  and truer for its perusal. It is a volume that will make for civic
  righteousness, a nobler manhood and a juster social order.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 101. Ja. ’06. 430w.

  “As the most forcible and significant utterances of such a man, these
  letters should find ready welcome not only among his admirers but also
  among all who are interested in the deeper problems of society.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 129. F. 16, ’06. 510w.

  “It is the real Jones as his friends knew him who appears in this
  book, and no one who wants a memorial of his life and teachings can
  well do without it.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 290w.


=Jonson, Ben.= Devil is an ass; ed. with introduction, notes and
glossary by William Savage Johnson. $2. Holt.

  “This seems to suffer from what may be called a lack of artistic
  restraint in annotation.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 37. Ja. 11, ’06. 160w.


=Jordan, David Starr.= Guide to the study of fishes. 2v. **$12. Holt.

  “Unfortunately the index is not so good as it might be. It may be said
  generally that it would be difficult to praise this fine work too
  highly.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 77. Jl. 21. 720w.

  “Where the author has wandered from the narrower field of systematic
  ichthyology, with its attendant problems of distribution and external
  morphology, he has sometimes fallen into vagueness or error. Where, on
  the other hand, he has traversed his own familiar ground he has
  supplied a real need and supplied it admirably.” Jacob Reighard.

  + + – =Science=, n.s. 22: 861. D. 29, ’05. 2740w.


=Jordan, Louis Henry.= Comparative religion: its genesis and growth.
*$3.50. Scribner.

  “Mr. Jordan’s book is of the nature of a work of reference, and must
  have involved great labor.” (Acad.) “It is mainly descriptive of the
  distinctive method, aim, and scope of the new science, its genesis,
  its prophets and pioneers, its founders and masters, its schools and
  auxiliary sciences, its mental emancipations, other achievements and
  growing bibliography.” (Outlook.)

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  “From its very nature it can hardly be said to make interesting
  reading; but it will be found invaluable as a manual.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1258. D. 2, ’05. 80w.

  “The volume shows wide reading and great industry in bringing so many
  names together. Yet the chapter on auxiliary or subsidiary sciences
  might have been retrenched with advantage, and the illustrations of
  comparative sciences are too many. The value of the book will be found
  to consist in its full bibliography, which is made available by a
  copious index.” Henry Preserved Smith.

  + + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 701. O. ’06. 920w.

  “A valuable handbook of great breadth of learning, written in an
  admirable spirit. It is a book for which we are profoundly thankful,
  notwithstanding the fact that it has some defects which are incidental
  to the manner of its composition.” George A. Barton.

  + + – =Bib. World.= 28: 285. O. ’06. 890w.

  “It must be admitted that so great a task, beyond the first-hand
  knowledge of any one man, is on the whole well done.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1542. D. 28, ’05. 230w.

  “Whoever wishes to know ‘all about’ comparative religion at its
  present stage will find cyclopaedic information here in sufficient
  fullness, not merely in the text but also in appended charts, and all
  carefully indexed for ready reference.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1082. D. 30, ’05. 270w.

  “Mr. Jordan’s book will probably interest even the casual reader, but
  it will be of special value to the student for the sake of its
  elaborate bibliography. So far as we have been able to apply a test,
  no important work, either in English or a foreign language, has been
  overlooked.”

  + + + =Sat. R.= 101: 462. Ap. 14, ’06. 1450w.

  “It contains too much, attempts too much, it is irritating; but on the
  other hand it is a very thorough and comprehensive work, especially to
  be recommended for reference to out-of-the-way information.” E.
  Washburn Hopkins.

    + – =Yale R.= 14: 438. F. ’06. 1070w.


=Joseph, H. W. B.= Introduction to logic. *$3.15. Oxford.

  A restatement of the traditional doctrine “which is used at the
  universities as an instrument of intellectual discipline.” (Lond.
  Times.) “Mr. Joseph has interesting remarks to make on the relation
  between mathematics and logic, and a good statement of the doctrine
  that the principle of syllogistic inference cannot be made into the
  premise of a particular syllogism without begging the question. His
  chapter entitled ‘The presuppositions of inductive reasoning: the law
  of causation’ is a model of clear and forcible reasoning. Mill’s four
  methods, he finds, may be reduced to one ‘method of experimental
  inquiry.’” (Nature.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A thoughtful and scholarly treatise, conceived on the lines of a good
  text-book.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 362. O. 26, ’06. 430w.

  “Useful as his book may prove to an advanced logician, it is almost
  the worst possible for a beginner’s introduction to the subject.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 1560w.

  “It is an excellent and very sound exposition of the traditional logic
  for which Oxford has been famous ever since the days of Chaucer’s
  Clerk. But if the matter is traditional, the manner of exposition is
  as fresh and independent as it could well be, and the author has
  entirely fulfilled the desire expressed in his preface not to teach
  anything to beginners which they should afterwards have merely to
  unlearn.”

    + + =Nature.= 75: 2. N. 1, ’06. 450w.


=Josephus, Flavius.= Works; tr. by William Whiston, and edited by D. S.
Margoliouth. $2. Dutton.

  “The complete works of the learned and spirited writer, Flavius
  Josephus, compressed in one royal octavo volume.... The editor’s work
  ... includes an introductory essay, and a few notes, and a careful
  collation of the text with the critical edition of the original Greek
  of Niese and Von Destinon, and its division into sections after the
  plan of the learned German editors. Recent research has been
  intelligently summarized. All of Josephus is here, including, of
  course, the few disputed passages.”—N. Y. Times.

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  “The editor’s Introduction is decidedly piquant. He seems to treat his
  author in exactly the right vein, now genially discounting his
  marvelous exploits, now politely doubting his veracity while enjoying
  his romance.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 666. Je. 2. 630w.

  “The introduction is, of course, admirably written, and weighted with
  references to the learned literature of the subject; still more loaded
  with erudition are the notes.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 211. Je. 8, ’06. 570w.

  “Is admirably adapted to the chief use to which it is likely to be
  put, as a book of reference for library shelves.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 340. My. 26, ’06. 230w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 50w.


=Joubert, Carl.= Fall of tsardom. *$2. Lippincott.

  “This volume consists of threatenings against the Russian government,
  and reminiscences of what has happened in the past after similar
  threats had been made.” (N. Y. Times.). “It cannot be said that in
  these pages the author gives an accurate picture of social and
  political conditions; his pen is distinctly that of an advocate. For
  example he criticises the secret societies for the purposeless crimes
  they commit, but at the same time he defends the ‘revolutionary
  committee’ for sanctioning assassination ‘in extreme cases.’ Purely
  constitutional reform is in his opinion hopeless; the tsardom is a
  deadly growth that must be plucked out by the roots.” (Critic.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The tone of exaggeration which pervades ‘The fall of tsardom’ tends
  to disguise those of the observations and reflections of the author
  which might otherwise been thought of value.”

      – =Ath.= 1905, 1: 747. Je. 17. 680w.

  “The theories which the author promulgates ... are less interesting
  than the experiences he describes. Those interested in current
  movements in Russia should not overlook this account of them.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 220w.

  “Is a miscellaneous collection of gossip, scraps of information of
  questionable authenticity, court scandals, and hints at deeper
  knowledge yet.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 4: 176. Je. 9, ’05. 730w.

  “The book is interesting, even if not convincing.”

  – – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 174. Mr. 24, ’06. 650w.


=Joubert, Carl.= Truth about the Tsar. *$2. Lippincott.

  One of the three rather sensational volumes on Russian subjects which
  have been written by this man whose real name is not Joubert. “It is
  not Russia that has gone mad, but Tsardom. As autocratic sovereigns,
  the hours of the Romanoffs are numbered. A constitutional monarchy or
  the United States of Russia are the only alternatives possible. Such
  are the opinions of Carl Joubert—who claims to know both the land and
  the ruler, and who reiterates in this volume the ideas he promulgated
  in ‘Russia as it really is.’” (Critic.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Even if only half its statements are true, it is worth reading.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 191. F. ’06. 340w.

  “As our author indulges in fewer Russian words than in his former
  volumes his errors are fewer.”

    – – =Nation.= 82: 267. Mr. 29, ’06. 1260w.

  “An entertaining and upon the whole, informing book about Russian
  affairs. It is rhetoric, not history, and the fact that the special
  pleading is on the right side does not make it any less special.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 24. Ja. 13, ’06. 690w.

  “Mr. Joubert is more rhetorical and less precise than we could wish.”

      – =Spec.= 94: 218. F. 11, ’06. 1570w.


=Joutel, Henri.= Joutel’s journal of La Salle’s last voyage, 1684–7.
*$5. McDonough.

  “One of the most valuable source-books of American history.... The
  writer was a townsman of the great pathfinder, sailed with him from
  France in 1684, accompanied him in his after-wanderings in the wilds,
  and while not an eye-witness to his murder, was not far away when the
  fatal shot was fired by the desperate mutineer, Duhaut. The story of
  the misfortune of the pioneers and of the terrible days that followed
  the murder of their leader is told with a directness and simplicity
  that grip the attention with the interest of a work of fiction.... Dr.
  Henry R. Stiles, the editor of the present reprint ... rounds out
  Joutel’s narrative by historical and biographical introductions, the
  latter explaining who Joutel was, and the former giving an accurate
  and interesting account of La Salle’s earlier explorations. The book
  also contains a bibliographical appendix covering the literature on
  the discovery of the Mississippi.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 973. Jl. ’06. 160w.

        =Ath.= 1906, 2: 307. S. 5. 110w.

  “Joutel’s narrative is not only the most authoritative account of that
  last voyage which ended so tragically for La Salle, but it is
  eminently readable.”

  + + + =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 450w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 142. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 380. Je. 9, ’06. 410w.

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 287. Je. 2, 06. 250w.

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 338. S. 15, ’06. 260w.

  “The account, so happily composed, had the further good fortune to be
  translated into excellent English, the authentic speech of the time;
  and it is this version which is here faithfully reprinted and
  skilfully annotated by Dr. Stiles, to whom we are pleased to give the
  credit of a sound and scholarly piece of work.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 440. S. 29, ’06. 1350w.


=Judson, Frederick Newton.= Law of interstate commerce and its federal
regulation. *$5. Flood, T. H.

  “With some well directed effort it might have been made a permanent
  contribution to the literature of the subject.” H. A. C.

    – + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 561. S. ’06. 1220w.

  “An authoritative and codified statement of existing law and practice
  on the subject of interstate commerce. The book is marred by careless
  proof-reading.” Frank Haigh Dixon.

  + + – =Yale R.= 15: 91. My. ’06. 730w.


=Judson, William Pierson.= City roads and pavements suited to cities of
moderate size. **$2. Eng. news.

  This new edition, revised and rendered thoroly up to date, has been
  issued in response to the continued call for a guide to the building
  of real highways as well as of city pavements. The history, cost,
  composition and durability of various pavements are given under the
  headings: Preparation of streets for pavements, Ancient pavements,
  Modern pavements, Concrete base for pavements, Block-stone pavements,
  Concrete pavements, Wood pavements, Vitrified brick pavements,
  American sheet-asphalt, artificial and natural, Bitulithic pavement,
  and Broken stone roads.


Justice for the Russian Jew; an appeal to humanity for the cessation of
an unprecedented international crime against an outraged and oppressed
race. *25c. Ogilvie.

  A complete stenographic report of the stirring speeches delivered at
  the great mass meeting in Washington, D. C., January 21, 1906, called
  to protest against the murders of the Jews in Russia, with photographs
  and sketches of the speakers. The list of speakers includes;
  Congressman Sulzer; Rev. Francis T. McCarthy; Hon. Wendell Phillips
  Stafford; Rev. Donald C. MacLeod; Hon. Henry T. Rainey; Col. John A.
  Joyce; and Hon. Chas. A. Towne.

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        =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 50w.


                                   K


=Kaempfer, Engelbert.= History of Japan. 3v. *$9. Macmillan.

  “Kaempfer covers an extraordinarily wide field. The long journey to
  Japan, the geography, climate, origin and history of the people, their
  religions, their mode of government, their chronological system, their
  laws, manners and customs, their natural and industrial productions,
  their systems of trade, are all described. The portion of the work
  which deals with the history and religion will now appeal only to the
  esoteric reader.... But nearly the whole of the second and third
  volumes, in which are described in minute detail the author’s life at
  Nagasaki; the journeys to and from and life at the capital; wayside
  scenes and travellers along the great high-roads, the Court of the
  Shogun, who is called the secular monarch, as distinct from ‘the
  Ecclesiastical hereditary Emperor,’ the Mikado and the popular
  festivals, are so full of interest that he would be indeed a dull
  reader who was not entranced by their continued intrinsic
  charms.”—Sat. R.

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  “It is a wise and faithful account with more than an occasional touch
  of dry humour.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 569. Je. 16. ’06. 430w.

  “The reproduction is, in every respect, worthy of its original, and in
  its new and convenient form the ‘Historia’ should meet with many
  readers, as an achievement of the highest interest in itself, and as
  the beginning and foundation of all true knowledge of the pattern
  people of the twentieth century.”

  + + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 6. Jl. 7. 2610w.

  “For the reference library and the philosophical student of the
  Japanese, the work is invaluable.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 448. My. 31, ’06. 250w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 572. S. 15, ’06. 470w.

  “The publication of this new edition is therefore a real public
  service. We have only one fault to find. Kaempfer’s spelling of native
  terms is so archaic as, in many instances, to be absolutely
  unintelligible to modern readers and difficult to follow even by
  persons more than ordinarily acquainted with the history, geography
  and language of Japan.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: 17. Jl. 7. ’06. 1660w.


=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Joey at the fair. 75c.
Crowell.

  Boys in the early “teens” will enjoy this story of a New England farm
  and of Joey and how he attained his great ambition of raising a calf
  which should win the blue ribbon at the county fair. The achievement
  is made more difficult because of a young city cousin who is a
  mischief maker from the time of his arrival and who almost succeeds in
  maliciously diverting the blue ribbon from the sleek Betty; but Joey
  and the calf win out in the end.


=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Light keepers: a story of the
United States light-house service. †$1.50. Dutton.

  How Cary’s Ledge light was kept according to the “rules an’
  regerlations,” by its three old keepers, Cap’n Eph, Sammy, and Uncle
  Zenas, third assistant and also cook, is here told in a fashion
  pleasing to young folks. How they blamed themselves for neglecting the
  day’s routine in order to risk their lives to save the victims of fog
  and wreck, how the boy whom they called Sonny drifted to their ledge,
  stayed there and became a joy to them, how the government came to
  appreciate and reward them and many other matters of human interest
  furnish a pleasing variety in their bleak existence.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 210w.


=Kauffman, Reginald Wright.= Miss Frances Baird, detective: a passage
from her memoirs. $1.25. Page.

  A young woman, good-looking, alert, making a direct asset of her
  intuition, unravels the mystery of a diamond robbery in a manner that
  would commend her to the most exacting of detective staffs.

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      + =Ind.= 61: 697. S. 20, ’06. 270w.


=Kaye, Percy Lewis.= English colonial administration under Lord
Clarendon, 1660–1667. 50c. Hopkins.

  “On the whole, however, a comparison of Dr. Kaye’s paper with earlier
  treatments of the same subject indicates no considerable addition to
  our stock of information and no decided novelty in the handling of the
  material.” Evarts B. Greene.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 438. Ja. ’06. 410w.


=Keats, John.= Poems; with notes and appendices by H. Burton Forman.
$1.25. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Thin paper poets.” A biographical sketch by Nathan
  Haskell Dole, notes and appendices make the volume complete.


=Keays, Mrs. H. A. Mitchell.= Work of our hands. †$1.50. McClure.

  A Montague and Capulet enmity is set at naught by the marriage of
  young Bronsart and Aylmer Forsythe. This hero is a capitalist “whose
  life of luxury has given him a moral myopia,” and his wife in a rather
  provocative way sets about to relieve the down-trodden condition among
  the laborers in his factories, and to force her husband into believing
  that his wealth should be used for aiding instead of oppressing the
  poor.

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  “In ‘The work of our hands,’ H. E. Mitchell Keays, with large outlook
  and wide sweep, shows a strange working out of destiny.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 520w.

  “The book will not contribute much to the solution of problems
  economic or marital, but it is a strong and clever story; the interest
  well sustained, despite a little too much preaching.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ’05. 410w.

  “The story suffers ... from evidences of overwrought nerves. The tone
  is feverish.”

      – =Reader.= 7: 452. Mr. ’06. 240w.


=Keen, Walter Henry.= Margaret Purdy. $1.50. Broadway pub.

  Mr. Keen’s story traces the development of Margaret Purdy from her
  “puny child-wife” state to one of vigorous mental and moral freedom.
  Her growth under the direction of Professor Bickersteth whose
  laboratory assistant she becomes furnishes the real interest of the
  book.


=Keen, William Williams.= Addresses and other papers. *$3.75. Saunders.

  “Perhaps more false impressions with regard to medical thought would
  be corrected by a casual reading of this volume than in any other way
  that we know.”

    + + =Ind.= 59: 1346. D. 7, ’05. 340w.


=Keith, Marion.= Silver maple, a story of upper Canada. $1.50. Revell.

  Upper Canada and its people, the spirit of the woods, the sordidness
  of the everyday life, is at the heart of this story of Scotty, who,
  true to his Scotch grandparents and the early lessons he learns under
  the silver maple, fights a good fight, resists temptation, is true to
  himself, and when he comes at last into the heritage of his English
  father “by the right road, the road of truth and equity,” it is also
  into a heritage of love and happiness.

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 727. N. 3, ’06. 220w.


=Keller, Very Rev. J. A.= Saint Joseph’s help; or, Stories of the power
and efficacy of Saint Joseph’s intercession. *75c. Benziger.

  The second edition of a book whose aim is to make known the power of
  St. Joseph’s intercession and the favors obtained through his
  assistance.

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  “The simple, trusting, tender faith of the narrator is contagious; and
  the book is sure to fasten in young minds a devout confidence in St.
  Joseph.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 268. My. ’06. 70w.


=Kelley, Florence.= Some ethical gains through legislation. *$1.25.
Macmillan.

  “Legislation and judicial decision concerning the rights of the child,
  the rights of women, the rights of all labourers to leisure through
  restricted hours of labor, and the rights of the purchaser to
  knowledge of the condition of production and distribution of goods,
  are clearly presented and interpreted. The author is prepared for the
  work, and by long experience in social, economic investigation as
  government and state official, as special investigator, as a
  settlement resident, and as a member of the Illinois bar. The volume
  forms the latest addition to the ‘American citizens’ library.’”—Bookm.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One marked distinction of Mrs. Kelley’s discussions is the vividness
  of the concrete images used to enforce the argument, and these
  illustrations are not borrowed from books.” C. R. Henderson.

    + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 846. My. ’06. 840w.

  “Her topics are ripe and full: the book may well become a classic on
  industrial life, but this first edition lacks the final touch of care,
  the polish of revision to which it is richly entitled.” Charlotte
  Kimball Patten.

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 249. Ja. ’06. 920w.

  “Is a most valuable book to students of social conditions and of the
  general welfare.”

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 130w.

  “Mrs. Kelley’s book is, by the conditions of its subject, tentative.
  Its chief value lies in its suggestions for future improvement.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 330w.

  “Interesting and instructive volume.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 343. F. 8, ’06. 240w.

  “This book is marred by extremely bad arrangement. In spite of this,
  the volume is rich in fact, sound in theory, generally correct in
  reasoning, and replete with suggestion and stimulation.” Henry Raymond
  Mussey.

  + + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 382. Ap. ’06. 990w.

  “Her facts and arguments, however, are such as no student of the
  problems involved can afford to neglect.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 64. Jl. 19, ’06. 1510w.

  “A brief, terse, but readable review of recent progress toward better
  things.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 82: 806. Ap. 7, ’06. 310w.

  Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 326. Je. ’06. 1400w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 110w.


=Kelley, Gwendolyn Dunlevy, and Upton, George Putnam.= Edouard Remenyi,
musician, litterateur, and man: an appreciation. **$1.75. McClurg.

  Here are sketches of Remenyi’s life and artistic career by friends and
  contemporaries, to which are added critical reviews of his playing and
  selections from his literary papers and correspondence. The
  biographical sketch reveals the Romany spirit of the man which made
  routine impossible and which led him at times to vanish from human
  sight. There are nine portraits of the famous violinist taken during a
  period of forty-four years.

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  “A book about a musician rather than a work on music. The personal
  element presses strongly forward on every page.” Josiah Renick Smith.

      + =Dial.= 41: 12. Jl. 1, ’06. 860w.

  “Is much more than what they call it—‘the skeleton of a work that
  might have been.’”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 147. Ag. 16, ’06. 1120w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 250w.

  “The estimate of his personality is naturally indulgent, but it is
  vivid. There is plenty of Remenyi material here, even if there is not
  a Remenyi biography.” Richard Aldrich.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 1060w.

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.


=Kellogg, Vernon.= American insects. **$5. Holt.

  “Prof. Kellogg has well summarized our present information on the
  subject, and drawn attention to future potentialities.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 78. Jl. 21. 730w.

  “Notwithstanding these drawbacks, the work is probably the best that
  exists for anyone, desiring an introductory work on North American
  insects compressed into a single volume.” D. S.

  + + – =Nature.= 73: 292. Ja. 25, ’06. 310w.


=Kellor, Frances A.= Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.

  “It is a pleasure to recommend a book with such confidence as this
  volume inspires.” John Graham Brooks.

    + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 511. Jl. ’06. 260w.


=Kellum, Margaret Dutton.= Language of the Northumbrian gloss to the
Gospel of St. Luke. 75c. Holt.

  No. 30 in the “Yale studies in English.” The thesis covers fully the
  phonology and inflection of the Northumbrian gloss to the Gospel of
  St. Luke.


=Kelly, Howard Atwood.= Walter Reed and yellow fever. **$1.50. McClure.

  A sketch of the life and work of the man who brought about the
  conviction that the mosquito is an agent for the spread of yellow
  fever.

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      + =Dial.= 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 360w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 1400w.


=Kelly, R. Talbot.= Burma. *$6. Macmillan.

  A seven months’ journey thru Burma, covering 3,500 miles is here
  interestingly “painted and described.” It is a book of first
  impressions gathered from forest and jungle.

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  “His is a perfect example of the colour-book of commerce, the merriest
  and most entertaining of peep-shows, but without relation to art or
  literature.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 45. Ja. 13, ’06. 190w.

  “His impressions of Burmese character are intelligent, and more often
  accurate than not.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 340w.

  “In Mr. Kelly’s pictures we catch something of the charm of travel in
  a strange country and among people entirely unlike our own.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1380. D. 14, ’05. 180w.

  “An eloquent writer, as well, as an accomplished artist, wielding the
  pen with even greater skill than the brush, and imbued, moreover, with
  the courage, perseverance, and enthusiasm of the true explorer, the
  author of this delightful volume has concentrated all his powers on
  his fascinating subject, producing what will certainly rank as a
  standard work on this great dependency of the British Empire.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 26: 87. Mr. ’06. 260w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 410w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 210w.

  “Mr. Kelly is one of the few artists who can write. The volume is a
  worthy member of a very attractive series.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 610w.

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 80w.

  “A narrative that on its own merits makes pleasant reading and gives a
  very true and sympathetic sketch of Burma and its people, and is much
  more than a mere explanation of his pictures. He has, however, been
  misled into a sweeping condemnation of Indian natives by generalizing
  hastily from the unfavourable specimens that are to be met in Burma.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w.


=Kelsey, Frederick W.= First county park system. $1.25. Ogilvie.

  Although a ten year history of the development of the Essex county
  park system of New Jersey, this work is far reaching in its
  helpfulness. “It supplies a working-guide for other communities where
  park systems are to be established” exposes “The baneful influence of
  the public service corporations in frustrating a splendid and nobly
  planned work and subordinating the interests of the community to the
  selfish enrichment of those interested in the exploiting of the people
  thru the public service corporations.”

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  “It is a volume that merits wide circulation—a work that we can
  especially recommend to all persons interested in the development of
  park systems in and around American municipalities.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 445. Ap. ’06. 340w.

  “The book, is in the best sense of the term, a political pamphlet.”

      + =Engin. N.= 55: 312. Mr. 15, ’06. 450w.

        =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 29, ’06. 140w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 160w.


=Kennard, Joseph Spencer.= Italian romance writers. **$2. Brentano’s.

  A well-wrought introduction furnishes an outline of the history of
  modern story telling, discusses the various early types of fiction and
  finally Italian tendencies and ideals. Then follows chapters upon
  Alexander Manzoni, Massimo Taparelli D’Azeglio, Francesco Domenico
  Guerrazzi, Tommaso Grossi, Ippolito Nievo, Edmondo De Amicis, Antonio
  Fogazzaro, Giovanni Verga, Matilde Serao, Federigo De Roberto, Anna
  Neera, Grazia Deledda, Enrico Annibale Butti, and Gabbriele
  D’Annunzio, which give something of the authors and much of the
  characters they created. The volume will serve as a pleasing
  commentary to students of modern Italian literature, and will prove an
  interesting source of enlightenment to all who have not time for
  further study.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a pity, however, that American readers could not have been
  presented with a version in less ‘rocky’ English than the present
  one.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 290w.

  “Mr. Kennard had evidently read widely and thought earnestly before
  formulating his opinions. But he seems incapable of expressing
  opinions simply, plainly or convincingly. At its best his style is
  hardly brilliant. At its worst it is intolerable.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 458. Ag. 23, ’06. 1250w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 936. Je. 23, ’06. 1190w.

  “Notwithstanding repeated evidences of haste or carelessness in the
  execution, we maintain that the work is a good and useful introduction
  to the study of modern Italian fiction.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 263. S. 27, ’06. 1460w.

  “While not a profound or final treatise, is a pleasing, diffuse book,
  crowded with information, and worth the study.” James Huneker.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 423. Je. 30, ’06. 3250w.

  “Dr. Kennard’s book as a whole is one of the most interesting and
  instructing contributions to our knowledge of Italian literature.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 330w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 90w.


=Kennedy, Charles William=, tr. Legend of St. Juliana; translated from
the Latin of the Acta sanctorum and the Anglo-Saxon of Cynewulf. Univ.
lib., Princeton.

  The Anglo-Saxon and Latin texts used by the translator for this double
  rendering into the English are those printed by Professor Strunk in
  the “Belles-Lettres” edition.


=Kennedy, John Pendleton=, ed. Journals of the house of burgesses of
Virginia, 1773–1776. *$10. Putnam.

  “Mr. Kennedy has set out upon an exceedingly valuable and important
  undertaking. He is carrying it forward with great care and skill; and
  he bids fair to make of it a monumental series, of which Virginia may
  well be proud, and which other states may well imitate.”

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 420. Ja. ’06. 600w.


=Kenny, Louise.= Red-haired woman: her autobiography. †$1.50. Dutton.

  “This is a story of an Irish family called O’Curry, and the book may
  be described rather as a collection of materials than as a finished
  article.... No one episode is of more importance than any other, and
  there seems no particular reason, except indeed the marriage of the
  heroine, why the novel should not go on forever.” (Spec.) “The time of
  the main action begins with the famous Land war and extends, one may
  judge, well into the late Victorian generation, The personages
  involved are Irish gentlefolk and Irish peasants, half Hibernianized
  Englishmen—especially one who is the ideal bad landlord—an old usurer
  of fine conception, and several natives of Denmark, one in particular,
  the real hero of the piece.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “She merely irritates when she might have amused.”

      – =Acad.= 70: 40. Ja. 13, ’06. 410w.

  “Here is a story curiously told rather than a really curious story.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 80w.

  “The writer seems to have absorbed a strange miscellany of facts,
  legends, and theories, which she has poured out without any regard to
  form or coherency.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 4: 445. D. 15, ’06. 340w.

  “The trouble with the book as fiction of the hour is the leisurely way
  of it, the detail of it, and the faintness of the chief love interest
  already mentioned.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 437. Jl. 7, ’06. 490w.

  “There are many scenes in it which are very interesting, and even
  thrilling, but there is no cohesion between the different parts of the
  story.”

    – + =Spec.= 96: 64. Ja. 13, ’06. 260w.


=Kent, Charles Foster=, ed. Israel’s historical and biographical
narratives, from the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom to the end of
the Maccabean struggle. **$2.75. Scribner.

  “It is a pleasure to say that we find here, not a mere compendium of
  the methods and results of criticism, but a lucid exposition of the
  way the Hebrews wrote history, and a constructive exhibition, in the
  light of the best scholarship, of what that history is.” Augustus S.
  Carrier.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 137. Ja. ’06. 740w.

  “The book, with the introduction and the notes to the English text of
  the narratives, should be of value to those who study the Old
  Testament as the history of a nation or race, and as a record of the
  progress of a religion.”

      + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 102. Ja. 27. 420w.

  “Indeed, it is probable that this revision offers the untechnical
  student the nearest approximation to the true force of the original
  documents available at the present time.” Henry T. Fowler.

    + + =Bib. World.= 27: 392. My. ’06. 1250w.


=Kent, Charles Foster.= Narratives of the beginnings of Hebrew history,
from the creation to the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom. **$2.75.
Scribner.

  “We would gratefully acknowledge the service that Dr. Kent is here
  doing for the cause of biblical scholarship, both by the rich learning
  which he brings to his task, and by the gentle temper with which he
  accomplishes it.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 82: 844. Mr. ’06. 800w.


=Kent, Charles Foster.= Origin and permanent value of the Old Testament.
**$1. Scribner.

  A popular book “not advocating new views nor justifying at length the
  positions held, but describing and making clear the opinions of
  scholars as to the literature, the history and the religion of the
  Hebrew people.” (Ind.) “The author is optimistic of a revival of
  interest in the Old Testament through the spread of knowledge of the
  results of criticism. He suggests methods to be employed in using the
  Old Testament in Sunday-schools and day-schools, and sketches a rough
  outline of a course of study extending over several years.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Bib. World.= 27: 479. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “The book is not thoro, is to be read rather than studied or used for
  reference and, as the author says, is simply a ‘very informal
  introduction’ to careful investigation, which it seeks to encourage.
  For this purpose it is excellent.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1490. Je. 21, ’06. 310w.

  “The style is clear, confusion of detail and argument is avoided, and
  salient features are kept well to the fore. The positions advanced are
  those generally accepted, disputed points being avoided.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 36. Jl. 12, ’06. 200w.

  “This general statement of cordial commendation must be accompanied
  with some qualifications.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 426. O. 20, ’06. 400w.


=Kenyon, Frederic George=, ed. Robert Browning and Alfred Domett.
**$1.50. Dutton.

  The friendship of Robert Browning and Alfred Domett, the “Waring” of
  his poem, is here revealed thru letters written by the poet to Domett
  in New Zealand. “Written chiefly during the years 1840–1846, they
  cover a period of Browning’s life of which little has been made
  public—the period just preceding his marriage, while he was living at
  New Cross, writing and publishing serially his ‘Bells and
  pomegranates.’... This collection of letters, though small, revealing
  a masculine friendship surviving the strain of separation of years,
  and of divided interests, helps to make an impression of a character
  which becomes the more exalted as it is better known. Portraits of
  Browning, of Domett, and of Sir Joseph Arnould (a third in this trio
  of Camberwell friends) illustrate the volume.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Admirably edited.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 358. Mr. 24. 410w.

      + =Dial.= 40: 395. Je. 16, ’06. 330w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 937. Je. 23, ’06. 1130w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 106, Mr. 23, ’06. 620w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 43. Jl. 12, ’06. 740w.

  “They give a glimpse of an eager and generous nature, and show, too,
  somewhat of what Browning was thinking and feeling of his literary
  contemporaries in the early forties. For these letters of the early
  forties, with the light they throw on Browning’s personality, his
  admirers will be grateful.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 317. My. 19, ’06. 1050w.

  “Not a little interesting criticism is scattered up and down the
  letters, interesting but a little eccentric.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 625. Ap. 21, ’06. 370w.


=Keon, Grace.= “Not a judgment—.” $1.25. Benziger.

  Mollie, a mad-cap girl of the slums, whose brother is a murderer and
  whose mother is a broken-down old woman, resolves that she will be
  thru her own efforts “not a judgment, but a blessing.” The story of
  her struggles, her true nobility which conquers against heavy odds,
  and her final happiness is the story of the book; while contrasted
  with her life is that of the pampered daughter of wealth and society
  who finds her happiness in loving service as a Roman Catholic
  religious.


=Ker, William Paton.= Essays on mediaeval literature. *$1.60. Macmillan.

  Seven studies which treat the following subjects: “The earlier history
  of English prose,” “Historical notes on the similes of Dante,”
  “Boccaccio,” “Chaucer,” “Gower,” “Froissart,” and “Gaston Paris.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The seven studies ... have a cumulative value not often to be found
  in a short volume of essays. The comparative study of mediaeval
  literature has too few devotees in this country. We are fortunate in
  having one so learned and sympathetic as Mr. Ker.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 465. D. 29, ’05. 1520w.

  “The author has, in addition to an unusually thorough acquaintance
  with the themes discussed, a knack of viewing old subjects from a new
  angle and looking through petty details at the great principles behind
  them, which, coupled with a graceful style, makes the ‘Essays’ not
  only attractive and valuable to the layman, but instructive even to
  the specialist.”

    + + =Nation.= 81: 362. N. 2, ’05. 390w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 680. O. 14, ’05. 160w.

  “Six essays which better deserve reproduction and a common title-page
  than many such collectanea.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 330w.

  “They are the work of a cultivated man, as well as of a learned one,
  so that the ordinary reader will find himself quite at home wherever
  Mr. Ker may lead him. Mr. Ker deals in masterly fashion with a great
  variety of subjects.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 786. N. 17, ’06. 1560w.


=Kern, O. J.= Among country schools. $1.25. Ginn.

  A little manual which the author hopes “will prove suggestive to the
  teacher and school officer who are striving for the spiritualization
  of country life thru the medium of the country school. He believes
  that a careful reading of its pages will show a practical way of
  interesting the ‘farm child thru farm topics.’”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Here is a county superintendent with ideas, the courage of his
  convictions, and the ability to persuade taxpayers to look at the
  matter from his point of view.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 516. D. 13, ’06. 280w.


=Kernahan, Coulson.= World without a child. **50c. Revell.

  A picture of life in Anglo-Saxon cities where the race-suicide theory
  is carried to its logical outcome.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Coulson Kernahan, though he may be perfectly sincere, has pitched his
  song of woe in a false key.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 730. O. 28, ’05. 90w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 130w.


=Kester, Vaughan.= Fortunes of the Landrays. †$1.50. McClure.

  “The author does not so much give the impression of a trained writer
  as of a person with a story to tell and some first-hand knowledge of
  the places and people he describes.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 270. S. 8. 110w.


=Kidd, Dudley.= Savage childhood: a study of Kafir children; with 32
full-page il. from the photographs by the author. $3.50. Macmillan.

  Herbert Spencer’s notion that man’s first duty is to become a good
  animal finds expression in the untrained, unconditioned state which is
  best illustrated in the savage child. Mr. Kidd pictures these
  untrammeled children at their innocent amusements, and as practices
  conducive to robustness are traditional among the Kafir people, the
  children are splendid types of physical development. The blighting
  tendencies of indolence, sensuality and vanity are later
  manifestations which only education can hope to avert.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Dudley Kidd has written a most charming and instructive book
  about the children whom he found in the Kafir kraals. Every line of it
  is full of interest.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 496. N. 17, ’06. 840w.

  “It is artistic rather than scientific. The scientific possibilities
  in all this field of observation have been practically untouched.”

    + – =Nature.= 75: 128. D. 6, ’06. 1220w.

  “The volume is a distinct addition to popular knowledge of
  anthropology and ethnography.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 843. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “All through this book we are not introduced to any one individual,
  though Mr. Kidd’s graphic pen has power to make his reader dream that
  he has been living among a pack of black children.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 816. N. 24, ’06. 1850w.


=Kidder, Frank Eugene.= Building construction and superintendence. Pt.
3. Trussed roofs and roof trusses. $3. Comstock.

  The author’s clear and comprehensive description accompanied by ample
  illustrations covers types of modern and steel trusses, the layout of
  trussed roofs, open timber roofs and church roofs, vaulted and domed
  ceilings, octagonal and domed roofs, roofs and trusses of coliseums,
  armored trainsheds, and exposition buildings, data and methods for
  computing the purlin and truss loads and supporting forces or
  reactions. A chapter is further devoted to numerical examples for the
  determinations of stresses in roof trusses of different types by the
  graphic method.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Throughout the volume the contents give constant evidence of good
  judgment in the selection of material, while painstaking care is shown
  in the composition of the text.” Henry S. Jacoby.

  + + + =Engin. N.= 55: 426. Ap. 12, ’06. 1350w.


=Kilbourne, Frederick W.= Alterations and adaptations of Shakespeare.
$1.50. Badger, R: G.

  The author points out in his study the pronounced change in dramatic
  taste which differentiates a period from the proceeding one, and then
  indicates the effect of the belief in different dramatic tenets on the
  opinion of Shakespeare. He discusses the principles of dramatic art
  which came to rule and to which the playwrights of the time endeavored
  to make Shakespeare’s plays conform by means of alteration. Then he
  describes the altered versions, comments on the modifications, shows
  whether they have been made according to dramatic theories or whether
  they are the result of “personal opinions, judgment, or caprice of a
  reviewer.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A useful and convenient handbook to an interesting and somewhat
  neglected subject.” Henry B. Wheatly.

      + =Acad.= 71: 491. N. 17. ’06. 2130w.

  “The only cheerful element in this necessarily somewhat dismal
  treatise is the indication of the growth of reverence for the text of
  Shakespeare in more modern times.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 130w.

  “An interesting little book of some value, doubtless, as a work of
  reference.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 474. Jl. 28, ’06. 310w.


=Kildare, Owen.= Wisdom of the simple: a tale of lower New York. †$1.50.
Revell.

  Once more Mr. Kildare draws his material from the Bowery district of
  New York city. It is a tale of poverty and concerns the careers of two
  boys who grow up to be rivals in love and politics.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Of more value than many ordinary sociological studies, and far more
  interesting reading.”

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 420. Mr. ’06. 110w.

  “Probably no writer in New York is capable of presenting slum life,
  its needs and its temptations, as does Owen Kildare.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 130w.

  “The peculiar interest of ‘The wisdom of the simple’ as a sociological
  study lies in the ethics and ideals that are of indigenous growth, and
  not transplanted or imposed from without.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 514. Mr. 1, ’06. 500w.

  “About the most interesting story that we have come across in a long
  time. It is something better than interesting—it is suggestive,
  encouraging and inspiring, the kind of a book that renews one’s trust
  in the saving grace of the human heart.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 79. F. 10, ’06. 670w.

  “A little too much of the atmosphere of the old-fashioned
  Sunday-school book to be a good story.”

    – + =Outlook.= 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 90w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 761. Je. ’06. 40w.


=Kimball, George Selwyn.= Jay Gould Harmon with Maine folks: a picture
of life in the Maine woods. $1.50. Clark.

  “Jay Gould Harmon is a fine, manly character, and plays his part among
  the rough and trying incidents of the Maine logging camps in a way
  that excites the admiration even of those men born and brought up in a
  land where fearless courage is an everyday characteristic.... The book
  contains a little of everything from a love affair to a baseball
  game.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is a noticeable flavor of the dime novel about it.”

    – + =Ind.= 59: 1346. D. 7, ’05. 120w.

  “The book shows some merit, but it strikes one that the author would
  have succeeded very much better in his purpose, if he could have found
  some other means of bringing out the characteristics of his
  ‘Down-Easters’ than by setting up in their midst some painfully unreal
  city folks and drawing theatrical contrasts.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 98. F. 17, ’06. 540w.


=King, Charles.= Soldier’s trial. $1.50. Hobart.

  “General King’s readers, if desirous of information upon the
  comparative merits of canteen, or no canteen, will be well rewarded by
  a perusal of the book while those who want only a good novel, with
  plenty of action, a little intrigue, ending in the triumph of worth
  and the detection of villainy, will not be disappointed.”

      + =Cath. World.= 84: 116. O. ’06. 250w.

  “There is very little action for a King novel, and the interest is
  nursed along by very slender means.”

      – =Ind.= 59: 1542. D. 28, ’05. 320w.


=King, Charles.= Tonio, son of the Sierras: a story of the Apache war.
†$1.50. Dillingham.

  Another of General King’s stories of army life, post intrigue and
  frontier war-fare. Tonio is an Indian scout, silent, courageous, and
  faithful. Altho he is cruelly misjudged and unjustly dealt with by his
  general, he sacrifices his life in the service of the army and his
  army friends. About him circles the love story of Lilian Archer, an
  army girl who accepts the love of an unworthy lieutenant only to
  discover her error and see little Harris, a discarded suitor, in a new
  light.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A story of the Apache war, told in an entertaining manner by one
  thoroughly familiar with his material.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 817. Ag. 4, ’06. 110w.


=King, Henry Churchill.= Letters to Sunday-school teachers on the great
truths of our Christian faith. *$1. Pilgrim press.

  “President King’s letters are addressed to Sunday-school teachers only
  as persons likely to be interested in the fundamental problems of
  religious belief. They are a sort of theological primer, a plain,
  non-technical argument for the leading articles of Christian
  faith.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “President King has the right spirit of approach to these questions:
  he is frank and honest, and tries to keep hard by reality.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 937. O. 18, ’06. 180w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 201. S. 6, ’06. 310w.


=King, Henry Churchill.= Rational living: some practical inferences from
modern psychology. **$1.25. Macmillan.

  “As a contribution to the science of ethics its value is twofold.
  First it makes clear certain practical corollaries and conclusions for
  the direction of conduct. But second, and chiefly, it emphasizes a
  _method_ in ethical study—the method which reasons from the nature of
  mind to the practical principles that ought to govern life.” Herbert
  A. Youtz.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 769. O. ’06. 630w.

  “Good sense shines in President King’s treatise.” George Hodges.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 40w.

  “It abounds in illustration and is marked by lucidity of expression
  and exposition.”

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 150w.

  “All things considered we must believe that President King’s book will
  carry a real and valuable message to those for whom it was intended.”
  T. D. A. Cockerell.

      + =Dial.= 40: 151. Mr. 1, ’06. 400w.


=King, William Lyon Mackenzie.= Secret of heroism: a memoir of Henry
Albert Harper. **$1. Revell.

  A tribute to the memory of Henry Albert Harper, a Canadian journalist
  and writer, who lost his life in trying to rescue a drowning girl. The
  tragic event took place on the Ottawa river in December of 1901 and
  the heroism of one willing to face almost certain death is the theme
  of Mr. King’s sketch.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 733. Ap. ’06. 40w.

  “It is a book to make the reader humbler, braver, purer and, whether
  for a life time or but a day, every way better.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 301. My. 1, ’06. 130w.

  “On Mr. King’s part, it may be added, the work discloses not only a
  genuine sympathy for the twentieth-century Sir Galahad, of whom he
  writes, but a clear insight into many of the fundamental facts of life
  and experience.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.

  “It is a book which should stir the heart of many a young reader.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 79. Mr. 9, ’06. 760w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 497. Mr. 31, ’06. 1210w.


=Kingsbury, Susan Myra.= Introduction to the records of the Virginia
company, with a bibliographical list of the extant documents, pa.
gratis. Lib. of Congress.

  “Some 764 separate documents are listed and described in such a way
  that the location, nature, and place of publication may be easily
  determined. The writer made many discoveries of new documents in the
  English archives, and established the loss of many more by the
  receipts and memoranda of books and papers received or delivered in
  the various changes in the form of the ruling body.” (Nation). An
  introduction, notes, bibliography and index add to the value of the
  volumes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There can be no question of the great debt which students owe her for
  the interesting labors here described. Her general remarks on the
  development of the Company and its career are less valuable, partly
  because not expressed in clear style. This catalogue is extremely well
  executed. Less satisfactory in respect to form is the list of
  authorities with which the introduction closes.”

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 174. O. ’06. 420w.

  “Miss Susan M. Kingsbury has made a study of the sources for the
  history of the Virginia company of London, and the resulting
  publication must rank high in point of thoroughness and general form.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 301. Ap. 12, ’06. 380w.

  “These papers are all of great value to the student of the beginnings
  of American history.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 110w.


=Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge.= Chronicles of London; with introd. and
notes. *$3.40. Oxford.

  “This scholarly work presents to the reader three of the old London
  chronicles which are contained in the Cottonian Mss., Julius B. ii.,
  Cleopatra C. iv., and Vitellius A. xvi., and which embrace a period of
  English history extending from the times of Richard I. to the year
  1509. The editor in his introduction traces the evolution of the
  ‘chronicle’ from the early official record known as the ‘Liber de
  antiquis legibus’ to the popular works of Holinshed and Stow.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Kingsford deserves much praise for the scholarly work displayed
  in this volume, which is provided with ample notes, a useful glossary,
  and a good index.” Charles Gross.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 884. Jl. ’06. 510w.

  “These notes exhibit the same fullness of learning that is apparent in
  the introduction.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 132. F. 3. 1040w.

  “It is impossible to praise too highly the manner of executing the
  work.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 415. My. 17, ’06. 800w.

  “The student must be very circumspect as to the manner in which he
  uses the information he gleans from these ‘Chronicles,’ as the dates
  are often inaccurate, though the facts are, in the main, correct. Mr.
  Kingsford’s scholarly introduction and notes will, however, aid him
  very materially to avoid missing his way in the labyrinth of rather
  loosely put information in which the ancient chroniclers conveyed
  their facts.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 120. Jl. 28, ’06. 290w.

        =Spec.= 96: sup. 650. Ap. 28, ’06. 260w.


=Kingsley, Mrs. Florence (Morse).= Intellectual Miss Lamb. 75c. Century.

  “The exuberantly youthful, kittenish beauty exhibited in Miss Lamb’s
  pink and white curl-shaded cherubic countenance” seems far from
  suggesting the fact that she is “little more than a walking edition of
  the great Greathead’s ‘Physiological psychology.’” She can subject the
  man who loves her to as critical a scientific analysis as the little
  “Master William,” who calls her “Lamby,”—and all for the sake of her
  “Tabulated records.” One day the precious manuscript is chewed to pulp
  by a bull terrier that must have been in sympathy with Billy Gregg;
  for it was the day of his delayed innings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 369. Je. 9, ’06. 190w.

  “Merry little story.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 40w.


=Kingsley, Mrs. Florence (Morse).= Resurrection of Miss Cynthia. †$1.50.
Dodd.

    + – =Ind.= 59: 1344. D. 7, ’05. 250w.

  “This is a graceful, human kind of story, and incidentally, at the
  same time a sensible protest against the theory that life is
  necessarily a thing of gloom and repression.”

      + =Reader.= 7: 228. Ja. ’06. 370w.

  “The book has some of the qualities of Miss Wilkins’ New England
  stories, and, slight as is its texture, is pleasant to read.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 200w.

  “There is a great deal of charm in this account of what may be called
  the resuscitation of an old maid.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 186. F. 3, ’06. 180w.


=Kinkead, Eleanor Talbot.= Invisible bond. †$1.50. Moffat.

  “The scene of this novel is laid in Kentucky.... A scheming woman,
  poor and beautiful, ensnares a man whose nature demanded a nobler
  companion spirit than hers. Unhappiness, disgrace, and tragedy
  followed their marriage. But, with the power bestowed upon novelists,
  the author restores the worthy characters to happiness and consigns
  the unworthy to their own place.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If only her pictorial sense were better developed,—if she were half
  as good in the composition of her plot as she is in the use of verbal
  colouring,—‘The invisible bond’ would be a very uncommon and
  interesting book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 539. Jl. ’06. 490w.

  “The best feature of the book is the picture of Kentucky life, which
  is attractive and not overdrawn.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 130w.

  “This sweet and wholesome tale, although by no means devoid of
  dramatic excitement, has nevertheless a tranquillizing effect upon the
  mind; it seems somehow to have a life apart from the sickly everyday
  world, and to breathe an air of its own, pure and uninfected by the
  malaria of most current fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 115. S. 1, ’06. 230w.

        =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w.

  “Impresses us as a first book, one of interest and of promise, but
  crude in its performance, and suffering greatly from its prolixity.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 323. My. 19, ’06. 250w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 60w.


=Kinzbrunner, C.= Alternate current windings, their theory and
construction: a handbook for student designers and all practical men.
*$1.50. Van Nostrand.

  The clear and simple explanation of the principles of alternating
  current windings given in this volume makes it suitable not only for
  students and designers but also for the workman engaged in the
  manufacture and repair of alternating winding currents. Chapter 1,
  treats of The production of alternating currents; Chapter 2,
  Alternating current windings; Chapter 3, Continuous current windings;
  Chapter 4, Dissolved continuous current windings; Chapter 5,
  Multiphase windings; Chapter 6, The construction of alternating
  current windings; Chapter 7, The insulation of alternating current
  windings. The volume is illustrated and contains a list of symbols and
  an index.


=Kinzbrunner, C.= Continuous current armatures, their winding and
construction: a handbook for students, designers and all practical men.
*$1.50. Van Nostrand.

  “By means of the rules given in this volume, the reader will, if
  necessary, always be able to design any other winding not actually
  discussed here. The explanations are given in a very popular manner,
  so that anybody possessing an elementary knowledge of the principles
  of continuous current machines should be able to understand them
  fully.” Chapter 1, is upon the Theory of windings, Chapter 2, The
  construction of drum windings, Chapter 3, The construction of
  armatures. The book is well illustrated and indexed.


=Kipling, Rudyard.= Puck of Pook’s hill. †$1.50. Doubleday.

  “We are alway persuaded to ‘believe in fairies’ when they bid us
  listen and look. And so we are quite sure it is true that Puck came to
  Dan and Una and told them of the ‘old things’ and showed them how to
  recall the long ago of their ancestors and ours, giving the history of
  England the most attractive guise that ever the boys and girls could
  dream of, and incidentally, preaching a few sermons to the powers of
  the present day.”—Ind.

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  “The serious reader may be warned that Mr. Rudyard Kipling is here not
  quite at his very best. The tales that concern the Roman Centurion are
  ill-constructed and want cohesion, and those connected with smuggling
  in later times have been better told before.”

      – =Acad.= 71: 327. O. 6, ’06. 510w.

  “The machinery of the tales ... is awkward, and even provoking. The
  story of the ‘Dymchurch flit’ stands alone in its method, style and
  picturesque beauty. It is an exquisite piece of work unrelated to its
  predecessors and its successor.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 660w.

  “There is no doubt that he has gained in his mastery of technique.
  There is equally no doubt that he has lost immensely in spontaneity
  and vigor. One reads him now with admiration, but without being in the
  least swept away by the inimitable dash and force and fire of his
  earlier and rougher style. His artistry is something exquisite.” Harry
  Thurston Peck.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 383. D. ’06. 380w.

      + =Current Literature.= 41: 699. D. ’06. 730w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 820. O. 4, ’06. 460w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 280w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

    + + =Living Age.= 251: 569. D. 1, ’06. 2330w. (Reprinted from the
          Lond. Times.)

  “When he first began he was a determined realist, and, though he
  sometimes dreamed with his eyes open, there was nothing to show that
  he would ever write a book so full of white magic as this.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 336. O. 5, ’06. 220w.

  “Each of the stories is full of life and movement. Taken together
  however, they have a unity and interest which are marred by separate
  publication in the magazines. They convey an uncommonly vivid sense of
  that past which to most of us is hazier than a dream.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 286. O. 4, ’06. 1140w.

  “Fairy tales which (minus a serious moral purpose) could have been
  told as well by many a lesser writer. They could not perhaps have been
  told quite as well in a purely literary sense by many others, for Mr.
  Kipling is one of the strongest factors in this hour in the
  development of the English language.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 593. S. 29, ’06. 1150w.

  “Puck and the men he calls to his aid are graphic narrators, there are
  some effective interludes in verse, and the treatment as a whole is
  fresh and vital.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 160w.

        =Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 130w.

  “These stories are at the best but second hand work.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 430. O. 6, ’06. 900w.

  “More than once in these columns we have called Mr. Kipling the
  interpreter to the English-speaking race. Nothing of his writing has
  ever justified the name better than the volume before us.”

  + + + =Spec.= 97: 538. O. 13, ’06. 1750w.


=Kirk, William.= National labor federations in the United States. 75c.
Johns Hopkins.

  One of the “University studies in historical and political science.”
  The three-fold treatment covers the subjects of general labor
  federations, trades councils and industrial unions.


=Kirkbride, Franklin B., and Sterrett, J. E.= Modern trust company, its
function and organization. *$2.50. Macmillan.

  A book for the enlightenment of the general public which offers for
  the first time a full and consistent description of the various lines
  of work in which a modern trust company engages. It discusses the
  duties of trust company officers, and the relation of trust companies
  to the banking community and the public, and gives in detail the most
  recent methods of organization and accounting for trust companies in
  their several functions.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “They have made it possible for the business community to become
  intimately acquainted with this mighty engine of modern finance. A
  book well rounded in thought and execution, brief where brevity is
  advisable and detailed where explanation is desirable.” Thomas Conway,
  jr.

  + + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 439. Mr. ’06. 1040w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 80w.

  “Covers the ground with a fullness that leaves little to be desired,
  and from a sanely conservative viewpoint.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 120w.

  “The care and judgment with which the rest of their work is done,
  justify the belief that our authors are competent to deal with the
  broader aspects of their subject. As their book now stands, however,
  it fails to give us all that we have a right to expect from a
  comprehensive treatise upon trust companies.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 270w.

  “This is a book of practice rather than theory.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 71. F. 3, ’06. 200w.

  “The present work, however, is so complete and lucid that it should
  serve as a standard guide and not only to the public but to students
  of banking and finance, and deserves wide recognition as an
  authoritative text-book. The point of view is soundly conservative,
  and there is little theorizing, concreteness being the distinguishing
  characteristic throughout.”

  + + + =Outlook.= 82: 93. Ja. 13, ’05. 130w.

  “Organizers of such institutions should find this information very
  helpful. The information is also very important to all who have
  business dealings with trust companies, however slight.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 130w.


=Kittredge, George Lyman.= Old farmer and his almanack. *$2.50. Ware.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 180. F. 10, ’06. 190w.


=Klein, Charles.= Lion and the mouse; a story of American life novelized
from the play by Arthur Hornblow. $1.50. Dillingham.

  Mr. Klein’s popular play has been turned by Mr. Hornblow into that
  most unusual thing a really good novelized drama. The story remains
  unchanged. The lion, the richest man in the world, tries to revenge
  himself on a supreme court judge for certain just decisions by
  involving him in a scandal which threatens his impeachment. Then comes
  the mouse, the daughter of the judge, who has already written a novel
  setting forth the character and financial methods of the lion to his
  disadvantage, and has also won the love of the lion’s only son. Thus
  armed she is the first of all human creatures who dares to defy the
  magnate, and she successfully gnaws the cords which tie up the plot
  and wins happiness for her father, her lover, and, incidentally,
  herself.

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  “In comparison with the rapid action and the terse dialog of the play,
  the novel seems long-winded and tedious.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 697. S. 20, ’06. 350w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 130w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 220w.

  “The book as a separate performance, lacks the vitality and sharp
  characterization which make the play successful.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 240w.

  “With its poise, its unity, its swift action, its deep human note, it
  is certain to find a kindly disposed audience among those who do not
  care for the theatre.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 220w.


=Klein, Felix.= In the land of the strenuous life. **$2. McClurg.

  “From a literary standpoint it is a model of simple, direct
  narrative.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 238. Ja. ’06. 140w.

  “This picturesque book deserves to find as many and as appreciative
  readers in the country which it describes as it has already found in
  the land to which it holds up a democratic exemplar.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 40. Jl. 14. 620w.

  “His observations on this and other matters were, considering the
  circumstances, remarkably accurate. The English of the translation is
  also very good.”

  + + – =Cath. World.= 82: 547. Ja. ’06. 280w.

  “The present translation ... is fluent, idiomatic and entirely free
  from gallicisms. There are a few mistakes, which we should have been
  inclined to attribute to the printer did they not appear in the
  index.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 1223. My. 24, ’06. 360w.


=Kleiser, Grenville.= How to speak in public. *$1.25. Funk.

  A book intended for teachers, students, and orators which is a
  complete elocutionary manual, comprising numerous exercises for
  developing the speaking voice, deep breathing, pronunciation, vocal
  expression, and gesture, also selections for practice from
  masterpieces of ancient and modern eloquence.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work is especially adapted for self-instruction.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 150w.


=Knowles, Frederick Lawrence.= Love triumphant. **$1. Estes.

  Reviewed by P. H. Frye.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 95. Mr. ’06. 110w.


=Knowles, Frederick Milton.= Cheerful year book for engagements and
other serious matters. **$1.50. Holt.

  “Accompanied by philosophic and moral aphorisms for the instruction of
  youth the inspiration of maturity and the solace of age, the same
  being illustrated by tasteful and illuminating pictures by C. F.
  Lester and the whole being introduced and concluded with profound and
  edifying remarks by Carolyn Wells.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not too much to say that anyone with a sense of humor will
  enjoy the ‘Cheerful yearbook;’ its jests are merry without being in
  the least vulgar.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 399. D. 1, ’06. 100w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 70w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 230w.


=Knowles, Robert Edward.= St. Cuthbert’s: a novel. †$1.50. Revell.

  “Greater skill in the handling and selection of materials would have
  made this an interesting—as it is undoubtedly a conscientious—piece of
  work.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 110w.

  “There is displayed very little skill in story telling, and a ruthless
  use of the pruning knife among the exuberant growths of rhetoric and
  sentimentality would have helped the book to a stronger and more
  fruitful vitality.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 518. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.


=Knowles, Robert E.= Undertow: a tale of both sides of the sea. †$1.50.
Revell.

  Caught in the undertow of selfishness a young theologian breasts its
  fury and wins a hard fought victory in the end. He battles his arch
  enemy among the self-sacrificing father and mother of the fine old
  Scotch school, and faithful brother Reuben, he fights it in the midst
  of graduate studies no less than in London in the church to which he
  is called. The bitterness of an enemy which leads to a
  misunderstanding with his wife furnishes the annealing process which
  his nature needs.

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  “This is one of the innumerable novels based on a sentimental
  perception of right and wrong.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 40w.


=Knowling, Rev. Richard John.= Testimony of St. Paul to Christ: as
viewed in some of its aspects. *$3 Scribner.

  “This important work is divided into three parts: I, The documents and
  the grounds upon which their use is justified; II, Paul’s testimony in
  relation to ‘The life’ of the gospels; III. Paul’s testimony in
  relation to the life of the church. The concluding chapter deals with
  the literature on the subject published in 1903–5.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Of Dr. Knowling’s learning and ability there can be no question; he
  is moreover, thoroughly well up in the latest results of criticism,
  and although he apparently regards critics who are nothing but critics
  as opponents of Christianity, he usually states their opinions fairly.
  It is in the second and third parts that Dr. Knowling is revealed as
  the apologist with a very thin veneer of criticism.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 524. Je. 2, 06. 1060w.

  Reviewed by George H. Gilbert.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 725. O. ’06. 1180w.

  “His weight of learning presses heavily on the reader, if not on the
  writer.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 103. Ja. 27. 530w.

        =Bib. World.= 27: 79. Ja. ’06. 40w.

  “It must be admitted that the book has the fault of its virtue. It
  reveals the processes of an able and learned mind defending what is
  held to be the truth, rather than seeking the truth.” William H.
  Ryder.

    + – =Bib. World.= 28: 156. Ag. ’06. 1080w.

        =Lond. Times.= 4: 427. D. 8, ’05. 1330w.

  “As a summary and an appreciation of the present fruits of scholarly
  work on a fourth part of the new Testament such a work is of uncommon
  value.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 377. F. 17, ’06. 260w.

  “If one were to criticise Dr. Knowling’s book, it would be not for
  lack of learning, but for lack of proportion. The impression remains
  that in all these five hundred pages the real essence of the problem
  is hardly touched upon.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 273. S. 1, ’06. 1150w.

        =Spec.= 95: 1086. D. 23, ’05. 280w.


=Knox, George H.= Thoughts that inspire. 2v. *$1.70. Personal help.

  An anthology under classified headings of bits of wisdom, advice and
  admonition culled from the writings of men and women of all ages.


=Knox, George William.= Spirit of the Orient. *$1.50. Crowell.

  In the face of the great changes that are confronting an awakening
  East, these well illustrated studies by Professor Knox will be
  welcomed as gratifying additions to the many studies of the Orient
  which have recently appeared. Beginning with an introductory chapter
  upon America and the East, Professor Knox takes up first the American
  point of view, then the Asiatic point of view, and then passes on to a
  discussion of India, China, and Japan dividing the discussion of each
  into, Its people and customs, and, Its spirit and problems, and
  closing with a chapter upon, The new world. The whole forms a fund of
  Occidental entertainment and enlightenment.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Scholarly philosophical work.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 300w.

  “No abler book on the mind of Asia has yet appeared.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1113. N. 8, ’06. 460w.

  “In writing about India, China, and Japan he approaches the subjective
  attitude more closely than is usual with Occidental writers.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 90w.


=Knuth, Paul.= Handbook of flower pollination; based upon Hermann
Müller’s work, The fertilization of flowers by insects; tr. by J. R.
Ainsworth Davis, v. I. Introduction and literature. *$5.75. Oxford.

  “This is a text-book not for students, but for professors.... The
  original first volume consisted entirely of an introduction and
  bibliography; the introduction, however, is complete in itself, and
  gives a mass of ordered detail about the highly complex relations
  between insects and flowers.... In the translation ... the
  bibliography of flower pollination forms one useful list, of which the
  references have been specially revised by Dr. Fritsch to ensure
  accuracy. To the text the editor has added several useful notes
  indicating matters of importance that have arisen since Knuth’s work
  was completed. In the arrangement of the text as well as the many text
  figures the original is followed.”—Ath.

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  “The present volume is the first of the three comprising Knuth’s
  masterly work, which is by far the most comprehensive on its subject,
  and of world-wide renown. Not only is the text index omitted, but also
  the equally essential index of subjects appended to the bibliography
  in the original.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 305. S. 15. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)

  + + – =Bot. G.= 42: 494. D. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The compendious treatise entitled ‘Introduction’ in this first
  volume, is beyond question, the best presentation of the matter of
  flower-pollination by insects yet given in an English dress.”

  + + + =Nation.= 83: 270. S. 27, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “English readers will welcome the present work, incorporating as it
  does the great mass of research on floral biology which has been
  carried out in recent years. The translator has done his work well on
  the whole. We must, however, direct attention to a few instances of
  faulty rendering.” F. D.

  + + – =Nature.= 74: 605. O. 18, ’06. 720w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Kobbe, Gustav.= Famous American songs. il. **$1.50. Crowell.

  Lovers of the sentiment and tradition, that enter into the making of
  our few timetested American songs will prize this book. Mr. Kobbé,
  musical critic and writer, tells how each song happened to be written,
  where it was first sung, and gives interesting incidents in careers of
  the writers. The songs of the group are: Home, sweet home, Old folks
  at home, Dixie, Ben Bolt, Star-spangled banner, Yankee Doodle, Hail
  Columbia and America.

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      + =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

        =Nation.= 83: 446. N. 22, ’06. 210w.

  “The book contains a wealth of curious information gathered from many
  recondite sources.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 377. D. ’06. 140w.


=Kobbé, Gustav.= Famous actors and their homes. $1.50. Little.

  “There is both new material in Mr. Kobbe’s book and old material
  adapted to new points of view.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 93. Ja. 20, ’06. 70w.


=Kobbé, Gustav.= Wagner and his Isolde. **$1. Dodd.

  “The story is such a fascinating one that, in spite of Mr. Kobbe’s
  limitations in the direction of tact, good taste and good English, he
  who begins it will not lay the book aside until he has finished the
  last page.”

    + – =Ind.= 59: 1349. D. 7, ’05. 330w.


=Konkle, Burton Alva.= Life and speeches of Thomas Williams, orator,
statesman and jurist, 1806–1872. 2v. $6. Campion & co.

  “Mr. Williams, as is well known, was a founder of the Whig and
  Republican parties, and also a lawyer and jurist of eminence. His
  career and his speeches naturally and necessarily form no
  insignificant part of the national history, and they are ably and
  fully described and presented in these volumes, to which Senator Knox
  of Pennsylvania contributes an introduction.”—Critic.

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  Reviewed by David Miller DeWitt.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 697. Ap. ’06. 880w.

  “This is one of the most important works on the momentous period
  before and during the Civil war.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 80w.

  “The two volumes seem passably free from errata.” Edwin E. Sparks.

      + =Dial.= 40: 229. Ap. 1, ’06. 1150w.

  “A book that is neither very interesting nor very useful.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 106. Ag. 2, ’06. 680w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 263. Ap. 21, ’06. 230w.

      – =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 190w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 100w.


=Koopman, Harry Lyman.= At the gates of the century. 75c. Everett press.

  “The metrical diversions of a score of years—mostly bits of verse—are
  collected into a volume [in which] neatly epigrammatic couplets and
  quatrains abound.”—Dial.

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  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

        =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “There is little in Mr. Koopman’s slender but pithy book to arouse any
  other sentiment than admiration for his gift of compact, suggestive
  phrase.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 220w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w.


=Kramer, Harold M.= Hearts and the cross. †$1.50. Lothrop.

  A young minister of many creeds wanders into a Hoosier community, is
  befriended by a good old Indiana family, and assumes the double role
  of farm hand and minister. He becomes involved in political and
  neighborhood feuds and it develops that he is a pardoned convict and
  that long ago in Florida he bound an elder daughter of the house by
  what was supposed to be a mock marriage to the dissolute wretch who
  deserted her. However the untangled plot clears his character, the
  weakness of the past is forgotten in the strength of the present, and
  he wins the love of a younger daughter whom he has all along confused
  with the elder sister and wins also the respect of the community.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “‘Wholesome’ is the adjective that best expresses the quality of the
  book; and that quality is its chief charm. Talent it surely displays,
  but as yet it is the talent of the amateur, crude in spots, and more
  or less immature.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 130w.

  “A dramatic story with a mystery in it which keeps the interest alive
  to the very last.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 90w.

  “A thoroughly commonplace story.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 4w.


=Kuhn, Franz.= Barbarossa, tr. from the German, by George P. Upton.
*60c. McClurg.

  This little volume in the “Life stories for young people” series
  sketches the great events in the life of Frederick I in a simple but
  vigorous style that will appeal to all wide-awake children.


=Kuhns, (Levi) Oscar.= Saint Francis of Assisi. **50c. Crowell.

  A picture of Saint Francis of Assisi which shows a “gentle spirit,
  humble and patient, yet kind and courteous, renouncing all earthly
  riches, knowledge, and glory filled with the triple love for God, for
  nature, and for man.”


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=Ladd, George Trumbull.= Philosophy of religion: critical and
speculative treatise of man’s religious experience and development in
the light of modern science and reflective thinking. 2v. **$7. Scribner.

  “The present work presents at considerable length the facts of man’s
  religious experience, the origin and development of religion in
  various races, and the relation of religion to other departments of
  human life, and this treatment of phenomenology of religion is
  followed by a criticism of the conceptions and tenets of spiritual
  experience from the point of view of modern science and philosophy. It
  aims to be a quite free and scientific treatise of the total religious
  life and religious development of humanity, but its chief interest is
  to prove philosophically that theism is entirely tenable and also
  demonstrable by the instruments in the hands of philosophy.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work is erudite and encyclopaedic, even heavily so at times; but
  the vital dialectic of his discussions, and the living search for
  truth that dominates the whole work, will make it of intense interest
  to the student of the subject. We regard it as an enriching
  contribution to the developing science of religion.” Herbert Alden
  Youtz.

  + + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 366. Ap. ’06. 1790w.

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 6. Jl. 7. 740w.

  + + + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 364. Ap. ’06. 3090w.

  “He writes in an irenic spirit, and always with constructive aim, but
  he is sometimes more abstruse than is needful and more than a trifle
  prolix.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 688. Mr. 22, ’06. 200w.

  “What impresses the thoughtful reader of Professor Ladd’s volumes is
  the thoroughness with which they canvass practically the whole field
  of discussion. It is difficult to decide on what ground he is
  strongest, whether in history, anthropology, psychology or general
  philosophy. In each field he treads familiar ground and pronounces
  sane and rational judgments.” A. T. Ormond.

  + + + =J. Philos.= 3: 522. S. 13, ’06. 2290w.

  “The description of the religious phenomena is, with a few exceptions,
  accurate. Throughout the book there are suggestive remarks. The great
  extent of the field traversed, and the author’s anxiety to make his
  positions clear, lead to a good deal of repetition. An undue amount of
  space seems to be given to the review of early religious phenomena.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 229. Mr. 15, ’06. 1060w.

  “A massive work admirable both in analysis and synthesis, candid in
  its recognition of difficulties remaining to be solved.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 47. Ja. 6, ’06. 540w.

  “The total impression is that of a great drama which the author is
  opening to our vision rather than that of a chain or web of
  speculative notions. This concreteness, which is pervasive of the
  entire work, is perhaps its greatest merit. One can only wish that the
  evidential logic of it had been wrought out rather more
  systematically.” George A. Coe.

  + + – =Philos. R.= 15: 528. S. ’06. 3300w.

  Reviewed by E. S. Ames.

        =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 411. D. 15, ’06. 1020w.


=Laking, Guy Francis.= Furniture of Windsor castle, by Guy Francis
Laking, Keeper of the king’s armory; published by command of His Majesty
King Edward VII. 35c. Dutton.

  “In preparing this deeply interesting and richly illustrated account
  of the most beautiful and typical examples of the furniture in Windsor
  castle—a worthy companion of that on the armours from the same pen—the
  scholarly editor has wisely adopted the historical method.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 27: 371. F. ’06. 510w.

  “Although it claims no great learning and displays no great acumen in
  the description of the pieces, it still gives information that is
  worth having.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 206. Mr. 6, ’06. 1960w.


=Lamb, Charles.= Essays of Elia, 1st series; selected and edited with an
introduction and notes by George A. Wauchope. *40c. Ginn.

  A selection containing about thirty of the most popular essays well
  annotated.


=Lamb, Charles and Mary.= Works and letters. v. 6 and 7. *$2.25. Putnam.

  Reviewed by Sidney T. Irwin.

        =Quarterly R.= 204: 163. Ja. ’06. 1760w. (Review of v. 1–7.)


=Lamb, Mrs. Edith M.= What the baby needs. $1. Nunn & co.

  Complete instruction and suggestions for the care of a baby.


=Lancaster, G. B.= Sons o’ men. †$1.50. Doubleday.

  “Another collection of curious, faraway, exotic tales with a touch of
  real distinction both in theme and treatment.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 493. Ja. ’06. 420w.

  “Of the faults the most noticeable are in the form of grammatical
  errors. But the author’s ability is unquestionable and the stories are
  good.”

    + – =Ind.= 59: 1540. D. 28, ’05. 210w.


=Lancaster, G. B.= The spur. †$1.50. Doubleday.

  “Any one who knows aught of Australian or Island life, of sheep farms,
  or copra gatherers and traders, will respond to this vivid writing, as
  those who know India used to respond to Kipling.” (Outlook.) “The spur
  to smite was a cool, calculating man of the world named Haddington,
  and the spurred smiter an Australian youth who had it in him to be
  something of a Kipling. Detecting merit in the boy’s literary
  beginnings, Haddington induced him to sell himself to him for seven
  years.... The book is the story of Kin’s struggle as an honest, clean,
  impulsive, brave fellow under this contract and his futile efforts to
  free himself from it.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =Acad.= 69: 1177. N. 11, ’05. 330w.

  “The author unfortunately falls into a certain exasperating preciosity
  of style which interferes seriously with the reader’s enjoyment.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’08. 130w.

  “A strong novel, and holds the reader until the grewsome end.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1434. Je. 14, ’06. 230w.

    – + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 140w.

  “Is impaired also by some confusion and want of order in its episodes,
  and an excess of that virile, almost brutal, kind of writing. But it
  is a striking book, having much force and directness of phrase, and in
  the earlier parts some vivid effects of atmosphere.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 329. O. 6, ’05. 230w.

  “A story which grows more moving and more intense as it builds toward
  its climax.” H. I. Brock.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 253. Ap. 21, ’06. 920w.

  “The words sting, the people live, and the story is a story.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.

  “A unique story, marked by much strength, but somewhat marred by the
  unrelieved wickedness of one man.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 1006. Ap. 28, ’06. 80w.

  “A story of intense action.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 661. My. 26, ’06. 120w.


=Lane, Anna Eichberg Ring (Mrs. John Lane).= Champagne standard.
**$1.50. Lane.

  “‘The champagne standard’ is the title of the first seventeen essays
  in which Mrs. John Lane describes, satirises, and, perhaps it should
  be added, counsels what we may call the ‘upper middle class.’... Mrs.
  Lane, who describes herself as ‘an exiled American sister,’ fills her
  pages with wisdom and wit. She writes from an American—or, rather from
  a transplanted American—standpoint, and this gives a fresh force and
  meaning to her words.... A cook who disdains to be spoken to through a
  tube, and a housemaid who will not take notice after noon, but
  promptly gives it herself next morning.... The conductor who bids you
  hurry up, the host, the ‘saleslady’ who makes you wait while she
  discusses things in general with a colleague, the verger in a
  fashionable church—this last is peculiarly American—are
  specimens.”—Spec.

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  “Mrs. Lane may congratulate herself on having that blessed sense of
  humour which is one of the most valuable possessions in life. In any
  case English-women should be grateful to her for writing them this
  delightful, candid book, which is full of original and bright ideas.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 136. F. 10, ’06. 900w.

  “Mrs. Lane’s style is admirably suited to the racy and ephemeral
  matter which these papers contain, and she treats each topic with such
  freshness and originality that the book is as entertaining as it is
  suggestive.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 197. F. 17. 220w.

  “Spontaneous wit united with keen judgment makes this volume a
  delightful one.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 200w.

      + =Dial.= 40: 200. Mr. 16, ’06. 400w.

  “In ‘The champagne standard’ Mrs. John Lane has carried the art of
  prattle (on paper) to a point of rare perfection.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 450w.

  “The volume is delightful and contains many things to laugh over—and
  afterwards to think over seriously.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 149. Mr. 10, ’06. 870w.

  “Mrs. Lane’s papers are light, agreeable fare for those who want to
  know about certain sections of society, their follies and trifles, and
  her book was made to be read.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 404. Mr. 31, ’06. 170w.

  “The whole book is thoroughly worth reading.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 306. F. 24, ’06. 300w.


=Lane, Elinor Macartney.= All for the love of a lady; 6 full-page il. by
Arthur Becher. †$1.25. Appleton.

  “A tale of chivalrous love and dastardly conspiracy told with the
  grace that we should expect from the author of ‘Nancy Stair.’” (Ind.)
  Lady Iseult of Castle Carfrae has a quartette of lovers—two of whom
  are little Scotch lads of nine who swear fealty to their lady and
  defend her in the absence of her favored lover. “Incidentally the
  story is furnished with a villain, and a faithful old retainer in the
  person of a Scotch lawyer, who, by the help of the two dauntless
  midgets, rescues the maid from her danger and restores her to her true
  love.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The sketch is one of the best things the author has written.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 40w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1377. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.

  “Every one of the six characters is marvelously well defined, there is
  much humor, much delightful talk, and a reality and naturalness about
  it all that speaks much for the writer’s skill—even genius.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 327. My. 19, ’06. 360w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

  “There is much wit and many clever scenes in the story.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 170w.


=Lang, Andrew.= John Knox and the reformation. *$3.50. Longmans.

  “Its ‘saeva indignatio’ may not always be earnest, but the work is a
  painful contribution to the literature of exposure.” Francis A.
  Christie.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 371. Ja. ’06. 1230w.

  “The book is rather a criticism of other biographies than a biography
  itself, and herein lie at once its value and its limitations. Yet the
  book has many merits, though it is not free from casual errors. It
  should always be read with the ordinary lives of Knox, and should not
  be read without one or the other of them.” A. F. Pollard.

    – + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 163. Ja. ’06. 1100w.

  “In a life of Knox his blunders as an historian and his vagaries as a
  politician must have a place, but that must be at least a little lower
  than the place set apart for his work as a reformer and his policy as
  an ecclesiastical statesman. And, when his words and actions are
  subjected to criticism, the toleration of history demands that these
  should be seen in light of the sixteenth century.” John Herkless.

    – + =Hibbert J.= 3: 819. Jl. ’06. 2380w.

  “He has let rather too much cleverness and subtlety creep into his
  book.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 287. Ap. 5, ’06. 1220w.


=Lang, Andrew.= New collected rhymes. *$1.25. Longmans.

  “Mr. Lang’s “New collected rhymes” are an epitome of his work in
  verse. The volume contains ballads and folk-songs and parodies,
  topical rhymes on life and literature, and lyrics on angling, on
  cricket, and on Prince Charlie.” (Spec.)

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      + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 195. F. 17. 720w.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 327. My. 16, ’06. 340w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 149. Ap. 27, ’06. 240w.

  “His ‘New collected rhymes’ have the metrical facility and grace, the
  urbane humor, that make his ‘Ballads of books’ of such pleasant
  memory.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 260w.

  Reviewed by Florence Wilkinson.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 225. Ap. 7, ’06. 440w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 220w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 262. F. 17, ’06. 320w.


=Lang, Andrew.= Oxford. *$1.50. Lippincott.

  “If ever a topic would have appealed to him, surely it would be this.
  Yet the impression left after perusal is of put-together chapters.”

      – =Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 100w.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 130w.

    – + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 140w.


=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Red romance book. **$1.60. Longmans.

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 564. Ja. ’06. 180w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ’05. 130w.


=Lang, Andrew.= Secret of the totem. $3. Longmans.

  This present work is a sequel to Mr. Lang’s “Social origins and primal
  law” published three years ago. It “deals with the obscure beginnings
  of society so far as these can be traced in the organization—or want
  of organization—found in the lowest savage tribes, those of Australia.
  These, as is well known, are organized on the totem system, by which a
  certain number of individuals are bound together by belief in their
  common descent from a common ancestor, generally of an animal nature,
  and known as the totem.” (N. Y. Times.)

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  “Mr. Lang has given us in this work a skilful exposition of a
  complicated subject. Totemism is more often talked about than
  understood, and Mr. Lang’s accuracy in the use of terms may,
  incidentally, serve as a corrective to the wilder spirits who see
  totemism everywhere.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1195. N. 18, ’05. 1130w.

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 421. Mr. ’06. 210w.

  “He has made a distinct advance towards the solution of many difficult
  problems. Mr. Lang’s method of dealing with his argument is altogether
  admirable. It is clear, consistent, and logical.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 726. N. 25. 1720w.

      + =Dial.= 40: 265. Ap. 16, ’06. 410w.

        =Lond. Times.= 5: 14. Ja. 12, ’06. 720w.

  “The somewhat arrogant claim of the title is not modified by what Mr.
  Lang says in the course of this rather dull volume.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 455. My. 31, ’06. 770w.

  “Truth to tell, he is wandering somewhat out of his sphere in dealing
  with the subject at all. One gets the impression that he has simply
  manipulated the materials and theories of others instead of producing
  a new one out of the materials himself.” Joseph Jacobs.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 922. D. 30, ’05. 900w.

  Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 724. D. ’06. 390w.

  “For the first time we have a consecutive presentation of his views
  concerning the origin and early evolution of totemism.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 270. Mr. 3, ’06. 1500w.

  “The treatment is detailed, technical, and except to the specialist,
  very dry.”

    + – =Yale R.= 15: 338. N. ’06. 160w.


=Lang, Andrew.= Sir Walter Scott. **$1. Scribner.

  Thoro familiarity with Scott’s life and surroundings, with all the
  Abbotsford Mss., and with the details of Scottish life and history,
  has equipped Mr. Lang for an undertaking that does not claim to rival
  Lockhart’s, only to compress “the essence of Lockhart’s great book
  into small space, with a few additions from other sources.”

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  “We venture to think that Scott’s admirers will find much that is new
  and more that is freshly put in this biography, which is permeated by
  a sympathy and understanding of which praise would be an impertinence.
  There is only one aspect of the book to which we would draw attention,
  and that in the way of homologating rather than criticising what is
  said.”

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 280. Mr. 24, ’06. 950w.

  “We have one complaint to make: it is really too bad of experts like
  Mr. Lang and his publishers to produce a book without an index.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 413. Ap. 7. 1680w.

  Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

      + =Atlan.= 98: 279. Ag. ’06. 570w.

  “Mr. Lang is capable of being irritating, but he is never prosy. This
  book is probably all the better for its purpose because it has not the
  property of high finish.” H. W. Boynton.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 432. Je. ’06. 1340w.

      + =Critic.= 49: 49. Jl. ’06. 450w.

  “Lang’s biography, for a brief one, is very full of details without
  being encyclopaedically dry.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 394. Je. 16, ’06. 380w.

  “Mr. Lang’s chief contribution in this volume is to our collection of
  epigrams, and to our stock of somewhat buoyant common sense. Except in
  the matter of condensing Lockhart, it is a bit difficult to see what
  addition the book makes to our convenience.” William T. Brewster.

      + =Forum.= 38: 101. Jl. ’06. 620w.

  “It is altogether too conscious of the authorities that have preceded
  it to be as satisfactory a substitute, as it pretends, to a reader who
  knows nothing about them.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1164. My. 17, ’06. 120w.

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 474. Mr. 31, ’06. 1240w.

  “Mr. Lang’s book is pre-eminently, if not exclusively, for advanced
  readers—those who know their Lockhart and are fairly familiar with
  what has been written on the subject since 1837. In this present book
  ... in spite of all its fine qualities, there is some oddity or other
  upon almost every other page.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 121. Ap. 6, ’06. 2140w.

  Reviewed by Florence Wilkinson.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 224. Ap. 7, ’06. 3080w.

  “Thanks to his study of the history of Scotland he has turned new and
  true lights on many contested points, and he enlivens with anecdote
  and personal reminiscence the romance of the Borders he knows so
  well.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 49. Jl. 14, ’06. 790w.

  “Mr. Lang’s criticisms are invariably interesting, partly because they
  are invariably characteristic, and are what are known in the loose
  journalese of the day as ‘sidelights.’”

      + =Spec.= 97: 203. Ag. 11, ’06. 970w.


=Lankester, Edwin Ray.= Extinct animals. *$1.75. Holt.

  + + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 899. D. 30. 900w.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 110w.

  “The work is authoritative, quite up to date, and on the whole one of
  the best popular accounts of the life of the ancient world in print.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 230w.

  “The book will be interesting and perfectly intelligible to children
  of high-school age, but even the general reader of mature years will
  find much to claim the interest.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 80w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 425. Mr. 17. ’06. 80w.


=Lansdale, Maria Horner.= Châteaux of Touraine; il. with pictures by
Jules Guérin, and by photographs. **$6. Century.

  In text, illustrations, and workmanship this volume furnishes the same
  excellencies that characterized Mrs. Wharton’s “Italian villas” with
  the Parrish pictures, to which it is a companion volume. Accuracy and
  authority stamp the sketches of these twelve Touraine chateaux. The
  charm which casts a spell over pilgrims from every quarter of the
  globe, says the author, is born of a variety of causes, their
  captivating beauty, their architectural interest, the loveliness of
  the surrounding country and the halo of historical associations in
  which each is wrapped. There are sixteen wash drawings by Jules Guérin
  besides over forty reproductions in black and tint of photographs.

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  “Her facts are accurate and authoritative, and at the same time
  picturesquely presented.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 470w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1398. D. 13, ’06. 190w.

  “The subjects are well suited to a hand trained in architectural
  rendering. And the artist has here as elsewhere found himself at ease
  in restriction to flat tones of a few low-keyed colours. He shows
  imagination in these sketches and a cleverness in atmospheric
  feeling.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 22. N. ’06. 530w.

  “M. Guérin’s fine water-colour drawings, with their extreme
  simplicity, absence of realism and touch of conventionalism, are full
  of delicate suggestion and decorative feeling—excellent examples of
  what book illustration should be.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 30: 185. D. ’06. 400w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 120w.

  “Is surely one of the best of all the handsome gift books of this
  season.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 769. N. 24, ’06. 360w.

  “Is one of the most elaborate travel books appearing this season.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 200w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 130w.

  “If the text serves as an admirable guidebook, the illustrations
  render it worthy to be called a glorified one.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 379. D. ’06. 190w.

  “Miss Lansdale’s touch is easy and interesting.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 80w.

  “Miss Lansdale describes their features and tells their story with a
  freshness which saves her chapters from falling into the rut of a
  guide-book.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 160w.

  “The book is agreeably written, and full of historical and antiquarian
  information.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 765. N. 17, ’06. 290w.


=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Books, culture and character. **$1. Houghton.

  Seven addresses delivered at various times since the year 1883 are
  connected here, and offer the sound advice of one interested in the
  active problems of education. They are as follows; A familiar talk
  about books, The test of quality in books, Hints as to reading, The
  mission and the missionaries of the book, Good and evil from the
  printing press, Public libraries and public education, School reading
  versus school training of history.

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  “With his wonted clearness and force, and in English that it is a
  delight to read, Mr. Larned ... emphasizes the urgent necessity of
  spreading the culture of good literature among the people at large.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 327. N. 16, ’06. 380w.

  “It is the kind of book about books that cannot be accused of
  dilettantism, a book informed with wholesome and fine feeling which
  also has much merit of the kind as literary—which is also informed;
  that is with taste.” H. W. Boynton.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 804. D. 1, ’06. 1270w.


=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Seventy centuries of the life of mankind, 2v.
$4.50. C. A. Nichols co., Springfield, Mass.

  “He may be right, but his is not the judicial tone of Ranke or Stubbs.
  Nor does his list of authorities show very extensive reading even in
  the secondary sources, and it is confined to works in English. Yet his
  book is to be praised: it is an accurate and lucid summary of the
  chief events in world-history put forth in an attractive form.” George
  M. Wrong.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 707. Ap. ’06. 520w.


=Latham, Charles.= Gardens of Italy: a series of over 300 illustrations
from photographs of the most famous examples of Italian gardens, with
descriptive text by E. March Phillipps. 2v. $18. Scribner.

  “It would be difficult to better the photographs, and the letterpress
  is interesting and readable.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 70w.


=Lathbury, Clarence.= Balanced life. $1. Nunc Licet press.

  “This is one of the best recent works which seeks to strengthen and
  round out character by stimulating the inner life and impressing on
  the mind in a realizing sense the omnipotence and omnipresence of
  Good.” (Arena.) The contents include: The return to nature; Rhythm of
  the universe; In the stream of power; The white line of the dawn;
  Built without hands; The highway of the spirit; The central melody;
  The great amens; Oil in our lamps; Vision and patience; Thoughts that
  find us young.

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  “The author’s style is clear. He makes his thought easily understood,
  though he is somewhat redundant at times. Barring this defect the
  style is, on the whole, excellent and the thought well calculated to
  strengthen, purify and upbuild the character of the reader.”

  + + – =Arena.= 35: 107. Ja. ’06. 310w.

      + =Dial.= 39: 171. S. 16, ’05. 160w.


=Lathrop, Elise.= Where Shakespeare set his stage; decorations by G. W.
Hood. **$2. Pott.

  Twelve Shakespeare plays are described with respect to scene,
  appearance of characters and periods in which they lived, and the
  sources of the plots. The author bases her study upon visits to the
  localities which are reproduced in text and illustrations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “No harm will be done to readers who confine themselves to the
  illustrations, but the letter press is capable of conveying many
  misleading ideas to uninformed youth.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 160w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 757. N. 17, ’06. 250w.


=Lathrop, John R. T.= How a man grows. $1.25. Meth. bk.

  The development of man is traced thru a series of stages indicated by
  the following chapter headings: The problem stated, The data of
  philosophy, Cosmic ethics, Christian ethics, Cosmic regeneration,
  Christian regeneration, Forces in man’s becoming, Certainties in
  religion, Religion, The religion of the future, The coronation of man.


=Latrobe, Benjamin Henry.= Journal of Latrobe. *$3.50. Appleton.

  The notes and sketches of an architect, naturalist and traveler in the
  United States from 1796 to 1820. Following a biographical introduction
  by J. H. B. Latrobe are chapters on Virginia and its people; a visit
  to Washington at Mt. Vernon; Philadelphia, and the construction of the
  water works in the Schuylkill for the city’s water supply; the
  building of the national capitol and the designing of the navy yard,
  St. John’s church, and Christ church; and New Orleans and its people.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 477. Ja. ’06. 80w.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 140w.

  “Should find an honored place in every library.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 387. My. 10, ’06, 410w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 5. Ja. 6, ’06. 470w.

  “This journal is now a valuable source-book of American history,
  particularly on the social side. His observations are also highly
  entertaining, for he had a keen sense of the interesting.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 941. D. 16, ’05. 240w.

  “The most interesting passages in his journal are the shrewd
  characterizations of men and manners.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 290w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 130w.


=Laut, Agnes Christina.= Vikings of the Pacific. **$2. Macmillan.

  Volume 1, of “The pathfinders of the West” series. The adventures of
  the explorers who came from the West, eastward; Bering, the Dane; the
  outlaw hunters of Russia; Benyowsky, the Polish pirate; Cook and
  Vancouver, the English navigators; Gray of Boston, discoverer of the
  Columbia; Drake, Ledyard and other soldiers of fortune on the west
  coast of America are presented in an interesting fashion, and the
  volume is freely and well illustrated.

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  “In matters of detail the author is fairly accurate; though there are
  a few errors which argue a lack of familiarity with the best secondary
  authorities within her field. After making all necessary deductions,
  it may still be said that the book will furnish to the discriminating
  student a considerable fund of information not so conveniently
  accessible elsewhere.” Joseph Schafer.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 680. Ap. ’06. 370w.

  “The attractive title of the volume is scarcely justified by its
  contents.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 635. My. 26, ’06. 360w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 80w.

  “Miss Laut possesses the happy faculty of seizing upon the element of
  human interest that lie buried in even the dryest of historical
  documents, enfolding them in a glamour of romance without destroying
  their historical value, and presenting them to the reader with the
  combined fidelity and skill of historian and novelist.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 166. S. 16, ’06. 650w.

  “A splendid piece of work.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1048. My. 3, ’06. 300w.

  “Leaving petty incongruities of style, one may inquire into the
  accuracy of the facts of historic origin which the author has woven
  into her text. In the main her narrative is fairly correct, after one
  rejects its imaginary setting and presumptuous epithets.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 286. Ap. 5, ’06. 1350w.

  “It is an interesting story that Miss Laut tells, and it should open
  the history of the Northwest to Eastern readers.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 19. Ja. 13, ’06. 500w.

  “She writes ... always in a way that clearly visualizes for the reader
  the exciting events and notable deeds described, the text being based
  on first sources.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 190w.

  “In Miss Laut’s hands the narrative has all the fascination of a
  daring story of adventure with the added and novel merit of being
  absolutely true.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 510. Ap. 21, ’06. 130w.

  “It is remarkable that the details of these early attempts at
  settlement and trade have remained so long unknown to the mass of
  American readers.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 190w.

  “A most interesting book.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 306. F. 24, ’06. 280w.


=Lawrence, Albert Lathrop.= Wolverine. 75c. Little.

  A new popular edition of “The Wolverine.” The scene of this romance is
  laid in Michigan territory just before it becomes the Wolverine state.
  Perry North, a young man of New England blood, and pale orange colored
  hair, comes to Detroit from his home state, Massachusetts, as a
  government surveyor. He meets Marie Beaucoeur, and loves her in spite
  of the fact that her free French Catholic views of life are a constant
  shock to his Puritanical upbringing. It is only after many thrilling
  scenes such as naturally belong to that time and place where the Ohio
  boundary line was a constant source of trouble, and negroes and
  Indians added an unruly element, that young North comes to reconcile
  his conscience and his love.

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 170w.


=Laycock, Craven and Scales, Robert Leighton.= Argumentation and debate.
60c. Macmillan.

  The book “systematizes and makes a unified art of the principles which
  should be followed in preparing for the presentation of a given
  subject in the form of reasoned argument.”

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  “A statement of the traditional arguments from antecedent probability,
  sign and example is in itself of little use to the ordinary debater.
  Nor does the part of the book on debate, though interesting and well
  written, seem to us to offer sufficient ground for exercise and
  practise to those who may use it.” E. E. H., jr.

      – =Bookm.= 22: 528. Ja. ’06. 310w.

  “There is not a little sensible advice and acute suggestion to be
  found in this book, and it is likely to be useful, not only in the
  classroom, but to all persons preparing for public discussion.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 120w.

  “Parts of the book are excellently done. The chapter on brief-drawing
  is the best to be found anywhere; the advice in the appendix is
  practical and helpful. But the book, on the whole, is diffuse. Yet
  with all its faults the book is perhaps the most practical of the
  compilations that have thus far treated the subject.” Fred Lewis
  Pattee.

  + + – =School R.= 15: 545. S. ’06. 460w.


=Lea, Henry Charles.= History of the Inquisition of Spain. 4v. v. 1 and
2 ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.

  A work built up from a vast amount of material drawn from Spanish
  archives. Volume one is chiefly devoted to tracing the rise of the
  Inquisition in Spain; volume two discusses the disastrous influence of
  the institution upon the rulers who supported it, the people who
  suffered under it and the nation that survived it.

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        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 739. Ap. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “In style and treatment the book shows to the full the qualities so
  long familiar in Mr. Lea’s work—the same wealth of detail, the same
  direct dependence on the sources, the same avoidance of polemics and
  all rhetorical amplification. It is everywhere the work of one who
  still believes that the history of jurisprudence is the history of
  civilization.” George L. Burr.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 887. Jl. ’06. 1810w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “An accurate and complete survey of the subject.” Franklin Johnson.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 351. Ap. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)

        =Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The book of the year which touches the high-water mark of scholarship
  in the flood of European histories is H. C. Lea’s ‘Inquisition in
  Spain.’ Once again this man, who is the pride of American scholars,
  outdoes the European historians in their own field.”

  + + + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It is refreshing to have at hand a substantial amount of definite
  fact in a field where previous writers have given us so much
  passionate and unsupported generalization.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 385. My. 10, ’06. 2800w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “This severely analytical method of dealing with the subject is
  somewhat repellent even to the trained reader.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 853. D. 8, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 1. and
          2.)

  “His narrative is not dramatic in form. It never even suggests the
  theatrical. But it is thoroughly human.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 853. Ap. 14, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Tells the story with an almost legal dryness of detail, and with an
  absence of all appearance of indignation, which he leaves unexpressed
  if not suppressed, and which for this reason his readers feel all the
  more forcibly.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Prodigious industry, careful discrimination of material, and a
  trained historical faculty have combined to make Mr. Lea’s book
  entirely worthy of the high reputation of the author.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 283. Mr. 3, ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “This is the first thorough work in English on the Inquisition.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Leacock, Stephen.= Elements of political science. *$1.75. Houghton.

  This volume “contains chapters on the recent colonial expansion of the
  European states, the dependencies of the United States, the origin and
  growth of political parties in the United States, the organization of
  American political parties, government interference on behalf of the
  working class, and municipal control, and devotes to each of these
  subjects more attention than is usually accorded them in elementary
  works of this class.” (R. of Rs.)

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  “The book is accurate and well-informed, but the opinions
  conventional, and mostly inclining towards the ‘oligarchic’ principles
  ridiculed by Disraeli in his early days.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 476. O. 20. 450w.

  “Mr. Leacock is broad in his grasp and suggestive in his criticism.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 256. Ag. 2, ’06. 120w.

  “His work as a whole is clear-cut, well written, logically arranged,
  and convincing.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 765. Jl. 28, ’06. 320w.

  “A useful textbook of the subject, brought well up-to-date.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 100w.

  “On the whole a fair and impartial spirit pervades the book. The most
  serious defect of the book is due, not to the author, but to the
  nature of the subject. The task of condensing into a single small book
  an amount of material that would make several quarto volumes look
  respectably corpulent is not an easy one. The result, of necessity, is
  of the condensed-food variety. It is almost too strong to be taken
  clear by the young student of political science, but will make an
  excellent diet when properly diluted with class-room discussion.”
  Edward E. Hill.

    + – =School R.= 14: 770. D. ’06. 650w.


=Learned, Ellin Craven (Mrs. Frank Learned) (Priscilla Wakefield,
pseud.).= Etiquette of New York to-day. **$1.25. Stokes.

  Mrs. Learned writes with authority from experience gained thru
  connection with the best society and from an instinctive sense of
  courtesy inherited from generations of culture. Invitations, and
  answers, formal and informal dinners, luncheons, teas and parties,
  cotillions, dinner dances, theatre parties, the table and its
  appointments, visiting and the use of cards and wedding preparations,
  are among the topics discussed.

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  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 865. D. 15, ’06. 390w.


=Le Braz, Anatole.= Land of pardons; tr. by Francis M. Gostling. *$2.
Macmillan.

  A translation of the 1900 edition of this work. “The book was a
  collection of hitherto unprinted legends of the early Breton saints
  supplemented by sympathetic descriptions of the modern ceremonies in
  their honor (known as ‘pardons’) which are the last vestiges of the
  ancient ‘Feasts of the dead.’” (Nation.)

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  “We can well sympathize with the translator’s desire to linger over
  its pages as a labour of love, and we hope that a speedy call for a
  second edition will give her an opportunity of careful revision.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 636. My. 26. 250w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1398. D. 13, ’06. 290w.

  “Into its dreamy heart we are taken by the author of this charming
  book and by his sympathetic translator, whose labour has been one of
  love, and therefore of success.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 248. Jl. 13, ’06. 1390w.

  “The translator has performed her task well, but no translation could
  hope to render the strange, melancholy charm of M. Le Braz’s lyric
  prose.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 120w.

  “Only a journalist could put his reader so immediately into the inner
  heart of things, only a seasoned traveler would so unconsciously leave
  out all the mere husks, and only a poet could write about it all with
  such fascination.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 653. O. 6, ’06. 660w.

  “His style has that delicacy and dramatic point which are a source of
  pleasure in the best French writers.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 160w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 80w.

  “Apart from its interest as a full revelation of the religious life of
  France, it is of great sociological value.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 420w.


=Lee, Jennette Barbour (Perry) (Mrs. Gerald Stanley Lee).= Uncle
William. †$1. Century.

  “Shif’less” Uncle William, sailor and lover of the sea, desired only
  that he might possess his stretch of shore and his cliff cottage
  undisturbed. One day to his island off Nova Scotia came an artist to
  paint his clouds, his sea and even his rude abode. Uncle William
  houses him, steams his clams, fathers him; and a half year later when
  word comes from New York that fever has stricken the young painter,
  Uncle William goes to him and nurses him back to health. There is a
  sweet Russian girl in the tale, and there is Andy, Uncle William’s
  crony who maintained that a “a thing o’t to cost more’n the picter of
  it.” Uncle William sums up his philosophy of faith in mortals in this
  sentiment; “I’d a heap rather trust ’em and get fooled, than not to
  trust ’em and hev ’em all right.”

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  “To my mind, as an antidote for nervous prostration and a general
  bracer, Uncle William throws the popular Mrs. Wiggs completely in the
  shade.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 465. My. ’06. 390w.

  “It is good to know Uncle William, especially as he, like the book he
  is in, is short, sweet, and to the point.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 310w.

  “There is a grace in the making of the story that owes its effect to
  an unstudied simplicity of style.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 90w.

  “The little book with its cheery optimism and with a cameo
  character-like delineation is a positive joy.”

    + + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 70w.


=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Enchanted woods, and other essays
on the genius of places. *$1.50. Lane.

  “This is a delightfully restful book.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 332. Mr. ’06. 270w.


=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Hauntings: fantastic stories.
**$1.50. Lane.

  A new edition of these four subtly devised ghost stories: Amour dure,
  Dionea, Oke of Okehurst, and A wicked voice. The first tale is in
  diary form and tells of the tragic adventures of a German professor in
  Umbria, the second is the story of a beautiful sea waif who brings
  ruin to all who cross her path, the third has an English setting but
  it also has a phantom lover and a family superstition, while the
  fourth is the story of a musician who hears a voice from the past with
  disastrous results.

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  “These four curiously interesting stories have a weird fascination
  quite unlike any others of their order.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 358. Ap. 14, ’06. 330w.

  “We recommend these tales of mystery and romance to those who are a
  little weary of the analytical and impressionist method, and who crave
  for a beginning and an end and some happenings in a story.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 250w.

  “The ideas upon which they are constructed are fertile and original,
  and they are, on the whole, artistic productions of uncommon
  distinction.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 409. Je. 23, ’06. 450w.

  “Above all, they are picturesque, drawn with delicate and brilliant
  touches, and rich in colour and design.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 592. My. 12, ’06. 190w.

        =Spec.= 96: 989. Je. 23, ’06. 170w.


=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Spirit of Rome: leaves from a
diary. **$1.50. Lane.

  The work of a literary impressionist. These “leaves from a diary” are
  “the merest shorthand notes of things felt rather than seen in Rome
  and its ‘dintorni,’ during the transient spring visits of many
  successive years, by an Englishwoman of keen and rarely cultivated
  perceptions, who has passed almost her whole life in some part of
  Italy.” (Atlan.)

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  “The author has done wisely to give these impressions in their
  unpolished freshness—unset jewels, but masterpieces in little,
  pictures which for beauty and magic may be likened to Rembrandt
  etchings.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1073. O. 14, ’05. 610w.

  “Most of the book does not go much beyond what the average sharp
  journalist has now learned to write, grammar and all.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 685. N. 18. 180w.

  “Contain some of her subtlest and most suggestive word-painting.”

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 559. Ap. ’06. 250w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 50w.

  “As a matter of fact, a surer grasp of the ‘spirit’ of Rome can be
  obtained from any guide-book.”

    – – =Lit. D.= 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 730w.

  “Admirers of her work, so sumptuous and exquisite in its texture, must
  resent being offered a meagre scrap-book of this kind.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 4: 339. O. 13, ’05. 330w.

  “It is a pity that the book has been given to the public without
  eliminating all that is purposeless and inadequate.”

    – + =Nation.= 82: 309. Ap. 12, ’06. 400w.

  “The book is not confined to facts. It is the interpretation thereof
  which we find and which counts.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 217. Ap. 7, ’06. 450w.

  “Valuable little volume.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 380w.

  “Hangers-on of the pre-Raphaelites in the ’seventies might have
  pretended to care for such stuff: it will interest no human being now
  alive.”

    – – =Sat. R.= 101: 466. Ap. 14, ’06. 370w.

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1016. Je. 30, ’06. 220w.


=Leech, John.= Pictures of life and character. $1.50. Putnam.

  “It is a book full of enjoyment.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 60w.


=Lees, Rev. G. Robinson.= Village life in Palestine, $1.25. Longmans.

  A new edition of a book that “endeavors, by means of a series of
  simple but intimate studies of the peasants or Fellaheen of the
  villages of Palestine, to put a little life and reality into people’s
  conceptions of the scenes and incidents of Old and New Testament
  story.” (Spec.)

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  “Dr. Lees’ book is one of more than common interest, and should appeal
  to Bible students in general.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ’05. 60w.

  “The book is full of information and instruction.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 227. F. 10, ’06. 80w.


=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Painted shadows. †$1.50. Little.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 256. Ap. 21, ’06. 500w.


=Legg, Leopold George Wickham=, ed. Select documents illustrative of the
history of the French revolution and the constituent assembly. 2v. *$4.
Oxford.

  “His work, full of interest and research, must rank among standard
  books of reference. The arrangement of material, the index, and the
  notes are all that can be desired.”

  + + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 261. Mr. 3. 1130w.

  “Mr. Wickham Legge has done good service in editing with conspicuous
  care this collection of documents.” J. Holland Rose.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 175. Ja. ’06. 850w.


=Legge, Arthur E. J.= The ford. †$1.50. Lane.

  “In execution, if not perhaps in conception, this novel is decidedly
  above the average.”

      + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 42. Ja. 13. 110w.

  “The book is simple and genuine, and its style has the touch of poetic
  distinction.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 154. Mr. 1, ’06. 160w.


=Leigh, Oliver.= Edgar Allan Poe: the man, the master, the martyr.
$1.25. Morris.

  This minute study of the various portraits of Poe, as illustrated by
  Mr. Leigh’s own drawings, brings out the various phases of his
  character. A transposable face forms the frontispiece, then follow the
  wedding year portrait, the profile study, the widower year portrait
  and his monument. There are also besides a discussion of his troubles
  and his triumphs, critical notes upon his poetical work and methods.

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  “As a self-constituted authority on the subject he is naturally very
  severe with every one else who has ever written about it.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 231. S. 13, ’06. 450w.


=Lepicier, Fr. Alexius M.= Unseen world: an exposition of Catholic
theology in its relation to modern spiritism. *$1.60. Benziger.

  To answer the claims of spiritism that profess ability to communicate
  with the outer world, Father Lépicier “sets forth, besides the
  teaching of the Church on the existence and nature of the angels, all
  the scholastic speculative conclusions concerning the nature of the
  angelic mind, the manner in which it acquires knowledge, the extent of
  that knowledge, the limitations of the angels’ power over things of
  the material cosmos, etc., etc. He then proceeds to unfold a quantity
  of similar information concerning the conditions in which the human
  soul finds itself with regard to the exercise of its facilities after
  death.” (Cath. World.)

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        =Cath. World.= 83: 269. My. ’06. 500w.


=Le Roy, James A.= Philippine life in town, and country. **$1.20.
Putnam.

  “A very sympathetic account of the life of the natives which is
  singularly free from prejudice.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 421. Mr. ’06. 290w.

  “Differs in style from other volumes of the series, and has many
  advantages over the vast number of books upon the Philippines which
  have appeared in the English language since 1898.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 200w.

  “The index is most unworthy a volume like this and is not in any way
  indicative of the nuggets contained therein.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 571. Mr. 8, ’06. 1010w.

  “This sinking of the speculative beneath the objective has peculiar
  value for readers with all shades of preconceptions, the more as
  almost, if not quite, without exception the observations are
  accurately made and always temperately expressed.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 305. Ap. 12, ’06. 1680w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 120w.

  “We may give our testimony to the interest of the book, and to the
  large and tolerant spirit in which it is written.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 760. My. 12, ’06. 80w.

  “To those who are planning to go to the Philippines to engage in some
  branch of the public service, this little book should be
  indispensable.”

      + =Yale R.= 14: 445. F. ’06. 90w.


=Leroy-Beaulieu, Pierre Paul.= United States in the twentieth century.
**$2. Funk.

  The author of this work comes of a family of thinkers and writers,
  being the son of Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, and nephew of Anatole
  Leroy-Beaulieu. The work is a review from the study of American
  documents of the economic resources of the United States at the
  beginning of the twentieth century. The work is treated under four
  heads: pt. I. The country and the people; pt. II, Rural America; pt.
  III, Industrial America; pt. IV. Commercial America.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not too much to say that this is one of the three or four most
  important books yet written by Europeans to give to fellow-citizens an
  idea of the United States and its possibilities.”

  + + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 422. Mr. ’06. 430w.

  “That he is a foreigner who sees us at a peculiar angle and from a
  view-point different from our own, only augments the interest with
  which he invests his volume.” Winthrop More Daniels.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 849. Je. ’06. 330w.

  “When he ventures, as he occasionally does, a criticism, he offers it
  in so friendly a spirit, and gives so many solid reasons for his
  opinion, that not even prejudice itself could find cause for
  resentment. Exceedingly able and instructive work.”

  + + + =Cath. World.= 84: 107. O. ’06. 1460w.

  “M. Leroy-Beaulieu does not go behind the figures of the last census
  and his analysis is no more profound than that heard in a smoking-room
  after dinner.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 240w.

  “The translation seems to have been well made, and though essentially
  statistical, the book as a whole may prove interesting to many who are
  not statistically inclined.”

    + + =Engin. N.= 55: 318. Mr. 15, ’06. 270w.

  “It is not written in so interesting a style as Bryce’s ‘American
  commonwealth,’ and is more exclusively devoted to the commercial and
  industrial development of the United States, but is valuable as a
  competent and thoro discussion of our progress and problems from the
  impartial standpoint of a foreign statistician.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 80w.

  “Exhaustive examination of the resources and possibilities of the
  United States. What gives his book its greatest worth, besides making
  it extremely easy reading, is the deftness with which Mr.
  Leroy-Beaulieu has combined the proverbial Gallican weakness for
  generalization with an un-Gallican appreciation of the value of facts
  and figures.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 31: 999. D. 30, ’05. 850w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 270w.

  “He writes less as a critic than as an expositor.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 65. F. 3, ’06. 1030w.

  “Carefully and admirably translated.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 277. F. 3, ’06. 420w.

  “Is valuable not only in itself, but as a basis for other studies.
  Great credit is due Mr. Bruce, for the care with which he has made the
  translation and for his excellent rendering of French idioms into good
  English.”

  + + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 188. F. 10, ’06. 310w.

  “What is perhaps the most noteworthy work on the United States since
  the publication of Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth.’”

  + + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’06. 190w.


Lessons of the King made plain to His little ones by a religious of the
society of the Holy Child Jesus. Benziger.

  Many of the lessons taught by Jesus while on earth are here repeated
  and explained in a simple fashion that will instruct and interest
  children of the Roman Catholic faith.


=Lester, John C., and Wilson, Daniel Love.= Ku Klux Klan, its origin,
growth and disbandment. $1.50. Neale.

  The main portion of the book is a reprint of an account of the origin
  and growth of this great order of Reconstruction days, first privately
  printed twenty-one years ago. Mr. Walter L. Fleming has contributed an
  introduction giving side-light information on the Klan and kindred
  organizations. There are appendices containing the constitution and
  specimens of orders and warnings issued by the Klan.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 748. Ap. ’06. 60w.

  “The book is undoubtedly one of great interest.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 90. F. 10, ’06. 560w.


=LeStrange, Guy.= Lands of the eastern Caliphate, Mesopotamia, Persia
and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. *$4.
Macmillan.

  “It contains much information of value to the student of
  civilization.”

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 462. Ja. ’06. 50w.

  “In spite of the immense number of facts which it contains, is not
  merely a work of reference, but also deserves to be read for its own
  sake.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 729. Je. 16. 300w.

  “But it is as difficult to find blemishes as it is easy to discover
  merits in a book of which the usefulness to students will be felt not
  in one but in many fields of research.” C. R. Beazley.

    + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 561. Jl. ’06. 580w.


=Levasseur, Pierre Emile.= Elements of political economy; tr. by
Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.

  “In spite of additions and changes made by the translator, it is,
  however, essentially a foreign work. It is therefore doubtful whether
  the book will prove available for use in American colleges.”

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 567. S. ’06. 190w.


=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= Story of Paul Jones. †$1.50.
Dillingham.

  The author of “The Wolfville stories” writes a stirring tale based
  upon the true facts of Paul Jones’ life from his boyhood in Scotland
  to his death in France. The main stress of the narrative which assumes
  the form of an historical romance is placed upon the naval hero’s
  service to the American colonies during the Revolutionary war.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “From first to last his book is quick with action, is enlivened by
  dialogue in which the atmosphere of the period is preserved, and is
  written in a vigorous, pleasing vein.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 140w.


=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= Sunset trail. †$1.50. Barnes.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1540. D. 28, ’05. 180w.

  “Repulsive and dreary as is this picture of primitive Western life,
  there is much that is picturesque and entertaining, and of the two
  kinds of American novel the Western adventurous is decidedly
  preferable to the Eastern ‘cultured’ kind.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 761. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.


=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= Throwback; a romance of the
Southwest. $1.50. Outing pub.

  The hero of this story “is a tremendously irresistible son and heir of
  an aristocratic Maryland family, who by some stroke of atavism is a
  reproduction of the fierce founder of the house. He turns a buffalo
  hunter in the Panhandle district and by his adventures meets all the
  requirements for a big, hearty dare-devil who can shoot buffalo, kill
  Indians, find treasures, and win the hand of a somewhat indistinctly
  drawn heroine. It is a ‘rattling’ story and doubtless portrays with
  literary impressionism the life of the old days in the great Southwest
  before the buffalo had disappeared and wire fences had turned cowboys
  into herdsmen.” (World To-Day.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Lewis’s tale is an odd compound of silliness and brutality.”

      – =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 100w.

  “Mr. Lewis has tamed his usual picturesque Wolfville language, but he
  has left enough of it to add spice, and he has introduced some very
  engaging humorous personages.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 630w.

  “It is a little more melodramatic than [‘The Virginian’] and does not
  carry with it quite the same conviction, but it is capital reading.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 765. Jl. ’06. 140w.


=Libbey, William, and Hoskins, Franklin E.= Jordan valley and Petra.
**$6. Putnam.

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 670w.

  “The volumes are a most important addition to the geography of the
  east Jordan and Petra regions of Palestine.” H. L. W.

    + + =Bib. World.= 28: 287. O. ’06. 500w.

  “Conveys much valuable information for all, from the Bible student to
  the mere sportsman, with genial humor sprinkled thruout the pages.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1160. My. 17, ’06. 540w.

    + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 122. Ja. 27, ’06. 370w.


=Liber, Maurice.= Rashi; tr. from the French by Adele Szold. $1. Jewish
pub.

  Although a fitting testimony to the interest expressed in the recent
  eight hundredth anniversary of the death of Rabbi Rashi, this work is
  not a product of circumstances. It is designed to take its place as
  the second volume in the “Biographies of Jewish worthies” series of
  which “Maimonides” was the first. “Jewish history may include minds
  more brilliant and works more original than Rashi’s. But it is
  incontestable that he is one of those historical personages who afford
  a double interest; his own personality is striking and at the same
  time he is the representative of a civilization and of a period....
  Rashi forms, so to say, an organic part of Jewish history.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 70w.


=Liljencrantz, Ottilie Adelina.= Randvar, the songsmith: a romance of
Norumbega. †$1.50. Harper.

  In the days when the Norsemen held their fabled sway in the new world,
  Randvar, the songsmith, son of Rolf the Viking and Freya, King
  Hildebrand’s daughter, came to love the proud sister of the jarl with
  the blood red hair. The story of his love is a story of arms and
  adventure and thru it runs the mystic legend of the were-wolf. In the
  end the old round tower, which Randvar’s father built for Freya,
  claims another royal bride thru whom, and his own valor, Freya’s son
  comes to his own estate.

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  “Is not appreciably better or worse than the same author’s earlier
  volumes.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 285. My. ’06. 160w.

  “It is a pretty story that Miss Liljencrantz has told, and it has many
  elements of popularity.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 220w.

      + =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 417. Mr. 24, ’06. 680w.

  “Miss Liljencrantz lacks the skill and the power to weave these things
  into a compelling story, as she lacks also the power to breathe life
  into the words of her puppets. ‘Randvar the songsmith’ is an
  unrealized ambition.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 112. F. 24, ’06. 350w.

  “The story is well told and as a pure romance, is well worth reading.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 571. Mr. ’06. 100w.


=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Ben Blair: the story of a plainsman.
†$1.50. McClurg.

  “An uneven book, which has some chapters of refreshing strength.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 22: 634. F. ’06. 270w.

  “Will at least hold the reader’s attention, tho at the end he may
  realize that the book has a touch of the dime novel.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 518. Mr. 1, ’06. 160w.


=Lincoln, Abraham.= Complete works of Abraham Lincoln. 12v. ea. $3.75.
Tandy.

  “Some dozen years ago appeared ‘The complete works of Lincoln,’ edited
  by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, and published by the Century company.
  A new edition is now brought out by the Francis D. Tandy company ...
  in which are included ‘nearly 20 per cent. more of Lincoln’s own
  writings, culled from numerous public and private collections,’ with
  explanatory notes to make the significance of the text clear, and with
  a series of ‘introductions,’ articles by prominent writers—Greeley,
  Sumner, Bancroft, Beecher, Roosevelt, Gilder, and others.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Enough that is new is brought together in this edition to make it
  necessary for every large library to purchase it for students of
  Lincoln and his times.” Charles H. Cooper.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 84. Ag. 16, ’06. 1190w. (Review of v. 1–6.)

    + + =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 7–10.)

  “A commendable work has been done in collecting these thousands of
  scattered bits.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1105. My. 10, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  “The best edition of the complete works of Abraham Lincoln for a
  library is that edited by John E. Nicolay and John Hay.”

  + + + =Ind.= 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 90w. (Review of v. 7–10.)

        =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “The portraits continue to present an interesting variety.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

        =Nation.= 83: 11. Jl. 5, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

    + + =Nation.= 83: 347. O. 25, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 7–10.)

  Reviewed by Edward Cary.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 125. Mr. 3, ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1 and
          2.)

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 415. Je. 23, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 5–6.)


=Lincoln, Charles Z.= Constitutional history of New York from the
beginning of the colonial period to the year 1905, showing the origin,
development, and judicial construction of the constitution. 5v. $15.
Lawyers’ co-op.

  “We can best give an idea of what the book is by saying that it is
  arranged both historically and by topics. As a whole, it is the
  history of the constitution of New York traced from its earliest
  sources in Magna charta and the ‘Charter of liberties’ down to its
  present form, accompanied by explanations of the political and social
  changes underlying its development. But, being arranged also by
  subjects and having a whole volume of tables and indices, it is easy
  to find either the chronology and rationale of any particular topic
  ... or what is often of quite as much importance, the part played in
  the development of the Constitution by any particular person.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not only a monument of industry and research, but a useful historical
  and legal compilation as well. The author is well qualified for his
  task.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 129. Ag. 9, ’06. 570w.

  “No effort is made to attract ‘the mind that requires to be tempted to
  the study of truth.’ The work is not cast in literary form. It can not
  be read through. The highest praise that can be given to it, the
  criticism that would gratify the author most highly, is to say that no
  one seeking any information about the Constitutions of the state of
  New York is likely to consult these volumes in vain.” Robert
  Livingston Schuyler.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 562. S. 15, ’06. 1890w.


=Lincoln, Mrs. Jeanie Lincoln Gould.= Javelin of fate. †$1.25. Houghton.

  A love story of Civil war times with the “main action centering in
  that hot-bed of rebellion, Baltimore.... For years she escapes the
  Nemesis of fate, but throughout her brilliant career there is one
  motive behind her social activities and political intrigues—the wish
  to punish the man who spoiled her youth and robbed her of the capacity
  for happiness. At last her opportunity arrives, but old instincts and
  old affections assert themselves. She forgives the man and goes to
  find her child. Then the javelin strikes her. This is the main thread
  of the narrative, which is skilfully interwoven with others less
  sombre.” (Dial.) “It is only a very distant echo of the war that
  sounds in Mrs. Lincoln’s story. It is mostly the women’s side of the
  fray.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is distinguished from the mass of current fiction by the technical
  skill with which it presents a plot that has in itself real movement
  and vitality.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “The best that can be said of ‘A javelin of fate’ is that it contains
  all the materials of a good story, but they have not been well put
  together.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 877. D. 9, ’05. 380w.


=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (Joe Lincoln, pseud.).= Mr. Pratt. †$1.50.
Barnes.

  “There is much rustic humor in this tale by the author of ‘Cap’n Eri,’
  and Mr. Pratt is a continuation of the former country philosopher.
  That two tired young stock-brokers should elect to follow the rules of
  the ‘Natural life’ as laid down in a popular book is not so
  incongruous as it might have seemed a few years ago. Mr. Pratt is
  engaged as their factotum, and relates their adventures with much
  shrewd comment.” (Outlook.) “Whimsical medley of the ‘simple’ and
  ‘complex’ life.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 60w.

  “Mr. Lincoln is particularly enjoyable in ‘Mr. Pratt’ which, altho
  evolved from sundry independent short stories, is as coherent and
  readable as could be wished.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 640w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 40w.

  “The story is absurd, but it is meant to be; it serves its purpose as
  a diversion, a gentle satire upon a recent popular fad.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 529. Je. 30, ’06. 100w.


Lincoln and Douglas debates; ed. by Archibald Lewis Bouton. *60c. Holt.

  “The book is well edited and gives a good idea of the matter.” E. E.
  H., jr.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 529. Ja. ’06. 370w.

        =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 40w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 80w.


=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes (Charles Harcourt, pseud.).=
Panama: the isthmus and the canal. **$1. Winston.

  “Mr. Forbes-Lindsay has done a service in bringing together in one
  small volume a large amount of material hitherto scattered through the
  American public documents and French company reports. He begins with
  the romantic history of the Isthmus when the city of Panama was one of
  the richest and most luxurious cities of the New World.... Gives some
  interesting figures in regard to the operations of the De Lesseps
  company and traces the history of the canal under the receivership,
  the New canal company, and the present commission. An appendix
  contains an abstract of the Government report on the great canals of
  the world. There is a good map and profile of the canal as authorized
  by Congress, and a number of half-tones of Panama scenes.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has not shown any skill in arranging his material. The volume
  contains many repetitions, not a few contradictions, and is generally
  incoherent.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 460. Ag. 23, ’06. 290w.

      – =Nation.= 83: 172. Ag. 23, ’06. 640w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 80w.


=Lindsay, Thomas Martin.= History of the Reformation, v. 1, The
reformation in Germany from its beginning to the religious peace of
Augsburg. **$2.50. Scribner.

  More than a compilation. Dr. Lindsay “has brought out the full
  significance of the movement with which he deals by treating it, as it
  must be treated, in its social environment, complicated as it was by
  the political and economic conditions of the time, as the gradual
  outcome of a slow, unconscious process.”—Int. J. Ethics.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not a great book and has not the grip of Creighton nor the ease
  of Mr. Armstrong, but it is useful, and will be to many Englishmen an
  excellent substitute for Köstlin and D’Aubigné.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 471. O. 20. 1070w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “A valuable and comprehensive treatment of the first period of the
  Reformation.”

    + + =Bib. World.= 28: 80. Jl. ’06. 10w.

  “As a summary of the sources, manner and result of the Reformation, at
  once succinct and adequate, this work is quite first rate.” M. A.
  Hamilton.

    + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 140. O. ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The work has many merits, but in our opinion its most distinctive
  feature is the careful analysis of social and religious life in
  Germany on the eve of the Protestant revolt. On the strength of
  first-hand knowledge, excellent arrangement, and thoughtfulness, this
  book deserves the most respectful attention. It is well adapted for
  use in the senior grades of university teaching.”

  + + + =Nation.= 83: 351. O. 25, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 1.)

  + + + =Outlook.= 83: 91. My. 12, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Linville, Henry R., and Kelly, Henry A.= Text-book in general zoology.
*$1.50. Ginn.

  A text-book for the educational public with suggestions for laboratory
  work. The volume is intended for high-school or elementary college
  classes and the inductive method is used with each class and phylum of
  invertebrate animals. In the first chapter after the remainder of the
  Arthropoda are described the other invertebrate phyla follow in a
  descending series, ending with Protozoa. Then, beginning with the
  fishes, the order ascends to the mammals and closes with man. There
  are 233 illustrations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It has many original points, and deserves recommendation as one of
  the very best books yet published in this line. Every high school and
  biological laboratory should have reference copies, even tho some
  other book is already adopted as the regular text-book in zoology.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 70w.


=Lippincott, Mrs. Sara Jane (Clarke) (Grace Greenwood, pseud.).= Stories
from famous ballads; ed. by Caroline Burnite; with il. by Edmund H.
Garrett. *50c. Ginn.

  “These stories are reprinted in the hope that girls may appreciate the
  simplicity and beauty of them and thereby may be led to read the
  romantic ballads in their original poetic form.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

  “The stories tell, in a style of remarkable simplicity and beauty, of
  ... famous old ballads.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 60w.


=Lippmann, Friedrich.= Engraving and etching: a handbook for the use of
students and print collectors. 3d ed. rev. by Dr. Max Lehrs; tr. by
Martin Hardie; with 131 il. *$3. Scribner.

  Dr. Lehrs has made revisions in keeping with the last century’s
  results in modern research, especially along the lines of steel
  engraving, lithography and the modern mechanical processes which have
  caused a revolution in reproductive arts.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is not only comprehensive, but so well written that we scarcely
  appreciate, as we read, the industry and learning necessary for such a
  task. The chapter on engraving in England is very brief, and not up to
  the standard of the rest of the work.”

  + + – =Acad.= 71: 499. N. 17, ’06. 1130w.

  “Though the version, on the whole, is spirited and readable, we have
  noticed several passages in which the sense of the original has been
  missed. In technical matters, however, which set most pitfalls for the
  translator of such a handbook, Mr. Hardie’s knowledge has enabled him
  to walk warily.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 279. S. 8. 130w.

  “The book as it now stands is a fairly complete account of engraving
  and etching up to the beginning of the nineteenth century.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 130w.

      + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 26. N. ’06. 240w.

  “No writer on the subject has so perfectly combined minute historical
  accuracy with a sober and just taste.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 358. O. 25, ’06. 200w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 220w.

  “Another indispensable book.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 80w.


=Lipsett, Ella Partridge.= Summer in the Apple Tree inn; il. by Mary
Wellman. †$1.25. Holt.

  Apple Tree inn is a charming play house which a kind Aunt Margaret had
  made ready for her group of young visitors. A clever Japanese youth is
  the central spirit of all the good times, entertaining his young
  charges with Japanese legends, giving motive and setting to their
  games, and incidentally teaching the children gentle manners and good
  morals.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A pleasing story for children.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 280w.

        =Outlook.= 82: 1006. Ap. 28, ’06. 60w.


Liquor problem. **$1. Houghton.

  “The committee, by publishing the results of their study in a single
  volume, will gain access to a far wider audience, and will thus induce
  many more persons to go more deeply into the evidence by turning back
  to the earlier special reports for more prolonged study. No more sane,
  balanced and convincing statement of the problem has been made.” C. R.
  Henderson.

      + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 578. Ja. ’06. 320w.

  “The pseudo-scientific character of so-called temperance instruction
  in the public schools is unmasked. The remedial aspect of the matter
  is treated with breadth and sanity.” Winthrop More Daniels.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 843. Je. ’06. 280w.

  “While it will undoubtedly prove useful, it should not take the place
  of the larger books as a source of information.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 90w.


=Little, Alicia Bewicke. (Mrs. Archibald John Little).= Round about my
Peking garden. **$5. Lippincott.

  “In her knowledge of the real China, Mrs. Archibald Little admittedly
  stands unrivalled among living European women.... She has ... genuine
  love and sympathy for China and its people—a trait which, it is
  perhaps unnecessary to say, is not universal among European residents
  in the country. ‘Round about my Peking garden’ may be described as a
  collection of sketches of North China.... By way of the Peking
  palaces, temples, etc., Mrs. Little takes us to the Ming tombs, the
  Western tombs, the Mongolian Grass Land, the seaside resorts near
  Peking, and even to Port Arthur. This is the geographical distribution
  ... of the sketches. With regard to time, they all appear to be dated
  about the period of the last occupation of Peking by the allied
  troops.... It is copiously illustrated from photographs.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Little’s manner of writing is generally pleasant. She has a
  genuine instinct for description, and excels therein. She is apt to
  mar her picturesque passages by a tendency to moralizing and emotional
  apostrophe.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 14. Ja. 6. 890w.

  “Altogether the book is to be commended quite without qualification.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 160w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 145. F. 15, ’06. 660w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 510w.

  “‘Gush’ is the prevailing note, and Mrs. Little should not be regarded
  as a trustworthy guide.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 242. F. 24, ’06. 800w.


=Little, Archibald John.= Far East. *$2. Oxford.

  “It is hardly a book for the average reader, but rather for the
  scientific traveller, who takes careful notes by the way.”

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 339. My. ’06. 320w.

  “Trustworthy in its general physiographic statements and so rich in
  maps, sketches, and diagrams, and all well indexed.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 287. Mr. ’06. 180w.


=Little, Frances.= Lady of the decoration. †$1. Century.

  With an unhappy married life behind her, a young Kentucky widow who
  had never missed a Derby since she was old enough to know a bay from a
  sorrel suddenly accepts an offer to go to Japan and teach in a mission
  school. Her letters home make the story, whose chief interest centers
  in a romance that grows out of her love for the man who she had
  supposed was lost to her. There are bits of Japanese life given with
  sprightly touches.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Contains an odd mixture of fact, fun, opinions, vivid impressions,
  and sentiment. Unfortunately the sentiment is very much overdone, but
  the book is fresh and unconventional and well worth reading.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 480. My. 19, ’06. 260w.

  “The descriptive portions of the book produce on the whole a strong
  effect of reality.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 510. Ap. 28. 130w.

  Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

        =Bookm.= 23: 417. Je. ’06. 170w.

  “It has somewhat of the thing that gave the ‘Saxe-Holm’ stories their
  success a generation ago; that popularized the first novel or two of
  the late Maria Louise Pool; that on a higher literary plane, gave the
  work of the Brontës its lasting value.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 119. Ag. ’06. 490w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 434. My. 24, ’06. 420w.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 330w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 285. Je. 2, ’06. 180w.

  “A bright story about equally compounded of humor, philosophy,
  description and love.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 639. My. 19, ’06. 20w.

  “A piece of rather tiresome gush.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 625. My. 19, ’06. 80w.

  “The reader would generally be very grateful if the book had been so
  planned as to give a little more fact and a little less sentimental
  reflection.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 676. Ap. 28, ’06. 390w.


=Livingston, Luther Samuel.= Auction prices of books. 4v. *$40. Dodd.

  “Mr. Livingston’s concluding volume is the most important of all.”

  + + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 295. Mr. 10. 1040w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  + + + =Outlook.= 83: 812. Ag. 4, ’06. 870w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

        =Spec.= 96: 188. F. 3, ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 4.)


=Lloyd, Henry Demarest.= Man, the social creator. **$2. Doubleday.

  “A collection of addresses delivered by the late Henry D. Lloyd during
  the ten years preceding his death, and now brought together in a
  volume.... The main thesis of the present book is indicated by the
  title, namely, that man is creating, out of the divine potentialities
  of his own nature, the social life and institutions which are, for a
  large body of thinkers to-day, the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ upon earth. The
  book is also understood to embody the author’s religious beliefs....
  Everywhere we find optimism—evil interpreted as good in the making,
  and the future heralded as a mighty advance upon the present.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 210w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 699. S. 20, ’06. 360w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 838. Je. 2, ’06. 1010w.

  “The strength of this book is in its affirmations; its weakness is in
  its denials. When it is specific it is persuasive; when it deals with
  generalizations it invites doubt if not actual contradiction.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 390w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 100w.


=Lloyd, Nelson (McAllister).= Mrs. Radigan: her biography, with that of
Miss Pearl Veal and the memoirs of J. Madison Mudison. †$1. Scribner.

  “‘Mrs. Radigan’ is another book exposing New York society, but in so
  jocose and headlong a way as not to make much impression until one
  pauses to reflect how true to life and perspicacious Mr. Lloyd has
  been.” G. W. A.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 108. Mr. ’06. 260w.


=Lloyd, Nelson (McAllister).= Six Stars; stories. †$1.50. Scribner.

  Six Stars is a little village hidden away in a Pennsylvania mountain
  valley. The stories are pitched in the quiet monotonous key which the
  valley-folk sound in their uneventful lives. “There are some passages
  of serious feeling and indications of currents of passion, but in the
  main the tales are gently humorous, with a taste of dialect but
  without its abuse, and with a true perception of what is interesting
  and worth recording in the lives of simple people.” (Outlook.)

    + – =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 100w.

  “Is a book to read aloud, if you can for laughter, to some
  appreciative listener; it is one of the pleasures that are increased
  by dividing. The book is homey and wholesome as a red-clover field in
  full bloom, and is just the sort of literature that the nerve-weary
  need.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 222. Jl. 26, ’06. 150w.

  “Mr. Lloyd’s way with his rustics has an undoubted charm.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 470w.

  “A dozen or more admirable short stories.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 110w.


=Locke, William John.= Beloved vagabond. †$1.50. Lane.

  Who he is and what manner of vagabond he is may be gleaned from the
  following: “One who though a gentleman and a scholar, has become a
  peripatetic philosopher, a roadside humorist, and the delight of cafés
  of the Latin quarter.” (Outlook.) He picks up a little boy out of the
  gutter, adopts him, wanders with him all over Europe for the sake of
  the child’s education. This is the record of their pilgrimage told by
  the boy years afterward.

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  “The book is a little masterpiece, possessed of that exquisite charm
  and refined simplicity which are connected with French writers of the
  best period.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 445. N. 3, ’06. 250w.

  Reviewed by Amy C. Rich.

        =Arena.= 36: 687. D. ’06. 330w.

  “Mr. Locke’s new novel is less a novel than a study in temperament.
  The tale is picaresque in character, and is maintained with great
  spirit and gusto.”

      + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 613. N. 17. 270w.

  “Mr. Locke should not be judged by his ‘Beloved vagabond’ alone.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 375. N. 1, ’06. 260w.

  “As a novel the book is unique in its method and its treatment of the
  subject, while its intellectual flavor and its large and tolerant
  presentation of life make it constantly enjoyable from first page to
  last.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 740. N. 10, ’06. 530w.

  “The author shows artistic courage and literary skill in thus
  following human nature rather than the ordinary conventions of romance
  and sentiment.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 580. N. 3, ’06. 130w.

  “One may shrink from the realism with which some phases of our
  delightful vagabond’s life is depicted, but one is fascinated by the
  overflowing humor of his talk and by the free open-air spirit of the
  road with which the book is pervaded.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 24, ’06. 180w.


=Locke, William John.= Morals of Marcus Ordeyne. †$1.50. Lane.

  “It is brisk, witty, gay, even, with a minor modulation for relief.”
  Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 57. Ja. ’06. 400w.


=Lodge, George Cabot.= Great adventure: sonnets. **$1. Houghton.

  A volume of sonnets whose themes are Life, Love and Death. The
  twenty-five sonnets under the heading “Death” are dedicated to the
  memory of Trumbull Stickney.

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  “High praise must be given to the thoughtful and imaginative qualities
  of Mr. Lodge’s verse.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 126. F. 16, ’06. 300w.

      + =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 300w.

  “There is dignity and even nobility in many of them and there are
  occasional lines of great verbal felicity and real power, so that the
  apparently unnecessary lapses are the more teasing.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

  + + – =North American.= 182: 759. My. ’06. 180w.


=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.= Life and matter. **$1. Putnam.

  A reply to Professor Haeckel’s “Riddle of the universe,” intended to
  “act as an antidote against the destructive and speculative portions
  of Professor Haeckel’s interesting and widely read work.” The author
  “holds that life belongs to a separate order of existence from the
  material world, on which it depends for phenomenal manifestation, and
  on which it reacts according to laws as yet undiscovered, though
  discoverable.” (Outlook.)

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  “One could wish that ‘Life and matter’ were somewhat less
  controversial in form, that it somewhat less obviously grew out of
  separate articles and addresses, still more could one wish that the
  discussion were less condensed, for the book is but a little one: one
  could not ask for a more penetrating criticism of current opinions by
  a great scientist who is as little given to serving idols of the cave
  as of the market place.” E. T. Brewster.

    + – =Atlan.= 98: 421. S. ’06. 580w.

  “Besides fulfilling its immediate object, will serve as a complete
  reply to Mr. Mallock, and a host of less distinguished thinkers.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 393. Je. ’06. 920w.

        =Critic.= 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 160w.

  “The main value of the book is, after all, the fact that Professor
  Haeckel’s theories enable Sir Oliver Lodge to present us with a most
  interesting study of the relation between life and matter. No higher
  praise could be given Sir Oliver Lodge’s book than to say that it is a
  strong assertion of the rights of human experience as against
  artificial dogma, the product of abstraction.” Charles F. Clogher.

    + + =Hibbert J.= 4: 699. Ap. ’06. 3950w.

        =Lond. Times.= 5: 41. F. 9, ’06. 520w.

  “The arrangement of the various topics is not always the best
  possible. Apart from these slight defects the book deserves hearty
  commendation.”

  + + – =Nature.= 74: 78. My. 24, ’06. 410w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 300w.

  “While Professor Haeckel’s errors are exposed, the solid part of his
  work receives an extension into a fruitful field of scientific
  inquiry.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 941. D. 16, ’05. 110w.

  “At present ... it is doubtful whether the great mass of his ‘brother
  scientists’ will accept him as their spokesman.” Frank Thilly.

      – =Phys. R.= 15: 438. Jl. ’06. 1150w.

  “The book is an interesting and well-intended but disappointing
  attempt to reconcile the categories of exact science and humanistic
  idealism.” H. Heath Bawden.

    – + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 353. O. 15, ’06. 720w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 80w.

  “It is needless to say that Sir Oliver Lodge is well worth hearing on
  such a fascinating subject as the relation of the higher physics to
  the phenomena of life.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 467. O. 6, ’06. 300w.


=Loeb, Jacques.= Dynamics of living matter. *$3. Macmillan.

  This volume owes its origin to a series of lectures delivered by the
  author at Columbia university in 1902. It is the purpose of the
  lectures “to state to what extent we are able to control the phenomena
  of development, self preservation, and reproduction.” The chapters are
  as follows: Concerning the general chemistry of life phenomena, The
  general physical constitution of living matter, On some physical
  manifestations of life, The role of electrolytes in the formation and
  preservation of living matter, The effects of heat and radiant energy
  upon living matter, Heliotropism, Further facts concerning tropisms
  and related phenomena, Fertilization, Heredity, and On the dynamics of
  regenerative processes.

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  “The book is in all respects a worthy member of the ‘Columbia
  university biological series,’ of which it is the eighth volume. I
  could not give it higher praise.” E. T. Brewster.

  + + + =Atlan.= 98: 419. S. ’06. 380w.

  “The lectures are readable and instructive, and they are especially
  commended to the attention of plant physiologists, who are too apt to
  pass over literature not strictly pertaining to plants.”

    + + =Bot. G.= 41: 449. Je. ’06. 270w.

  “The present volume, containing a survey of recent work in biology,
  may be commended, not to the specialist, for he knows of it already,
  but to the sociologist or the theologian—to any scholar, in fact, who
  is interested in the fundamental questions of life, and not afraid of
  meeting many words that he does not know and cannot find in the
  dictionary.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 752. S. 27, ’06. 600w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 50w.

  “Think what we may of such questions of logic, it is undeniable that
  the book is full of the most instructive and extraordinarily
  interesting matter, in large part new to all but the most fully
  informed, which is presented with great perspicuity, and put in as
  simple a form as possible.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 17. Jl. 5, ’06. 980w.

  “We may regard the work as a useful counterblast to those who term
  themselves neovitalists.”

    + + =Nature.= 74: 631. O. 25, ’06. 200w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 150w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 210w.

  “It is a very interesting book which instructs and at the same time
  stimulates the reader to independent thinking.” S. J. Meltzer.

    + + =Science=, n.s. 24: 145. Ag. 3, ’06. 1290w.

  “Is marred by sneers at psychology and metaphysics.”

    + – =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 260w.


=Loeb, Jacques.= Studies in general physiology. 2v. *$7.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.

  “These two volumes of the Decennial series of the University of
  Chicago, bring together in reprint the list of brilliant contributions
  which gave to the author his prestige in protoplasmic physiology. They
  consist of thirty-eight papers, published through various channels and
  in two languages, between the years 1889 and 1902. These are arranged
  in the chronological order of their previous publication, beginning
  with those on tropisms and ending with those on artificial
  parthenogenesis and on the irritability of muscles.”—Bot. Gaz.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.

        =Atlan.= 96: 681. N. ’05. 340w.

  Reviewed by B. E. Livingston.

    + + =Bot. Gaz.= 40: 75. Jl. ’05. 330w.

  “The two volumes of papers collected under this title form one of the
  most interesting and suggestive works that have been published on the
  subject.”

    + + =Nature.= 73: 195. D. 28, ’05. 530w.

  “We have here before us the fruit of a most indefatigable and
  ingenious investigator who has done pioneer work in many fields in
  biology. These studies will be a source of instruction and stimulation
  to many an earnest student in general physiology.” S. J. Meltzer.

  + + + =Science=, n. s. 23: 742. My. 11, ’06. 960w.


=London, Jack.= The game. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “Excellent novelette.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 49. Ja. ’06. 90w.


=London, Jack.= Moon face; and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “The eight stories which comprise this volume exhibit in quite varied
  fields the dramatic quality and virile powers of expression for which
  Mr. London is noted.” (Lit. D.) They include besides the title-story;
  Planchette, The shadow and the flash, Local color, and All Gold
  canyon.

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  “They are terse, virile to the verge of brutality, and they grip the
  mind. The language is fresh and convincing, save for one irritating
  phrase, ‘what of’, which Mr. London uses very unsuitably.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 200w.

  “Not nearly so good as they should be—as they might be, if Mr. London
  were in less of a hurry.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 477. O. 20. 220w.

  “Mr. London, when he errs, does so on the side of flesh; there are
  moments even in his most powerful work, when one is prompted to say,
  ‘That is a false note: human nature is nobler than that!’” Frederic
  Taber Cooper.

  + + – =Bookm.= 24: 247. N. ’06. 400w.

  “But the quality of these stories indicates either a decline in power
  or disposition to live on the unearned increment of his former
  reputation, a shocking ethical fault in the apostle of the
  proletariat.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 698. S. 20, ’06. 130w.

  “There is a freshness and originality in these unconventional tales, a
  sort of primitive vigor and pulsing life, that lift them above the
  average of the short stories that now have such vogue. Here and there,
  it is true, his style is disfigured by a grotesque stroke.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 260w.

  “These stories present Jack London at his shallowest, but by no means
  at his worst. Everything in them even their brutality, is subordinated
  to a trivial ingenuity of plot.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 80w.

  “Nearly all are below his average level of achievement.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 596. S. 29, ’06. 390w.

  “Have all of Mr. London’s recognized vigor and originality.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 30w.

  “Shows here and there the author’s power, but will add nothing to his
  reputation.”

    + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 50w.


=London, Jack.= Tales of the fish patrol. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “Fairly exciting the stories certainly are.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 287. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w.

  “Mr. London’s style has of late shown marked signs of a chastening
  process. He progresses. This is better work than ‘The game.’”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 229. F. 24. 170w.

  “The author seems to know his subject thoroughly, and he can make
  excellent use of his knowledge.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 338. Mr. 17, ’06. 160w.

  “All are told with vigour, but they are the kind of tales which any
  magazine-writer might have written, and admirers of Mr. London’s work
  must confess to some disappointment.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 98. Jl. 21, ’06. 140w.


=London, Jack.= War of the classes. **$1.50. Macmillan.

  “In short, the book may serve a useful purpose by stimulating thought
  in readers of independent judgment, but will prove a stumbling block
  to the unwary.”

    + – =Charities.= 15: 403. D. 23, ’05. 1310w.

  “The economic reasoning, however, is not clear, and there is little
  constructive thinking.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 140w.


=London, Jack.= White Fang. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “In “White Fang” Mr. London reverses the “process of retrogression” of
  “The call of the wild,” and traces the fortune of a dog which is part
  wolf to the time of the redeeming of his brute nature. And the
  transition is not without triumphs for the ugly nature within him.
  Finally when he merges from his last fight—and there is no more
  blood-curdling dog-fight in literature—he is rescued by his
  love-master. By this patient, kind man, his brute nature is redeemed,
  and for the master he loves he learns to endure the restraints of
  civilization.” (Dial.)

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  “The book will be judged inferior to ‘The Call of the Wild’ by
  sticklers for ‘strong’ endings; nevertheless it will be more enjoyed
  by the mass of readers.” May Estelle Cook.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 400w.

  “In workmanship it is as good as anything the author has done in this
  field, and no one has done better.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1055. N. 1, ’06. 320w.

  “This is the kind of thing Jack London does best.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 390w.

  “By far the best thing that has come from his pen since ‘The call of
  the wild,’ and in some points a better dog story than the latter ever
  succeeded in seeming to the present writer.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 764. N. 17, ’06. 650w.

  “The subject is one which fits the author’s peculiar gifts admirably
  and gives him full scope.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “No stronger piece of work in this field has appeared.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 710. N. 24, ’06. 170w.


=London, Jack, and others.= Argonaut stories. 50c. Argonaut pub.

  Twenty-two stories contributed by as many writers among whom are Jack
  London, Frank Norris, Gwendolen Overton, C. W. Doyle, Robert D. Milne
  and Buckey O’Neill.


=Long, Augustus White=, ed. American poems, 1776–1900, with notes and
biographies. *90c. Am. bk.

  “Mr. Long’s book puts in a volume convenient for class work a good
  selection of American poetry, beginning with Freneau and coming down
  to the poets of our own day. There are also biographical
  introductions, a little critical comment, and notes.”—Bookm.

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  “We do not criticise [the notes] because they explain what is obvious
  ... but rather because they often do not explain what is not obvious.”

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 567. Jl. ’06. 380w.

  “Has made his selections with discriminating intelligence.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 40w.


=Long, John Luther.= Heimweh and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “The book is worth reading though its contents are of unequal value.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 264. F. 17. ’06. 170w.


=Long, John Luther.= Seffy; a little comedy of country manners. †$1.50.
Bobbs.

  “All these go to make up a charming book, despite the sordid and
  rather coarse phases of life that are especially emphasized in the
  early chapters.”

    + – =Arena.= 35: 222. F. ’06. 260w.

  “A tender little story, exquisitely told, and full of the delicate
  half-tones of human emotions.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 634. F. ’06. 140w.

  “The story is slight but fairly interesting.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 70w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 925. D. 30, ’05. 350w.

    – + =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 70w.

  “It is a charming story, charmingly written, with just enough romance
  to save it from the bald monotony of reality and enough reality to
  prevent it from being hopelessly romantic.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, 05. 110w.

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 50w.


=Long, John Luther.= Way of the gods. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  In this story of Japan “the little Samurai—a ‘girl-boy’—born to be a
  gentle poet, is educated and inspired to be a soldier of the
  Emperor.... Never a warrior in appearance, the spirit and patriotism
  of the man carries him honorably through two wars. He succumbs to love
  for a Japanese maiden of lowly birth whom he finds in China. He
  marries her, and upon that act follow all the tremendous train of
  suffering and tragedy in which the two loving souls are engulfed....
  Mr. Long is able to make us see from the Japanese point of view, and
  reverence the nobility of the lowly maid who sacrificed all for love
  and rose to heights of heroism that her beloved Samurai could never
  attain.”—Outlook.

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    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 791. Je. 30. 180w.

  “On close inspection this curious, erratic, exotic bit of fiction
  offers a better example of this whole matter of pictorial art in
  novels than any other book of the month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 538. Jl. ’06. 740w.

        =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 80w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

  “Perhaps ungrateful to complain very bitterly of mere mannerisms when
  the matter beneath is altogether admirable.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 451. Jl. 14, ’06. 510w.

  “Mr. Long has succeeded in conveying in this romantic yet thoroughly
  modern story a fine impression of the marvelous persistence of
  hereditary ideals of honor and sacrifice among the Japanese.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 244. My. 26, ’06. 190w.


=Long, William Joseph.= Brier-patch philosophy, by “Peter Rabbit”
interpreted by W: J. Long; il. by Charles Copeland. *$1.50. Ginn.

  The rabbit’s sunny brier patch to which Mr. Long’s readers are invited
  is a pleasant place to contemplate “the sweet reasonableness of animal
  thinking,” and the associated subject of animal psychology. “If you
  care to follow the rabbit’s trail ... he will take you thru the dead
  timber of science, thru streets of reason and psychology, thru the
  open country of instincts and habits and dawning intelligence, to the
  origin of natural religion and the distant glimpse of immortality in
  which we are all interested.”

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  “Mr. Long in this serious piece of work, has made a contribution to
  animal study that will have permanent influence. It should be said,
  moreover, that the unusually animated illustrations save the book from
  being too serious.” May Estelle Cook.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 390. D. 1, ’06. 490w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1057. N. 1, ’06. 220w.

  “Plausibility and proof are two very different things, and it is just
  in the failure to distinguish carefully between them that Mr. Long has
  always shown himself radically weak.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 450w.

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 200w.


=Long, William Joseph.= Northern trails: stories of animal life in the
far north. *$1.50. Ginn.

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 863. D. 23. 120w.

  “These ‘Northern trails’ lead one through many other evidences of Mr.
  Long’s ability as a naturalist.” George Gladden.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 89. Mr. ’06. 680w.

  “The book would have been much better without the first story—for the
  plan is not original; it is ‘written down’ and it lacks reality in
  spite of the author’s efforts. But as for the rest, even Mr. Burroughs
  will find little in the natural history to object to, and certainly no
  one can hold out against the story interest of the chapters, nor the
  grace and charm of the style.” Dallas Lore Sharp.

  + + – =Critic.= 48: 122. F. ’06. 150w.

      + =Nature.= 73: 177. D. 21, ’05. 170w.

  “There is a certain sameness about his work, but we do not think that
  he has written anything better than ‘Northern trails.’”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 150w.


Long day: a true story of a New York working girl as told by herself.
*$1.20. Century.

  “This book will do good. It presents a section from the social life of
  today with pathetic fidelity.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 332. Mr. ’06. 320w.

  “There are innumerable flashes of [humor] in ‘The long day.’” Winthrop
  More Daniels.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 841. Je. ’06. 610w.

  “As a human document this is an important piece of work.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 380w.

  “The writer’s tone, even when there is most provocation to heat, is
  conspicuously fair and free from hysteria; eminently broad, sane and
  hopeful is her view. With its disclosures, its suggestions, and its
  hopes, ‘The long day’ is a book that must and will be read.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 82. Ja. 25, ’06. 940w.

  “Few novels have such sheer narrative interest as this book: fewer
  still combine with such interest so vivid portraiture. The book
  abounds, too, with descriptive writing of no mean order.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 805. Ap. 7, ’06. 430w.


=Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.= Poems; with a biographical sketch by
Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” and contains a sketch of
  Longfellow’s life, notes, and a frontispiece.


=Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.= Tales of a wayside inn; with an introd.
by Nathan Haskell Dole. 35c. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”


=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Minerva’s manoeuvres: the cheerful facts of a
“return to nature.” †$1.50. Barnes.

      – =Bookm.= 23: 310. My. ’06. 470w.


=Lord, Eliot; Trenor, John J. D.; and Barrows, Samuel June.= Italian in
America. $1.50. Buck.

  “Apart from its value as an important contribution towards a correct
  statement of the immigration problem, his volume is well worth
  reading.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 82: 839. Mr. ’06. 880w.

        =Ind.= 61: 156. Jl. 19, ’06. 300w.


=Lord, Walter Frewen.= Mirror of the century. *$1.50. Lane.

  Twelve crtical essays each one of which is a study of one of the
  following nineteenth-century novelists: Trollope, George Eliot, Jane
  Austen, Lytton, Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, the Kingsleys, Charles
  Reade, Beaconsfield and W. E. Norris.

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  “We find it impossible to realize the standard of ideas which makes
  such a judgment as he sets down possible. On every possible occasion
  he says the thing that is exactly wrong with a perversity that never
  deviates into illuminating criticism.”

    – – =Acad.= 70: 424. My. 5, ’06. 1210w.

  “Mr. Frewen Lord is a clever talker, whose ambition exceeds his
  industry. As a revelation of temperament the volume is not striking.
  Is at his best when he has found a quotation upon which to exercise
  his humor.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 720w.

      + =Dial.= 41: 91. Ag. 16, ’06. 320w.

  “The charm of Mr. Lloyd’s book lies in this very novelty of many of
  its ideas, its piquancy of expression, and its revelation of his own
  alert and unconventional mind. It is a suggestive and readable book.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 356. Je. 2, ’06. 470w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 252. N. ’06. 190w.

  “These criticisms are smartly done, and there is plenty of suggestion
  in most of them. They are well up to the average papers of the sort.
  Of the necessity for them in book form we are not so sure.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 664. My. 26, ’06. 200w.

  “They are eminently readable; they are manifestly the result of very
  careful work; they are often marked by ingenuity and force. In his
  ‘Dedicatory letter’ Mr. Lord writes a little wildly.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 794. My. 19, ’06. 470w.


=Lorenz, Daniel Edward.= Mediterranean traveller. *$2.50. Revell.

  “It has many illustrations, but is a heavy and cumbrous volume,
  decidedly inferior to Baedeker’s in compactness and arrangement.”

    – + =Ind.= 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06,. 50w.


=Lorenz, Hans.= Modern refrigerating machinery; its construction,
methods of working, and industrial applications; a guide for engineers
and owners of refrigerating plants. *$4. Wiley.

  “This book is based on ‘Neuere kuehlmaschinen’ ... and is
  systematically arranged in ten chapters, and the matter is treated in
  a clear and concise manner. Examples are used to demonstrate the
  application of the rules, and by this method, together with the great
  number of fine illustrations, even the inexperienced reader can find
  advice without waste of time. The metric system of weights and
  measures, as used in the German editions, is converted into the system
  customary in this country, so that no calculations are
  necessary.”—Engin. N.

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  “The success of this book must be attributed to the acknowledged
  competency of the author as well as to the fact that mathematical
  treatment is strictly eliminated. The characteristics of Prof.
  Lorenz’s work ... are impartiality and copiousness of practical
  information.” J. C. Bertsch.

    + + =Engin. N.= 55: 428. Ap. 12, ’06. 3770w.


=Lorimer, George Horace.= False gods. †$1.25. Appleton.

  A reporter’s adventure prompted by a laudable greed for first-hand
  facts tingles with the excitement of Egyptian mysteries, statues that
  seem to possess human power, black cats, supposed crime, all animated
  and controlled by a beautiful woman. That he follows up the wrong
  train of evidences and makes false steps perturbs his soul but little,
  and he is soon back “again serving false gods.”

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  “Simpkins is well characterized and the story is rather clever in its
  way.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 60w.

  “We can heartily commend Mr. Lorimer’s book as a stirring story to
  read at one sitting.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 260. Ap. 21, ’06. 210w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 91. My. 12. ’06. 110w.


=Loring, Andrew=, comp, and ed. Rhymer’s lexicon; with an introd. by
George Saintsbury. *$2.50. Dutton.

  “We commend this volume heartily to those who need such a book, and
  how innumerable are our poets our daily mail shows.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1542. D. 28, 05. 100w.


=Loti, Pierre, pseud. (Louis Marie Julien Viaud).= Disenchanted; tr. by
Clara Bell. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  Awaking from the ennui and monotony of their surroundings the women of
  the harem are here portrayed with a thirst for knowledge a desire to
  let into their life-prisons the breath of a free world without any
  confining, artificial requirements. “We have no agonizing feeling that
  we are looking on at a bit of real life torn, raw and bleeding, from
  actual tragedy. It is sorrow and pain seen through a veiling yashmak,
  a tragedy in a dream.” (Ind.)

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  “M. Loti is gently sympathetic, writes charmingly of everything,
  paints delightful pictures, but suggests no remedy for sufferings.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 140w.

  “Altogether ‘Disenchanted’ presents a very new view of the Turkish
  women.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 757. S. 27, ’06. 650w.

        Ind. 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 60w.

  “The details of the picture are perfectly finished, as we expect of
  Loti, but there is a deep note of earnestness in his appeal that shows
  profound emotion.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 220w.

  “This situation M. Loti has developed in a story of rare delicacy and
  beauty, full of refinement and feeling, and sketched in those
  sensitive colors, with that extreme sensibility of feeling, which have
  made him perhaps the foremost of impressionist writers.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 250w.


=Lottridge, Silas A.= Animal snap-shots and how made. **$2. Holt.

  “No nature book has been written for a long time so comfortable in its
  general tone as Mr. Lottridge’s.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 94. F. 1, ’06. 350w.

        Ind. 60: 804. Ap. 5, ’06. 190w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 151. Ag. 16, ’06. 310w.

  “This author is a laureate of the lesser beasts.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 25. Ja. 13, ’06. 410w.

  “A practical and convincing manual, easy to be used by any one wishing
  to follow the guidance of the author.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1081. D. 30, ’05. 120w.


=Lottridge, Silas A.= Familiar wild animals. *60c. Holt.

  Sketches and pictures chosen from the author’s “Animal snapshots” to
  help stimulate school children in the direct observation of outdoor
  life.


=Lounsberry, Alice.= Wild flower book for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.

  A little girl from the city tells in her own way about the beautiful
  things which she finds in the country when thru a spring, summer and
  autumn she wanders among woods, meadows and swamps. The flowers which
  interest her are those common thruout the Northeastern states, and she
  learns to love them, to call them by name, and hears many interesting
  stories about them from the friends who roam with her in the haunts of
  the wild flowers, the butterflies and the birds. There are many
  illustrations from photographs of flowers and children.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 13, ’06. 130w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 100w.

  “A happy combination of story and botany, illustrated.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

  “Will be not only a useful but an entertaining book to put in the
  hands of any child who loves the out of doors.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 110w.

  “Miss Lounsberry is at her best when her method is clear and concise,
  and her touch is not perfectly adapted to the form she chooses here,
  although a great deal of interesting and useful information is thus
  conveyed in simple language.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 240w.

  “Is poorly written. If a book of this kind were as clearly written as
  Gertrude Smith writes her child fiction it would have, we believe,
  increased value, for the pages contain many items of information
  profitable to childhood.”

    + – =R. of Rs.= 34: 768. D. ’06. 50w.


=Lounsbery, G. Constant.= Love’s testament: a sonnet sequence. **$1.25.
Lane.

  Eleven groups of six sonnets each classified under, love, absence,
  passion, doubt, philosophy, content, separation, solitude,
  reconciliation, jealousy and retrospect.

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  “A few of these sonnets have merit. The pity is that they are
  submerged beneath a mass of tedious commonplace.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 664. Je. 2. 230w.

  “The author knows a great deal about the use of words and the
  management of the sonnet-form, but of the use of love and the
  management of life, she seems deplorably ignorant.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 51. Jl. ’06. 380w.

  “There is much excellent poetry in Mrs. Lounsbery’s volume.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 329. My. 16, ’06. 210w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 144. Ag. ’06. 150w.

  “There is little fault to be found with the facility of the verse.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 523. Ag. 25. ’06. 260w.

  “A collection of sonnets of real poetic strength and beauty.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 30w.

  “To write a multitude of sonnets on love a man must have a greater
  subtlety of thought and feeling than falls to the author’s share.”

      – =Spec.= 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 30w.


=Lowell, James Russell.= Fireside travels; with introd. by William P.
Treat. 35c. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”


=Lowery, Woodbury.= Spanish settlements within the present limits of the
United States: Florida. 1562–1574. **$2.50. Putnam.

  “Really interesting book.”

      + =Bookm.= 23: 658. Ag. ’06. 300w.

  “One of the most valuable and interesting of recent works on the early
  discovery and settlement of our national territory.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 80w.

  “Mr. Lowery’s book is the most accurate and scientific account yet
  written upon this subject.”

  + + + =Ind.= 60: 629. Mr. 15, ’06. 470w.

  “A voluminous appendix, exceedingly important for the many difficult
  historical and geographical problems treated, completes the
  documentary material contained in the numerous footnotes. They bear
  witness to the conscientious manner in which Mr. Lowery has undertaken
  and carried out his task.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 225. Mr. 15, ’06. 1940w.


=Loyson, Mme. Emilie Jane (Butterfield) Meriman (Mme. Hyacinthe
Loyson).= To Jerusalem through the lands of Islam, among Jews,
Christians, and Moslems. $2.50. Open ct.

    – – =Ind.= 60: 1161. My. 17, ’06. 510w.


=Lubbock, Basil.= Jack Derringer: a tale of deep water. †$1.50. Dutton.

  “‘The notorious Yankee skysail-yard clipper “Silas K. Higgins” the
  hottest hell-ship under the stars and stripes,’ ... furnishes the
  setting for this story which ... is a thrilling romance of the life
  lead by ‘shanghaied’ and other seamen in more or less lawless
  conditions. Brutal officers, mixed nationalities in the seamen,
  fightings, murderings, wreckings, and a fight with albatrosses provide
  plenty of exciting episodes before Jack Derringer reaches a peaceful
  haven with the woman he loves. Jack is a roving Englishman and his
  greatest chum is a certain cowboy who is ‘shanghaied’ on the ‘Higgins’
  and plays an important part in the development of the story.” (Sat.
  R.)

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  “Mr. Lubbock has not ‘composed’ his picture at all. There is little
  perspective about it, and the very energy and knowledge which he
  brings to bear upon every detail sometimes confuse the general
  effect.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 359. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.

  “Lacks only the art of the finished craftsman to make of it a
  veritable epic of the sea.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 387. Mr. 31. 200w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4, ’06. 260w.

  “Mr. Lubbock is a descriptive writer with little skill in the arts of
  construction and arrangement. The plot, or groundwork of his book, is
  slight and conventional.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 400w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

  “The thing has all the elements proper to a sea story of the old
  school. And it is not bad of its kind.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 439. Jl. 7, ’06. 520w.

  “Unwholesome and uncomfortable novel. Vulgarity and cheap melodrama
  run riot.”

    – – =Outlook.= 83: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 50w.

  “It is a spirited, interesting romance. But we should like that
  glossary.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 661. My. 26, ’06. 280w.


=Lucas, Charles Prestwood.= Canadian war of 1812. *$4.15. Oxford.

  It has been the mission of Mr. Lucas to assist President Roosevelt and
  Captain Mahan in redeeming the history of the war of 1812 alike from
  “prejudiced treatment and undeserved neglect.” Mr. Lucas views the war
  from the Canadian standpoint and “the book is in the strictest sense
  ‘an installment of Canadian history,’ as Mr. Lucas calls it. The
  sources, in the main, are official dispatches. Slight use has been
  made of autobiographies, vindications, and ephemeral literature, like
  Hull’s ‘Memoirs,’ Wilkinson’s ‘Memoirs,’ and Armstrong’s ‘Notices of
  the war.’ The narrative, so far as it deals with upper Canada, is full
  and satisfactory. The same can hardly be said of the treatment which
  lower Canada receives.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though not free from defects, a splendid instalment of Canadian
  history.”

  + + – =Acad.= 71: 158. Ag. 18, ’06. 570w.

  “Mr. Lucas possesses to a remarkable degree the judicial temperament
  which is necessary for an historian whose subject is steeped in
  controversy.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 241. S. 1. 580w.

  “Is always temperate and fair-minded.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 275. Ag. 10, ’06. 1750w.

  “His tone throughout is discriminating, and though admiration for the
  courage of the loyalists may be said to dominate the narrative as a
  whole, it does not lead to special pleading on their behalf or wilful
  detraction from the merits of their opponents.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 306. O. 11, ’06. 1280w.

  “These maps are not so clear for study of different regions of the
  theatre of conflict as are those scattered through Mr. Henry Adams’s
  volumes. The narrative, too, lacks the verve and animation which that
  of Mr. Adams exhibits. But it is clear and unambiguous.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 900. D. 22, ’06. 1510w.

  “His chapters contain evidence of much patient research, and the
  elaborate details which he has collected have been carefully pieced
  together and lucidly arranged. Undoubtedly they supply the student of
  war with a much-needed work. To the general reader it will inevitably
  seem dull.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 6. O. 13, ’06. 600w.


=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Friendly town: a little book for the
urbane. $1.50. Holt.

  This anthology is a companion volume to “The open road.” The London of
  playhouses, taverns, cards and music, as well as of sobriety and
  sentiment is revealed in glints. Mr. Lucas “begins with winter and
  Christmas poems. Sections follow with such characteristic headings as
  Friends and the fire, Four-footed friends, The play, The tavern, Good
  townsmen, and The post. We find ‘inter alia,’ prose of Pepys, Boswell,
  Lamb, George Meredith; verse sentimental by Thackeray, cheerful by
  Henley, and the grace of the ‘Greek anthology’ as retained by the
  skill of Mr. Mackail.” (Ath.)

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  “Is, without qualification, a most delightful and attractive book.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1192. N. 18, ’05. 410w.

  “There is actually no index, either of authors or of first lines.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 723. N. 25. 230w.

      + =Dial.= 41: 457. D. 16, ’06. 230w.

  “A real invention marks ‘The friendly town.’”

      + =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ’05. 170w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 80w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 190w.


=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Life of Charles Lamb. 2v. *$6. Putnam.

  “Fitly complements his admirable edition of the ‘Works and letters.’”
  H. W. Boynton.

  + + + =Critic.= 48: 27. Ja. ’06. 4760w.

  + + + =Current Literature.= 40: 511. My. ’06. 640w.

  “As Mr. Lucas has shown himself to be the ideal editor and annotator
  in his recently-published seven-volume edition of Lamb’s works, so
  here he demonstrated his unequalled qualifications as a compiler of
  all discoverable material bearing on the life-history of his chosen
  author. A few slight errors of execution, amid so much excellence of
  design, may be noted for correction in a second edition.” Percy F.
  Bicknell.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 6. Ja. 1, ’06. 2470w.

  “Never has more elaborate care been manifest in biography than under
  Mr. Lucas’s most patient superintendence and competent companionship.
  The one defect that must be mentioned ... is the insistent
  preoccupation with Lamb’s enslavement to drink and tobacco.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 338. F. 8, ’06. 890w.

  “Every shred of available material that may throw the faintest light
  upon the poet or his associates is turned and returned, until there
  remains apparently little or nothing to be unearthed in future.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 110w.

  “Mr. Lucas writes in the long run with more light than warmth.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 304. Ap. 12, ’06. 2090w.

  “Will be a mine of riches for those who care for one of the most
  interesting groups of writers of the last century.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 960. D. 23, ’05. 1140w.

  Reviewed by Sidney T. Irwin.

  + + + =Quarterly R.= 204: 177. Ja. ’06. 1970w.

  “His book is a noteworthy contribution to literary memorabilia.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 118. Ja. ’06. 260w.


=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Listener’s lure: a Kensington comedy. †$1.50.
Macmillan.

  The story of “how Lynn Haberton was in love with his ward and
  secretary, Edith Graham, but thought he was too old and dry for her;
  how he sent her to London as companion to a charming old lady
  surrounded with cranks; how every man she met proposed to her, and in
  the end how she married her guardian” (Acad.) is told by means of a
  general correspondence among a group of people attached to the chief
  characters.

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  “You can turn back again and open where you will, sure of finding
  something amusing or interesting, some clever touch of character or
  some shrewd piece of wisdom.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 160w.

  “Mr. Lucas seems to have been afraid to trust to his own design, and
  to have borrowed the sentiment of his book from conventions. He is,
  however, full of wit and wisdom.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 330w.

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 329. S. 28, ’06. 580w.

  “A bit of good comedy.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 230w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 667. O. 13, ’06. 270w.

  “Especial joy may be found in these pages by any American who knows
  England and her people.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 160w.

  “In his hands the form so familiar to our fathers affords opportunity
  for reflection on many subjects, for much clever comment on people and
  society, and for a very pretty play of wit; and the story goes on its
  way to a happy ending, as it ought.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 120w.

  “Attractive as are the characters in the book, the main interest lies
  in the delightful things that are said by the way. Mr. Lucas is
  essentially an essayist.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 432. O. 6, ’06. 410w.

  “‘Listener’s lure’ is the work of a genuine humorist who is not afraid
  on occasion to be serious; it has lent freshness and charm to a mode
  of narration which too often makes for irritation; and it is marked by
  that enviable quality of sympathy which makes a friend of every
  reader.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 542. O. 13, ’06. 1150w.


=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in Holland. *$2. Macmillan.

  “The text is literary, chatty, easily read and quickly enjoyed.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 454. F. 22, ’06. 300w.


=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in London. **$1.75. Macmillan.

  “Mr. Lucas ... gives us his own London. A very odd place it is, full
  of odd characters, odd animals, odd entertainments, odds and ends of
  every description. The ordinary ‘sights’ do not belong to it.” (Lond.
  Times.) “He knows and tells all the associations of localities; he
  takes one into a hundred odd corners; he is in sympathetic touch with
  living Londoners of all classes and occupations. The fascination of
  London, he tells us, that which the traveler must come to see, is
  London men and women, her millions of men and women.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book abounds in out-of-the-way bits of information. The
  digressions are entertaining. The index is unsatisfactory.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 512. O. 27. 940w.

  “Past and present are allied with the strongest ties of association
  and charm of literary treatment.” Wallace Rice.

      + =Dial.= 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “Londoners ... are all writ down by their fellow-citizen with a charm,
  a sympathy, a friendly enthusiasm that will go far to make them forget
  the misplaced compassion of country folk.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 320. S. 21, ’06. 1690w.

  “A well-qualified personal book.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “To read ‘A wanderer in London’ is like taking long tramps through all
  parts of the city with a companion who knows all the interesting
  things and places and people and has something wise or gay or genial
  to say about all of them.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 825. D. 1, ’06. 490w.

  “Mr. Lucas spends proportionately too much time in the picture
  galleries. One can hardly hope to find a better way of reviving
  impressions and seeing things in a new setting than through this
  cheerful and friendly volume.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 432. O. 20, ’06. 230w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 80w.

  “Mr. Lucas’ wanderings will very likely be popular. There is so much
  in them that gives pleasure to the many who read everything except
  literature.”

      – =Sat. R.= 102: 518. O. 27, ’06. 940w.


=Luccock, Naphtali.= Royalty of Jesus. *50c. Meth. bk.

  A group of eight sermons preached by the pastor of the Union Methodist
  Episcopal church of St. Louis, teaching that “through free
  intelligence, an enlightened conscience, a righteous will, and a heart
  aglow with love, Christ lives and reigns in human affairs.”


=Luce, Morton.= Handbook to the works of William Shakespeare. $1.75.
Macmillan.

  “A series of introductions to the separate works, taken
  chronologically, fills the bulk of the volume, the remaining contents
  being chapters of history, biography and bibliography, with
  discussions of Shakespeare’s art, philosophy and metrics.” (Dial.)
  “Mr. Luce’s volume is something more than a handbook; it is a
  criticism and an esthetic too. Not only does it contain all the
  generally accepted facts with regard to Shakespeare, together with the
  general consensus of critical opinion, but it also propounds a number
  of original or at least novel, ideas and dramatic theories of its
  own.” (Ind.)

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  “Has collected a good deal of value as to the sources of the plays and
  poems, the extant testimony concerning them, and the circumstance of
  their appearance. He has not the gift of arrangement. The compiler
  does not apparently know, what true conciseness (a quality essential
  in a single book about the whole of Shakespeare) means.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906. 2: 210. Ag. 25. 101Ow.

  “The book is prepared with knowledge and judgment, and seems to be,
  with the possible exception of Professor Dowden’s similar work, the
  best single volume available for a fairly close and detailed study of
  the poet. Certainly, the amount of matter packed within a small
  compass is remarkable.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 120w.

  “It is suggestive, stimulating and to the lover of Shakespeare,
  thoroly readable.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 758. S. 27, ’06. 290w.

  “Seems to be accurate in statement and sound in its literary
  judgments, generally speaking. The author’s plan leads to a good deal
  of repetition, which might have been avoided by a better arrangement.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 240w.

  “Mr. Luce is no blind worshipper, and his criticism is of excellent
  quality. He has laid students of Shakespeare under very considerable
  obligations.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 912. Je. 9, ’06. 180w.


=Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis).= Work of Lucian of Samosata; trans. by
H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. *$4. Oxford.

  “The versions are very readable and at the same time bear comparison
  with the Greek text.” John C. Rolfe.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 214. Ap. ’06. 940w.


=Ludlow, James Meeker.= Sir Raoul: a tale of the theft of an empire.
†$1.50. Revell.

  “‘Sir Raoul,’ is a story of the fourth crusade, and of its diversion,
  through Venetian intrigue, from its primary object to the raid upon
  Constantinople, which resulted in the brief restoration of the Emperor
  Alexius, the temporary union of the Greek and Roman churches, and the
  establishment of the Latin empire of the East under Baldwin.... Mr.
  Ludlow’s hero is a youthful knight of the Black forest, who suffers
  disgrace early in his career, and is given out for dead, but who in
  reality remains very much alive and participates, under an assumed
  name, in the exciting happenings with which the romance is
  concerned.”—Dial.

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  “The interest is sustained at a high pitch throughout, and the
  author’s knowledge of his subject seems to embrace both the broad
  historical issues of the period and a diversity of curious matters of
  detail. A neat and pointed style provides the story with an added
  element of attractiveness.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 240w.

  “The technique is somewhat imperfect, but the manners, the
  superstitions, the barbarism, of the time are faithfully portrayed.
  The plot is ingenious, the action vigorous, the turning-points
  extraordinary.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ’05. 100w.


=Lützow, Francis, count.= Lectures on the historians of Bohemia. *$1.75.
Oxford.

  Reviewed by A. W. W.

      + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 197. Ja. ’06. 530w.


=Lyle, Eugene P.= Missourian. †$1.50. Doubleday.

  “Mr. Lyle possesses true creative vision and power.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 230w.

  “The details of this book are so complex as very often to be tedious.
  The book will be read only for its historical interest.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 465. Mr. 24, ’06. 270w.


=Lyman, Henry Munson.= Hawaiian yesterdays. **$2. McClurg.

  Chapters from a boy’s life in the Sandwich Islands in the early days.
  The boy is the son of a missionary and was born in Hilo in 1835. His
  sketch, autobiographical in nature, is set in the primitive
  surroundings of pioneer life, and touches upon his education, upon the
  possible stimulation to piety and scholarship, upon adventures in this
  ocean country, upon the tropical splendors and upon the civilization
  among the natives.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 100w.

  “From cover to cover the book is entertaining.” Percy F. Bicknell.

      + =Dial.= 40: 223. Ap. 1, ’06. 1580w.

  “Some interesting reminiscences, tho too largely of a personal
  nature.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1167. My. 17, ’06. 60w.

  “It is a work that charms and attracts.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 917. Je. 16, ’06. 700w.

  “Our chief criticism is that the narrative seems to terminate somewhat
  abruptly, leaving the curiosity and interest it awakens not wholly
  satisfied.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 128. Ag. 9, ’06. 430w.

  “These reminiscences throw not a little light on religious,
  educational, and political conditions during the troublous period of
  Hawaiian history.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 50w.


=Lyman, Olin Linus.= Micky: a novel. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

  Michael O’Byrn, a tattered knight of the road, saunters into the
  office of the Daily courier importuning the city editor for a chance
  to show his mettle. From the first “write-up”—a dramatic portrayal of
  a slum fight—Micky scores triumphs. His special task becomes that of
  unearthing the corrupt schemes of a political boss and a group of
  graft-practicing associates. Tho success is his, the bitter
  consequences of his yielding to a fondness for drink, together with
  the tragic ending of his brief romance compel him to cut himself
  adrift and once more became a wanderer.

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  “There is a great deal of the ‘atmosphere’ of newspapers in the book,
  and considerable of the ‘chaff’ and back talk supposed to exist among
  ‘the boys,’ which is all more or less according to truth.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 32. Ja. 20, ’06. 240w.


=Lynde, Francis.= Quickening. $1.50. Bobbs.

  Under the narrow religious influence of his mother, young Tom Jeff,
  with the quicker blood of his non-religious father flowing fast in his
  veins, tries hard to make of himself a minister, and failing, finds in
  his father’s iron business a broad field of action. But he grounds his
  life upon those early material teachings and becomes thru struggle and
  temptation a true hero worthy of Ardea’s love, a conqueror of
  circumstance and of himself. The characters of the fiery old Major to
  whom the north is still the enemy’s country, of young Farley, who is
  almost too conventional a villain, and of the mountaineers and
  ironworkers who play a large part in the story are strongly drawn.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is some admirable character drawing and there are some very
  graphic and life-like scenes, but for the general novel reader perhaps
  the greatest charm will be found in the exciting and dramatic
  situations of the story.”

      + =Arena.= 36: 107. Jl. ’06. 140w.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 140w.

  “The story is pleasant and genuine.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 130w.

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 120w.

  “Considering all, Mr. Lynde has not done ill.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 600w.

  “Has something of a swing.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16. ’06. 160w.

  “More than usual skill in analysis of motive and description of
  complex character is to be found in this tale of modern life.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.

  “It is a distinctly human, veracious, and altogether readable story.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 170w.


=Lyon, D. B.= Musical geography. $2 per doz.; ea. 25c. Wilson, H. W.

  “A little musical geography with sense and song to bind hard names in
  silver chains for boys and girls,” which was first published in 1851
  is here rejuvenated and retold.


=Lyttleton, Rev. Edward.= Studies in the Sermon on the Mount. *$3.50.
Longmans.

  “The book, as Mr. Lyttleton tells us in the preface, is not a complete
  work, for it deals only with the actual precepts recorded in the three
  chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel. Scarcely anything is said about such
  controversial subjects as the relation between the Matthoean and Lukan
  reports; nor does it touch on critical and textual questions except
  when they seem to be bound up with the interpretation of the words. It
  is ‘intended for those thoughtful students who wish to get hold of the
  meaning of the words as they are handed down.’”—Int. J. Ethics.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “These studies are the work of a clear, strong thinker, who is in deep
  sympathy with his subject.” David Phillips.

    + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 498. Jl. ’06. 1000w.

  “The writer’s method is a little diffuse, a little wanting in the
  power to grip a thought with a terse expression. For the high
  earnestness of the book there can be nothing but praise; but Mr.
  Lyttleton must be content to compress his material.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 439. D. 15, ’05. 490w.


                                   M


=Maartens, Maarten (Jozua Marius Willem Schwartz).= Healers. †$1.50.
Appleton.

  The healing of mind and body is dealt with in this novel in which
  nearly every character stands for some variety of scientific or
  religious opinion. Chief among them are “Professor Baron Lisse, of
  Leyden, the great bacteriologist in religion a conforming Protestant
  skeptic; his wife, a poet, converted, in the course of the story, to
  Roman Catholicism; their son Edward, who from childhood has hated his
  father’s vivisection, and who wins fame as a follower of Charcot; Sir
  James Graye, an idiot on whose skull Edward operates, enabling him to
  regain sufficient reason to learn the wickedness of the world and
  escape from it by suicide ... Kenneth Graye, James’s devoted uncle and
  guardian, who—so far as we understand mental ailments—went mad because
  he believed madness to be hereditary in his family, and recovered his
  sanity, partly on receiving proof that it was not, completely on
  receiving proof that he had misjudged a tragic event in his own life.”
  (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is a striking, interesting book, not altogether satisfactory, but one
  that all should read.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 160. F. 17, ’06. 310w.

  “This is a story one can read twice on first acquaintance, to use a
  Hiberianism.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 323. Mr. 17. 390w.

  “It is a complex book, with a great deal in it worth reading slowly
  and thoughtfully.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 416. Je. ’06. 390w.

  “There are many brilliant passages in the book, but as a whole it
  leaves a confused impression upon the mind of the reader.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 130w.

  “We are thus bound to repudiate the book in its would-be serious
  aspect, and fall back upon the entertaining invention, the acute
  characterization, and the combined humor and pathos that it offers.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 260w.

  “His wanderings from one prickly topic to another sorely tries the
  patience. Yet he never bores. He has too keen a sense of humor and of
  human interest.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 500w.

  “The novel is not strongly constructed; our interest is asked for one
  character and suddenly shifted elsewhere, and the several stories
  touch each other but slightly. That defect—if defect it be—is inherent
  in a novel of this kind. For the truth is that, in spite of Mr.
  Maartens’s care, his humour and his power of expressing character,
  this is not a novel of persons but of opinions. The fortunes of
  persons may be settled, happily or unhappily; thought goes on.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 630w.

  “The characters in ‘The healers’ are real people battling with real
  forces, no two agreeing. Maarten Maartens is not a serious singer, but
  he sings of serious things.” Stephen Chalmers.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 1000w.

  “The men and women described are alive and interesting in an unusual
  degree.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 130w.


=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Great word. **$1. Dodd.

  In a group of twenty-one essays, “Mr. Mabie has written broadly and
  wisely and deeply of love, not as Michelet did, mixing grossness and
  delicacy of thought together, but with all daintiness and fineness of
  touch, so that the issue is fine.” (N. Y. Times.) “For,” says the
  author, “there is no word infinity and immortality in any language,
  divine or human, save the word love; for nothing save love has compass
  enough to hold and to express the life of the gods.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book, like his others, will be valued for its sane and charming
  conservatism.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 70w.

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 112. Ja. 11, ’06. 250w.

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 878. D. 9, ’05. 280w.

        =Outlook.= 81: 889. D. 9, ’05. 30w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 20w.


=Mabie, Hamilton Wright=, ed. Myths every child should know: a selection
of the classic myths of all times for young people. **90c. Doubleday.

  “The book is well suited for both home and school reading.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 30w.


=McAdoo, William.= Guarding a great city. **$2. Harper.

  Mr. McAdoo, formerly commissioner of police in New York city, takes a
  courageous stand in presenting in detail the inner workings of the
  police system of that great city. He discusses, with suggestions for
  reform, in their sociological, political and economic aspects the
  problems which grow out of the supervision of vice and crime. The
  chapters on “Police imposters and fakirs,” “The East side,” and “The
  poolroom evil” are especially revelatory.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Quite apart from its value in the discussion of purely administrative
  problems of police management, the book is very readable. Mr. McAdoo
  knows his subject and handles it with great directness. One criticism
  which might be made is that when discussing the problems of the police
  he assumes that his readers possess rather more information regarding
  the police organization than they are likely to have, but these lapses
  are only occasional.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 935. O. 18, ’06. 570w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382 Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 649. My. 26, ’06. 1480w.

  “Has a human interest that places it in a class apart from the
  ordinary category of manuals and treatises on good government. Mr.
  McAdoo writes clearly and fearlessly, as one who has nothing to
  conceal from the public.”

  + + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 180w.


=McCall, Sidney.= Breath of the gods. †$1.50. Little.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 130w.


=McCall, Sidney.= Truth Dexter. †$1.50. Little.

  A new illustrated edition. Ever refreshing is the charming naïvete of
  the Southern girl who goes to Boston as a bride and has only her
  innocence and clarity of soul to offset intrigue on the one hand and
  culture on the other, until, indeed, she is subjected to a rigid
  course of intellectual training which conventionalizes her.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In spite of what seem to us defects, the romance has so much in its
  favour that we can heartily recommend it to our readers.”

    + – =Arena.= 36: 219. Ag. ’06. 580w.

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 439. Jl. 7, ’06. 880w.

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.


=McCarthy, Justin.= History of our own times. v. 4 and 5. ea. *$1.40.
Harper.

  “Although these volumes may at times be handy books of reference, they
  must not be depended upon for fullness or accuracy.” A. G. Porritt.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 676. Ap. ’06. 790w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

  “Mr. McCarthy makes good reading for the ordinary, unhistorical man
  who is often astonishingly ignorant of earlier Victorian events.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 863. D. 23. 50w.

  “The author takes advantage of his opportunity to review the reign of
  Victoria as a whole, and this is the most valuable part of the work.”
  Edward Fuller.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 289. My. ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

  “Mr. McCarthy’s last volumes are very delightful, eminently readable,
  and valuable. Nor does their fairness make them colorless.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 287. Mr. ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 4. and 5.)

    + + =Ind.= 61: 334. Ag. 9, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)


=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Flower of France. †$1.50. Harper.

  Simplicity, steadfastness, and a tender human sympathy characterize
  Mr. McCarthy’s Maid of Orleans. She is the same Joan of dreams and
  visions that history portrays her, the unyielding warrior who fights
  the dauphin’s cause because of a direct command from her God, yet as
  she rides forth in her shining armor, she is after all the Maid whom
  Lahire loves and not the fanatic whom the evil Cauchon sent to the
  stake. She is a heroine who might have yielded to the entreaties of
  her lover had she not impersonally espoused the high and divinely
  directed cause of her country’s good—higher than which is no other
  allegiance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =Acad.= 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 320w.

  “Mr. McCarthy has been uncommonly successful in reproducing the life
  of that distant century.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 694. Je. 9. 240w.

  “One sees all too plainly throughout the volume the earmarks of
  prospective dramatisation.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 120. O. ’06. 190w.

  “The story is a fairly good one of its kind, but it has no reason for
  existence.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 91. Ag. ’06. 70w.

  “We need not waste much time on a production that exhibits such
  appalling vulgarisms as ‘won out’ and ‘downed all opposition’ and is
  cheaply sentimental or sensational from first to last.” Wm. M. Payne.

      – =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 110w.

  “He has been lifted up, as a literary artist, out of pagan piety, and
  pretty glamour of words that have characterized his other books into a
  region of sterner spirituality and courage. This gives the story a
  gravity and power which his novels have always lacked in spite of
  their charm.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 516. Ag. 30, ’06. 1060w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 120w.

  “Sufficiently well written to be very pleasant reading.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 355. Je. 2, ’06. 490w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.

  “A graceful, pleasantly written story.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 766. Jl. 28, ’06. 70w.

  “On the whole, the effect of the book is to bring out the merits of
  Mr. Andrew Lang’s historical novel of the same period.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 662. My. 26, ’06. 240w.


=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Illustrious O’Hagen. †$1.50. Harper.

  Pure romance, with a proper alloy of adventure is found in this story
  of the two O’Hagens, the twin brothers whose swords were always ready
  to defend their honor and fair ladies. Dorothea, the unhappy wife of a
  dissolute prince of an eighteenth century German principality, has as
  a child played at love in a garden with one of the brothers and this
  old memory calls them both to her side where amid court intrigue and
  the clash of swords one wins happiness and the other dies a good
  death.

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  “Mr. McCarthy is at his buoyant best.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 130w.

  “The story is a pleasant piece of work.”

      + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 543. N. 3. 210w.

  “Lacks some of the historical interest and the odd situations that
  were the strong features of ‘If I were king’ but the new novel has a
  touch of the originality of construction which made a success of the
  François Villon book.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 775. N. 24, ’06. 360w.

  “Lightly amusing, but of very little weight or force, is this novel.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 50w.

  “It is altogether an admirable historical novel of the lighter type,
  written with a jaunty elegance which is most effective.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 617. N. 17, ’06. 90w.


=McCash, Isaac Newton.= Ten plagues of modern Egypt. *$1. Personal help
pub.

  The ten plagues of modern Egypt herein discussed are divorce,
  amusements, municipal misrule, corrupt journalism, lynching, social
  impurity, our city carnivals, murder, gambling, and intemperance. A
  concluding chapter discusses the civic conscience.


=McCaughan, William J.= Love, faith, and joy. $1. J. Gosham Staats,
Chicago.

  A group of sermons delivered in the Third Presbyterian church,
  Chicago.


=McClellan, Elisabeth.= Historic dress in America, 1607–1800; with an
introd. chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in
Florida and Louisiana; il. in color, pen and ink, and half-tone by
Sophie Steel. **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.

  “The work is, in fact, of great, practical value both to the art
  student and to the costumier.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 28: 370. Je. ’06. 470w.

  “The letterpress is rather scrappy and disconnected, but it is full of
  valuable information derived from undeniably accurate sources, and
  occasionally transcribed without acknowledgment.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 336. S. 15, ’06. 360w.

  “Very handsome and interesting volume.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 545. Ap. 7, ’06. 230w.


=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= Old time notes of Pennsylvania. 2v. *$8.
Winston.

  A connected and chronological record of the commercial, industrial and
  educational advancement of Pennsylvania, and the inner history of all
  political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838;
  illustrated with portraits of over 100 distinguished men of
  Pennsylvania, including all the governors, senators, judges of the
  courts of today, leading statesmen, railroad presidents, business men
  and men of note.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It will be regarded as a valuable contribution to such a history, a
  contribution that no other man could make.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 415. Je. 23, ’06. 140w.

  “Throughout his work the element of human interest is strong, its
  distinctive characteristics, in fact, being its striking pen-portraits
  and its abundance of illustrative anecdote. He shows an evident desire
  to be just, and usually writes with such restraint that blame must
  yield to admiration.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 141. My. 19, ’06. 250w.


=M’Clymont, Rev. J. A.= Greece; painted by J: Fulleylove; described by
the Rev. J. A. M’Clymont. *$6. Macmillan.

  These descriptions of Greece have been written by one who has observed
  as he travelled, who has read the latest books, and studied Grote and
  Mr. Frazer; while the seventy-five colored pictures give some
  beautiful views of Athens and all Attica. There is also a sketch map
  of Greece and an index.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Some of the pictures are decidedly pretty, and there are good sky and
  cloud effects in many of them; but the ‘tout ensemble’ is not like
  Greece. There is also a want of proper distribution in the subjects.
  If the author could not supply more than a few scanty observations of
  his own, why not have recourse to the dozens of excellent picturesque
  books of travel.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 803. Je. 30. 770w.

  “One of the finest of the many fine books written about Greece. The
  descriptive text is admirably written. There is some thing like chaos
  in the spelling of proper names.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 395. Ag. 16, ’06. 640w.

  “The artist is indeed thoroughly in touch with his subjects, which
  appear to have appealed to him with even greater force than those of
  his native land.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 183. D. ’06. 240w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 80w.

  “Neither illustrations nor letter press have any right to be put
  forward as representing a land among the two or three most interesting
  and influential in the whole history of mankind.”

      – =Sat. R.= 102: 54. Jl. 14, ’06. 300w.

  “The literary portion of this book is something of a disappointment.
  The pictures are highly pleasing.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 230w.


=MacCunn, Florence.= Mary Stuart. **$3. Dutton.

  A biography, based upon an accurate knowledge of recent developments
  along the line of Mary Stuart controversy, “while making no attempt to
  give any detailed account of it.” (Lond. Times.) “It does not pretend
  to be anything more than a romantic story of a woman told by a
  woman.... Mrs. MacCunn looks upon Mary as simply an intensely
  passionate woman. So her volume, if not the authoritative book on
  Mary, is perhaps one of the most readable that have yet been produced.
  Its charm is enhanced by numerous portraits and other illustrations,
  which are of the best quality.” (Spec.)

  “We have only indicated the attitude of Mrs. MacCunn towards her
  heroine: it is candidly historical and perfectly womanly.” Andrew
  Lang.

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 1146. N. 4, ’05. 1360w.

  “The author had not space enough for controversy, but exhibits
  complete balance of judgment. Her narrative is vivid, and avoids
  rhetorical pursuit of the picturesque. She is extremely sympathetic.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 569. O. 28. 870w.

  “Miss Maccunn ... has subordinated everything else to her main figure,
  and the result is a portrait glowing with animation.” Lawrence J.
  Burpee.

      + =Dial.= 41: 62. Ag. 1, ’06. 1250w.

  “Without omitting any salient facts or distorting any critical
  situation, she has written a book which is real biography, and not a
  mere contribution to controversy.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 397. N. 17, ’05. 830w.

  “Among a host of technical and controversial monographs, it stands out
  a simple lively narrative of the remarkable adventures through which
  Mary Stuart passed.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 347. Ap. 26, ’06. 460w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 82. F. 10, ’06. 320w.

  “Her book is an admirable piece of work, and we think should remain
  the standard short history of one of the most familiar of the many
  Queens of tears.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 156. Mr. 10, ’06. 400w.

  “Her book is well written ... and if her conception of Queen Mary’s
  character be correct, it is admirable.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 144. F. 3, ’06. 1040w.

      + =Spec.= 95: sup. 794. N. 18, ’05. 810w.


=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Cowardice court.
†$1.25. Dodd.

  “Apparently the chief matter [of this tale] is the feud—a paltry
  quarrel over some five hundred acres of Adirondack woodland, which the
  young American refuses to sell even to a buyer of such distinction as
  her ladyship of Baslehurst. Really, however, the chief matter is the
  interest the English-bred Penelope takes in the American enemy. The
  story goes of itself, runs away with itself almost. There is a storm,
  a haunted house, some dog shooting, much trespassing, and more
  lovemaking.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 50w.

  “Altogether absurd in incident and psychology, but decidedly readable
  and engagingly romantic.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 876. Ap. 12, ’06. 70w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

  “Has somewhat too heavy a hand for his slight material.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 28, ’06. 50w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 736. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.


=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Jane Cable; il. in
col. by Harrison Fisher. †$1.50. Dodd.

  “‘Jane Cable’ is a love-tale with the strenuous sweep of the Western
  metropolis for its atmosphere. The principals of the story are a very
  flawless pair who enter the primrose path of romance under promising
  auspices. Their roseate dream receives a rude awakening by reason of
  certain family revelations which seem to put a blot upon the girl’s
  birth and which blast the reputation of the young man’s father. Some
  very ugly, tho not uninteresting, characters are brought upon the
  scene. Chief among these is the lawyer, Elias Droom, a character
  probably suggested by Uriah Heep, but uglier.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is interesting to record, from personal observation, that readers
  of ‘Jane Cable’ seem to evince the same absorption, the same oblivion
  of time and space which a few years ago marked the readers of ‘Beverly
  of Graustark.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 248. N. ’06. 410w.

  “As a good melodrama should, the story takes hold in the first pages
  with a grip that releases the interest only when the problems are all
  solved.” Paul Wilstach.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 280. N. ’06. 400w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 941. O. 18, ’06. 90w.

  “The characters are fairly well drawn and there is much diversity of
  plot and incident.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 290w.

  “‘Jane Cable’ is a well-told story, within the limitations of its
  class.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 90w.

  “Is on the whole the best piece of work he has done.”

  + + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 170w.


=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Nedra. †$1.50.
Dodd.

  “So farcical a plot demands a light and humorous touch and here the
  author fails, for though he gets amusing situations, the treatment of
  them is poor, and the dialogue is conspicuously without humor.”

      – =Acad.= 71: 526. N. 24, ’06. 210w.

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 150w.


=Macdonald, Ronald.= Sea-maid. †$1.50. Holt.

  Once upon a time the Dean of Beckminster and his prim wife were cast
  shipwrecked upon a lone sea island, and when after twenty years a
  certain ship’s company were marooned upon the same island they found,
  with the Dean and his wife, their beautiful daughter who dressed in
  savage garb and was eager to know of a world she had never seen. This
  is the setting of a veritable farce-comedy enacted by an English lord,
  a commonplace person with whom he has changed names to avoid the
  advances of a passée fortune hunter, the ship’s doctor, a girl who is
  “good sort,” an actor, and several other people both good and bad. The
  book is frankly intended to “draw smile and laugh.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is somethings deliciously attractive in the serious manner in
  which he handles the subject.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 205. Mr. 3, ’06. 310w.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 294. Mr. 10. 280w.

  “An uneven book, genuinely amusing in parts, distinctly tiresome
  elsewhere.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 285. My. ’05. 270w.

  “Of its kind ‘The sea-maid’ is good.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 50w.

  “For sheer entertainment this story is one of the best of the year,
  and it is by no means devoid of the qualities that appeal to the
  literary sense.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 210w.

  “Is, in itself a harmless and in parts an entertaining and refreshing
  story, showing touches of imagination and of humor; but is none the
  less tainted with that peculiar flavor of cheapness—coming perilously
  near vulgarity.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 230w.

  “The fault of the story is that it mingles the romantic, the
  burlesque, and the melodramatic rather indiscriminately.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 130w.

  “The book is an ingenious fantasy, and the reader will find that the
  time he spends in reading it passes very pleasantly.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 390. Mr. 10, ’06. 280w.


=MacDonnell, John de Courcy.= King Leopold II., his rule in Belgium and
the Congo. *$6. Cassell.

  “Though the work has the character of special pleading, still it is
  not of the unusually low order of such partisan publications.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 190w.


=McFadyen, John Edgar.= Introduction to the Old Testament. $1.75.
Armstrong.

  “The style is easy, clear, concise, and fulfills the purpose laid
  down. It is a good piece of modern, up-to-date pedagogical work.” Ira
  Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.

  + + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 318. Ap. ’06. 280w.

  “To each book of the old Testament he furnishes an introduction which
  is written in the free critical spirit characteristic of modern
  scholarship, and written, too, with a power to stimulate the interests
  of his readers, and satisfy their just and reasonable demands for
  information concerning the history and character of writings regarded
  by so many as sacred Scriptures.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 102. Ja. 27. 440w.

  “The book supplies a recognized need.”

    + + =Bib. World.= 27: 79. Ja. ’06. 40w.

  “By its brevity, clearness and interest the book is a good one to
  serve as a manual for the student.” L. W. Batten.

    + + =Bib. World.= 28: 74. Jl. ’06. 180w.

  “Utterly unfit to be put into the hands of the unsophisticated readers
  for whom it is prepared. Hundreds of his statements are either
  incorrect or rest upon a very unsubstantial foundation.”

    – – =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 377. Ap. ’06. 130w.

  “For a readable account of what scholars hold regarding the Old
  Testament without discussion of what is still problematical and
  uncertain, Professor McFadyen’s treatise can be heartily recommended.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 518. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 280w.


=Macfall, Haldane.= Sir Henry Irving. *$1. Luce, J: W.

  A character sketch of Sir Henry Irving, the man, his career and his
  art. The volume is illustrated by Mr. Gordon Craig and includes
  sketches of Irving in the characters of Robespierre, Macaire, Dubrose,
  Badger and others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though a trifle laudatory, Mr. Macfall has produced a lucid portrait
  of his subject.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 95. Ag. 16, ’06. 130w.

  “In itself the little book, with its excellent paper, admirable
  typography, and abundant margins, is attractive and artistic, but as a
  tribute to Irving it is in almost all respects insufficient.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 35. Jl. 12, ’06. 290w.

  “The criticism is pitched in a high key of praise; and is too much a
  panegyric to be always valuable as criticism; yet there is much that
  is true said about Irving’s excellences.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 430. Jl. 7, ’06. 470w.

  “An extremely interesting character sketch.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 817. Ag. 4, ’06. 50w.


=MacFarland, Charles Stedman.= Jesus and the prophets; an historical,
exegetical, and interpretative discussion of the use of the Old
Testament prophecy by Jesus and his attitude towards it. **$1.50.
Putnam.

  “For the ground which it covers, Dr. MacFarland’s book is without
  doubt the best popular work on the subject in English, and cannot fail
  to be helpful to all students of the Bible who prize exact knowledge.”
  William R. Schoemaker.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 128. Ja. ’06. 530w.

  “It will stimulate even where it does not carry full conviction.” John
  H. Strong.

    + – =Bib. World.= 27: 476. Je. ’06. 880w.

  “The design of this book is excellent. Yet we cannot praise the book
  unreservedly; the author is well up in the German critics and shows a
  tendency to assimilate their conclusions rather too readily. It is
  good to know German if one is going to write a book on the Greek
  Testament; but it is better to know Greek.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 430w.

      + =Spec.= 95: 1087. D. 23, ’05. 110w.


=Macfarlane, Walter.= Principles and practice of iron and steel
manufacture. *$1.20. Longmans.

  Written by one who understands teaching, this book is designed
  primarily for technical students, metallurgists and engineers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It has the advantage of being short and, in general, accurate and
  clear. Much of the data has not appeared in print before, but is
  evidently taken from personal experience. Of the individual chapters,
  those on the puddling process and tool steel are the best, while the
  discussion of steel castings and the short chapter on malleable
  castings are very far below the general standard.” Bradley Stoughton.

  + + – =Engin. N.= 56: 51. Jl. 12, ’06. 800w.


=MacGrath, Harold.= Half a rogue. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  There is a curious mixture of elements in Mr. MacGrath’s new story.
  Play writing, municipal politics, social enmity, strikes, and always
  love—from beginning to end it is the one quality which leavens sordid
  states and makes burdens bearable. Katherine Challoner leaves the
  stage to marry John Bennington, Richard Warrington gives up
  playwriting to enter politics, and incidentally, to woo Patty
  Bennington. A malicious busy-body, who tries to recall ghosts of past
  indiscretions, fails, but not until Warrington loses in the mayorality
  race. Yet he does win Patty.


=MacGrath, Harold.= Hearts and masks. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  “The tale is not so good a story as ‘The man on the box’ but it will
  doubtless prove almost as popular.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 222. F. ’06. 220w.

  Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 633. F. ’06. 370w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 110w.


=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture.
$1.50. Bureau of university travel. [Ginn.]

  A handbook prepared to accompany a collection of five hundred
  reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture.

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  “What he has done is both too little and too much; and the faults that
  have been indicated tend to make any scholar view the book with a
  distrust which, on the whole, it does not merit.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 804. Je. 30. 840w.

  “The impression made by the book is satisfactory, and it will
  undoubtedly be of service, especially to the beginner in the study of
  classic art. Mr. von Mach shows a thorough knowledge of his subject,
  and there is a pleasing independence of view, although the influence
  of the great teachers is plainly seen. There are a number of
  typographical errors.” James C. Egbert.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 101. Mr. ’06. 790w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 688. Jl. 21, ’06. 200w.


=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Outlines of the history of painting,
from 1200–1900 A. D. *$1.50. Ginn.

  An arrangement which aims to aid art students in obtaining a
  comprehensive view of the whole field of painting. The first part
  comprises twenty-eight chronological tables of painters; the second
  part, an alphabetical list of artists; the third, a brief account of
  the history of painting.

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  “This should prove a convenient class summary and in general a useful
  tabulation of painters and periods.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 100w.

  “Another who has helped us the better to understand Greek art,
  Professor Edmund von Mach, has published a useful book.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 120w.

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 446. N. 22, ’06. 250w.


=Machen, Arthur.= House of souls. †$1.50. Estes.

  “This volume includes some previously published stories, notably ‘The
  great god Pan’ and ‘The inmost light,’ which some twelve years since
  appeared in ‘The keynote series;’ also ‘The three impostors,’ which we
  best remember as a deft derivative from Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian
  nights.’ The rest of the items are new, but the same note of horror is
  struck with more or less emphasis in all, and with a varying measure
  of success.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =Acad.= 71: 136. Ag. 11, ’06. 800w.

  “Mr. Machen is a very clever writer—so clever that it seems almost a
  pity that he should persistently envelope his talent in cerements of
  the bizarre.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906. 2: 129. Ag. 4. 340w.

  “Whatever may be said for the making of gargoyles in general (or
  satyrs in particular) as a question of art or of morals, whatever your
  own taste may be in such matters, Mr. Machen is a master of his
  method.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 578. S. 22, ’06. 700w.

  “As regards the execution of the stories, Mr. Machen has style, and a
  talent for the fantastic ... but he has not the power of creating
  horror.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 117. Jl. 28, ’06. 220w.


=M’Kay, William D.= Scottish school of painting. *$2. Scribner.

  “Although Mr. McKay does not succeed in giving any clear definition of
  what constitutes the Scottish school, or how it differs from other
  schools, his well-written volume is full of interesting details about
  the lives and works of Scottish painters, and tells us something,
  though not quite enough about the organization of painting in Scotland
  since it began to exist at all.”—Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a compact and compendious record of the work of painters of
  Scottish nationality the book occupies a distinct place in art
  history, and its standard of execution is uniformly high.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 246. S. 1. 1700w.

  “In a sense this is a pioneer work. It is one which no student of art
  should fail to own and to read with great care.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 188. Ag. ’06. 360w.

  “A smaller book dealing with the few leading painters of Scottish
  birth and leaving out the nobodies would have been more acceptable.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 190w.

  “We have no hesitation in commending this excellent volume, not only
  to the art lover, but also to the student.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 29: 273. S. ’06. 490w.

        =Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 220w.

  “We turn to his book for a retrospect rather than for a comment upon
  the things of to-day. He knows what painting is, he is well acquainted
  with the collections, public and private, he is a sound critic, and he
  writes in an interesting way.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 266. Jl. 27, ’06. 770w.

  “The author ... writes with knowledge and confidence of technical
  matters, and the volume is fairly illustrated.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 120w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 508. Ag. 18, ’06. 1080w.

  “Excellent book.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 50w.


=MacKaye, James F.= Economy of happiness. *$2.50. Little.

  Dr. Mackaye’s universal panacea for the cure of all ills which man is
  heir to is common sense, susceptible to tests which are independent of
  the convictions of any man or assemblage of men. Book 1 analyses
  common sense to disclose these tests; and Books 2 and 3 treat of the
  theoretical and practical technology of happiness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A book which deals with the ethical foundations of the subject in a
  way that is both novel and profound. In fact the book is a revolution
  in philosophy and aims at one in economics. He lays a deeper and safer
  foundation for his socialism than Marx laid, and he undermines most
  thoroughly the system of ethics upon which the political and economic
  dogmas of competition and ‘laissez faire’ have been based.” Ralph
  Albertson.

  + + – =Arena.= 36: 670. D. ’06. 4710w.

  “Every socialist, sociologist, economist and serious journalist should
  examine this book. For the wayfaring man it is perhaps too solid, tho
  it is enlivened by brilliant, unforced epigrams and humorous phrases.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 813. O. 4, ’06. 1220w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 429. S. 29, ’06. 400w.

  “It would have been better if he had condensed some and omitted other
  parts of the earlier chapters which are unnecessarily long and
  discursive.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “While the ethical doctrines of this work are thus objectionable,
  there is much in its economic scheme for the promotion of social
  happiness that is worthy of thoughtful consideration.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 90. S. 8, ’06. 530w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 70w.


=MacKaye, James.= Politics of utility: the technology of
happiness—applied; being book 3 of “The economy of happiness.” **50c.
Little.

  Book 3 of James MacKaye’s “Economy of happiness” is published
  separately, in inexpensive form because of its greater popular
  interest, the hope being that the reprint may reach a wider circle of
  readers than would care for the larger work.


=Mackaye, Mrs. James Steele.= Pride and prejudice: a play founded on
Jane Austen’s novel. $1.25. Duffield.

  A four-act play founded upon Jane Austen’s eighteenth century novel.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Few of the peculiar excellences of the book survive in the play, in
  which the lack of action, or of anything like real dramatic interest,
  until the very end, is only too apparent.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 291. O. 4, ’06. 120w.

  “A pleasing play.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 385. O. 13, ’06. 120w.

  “So far as the literary side is concerned, Mrs. Mackaye has done her
  work well.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 90w.


=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Fenris, the wolf: a tragedy. **$1.25.
Macmillan.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + – =North American.= 182: 753. My. ’06. 170w.


=McKechnie, William Sharp.= Magna carta: a commentary on the great
charter of King John. *$4.50. Macmillan.

  “Mr. McKechnie may justly claim to have provided us with a most
  adequate commentary on Magna Carta. His notes ... show that he is
  widely read in the literature of his subject; and they are admirably
  lucid. The book will be the more useful because it is mainly a summary
  of the researches and theories of the best modern critics.” H. W. C.
  Davis.

  + + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 150. Ja. ’06. 880w.

  “The most detailed and satisfactory examination of Magna Carta.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 16. Ja. 4. ’06. 1570w.


=McKim, Rev. Randolph Harrison.= Problem of the Pentateuch. **$1.
Longmans.

  “Lectures in reply to the ‘higher criticism’ of the Bible.... The
  attractiveness of Dr. McKim’s book for the general reader, not
  particularly interested in homiletical literature or the disputes of
  theology, lies in its well-sustained tone of urbanity and its fairness
  to the ‘higher critics.’ Dr. McKim does not hesitate to state their
  arguments clearly. His own argument is interesting merely as a
  revelation of the theories of the Pentateuch put forth by persons who
  deny the inspiration and Mosaic origin of the five books.”—N. Y.
  Times.

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        =Bib. World.= 28. 79. Jl. ’06. 50w.

  “Doubtless every serious reader who picks up this book will find that
  his curiosity has been aroused rather than that his mind has been set
  at rest. But, for its scope, this brief volume is fairly well put
  together.”

  + + – =Cath. World.= 83: 833. S. ’06. 510w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 945. Je. 23, ’06. 1540w.

  “Despite the pains he has taken in the investigation of these matters,
  it cannot be said that he has comprehended the case put forward by
  historical criticism.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 142. Ag. 16, ’06. 460w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 356. Je. 2, ’06. 340w.


=McKinley, Albert Edward.= Suffrage franchise in the thirteen English
colonies in America. $2.50. Ginn.

  “Mr. McKinley’s book must of necessity become the standard authority
  on this subject. The only lack is a bibliography.” Edward Porritt.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 403. Ja. ’06. 1630w.


=MacKinnon, James.= History of modern liberty. set, **$10. Longmans.

  “The first volume consists of chapters chiefly on the governmental
  institutions of the countries that once formed the Western Roman
  empire; the second consists of chapters on the course of the
  reformation in England and Scotland, France and Germany, with a brief
  chapter of twelve pages on Spain in the fifteenth and sixteenth
  centuries. A single chapter on mediaeval political thought ‘in
  relation to liberty,’ which closes the first volume, is balanced in
  the second by one on the writers on political theory in the sixteenth
  century. For the rest, the strict adherence to geographical divisions
  forbids an international and comparative treatment, and no continuity
  of subject or idea is maintained.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Taken all in all, his book is both readable and instructive. It may
  safely be commended to all whose enthusiasm for liberty needs a
  stimulant.”

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 876. Jl. ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Had the writer been willing to use more care and restraint, he could
  have produced a better book, for he has zeal and industry, a wide
  range of interest and knowledge, ambition and ability.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 538. My. 5. 1620w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)

  “It may be seriously questioned whether the usefulness if the work
  would not have been increased by the topical method of treatment
  rather than the chronological. Professor MacKinnon’s style in places
  is characterized by lucidity of statement, forcefulness of expression,
  and even by brilliancy; but too often the detail which mars his
  discussions is dry and prolix.” James Wilford Garner.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 31. Jl. 16, ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Dr. Mackinnon has, we fear, somewhat fluctuating ideas as to the
  exact scope of his theme. It is the result of much careful study,
  especially in French historical literature, and it is marked by a
  sanity of judgment and a true love of freedom of which Dr. Mackinnon
  desires to be the historian.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 215. Je. 15, ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and
          2.)

  “The author is on the whole judicious and scholarly without attaining
  real distinction. His book will not add to our sum of knowledge and
  will not open new avenues of thought.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 457. My. 31, ’06. 570w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “They contain much of interest and value, but yet they fall short of
  what we should wish the story of human liberty to be.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 559. My. 5, ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “The serious defect of the work, however, is that it lacks
  organization. The process of the development of liberty is not clearly
  delineated. On the whole, the work despite its shortcomings, must be
  pronounced a notable one.” George L. Scherger.

  + + – =Yale R.= 15: 219. Ag. ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=McLaws, Emily Lafayette.= Maid of Athens. †$1.50. Little.

  A romance based upon Byron’s brief wooing of Lady Thyrza Riga, the
  Maid of Athens, whom he immortalized in verse. Count Riga gives his
  life for Greece, and Countess Riga rather than fall into the hands of
  the Turks slays herself, while the child Thyrza was sent to
  Constantinople and was brought up at court by a renegade uncle. Here
  Byron found her, and was seriously minded in his love-making, but a
  rival Turkish suitor brought disaster through a forged letter. Lady
  Thyrza’s death, and later Byron’s passing away at Messolonghi bring
  the story to a tragic close.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Exceptionally well written and giving delightful glimpses of Turkish
  and Greek life.” Amy C. Rich.

      + =Arena.= 36: 107. Jl. ’06. 160w.

      – =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 120w.

  “It cannot be said that Miss McLaws reflects much of the Byronic heat
  and light, while her Oriental atmosphere is distinctly of a kind never
  made in the East.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 151. Mr. 10, ’06. 310w.

      – =Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 40w.

  “On the whole this is a better piece of work than either ‘Jezebel’ or
  ‘When the land was young.’”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 140w.


=MacLean, Frank.= Henry Moore, R. A. *$1.25. Scribner.

  “This volume in “The makers of British art” series is a thoroly
  workmanlike ‘life,’ narrating the details of Moore’s rather uneventful
  career, describing and characterizing all his works of importance and
  certainly in its estimate of those works, doing full justice to the
  painter—comparatively few of whose pictures have been seen on this
  side of the Atlantic. Numerous halftone blocks help to give some faint
  idea of the man’s power and versatility in depicting his chosen
  theme.... A final chapter touches briefly but illuminatingly on the
  work of the few noteworthy painters of the sea with whom Henry Moore
  was contemporary—John Brett, Whistler, Claude Monet, Mesdag—and
  several lesser British marine artists.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Doubtless will long remain the standard biography of England’s
  foremost marine painter.”

  + + + =Ind.= 61: 817. O. 4, ’06. 150w.

  “An interesting analysis is made of Moore’s work in marine painting.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 320w.

  “A sound and unpretentious piece of work which will supply all the
  information that the general reader will care for about this
  thoroughly competent if not quite great painter.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 138. F. 15, ’06. 90w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 142. Mr. 10, ’06. 300w.


=McMahan, Anna Benneson=, ed. With Byron in Italy; being a selection of
the poems and letters of Lord Byron which have to do with his life in
Italy from 1816 to 1823. **$1.40. McClurg.

  From the letters and poems of Byron, written during the most mature
  and productive period of his life while under the spell of the Italy
  that he loved and that loved him in return, the editor has made wise
  selection and she has arranged the chosen parts chronologically, and
  illustrated them with sixty reproductions from photographs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 41: 459. D. 16, ’06. 270w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1118. N. 8, ’06. 120w.

  “The alluring title of this book will not disappoint lovers of Byron.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 110w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 90w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 310w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 256. N. ’06. 80w.


=MacManus, Anna (Mrs. Seumas) (Ethna Carbery, pseud.).= Four winds of
Eirinn. **75c. Funk.

This posthumous book of verse is indeed a legacy to all who love
Ireland. The poems ring with strong-heart energy and anticipation, and
in their buoyancy teach fine lessons of loyalty and patriotism to the
land of Erin.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A small but precious volume.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 329. My. 16, ’06. 320w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 80w.


=McMaster, John Bach.= History of the people of the United States, from
the Revolution to the Civil war. v. 6, 1830–1842. **$2.50. Appleton.

  Volume six of this history covers the years from 1830 to 1842. Dr.
  McMaster discusses affairs under the following headings: Our federal
  union, State rights maintained, Social conditions, The election of
  1832, Nullification put down. The deposits and the panic of 1834,
  Politics at home and abroad, Activity of the abolitionists,
  Proceedings of Congress, Speculation and surplus, The end of Jackson’s
  term, The panic of 1837, Along our borders, A free press and the right
  of petition, Buckshot, Aroostook, and anti-rent war, The log-cabin,
  hard-cider campaign and The quarrel with Tyler.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 6.)

  “This author has made to general United States history the most
  notable original contribution his generation has seen.”

  + + + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 6.)

  “With all its faults this history is undoubtedly the best that has
  been written of the twelve years. It is a storehouse of fact, and
  brings to light a mass of material which will be as useful to the
  historian as interesting to the general reader.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 483. D. 6, ’06. 2180w. (Review of v. 6.)

  “Two objections to this method of treatment naturally arise. The first
  is the lack of definiteness, of finality which every great work of
  reference ought, in a measure to possess. The second objection, which
  may not necessarily inhere in the method of the author is the
  preponderant reliance on the debates in congress and the leading
  newspaper discussions.” William E. Dodd.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 818. D. 1, ’06. 2870w. (Review of v. 6.)

  “His industry in accumulation is greater than his skill in
  arrangement. His work lacks in wise adjustment and true perspective.
  He is embarrassed by the enormous amount of his material and has not
  the courage to omit the non-essential.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 6.)

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 755. D. ’06. 280w.


=McMurry, Charles Alexander.= Course of study in the eight grades. 2v.
ea. *75c. Macmillan.

  “Our educational machinery has to be made more compact and efficient,
  and ... [these two little volumes] tell how it is being accomplished.
  The author gives in detail just what ought and can be done in each
  grade by a judicious combination of the policies of enriching and
  pruning. He is not a man of one idea, but is open-minded and
  progressive in all lines. The very full and carefully selected list of
  textbooks and side reading for each grade are especially valuable, and
  would be a safe guide for school-room libraries.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “[In] chapters devoted to the theory and practice of education ... the
  author is so overpoweringly verbose that his meaning is frequently
  lost in a cloud of words.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 575. My. 11. 500w.

  “It appears to me that the greatest objection to Dr. McMurry’s course
  of study lies against the conception that it tends to dissipate the
  energies of the pupil, rather than concentrate his mind on a definite
  portion of knowledge that constitutes a part of a subject.” James M.
  Greenwood.

    + – =Educ. R.= 32: 331. N. ’06. 8000w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.

  “A very valuable volume.” Frederick E. Bolton.

    + + =School R.= 14: 540. S. ’06. 750w.


=McMurry, Mrs. Lida Brown, and Gale, Mrs. Agnes Spofford (Cook)=, comps.
Songs of mother and child. $1.25. Silver.

  A collection of about a hundred and fifty poems grouped under the
  following divisions: “The mother’s heart,” “Evening songs,” “The
  father’s love,” “The child world” “Child pictures,” “Ministry,” “The
  empty nest,” “Ideals,” and “The long ago.” The songs are contributed
  by about a hundred well-known authors.

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      + =Ind.= 60: 744. Mr. 24, ’06. 60w.

  “The book is so conscientiously edited and so well-arranged that the
  gems are easy to find and re-find.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 169. Mr. 17, ’06. 640w.


=Macnaughtan, S.= Lame dog’s diary. †$1.50. Dodd.

  “The writer is supposed to be an officer, lamed for life in the Boer
  war, who settles down in his own village to get what comfort may be
  found in a humdrum existence. After a few pages we are at ease in the
  village of Stowel ... and find the match-making and tea-parties
  positively exciting.” (Sat. R.) “There are the two Miss Traceys,
  models of appropriate deportment; there is Mrs. Lovekin,
  self-appointed and embarrassing co-hostess at every tea-table; there
  is sweet, faded Miss Lydia Blind, and her sister Belinda, ... there
  are Anthony Crawshay, frank and free, and Ellicomb, the ‘artistic;’
  there are the Darcey-Jacobs, ... and last, but not least, there are
  the Jamiesons, four spectacled young ladies, and Maud, ‘the pretty
  one,’ all upon matrimony and good works intent. But all these are
  after all, but a screen under cover of which Hugo, our diarist, may
  weave a half-unconscious day-dream unobserved.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has succeeded with his heroine as well as with the rest of
  his cast.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1289. D. 9, ’05. 250w.

  “An unassuming bit of fiction, which possesses a certain quiet charm
  quite its own.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 119. O. ’06. 570w.

  “A pleasing bit of fiction which does not draw too heavily upon the
  reader’s nervous endurance.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 70w.

  “The ‘lame dog’ has worked up his diary into a delightful book.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 383. N. 10, ’05. 440w.

  “One must read the companionable, pleasant book, warm at the heart
  with neighbor feeling and radiant with gentle humor.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 580w.

  “The romance glowing beneath the light tone of the diary is delightful
  and novel enough to insure the reader’s attention to the end. The
  author has a good sense of humor.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 90w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.

  “Is refreshing and individual.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 819. D. 23, ’05. 230w.

  “One of the shortest and most attractive novels we have read of late
  years.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 984. D. 9, ’05. 1420w.


=MacPhail, Andrew.= Vine of Sibmah: a relation of the Puritans. †$1.50.
Macmillan.

  “The heroine is a beautiful Quakeress, the hero a brave captain in
  Cromwell’s disbanded army, and about the two central figures are
  grouped King’s men and Roundheads, Puritans and pirates, Quakers and
  Jesuits, Indians and soldiers as the scene shifts from old to New
  England. To save the reader a tiresome search for the title, ‘The vine
  of Sibmah,’ is found in Isaiah, xvi, 8, and is the text of a sermon
  preached by Mr. Increase Mayhew as the little fleet led by the
  ‘Covenant’ started on its voyage to Salem: ‘O, vine of Sibmah, thy
  plants are gone over the sea.’”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story is something more than readable, although it is long-winded
  throughout and drags not a little toward the end. A critic of the more
  microscopic sort might pick many flaws in his narrative.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 240. O. 16, ’06. 230w.

  “Here is a good historical novel, one of the best since ‘Hugh Wynne,’
  by Dr. Mitchell.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 519. Ag. 30, ’06. 160w.

  “The lover of historical romance will be glad to illuminate the years
  around 1662 by passing through them with Mr. MacPhail’s well-imagined
  characters.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 280w.


=Macquoid, Percy.= History of English furniture. 20 pts. 4v. per pt.,
*$2.50. per v., *$15. Putnam.

  “Mr. Macquoid’s work is accomplished with great skill and knowledge.
  His chief defect is that he has no apparent philosophy as a setting
  for his studies, which would link up the craft of furniture-making
  with organic history.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 271. Mr. 3. 670w. (Review of v. 2.)

        =Int. Studio.= 28: 275. My. ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Mr. Macquoid’s book, when complete, will find a place in every
  library that devotes itself to costly and well-informed monographs.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 270. Ag. 3, ’06. 480w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “In fullness of textual descriptions as well as in beauty, variety,
  and correctness of plates, Percy Macquoid’s ‘History of English
  furniture’ may be considered a variorum edition.”

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 300w.

        (Review of v. 2, pt. 9 and 10.)

        =Spec.= 96: 266. F. 17, ’06. 60w. (Review

        of v. 2.)


=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Stories from Dickens. 60c. Crowell.

  A group of Dickens’ children separated from the crowded thorofares of
  their story habitat and viewed alone. Oliver Twist, Smike, Little
  Nell, Paul and Florence Dombey, Pip, Little Dorrit and David
  Copperfield constitute the group.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Arena.= 36: 572. N. ’06. 220w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 110w.


=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Stories from Wagner. (Children’s favorite
classics.) 60c; (Astor lib.) 60c; (Waldorf lib.) 75c; (Handy volume
classics.) limp lea. 75c; pocket ed. 35c. Crowell.

  “An admirable and very welcome addition to the literature of the
  nursery and schoolroom.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 180w.


=McTaggart, John Ellis.= Some dogmas of religion. *$3. Longmans.

  “The first chapter of the book sets forth the importance of dogma; in
  the second, the establishment of dogma is considered at length. The
  third and fourth treat of human immortality and pre-existence.... The
  conclusion is reached, that the arguments which may lead us to believe
  in immortality also make it probable that we have pre-existed....
  Chapter 5 deals with Free-will, and offers a strong argument in favor
  of the determinist position.... Chapters 6 and 7 treat of the idea of
  God, and it is excellently argued that the literal idea of an
  omnipotent God presents so many difficulties and contradictions that
  it is untenable.... Chapter 8 treats of Theism and Happiness, and
  there is a short conclusion.”—Dial.

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  “Having thus found fault with the very basis of Dr. McTaggart’s
  argument, we may frankly admit that his book is lucid and interesting
  and that it will do excellent service in clearing away many venerable
  cobwebs.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 60. Ag. 1, ’06. 1480w.

  “It is written in the clear, crisp style to which he has accustomed
  his readers. In spite of its acuteness, and in spite of the flashes of
  deep feeling which redeem much that is merely clever, the book leaves
  me with a distinct impression of unreality.” A. Seth Pringle-Pattison.

    + – =Hibbert J.= 5: 195. O. ’06. 5330w.

  “A singularly delightful work which ought to be widely studied by that
  large class of persons who are at once convinced of the profound
  practical importance of fundamental religious issues and high-minded
  enough to require of their religion not merely that its conclusions
  shall be comforting if true, but that there shall be rational grounds
  for judging that they are true. Whether one agrees with Dr.
  McTaggart’s conclusions or not, the candor with which they are stated
  and the vigor and ingenuity with which they are argued gives his book
  a quite exceptional value as a provocative of thought.” A. E. Taylor.

    + + =Phys. R.= 15: 414. Jl. ’06. 2650w.


=Macvane, Edith.= Adventures of Joujou. $2. Lippincott.

  A piquant charm is everywhere manifest in this dainty piece of
  fiction. Joujou, small and exquisite, is the daughter of a wealthy
  bourgeois tradesman, whose apparent scorn but real deference for
  nobility, his mild oaths, and pride in his possessions are typical of
  his class. A marquis, who owns the adjoining place meets Joujou and
  surrenders to her charms. An American girl aids the marquis in the
  wooing and maneuvering helps one young Octave to transfer his
  affections from Joujou to herself.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Miss Macvane’s style is piquant and telling, and the story has
  atmosphere and vivacity.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 150w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 13, ’06. 100w.


=McVey, Frank Le Rond.= Modern industrialism: an outline of the
industrial organization as seen in the history, industry, and problems
of England, the United States, and Germany. *$1.50 Appleton.

  To facilitate the exposition of the evolution and character of
  industrialism and its problems, Dr. McVey’s treatment is in three
  parts, as follows: Part 1, History; Part 2, Industry; Part 3,
  Administration. The author believes that in our present industrial
  society are to be found all the essentials of the coming state, and
  aims to make possible a better understanding of this society and its
  promises for the future. There are charts and illustrations which aid
  in the development.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The ground is well covered, the treatment lucid.”

      + =Detroit Free Press.=

  “Professor McVey has produced an interesting, instructive, and
  suggestive book.”

      + =Engin. N.= 52: 522. D. 15, ’04. 370w.

  “It will repay perusal.”

      + =Minneapolis Journal.=

  “It may be accepted as a really illuminating contribution, and is of
  particular value to the man of affairs as embodying concisely the
  origin and nature of the important economic questions now pressing for
  settlement.”

      + =Outlook.= 78: 740. N. 19, ’04. 500w.

  “A valuable and timely work which should be in the hands of all who
  desire to arrive at a clear understanding of the complicated fabric of
  modern industrial society.”

      + =Philadelphia North American.=

  “Mr. McVey’s compact little volume on ‘Modern industrialism’ will
  prove interesting and instructive to the general reader and
  indispensable, I should say, to the teacher of economics. It is
  remarkable how much good history, impartial statistics and sound
  philosophy the author has included within the compass of this small
  octavo of 300 pages. The material is well divided and admirably
  arranged. On the whole Mr. McVey’s book is well written: it is
  certainly clear and concise and the essential is always emphasized.”
  Lindley M. Keasbey.

  + + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 20: 734. D. ’05. 690w.

  “Professor McVey has made an excellent contribution to Appleton’s
  notable series of business books.”

      + =Wall Street Journal. O.= 21, ’04.


=McVickar, Harry Whitney.= Reptiles. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “The construction is jerky and unexpected at times, but altogether the
  story is very readable for an idle hour.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 110w.


=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Old-fashioned flowers, and other out-of-door
studies. **$1.20. Dodd.

  “This is one of the dainty flower books, after the style of Alfred
  Austin’s ‘The garden that I love.’”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 80w.

  “He offers us with the charming dignity all his own a fragrant nosegay
  of ‘Old fashioned flowers,’ and in telling us why he loves them also
  interprets their meaning.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 1060w.

  “All that wealth of delicate mysticism, that sensitive groping after
  spiritual values, that feeling for the invisible, which are well known
  to M. Maeterlinck’s readers, are here most suggestively in evidence.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 188. F. 10, ’06. 80w.


=Magnay, Sir William, 2nd baronet.= Master spirit. †$1.50. Little.

  Social and political London, today, is the scene of this powerful
  romance. A continental railroad accident deprives Paul Gastineau, a
  brilliant young statesman on the eve of a great future, of the use of
  his limbs. It is reported that he is dead and he does not deny this
  report. A young Englishman, Herriard, nurses him, brings him back to
  London secretly, and becomes the mouthpiece of Gastineau, who directs
  his friend’s course each day from his couch and thus wins political
  prominence for Herriard. At this point an old murder mystery is
  revived. Herriard is retained as lawyer for the accused countess with
  whom he falls in love, and when it develops that she was the woman
  whom Gastineau once loved and pursued with his attentions, when it is
  proven that Gastineau was the real murderer, and when Gastineau is
  suddenly cured by a great specialist, and his friendship for Herriard
  becomes enmity, we have complications enough.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 607. S. 29, ’06. 420w.


=Mahaffy, John Pentland.= Silver age of the Greek world. *$3. Univ. of
Chicago press.

  “This is a new edition largely rewritten, of Professor Mahaffy’s ‘The
  Greek world under Roman sway.’ The book has been out of print for a
  number of years.... The period is one of immense interest, not only to
  students and scholars, but to all who care for the development of the
  human spirit.... Beginning with the discussion of the Roman conquest,
  the book ends with a chapter on ‘The literature of the first century,’
  tracing the spirit of Hellenism in Asia, Egypt, and Italy, with
  special chapters on Cicero and Plutarch.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A jungle of historical, philosophical and literary facts, into which
  he who enters must needs walk warily, lest he lose his way. A volume
  the value of which for the purposes of reference can hardly be
  overstated, and which contains many interesting passages, some
  entertaining and a few which are actually eloquent.”

  + + – =Acad.= 71: 438. N. 3, ’06. 2200w.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 957. Jl. ’06. 40w.

  “This book deserves all the success of its predecessor, and we cannot
  imagine a better gift for a student of ancient life and literature.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 581. N. 10. 210w.

  “Taking it all in all, we may say that the publishers have given the
  public a book of real value as to matter without neglecting the form.”
  F. B. R. Hellems.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 110. S. 1, ’06. 2410w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 159. Jl. 19, ’06. 420w.

  “The only one of its kind in English, and will always be read, under
  the old name or the new, with entertainment.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 39. Jl. 12, ’06. 1070w.

  “He writes authoritatively. He has been able to present his results in
  a deeply interesting manner.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 349 Je. 2, ’06. 1010w.

  “Professor Mahaffy is not only a competent scholar, but he is also an
  interesting writer.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 530. Je. 30, ’06. 190w.

  “When he gets fairly to work we find, in this as in all his other
  writings, that his light handling of his subject is the result of—we
  will not say laborious, but intelligent and sympathetic study. He has
  read the authorities whom he cites so profusely, and knows about them
  whatever may be ascertained from the sources of common information,
  and this dry material has been fused and quickened by the critic’s
  appreciation of the author’s genius and character. He breathes life
  and individuality into figures and names.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 1490w.


=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812.
2v. **$7. Little.

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1352. D. 30, ’05. 1330w.

  “Captain Mahan’s treatment of the war is at once impartial and
  instructive. The volumes close with the best account of the
  negotiations which terminated in the treaty of Ghent which has thus
  far been published.” Gaillard Hunt.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 924. Jl. ’06. 950w.

  “We may safely assert that Captain Mahan’s verdict will here be
  accepted as final.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 290. Mr. 10. 3440w.

  “Here we find all the well-known characteristics of this authoritative
  writer: the clear careful analysis of events, the masterly
  reconstruction of naval manoeuvres and combats, the passionless style,
  relieved now and then by touches of sarcasm and the entire fairness to
  both sides.” Theodore Clarke Smith.

  + + + =Atlan.= 98: 704. N. ’06. 340w.

  “This crowning labor is characterized by great philosophic insight and
  masterly arrangement of details, but it far surpasses its predecessors
  in its abundant evidences of independent and painstaking
  investigation.” Anna Heloise Abel.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 45. Ja. 16, ’06. 1820w.

  “Tho prolix in style, and tho reiterations occur with unnecessary
  frequency, the work attains an exceptionally high standard of
  historical writing. The treatment is studiously fair.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 45. Ja. 4, ’05. 810w.

  “Here, as in all previous work of the great historian of naval
  warfare, there is the philosophical grasp which seizes upon the
  essentials and passes unheeding the details which do not show the
  meaning of things.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 80w.

  “It is thus apparent that this work is an original as well as vigorous
  brief in support of the views Captain Mahan has so long and so ably
  advocated.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 31: 999. D. 30, ’05. 950w.

  “One of the most scholarly and absorbing in the series of recent
  American histories, and eminently worthy of a place on the library
  shelf beside the larger works of Henry Adams, McMaster, Rhodes, and
  Woodrow Wilson.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 39. Ja. 11, ’06. 2420w.

  “Captain Mahan’s book is essentially for the use of experts and
  students of this particular period in our history.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 400w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 170w.

    + + =Spec.= 95: 1084. D. 23, ’05. 2160w.


=Mahler, Arthur.= Paintings of the Louvre; Italian and Spanish, in
collaboration with Carlos Blacker and W: A. Slater. **$2. Doubleday.

  “A judicious handbook to the schools named in the French museum.”
  Royal Cortissoz.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 282. F. ’06. 50w.

  “Here, besides much information, are to be found reasonable criticism
  and a study of the characteristics of the masters.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 30w.


=Maine, Sir Henry Sumner.= Ancient law: in connection with the early
history of society and its relation to modern ideas; with introduction
and notes by Sir Frederick Pollock. **$1.75. Holt.

  A fourth American from a tenth London edition, of Maine’s classic
  which was first published in 1861; in which the text as last revised
  by the author has been preserved intact, the editor adding his own
  notes at the close of the several chapters.

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  “The new edition ... is likely to remain definitive for a good many
  years.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 180w.

  “Most of these notes are admirable; in particular those which discuss
  the influence of Roman upon English law, the recent literature of the
  patriarchal theory, and the history of testamentary succession. There
  are, however, some obvious omissions in the note on early codes.” H.
  W. C. Davis.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 548. Jl. ’06. 510w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 40w.

  “It still holds its own by reason of its lucidity of style, its wide
  range of thoughts, and its mixture of legal and philosophical
  discussion.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 156. My. 4, ’06. 210w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 764. Je. 16, ’06. 310w.


=Major, Charles.= Yolanda, maid of Burgundy. †$1.50. Macmillan.

– |=Acad.= 69: 1361. D. 30, ’05. 280w.

  “The book is above the average of present-day romantic fiction.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 406. Je. ’06. 280w.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “Those readers who are fond of historical romance will find ‘Yolanda’
  decidedly above the average.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 227. F. 10, ’06. 110w.


=Major, David R.= First steps in mental growth: a series of studies in
the psychology of infancy. *$1.25. Macmillan.

  Professor Major presents “empirical data carefully observed and
  accurately recorded regarding some important phases of infant
  activity.” “The volume consists of a series of ‘studies’ based
  principally upon a record which the author kept of his first son from
  his birth to the end of his third year, during which period the
  unfolding of his mind was carefully watched.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Bookm.= 24: 74. S. ’06. 480w.

  “On the whole, Professor Major’s book is one of the safest and most
  fruitful of its class.”

      + =Dial.= 91: 243. O. 16, ’06. 440w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.

  “The treatment is thoroughly concrete, being liberally punctuated with
  anecdote and illustration, the point of view is cautious, and the book
  as a whole is very well written.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 815. Ag. 4, ’06. 260w.

  “Professor Major’s book is very readable, more so than most of those
  that treat the subject of mental development as it does. It will be
  enjoyed not only by psychologists, but also by teachers and thoughtful
  parents.” M. V. O’Shea.

    + + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 383. N. 15, ’06. 1050w.

  “Its facts are well selected and its interpretations modest and
  intelligent. It probably makes for students, more effectually than any
  other work, a connection between general psychology and child-study.”
  E. A. Kirkpatrick.

      + =School R.= 14: 695. N. ’06. 250w.

  “The book, it will readily be believed, affords entertainment as well
  as instruction.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 99. Jl. 21, ’06. 330w.


=Makepeace, Mrs. Carrie Jane.= The whitest man. $1.50. Badger, R. G.

  “The chief purpose of this book is the exaltation of motherhood,” says
  the author. Negatively portrayed the purpose is thruout enmeshed in a
  tangle of mistaken identities, with a bit of superstition thrown in
  and also some new thought ideas so directly opposed to fatality and
  superstition. There are sisters who did not know that they were
  sisters, there is child-loyalty given to the wrong mother, there are
  heart-aches and misunderstandings, righted in the end by demonstrating
  that fear is powerless.


=Mallock, William Hurrell.= Reconstruction of religious belief. **$1.75.
Harper.

  “For his candid and detailed exposition he deserves our gratitude.”
  John T. Driscoll.

    + + =Cath. World.= 82: 721. Mr. ’06. 5110w.

  “His style and general method of presentation are attractive, and as
  the treatment is not technical, his latest work can be highly
  recommended to all interested in fundamental questions.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 300w.

  “I congratulate the author upon what appears to be his high privilege,
  and the reader, too, be he theologian, philosopher, or man of science,
  on the evident sincerity, the abounding energy, the inspiring
  enthusiasm, the commanding elevation beyond every sectarian level,
  and, above all, the absolute candour that characterise the discourse
  from beginning to end.” Cassius J. Keyser.

    + + =Hibbert J.= 4: 680. Ap. ’06. 2840w.

        =Lit. D.= 286. F. 24, ’06. 280w.

  “Mr. Mallock is to be congratulated on a work which will undoubtedly
  add to his reputation.”

+ |=Nature.= 74: 217. Jl. 5, ’06. 190w.

  “His book would be a third better if it were a third shorter.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 277. F. 3, ’06. 180w.


=Mann, Gustav.= Chemistry of the proteids; based on Otto Cohnheim’s
Chemie der eiweisskörper. *$3.75. Macmillan.

  “Dr. Gustav Mann started this work with the modest idea of producing
  an English translation of Prof. O. Cohnheim’s well-known monograph of
  the albuminous substances. But it has developed into a volume of much
  more ambitious nature.... The subject in many parts is treated much
  more fully, and a good deal of new matter introduced. In many places,
  moreover, Cohnheim’s own views are adversely criticised, so that the
  present volume bears witness to the originality of the English
  author.” (Nature.) Following the introduction on the importance of
  chemistry for all biological research and the classification of
  proteids are chapters on the reactions of albuminous substances,
  albumoses and peptones, the salt of albumins, physical properties of
  albumins, etc. A “special part” has been incorporated which is given
  over to albumins proper, the proteids, the albuminoids, and malanins.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book throughout has been prepared with great care, and will be
  most valuable to students and teachers in this important branch of
  physiological chemistry.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 191. Ag. 18. 550w.

  “Has many original merits of its own, and upon more than one point
  opposes Cohnheim’s opinion, sometimes with great ability.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 17. Jl. 5, ’06. 330w.

  “In spite of the blemishes ... I believe the book will have a useful
  career in front of it. Its many excellencies can be discovered by
  reading it and using it, and Dr. Mann is to be congratulated in having
  produced such a valuable addition to scientific literature.” W. D. H.

  + + – =Nature.= 74: 75. My. 24, ’06. 1070w.

  “This is an interesting and valuable piece of work, which should be of
  great assistance towards the reading of the momentous riddle of life.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 654. N. 3, ’06. 190w.


=Mann, Newton M.= Evolution of a great literature: natural history of
the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. *$1.50. West, J. H.

  The aim of this volume is “to present within small compass and for the
  use of the general reader the main conclusions of advanced scholarship
  touching the composition of the various parts of the Bible.” “Its
  fundamental postulate that ‘the Hebrew literature was an evolution and
  not a miracle,’ will commend the book to the modern layman.”
  (Outlook.)

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  “Mr. Mann’s book is further unfitted for its purpose by its lack of
  references, both to the passage of the Bible under discussion and to
  the authorities used; also by occasional inaccuracies due to too
  sweeping statements, and still more by lack of reverence in speaking
  of things long held sacred.”

    – – =Ind.= 61: 942. O. 18, ’06. 240w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 208. F. 10, ’06. 750w.

  “In style it is clear and intelligible; in spirit it is purely
  analytical; its conclusions are those of the extreme radicals. The
  imperfect scholarship of the author of this volume deprives it of
  value as a critical analysis of the Bible for the lay reader. Its
  purely analytical character deprives it of the value which a volume no
  more judicial might possess if it were pervaded by a literary spirit.”

    + – =Outlook.= 81: 888. D. 9, ’05. 350w.

  “A careful, reverent volume.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 50w.


=Mannix, Mary Ella.= Patron saints for Catholic youth. 50c. Benziger.

  St. Joseph, St. Aloysius, St. Anthony, St. Philip Neri, St. Anne, St.
  Agnes, St. Teresa and St. Rose of Lima are the eight patron saints
  sketched in this group.


=Mansfield, Blanche McManus (Mrs. M. F. Mansfield).= Our little Dutch
cousin. [+]60c. Page.

  Peter and Wilhelmina are delightful guides for their American cousin
  as they pilot him “about the little land of dikes and windmills.” The
  instructive value of the “Little cousin series” is fully maintained in
  this view of Holland. The buildings, the wonderful gardens, the
  streets and canals, the fairs, and the manner of living all furnish
  romance which a young imagination eagerly copes with.


=Mansfield, Blanche McManus (Mrs. M. F. Mansfield).= Our little Scotch
cousin. [+]60c. Page.

  Cousins from every land have been brought together in this “Little
  cousin series.” The present volume sketches the rugged charm of the
  Scotch cousin, follows him to historic spots and reviews with him old
  days and old deeds of Bonnie Scotland, and catches the gleam of
  sunshine that is reflected in the heather bloom and the blue-bell.


=Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Cathedrals and
churches of the Rhine; with 90 il., plans and diagrams, by Blanche
McManus. **$2. Page.

  “Another member in a series of extremely valuable books on the
  architecture of European cathedrals.... The author has not confined
  himself to mere architectural analysis; he has traced the growth of
  the architectural form seen on the Rhine and has vividly portrayed the
  historical cradle in which it was born.”—Pub. Opin.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is perhaps somewhat technical for the young student, but no criticism
  can be made of it from the standpoint of thoroughness.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 732. D. 2, ’05. 80w.

  “Few writers can be more familiar than Mr. Miltoun with the
  ecclesiastical buildings of France and Italy; even in the minutest
  details he is enabled to compare and contrast. Altogether, with the
  clever illustrations by Miss McManus, and its manageable size, the
  book should be a pleasant companion for the intelligent tourist.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 759. Je. 16, ’06. 880w.

  “Mr. Miltoun is painstaking, but he does not always keep himself to
  the relevant. Generally, the drawings want imagination and delicacy of
  touch.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 759. My. 12, ’06. 160w.


=Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Rambles in Normandy.
**$2. Page.

  Mr. Mansfield’s group of little journeys in and off Normandy’s beaten
  tourist tracks, charmingly illustrated by his wife, formerly Blanche
  McManus, is one of his two recent contributions to the “Travel lovers’
  series,” the other being a companion volume “Rambles in Brittany.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 39: 444. D. 16, ’05. 130w.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14. ’05. 60w.

  “The book is both gay and amusing.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 768. N. 11, ’05. 90w.

  “As for the text, it is ‘of a pleasantness.’ It is neither too
  frivolous nor too ponderous.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 15. Ja. 13, ’06. 370w.

        =Spec.= 96: sup. 645. Ap. 28, ’06. 140w.


=Mantzius, Karl.= History of theatrical art in ancient and modern times;
authorized tr. by Louise von Cassel. v. 4, Molière and his times: the
theatre in France in the seventeenth century. *$3.50. Lippincott.

  “This, we are warned, is not to be taken as a biography of Molière,
  nor as an appreciation of his work as a dramatist. It tells us, it is
  true, a good deal about the first, and something about the second; but
  the chief purpose is to give a picture ‘of the background of
  theatrical history and of the milieu in which the great actor-manager
  lived.’”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It has been admirably translated.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1193. N. 18, ’05. 520w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “In most matters connected with Molière the work is judicious and
  trustworthy; while as regards the conditions of the stage during its
  emergence from Cimmerian darkness into twilight, and ultimately into
  light, it is the best, most instructive, and most helpful within reach
  of the English reader.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 339. Mr. 17. 610w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “The whole book is a triumphant example of lucidity and moderation in
  its presentation of a singularly complex subject.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 25. Ja. 26, ’06. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “But what the book lacks in critical, historical and literary
  information for the few is more than made up for in gossip and story
  for the general reader.” A. K.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 293. My. 5, ’06. 128w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “The book is largely a ‘chronique scandaleuse.’ If any one, for any
  reason, desires to know what Molière and his contemporaries really
  were, he will find all that he wants here.”

    – + =Spec.= 95: 1094. D. 23, ’05. 150w. (Review of v. 4.)


Manual of statistics: stock exchange handbook, 1906. $5. Manual of
statistics co.

  The twenty-eighth annual issue of this publication affords in one
  convenient volume all the information constantly demanded by those
  interested in the financial and other markets and maintains its
  reputation as the standard reference book of its kind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Engin. N.= 55. 675. Je. 14, ’06. 130w.


=Marden, Orison Swett.= Choosing a career. **$1. Bobbs.

  “It contains much helpful matter presented in a pleasing manner.”

      + =Arena.= 36: 108. Jl. ’06. 150w.


=Marden, Orison Swett.= Success nuggets. **75c. Crowell.

  One might call these nuggets the quintessence of advice. The world’s
  experience is the mine from which the treasures are taken, and they
  are grouped in such a way as to give “the real colors of things with
  deep truth.”


=Marden, Orison Swett, and Holmes, Ernest Raymond.= Every man a king;
or, Might in mind-mastery. *$1. Crowell.

  Some idea of the scope of this strong plea for the mastery of self
  thru thought training may be had from the headings of a few of the
  twenty-one chapters which make up the book. Steering thoughts prevent
  life wrecks, How mind rules the body, Thought causes health and
  disease, Mastering our moods, Unprofitable pessimism, Strengthening
  deficient faculties, Don’t let the years count, The coming man will
  realize his divinity.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Ind.= 61: 1061. N. 1, ’06. 50w.

  “The ideas and arguments are presented logically and with very great
  clearness, boldness, and force. The central thought of each chapter is
  developed with crisp, terse sentences that never lose sight of the
  main point.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 737. N. 10, ’06. 330w.


=Margoliouth, David Samuel.= Mohammed, the rise of Islam. **$1.35.
Putnam.

  “Difference of opinion as to details there is bound to be, but
  Professor Margoliouth has in this work produced a life of Mohammed
  which no student can afford to neglect.” J. R. Jewett.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 880. Jl. ’06. 540w.

  “The story of his life is clearly and convincingly told, with little
  animation of style, however, and in some chapters with an excess of
  trivial and redundant matter.”

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 658. Ag. ’06. 370w.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 60w.

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 12. Ja. 12, ’06. 2220w.

  “Hence the disappointment with this book. Professor Margoliouth seems
  to have been led astray in the first instance by his formula about
  solving a political problem. In the second instance, he has been
  affected by comparative studies in enthusiasm and imposture, along
  with the psychology of conversion and the like.”

    – + =Nation.= 81: 528. D. 28, ’05. 1050w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 33. Ja. 20, ’06. 1400w. (Reprinted from Lond.
          Times.)

  “No better biographer of Mohammed than Prof. Margoliouth could have
  been found. His book is at once scholarly and readable, and displays a
  grasp of its subject which does not always accompany profound
  learning. And of his learning there is no need to speak.”

  + + + =Sat. R.= 101: 141. F. 3, ’06. 1710w.


=Marks, Alfred.= Who killed Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey? with an introd. by
Father J. H. Pollen. *$1.10. Benziger.

  Once more the question of how Sir Edmund Godfrey met death is started
  and answered. In the author’s opinion “Godfrey was not and could not
  have been killed in Somerset house, and all the arguments which can be
  collected to show that he had an erratic and melancholy disposition
  are marshaled in favor of his suicide. Not only does Mr. Marks strike
  at Mr. Pollock’s version of the case so far as the testimony of Bedloe
  and Prance is concerned, but he scouts the notion that Godfrey was in
  possession of a fatal secret.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Andrew Lang.

        =Acad.= 69: 1120. O. 28, ’05. 1030w.

  “Mr. Marks discusses with the acuteness of a criminal lawyer, all the
  evidence. It says much for the lucidity of his treatment of the mass
  of contradictions, obscurities, confessions, retractions, and
  conflicting testimonies, that his reader may follow him without any
  great strain of attention.”

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 834. Mr. ’06. 230w.

  “Though Mr. Marks does not arrange his matter to the best advantage,
  and digresses too much from the professed subject of his book, it is,
  in spite of these defects, a most valuable contribution to the
  elucidation of the Popish plot.” C. H. Firth.

    + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 169. Ja. ’06. 730w.

  “Mr. Marks writes forcibly, and makes the most of his arguments, but
  the contemporary evidence is so hopelessly tangled and open to
  suspicion that we fear the mystery must remain insoluble.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 12. Ja. 4, ’06. 620w.


=Marshall, John.= Constitutional decisions; ed. by Joseph P. Cotton, jr.
2 v. ea. *$5. Putnam.

  “We have here in convenient form the opinions of Marshall, which in
  themselves constitute so large a part of the constitutional history of
  the United States. There is a general introduction, and each decision
  is introduced by an ample note setting forth the historical
  circumstances in which the case arose, and indicating with precision,
  without undue technicality of expression, the significance of the
  principles in the development of American law.” (Am. Hist. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The editor of these volumes has performed a useful task in a
  satisfactory manner. It is not impossible to find fault with some of
  the statements of the editor or with his point of view.” A. C.
  McLaughlin.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 695. Ap. ’06. 880w.

  “Fuller (though not, we think, better) than John M. Dillon’s
  collection published three years ago.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 148. Ag. 16, ’06. 1080w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 915. D. 23, ’05. 1150w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 479. Je. 23, ’06. 960w.


=Marshall, Thomas.= Aristotle’s theory of conduct. Macmillan.

  “Mr. Marshall’s presentation of the subject seems to be intended
  mainly for the general student of moral philosophy who wishes to have
  the ‘ethics’ trimmed into ‘a readable shape.’ He attempts to render
  its matter clear and attractive, ‘(a) by a general introduction in
  which the purport of the “Ethics” is summarily set forth; (b) by
  special introductions to the several chapters, with explanatory
  remarks at the end of each chapter; (c) by a paraphrase of the
  text—sometimes full, sometimes condensed, in which repeated passages
  are left out and some liberties are taken in the way of omission and
  transposition; (d) by the use of modern examples for the sake of
  bringing Aristotle’s meaning home to present-day readers.’”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The criticisms we have offered will have shown that we do not
  consider Mr. Marshall an interpreter of Aristotle whom it is always
  safe to follow. They are not, however intended to weaken the judgment
  with which we began—that he has given us Aristotle in a readable form,
  and that his book will well repay perusal.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 150. Ag. 18, ’06. 2520w.

  “The value of the work lies mainly in the comments and illustrations,
  which show thoughtfulness and good sense.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 605. My. 19. 810w.

  Reviewed by Paul Shorey.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 88. Ag. 16, ’06. 840w.

  “By far the best endeavour that has yet been made to represent the
  doctrine of the Ethics to educated readers who are not specialists in
  philosophy.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 150. Ap. 27, ’06. 640w.

  “The plan is admirable, and is well carried out. The practical parts
  of the work could not have been rendered more judiciously; so that the
  volume makes agreeable and profitable reading. The work has, however,
  certain shortcomings.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 226. S. 13, ’06. 1770w.

  “A too bulky but clearly written and well-digested paraphrase on
  Aristotle. The accurate or pedantic student may find much to correct
  in detail in this volume; but it is interesting and significant as
  embodying the views of an amateur on the logician’s least scientific
  treatise.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 821. Je. 30, ’06. 270w.

  “We owe a very real debt of gratitude to Mr. Thomas Marshall for
  leading us back to the Nicomachaean ethics in so refreshing and
  recreative a way.”

      + =Spec.= 97: sup. 463. O. 6, ’06. 1870w.


=Martin, E. G.= Dollar hunt. 45c. Benziger.

  The tale of a marquis’ hunt for a rich heiress, hoping to regild his
  family coronet with American dollars.


=Martin, Helen Riemensnyder.= Sabina, a story of the Amish. $1.25.
Century.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 90w.


=Martin, M. C.= Other Miss Lisle. $1.25. Benziger.

  A story which sketches the patience and its reward of a girl who gives
  her freshest energy to a selfish invalid sister.


=Martin, Sir Theodore.= Monographs: Garrick, Macready, Rachel and Baron
Stockmar. *$3.50. Dutton.

  “Sir Theodore Martin is a nonagenarian, who throughout his long and
  industrious life has been intimately and actively associated with the
  leaders in political, literary, artistic, and social affairs.... Of
  course he has nothing new to tell about Garrick, Macready, or
  Rachel.... What he has done is to select from the mass of evidence
  such salient facts as furnish a vivid intellectual image of the
  individual. His essays are, as it were, the essence of all that the
  most competent witnesses have told.... To the study of Garrick, Sir
  Theodore brought a mind free from all bias, complete information and a
  ripe judgment.... Sir Theodore’s sketch of Rachel is illuminative,
  attractive, vital, and convincing. In her case, as in Macready’s, he
  does not have to depend upon the verdict of others. He saw her act in
  her prime and in her decay.... The monograph on Stockmar is a fine bit
  of friendly appreciation.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To those who know the special sources of Martin these monographs come
  as something of a disappointment.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 111. Jl. 28. 900w.

  “The four monographs gathered together in information at the disposal
  of Sir Theodore this new volume are full of interest, yet none may be
  said to have sounded any original note, nor to have resulted in any
  very distinct portraiture.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 519. Ag. 30, ’06. 310w.

  “His facts are wisely selected and carefully substantiated, his
  opinions—never rhapsodical eulogies—are fortified by simple quotations
  from various and weighty sources, and his criticism whether favorable
  or unfavorable, is acute, clear and unexaggerated.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 61. Jl. 19, ’06. 740w.

  “[Rachel] is the most interesting paper in a most interesting volume.”
  M. S.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 446. Jl. 14, ’06. 1400w.

  “A volume decidedly more readable than the majority of
  circulating-library books, yet which might have been improved by a
  greater unity of subject.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 1009. Je. 30, ’06. 1780w.


=Marvin, Frederic Rowland.= Companionship of books, and other papers.
**$1.50. Putnam.

  “There is no little suggestiveness in these sincere fragments of
  literature.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 50w.

  “There is in his writings a little of the preacher and a little of the
  teacher and a good deal of the philosopher, but less of the literary
  man than one might expect to find in such a volume.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 95. F. 1, ’06. 390w.

  “This is an entertaining pot pourri.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ’05. 60w.

  “Some of these are light and agreeable, but we doubt whether they are
  worth republishing in book form.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 117. Ja. 27, ’06. 80w.


=Masefield, John.= On the Spanish main; or, Some English forays on the
Isthmus of Darien, with a description of the buccaneers and a short
account of oldtime ships and sailors. $3.50. Macmillan.

  “Beginning with the story of Drake’s voyage to the West Indies, Mr.
  Masefield describes the attack on Nombre de Dios, the conflict of
  Cartagena, the death of John Drake, Drake’s voyage to the Gatives,
  Spanish rule in Hispaniola, the adventures of John Oxenham, Morgan,
  Capt. Dampier, and others. He has chapters, too, on ships and rigs,
  guns and gunners, the officers and crews of ships, etc.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A smoothly running style, with just enough of quotation from the
  original narratives to give a quaint flavor without making it hard
  reading.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 521. Ag. 30, ’06. 360w.

  “The history preserved in Mr. Masefield’s pages, and in the books from
  which he has drawn it, is chiefly valuable as being the only account
  we have of the actual life and customs of a community making a
  business of piracy.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 311. O. 11, ’06. 970w.

  “His graphic power comes from sympathy and appreciation, and a
  picturesque imagination of his own, helped out by a keen eye for the
  most vivid passages and phrases of the old chronicles to which he
  resorts.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 398. Je. 16, ’06. 960w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 673. Jl. 21, ’06. 140w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 60w.

  “Mr. Masefield tells many capital, rousing stories of sea-fight and
  worth.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 54. Jl. 14, ’06. 120w.


=Maskell, Alfred.= Ivories. $6.75. Putnam.

  “Has evidently a very thorough grip of his fascinating subject.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 27: 372. F. ’06. 290w.


=Maskell, Henry Parr.= Hints on building a church. *$1.50. Young ch.

  Altho intended for popular reading rather than for architects this
  volume contains many practical suggestions and its chapter headings
  will indicate the ground covered; The site, Tradition in English
  church planning, The influence of modern ideas, Local features and
  surroundings, The claims of modern science, The sanctuary, The nave,
  Galleries, The sacristy, Proportion, Architectural styles, Romanesque
  styles, Classical styles, What style to select, Materials, Finishing
  touches, Questions of cost, A few typical churches, and The
  churchyard. There is an index, and an appendix giving books on church
  architecture. The volume as well illustrated.


Master-man. †$1.50. Lane.

  The “master-man” is a country doctor who possesses not only
  professional skill but the many virtues that have given type-quality
  to the doctor of fiction. The love interest centers about the doctor’s
  niece and her two suitors. Virginia is the scene of the story.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not without promise, and parts of it can be read with
  pleasure.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 363. S. 29. 90w.

  “The ‘master man’ would be what the ladies used to call ‘a sweet,
  pretty little story’ if it had rightly fulfilled its being.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 480w.

  “‘The master man’ is in its modest and simple way, a good story, as
  well as a true one.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 532. S. 1, ’06. 560w.

  “The texture of the story is finely woven, it is only the pattern
  which is defective.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 433. O. 6, ’06. 200w.


=Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney.= In peril of change: essays
written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.

  “A volume which both from a literary and sociological point of view is
  one of the most noteworthy of recent years.” Henry Ingraham.

    + + =Chautauquan.= 45: 101. D. ’06. 1500w.

  “Disclaiming pretensions to excellence of style, he has nevertheless
  said forcibly and well what he was moved to say.”

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 391. Je. 16, ’06. 550w.

  “The student of literature, the student of religious life, and the
  student of sociology will find equal satisfaction in the careful
  perusal of this book, from which one can but turn away with the
  feeling that he has spent profitable hours in the presence of a master
  mind, and with a spirit thrilled with profound and ennobling
  emotions.” Leslie Willis Sprague.

  + + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 508. Jl. ’06. 580w.

  “His book is well worth reading, despite its crudities.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 109. F. 24, ’06. 880w.

  “Essays of high excellence.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 270w.

  “As a literary essayist Mr. Masterman is at his best, since his
  socialistic work is merely tentative and undeveloped.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 120w.

  “They are written in the trenchant, journalistic style of which the
  author is master.”

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 90w.


=Matcham, Mary Eyre=, ed. Forgotten John Russell; being letters to a man
of business. *$3.50. Longmans.

  “A vivacious picture of society, mainly naval, in the reign of the
  second George.... John Russell ... from humble beginnings became
  British consul at Tetuan, and, after spending many years at Woolwich
  in the lucrative employment of Clerk of the Checque, died as Minister
  at the Court of Portugal. The essence of good nature, he was the
  general factotum of a large circle of friends.... To Russell, officers
  pining for promotion poured out their grievances, while gossip reached
  him from every naval station.... Eating and drinking, indeed, play
  important parts in this jovial correspondence.” (Ath.) “Many of the
  letters from Captains of frigates at sea, from Admirals of fleets,
  from sea Jack serving on the Captain man-of-war, give accounts of
  stirring and historical matters.... Many others tell of sea-fights,
  cruises, and prizes of French and Spanish ships.” (N. T. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Matcham is to be congratulated on her judicious editing of this
  fresh and pleasant volume.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 644. N. 11. 430w.

  “Mrs. Matcham is not a very skilful writer or a very lucid
  commentator. She might have made this volume much more interesting
  than it is if she had had a greater gift for telling a story with less
  circumlocution and enigma.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 4: 459. D. 22, ’05. 480w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 330w.

  “To give the book its value in a word, it is full of footnotes to
  history.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 136. Mr. 3, ’06. 710w.

        =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 80w.


=Mathew, Frank.= Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank
Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.

      + =Spec.= 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 170w.


=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Undefiled. †$1.50. Harper.

  A heroine with three lovers is sure to possess a many-sided
  attractiveness. The trio includes a writer who is a self-worshipper, a
  clergyman who had been a cow-puncher and gambler, but now “deep in
  schemes for converting the backcountry farming folk into a decent
  church-going set,” and Bob Travers who was hunting the world over for
  the wonderful eyes and voice belonging to a girl whom he had twice
  rescued from danger. And the tide of love only begins when she marries
  the author Conningsby. It is once again the story of mis-mating, with
  more of a plot than the average latter-day novel possesses.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 439. O. 13. 130w.

  “We asked dazedly, ‘Why?’ from the title page to the end.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 549. S. 8, ’06. 330w.

      – =Putnam’s.= 1: 318. D. ’06. 90w.


=Mathews, Shailer.= Messianic hope in the New Testament. *$2.50. Univ.
of Chicago press.

  “Is an able treatment of a subject of vital concern to the theologian
  of to-day.” Frank C. Porter.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 111. Ja. ’06. 1820w.

  “The connection of Christ with the Old Testament ... is here
  considered with all critical freedom, and yet with insight and
  appreciation.” George Hodges.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 417. Mr. ’06. 160w.

  “It is not too much to say that this volume contains one of the most
  masterly studies of New Testament thought to be found in modern
  theological literature. A book which every serious student of the New
  Testament must possess and master.” H. A. A. Kennedy.

  + + + =Bib. World.= 27: 155. F. ’06. 1620w.


=Mathieson, William Law.= Scotland and the union. *$3.25. Macmillan.

  “Mr. Mathieson continues his book, ‘Politics and religion in
  Scotland,’ from 1695 to 1747. He ... works with his habitual
  steadiness through the commercial condition of Scotland up to the East
  India company, and the Darien disaster.... Darien proved that England
  and Scotland must be united or must fight, and beneath all the
  intrigues for and against the union law this idea lay, and potently
  acted for the acceptation of the treaty.... He traces the rise of
  heresies and parties within the Kirk clearly.”—Ath.

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  “Although there are many pages of vigorous and vivacious writing, much
  of the book is very hard reading. Many things are alluded to or taken
  for granted which call for fuller explanation. But after all has been
  said the book forms a welcome addition to a most important phase of
  British history.” Arthur Lyon Cross.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 892. Jl. ’06. 690w.

  “The book is sensible and lucid, if it ‘does not over-stimulate.’”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 827. D. 16. 820w.

  “Mr. Mathieson’s skill lies not so much in narrative as in commentary.
  He does not always tell his story quite clearly, and he prefers to
  depend as a rule, upon printed books and pamphlets rather than to
  undertake a perhaps fruitless search for manuscript sources. But his
  comments are wise and penetrating, and the flow of his argument is
  undisturbed by the necessity of vindicating the importance of some
  personal discovery. In the book before us these high qualifications
  for the historian’s task are frequently to be found; but they have not
  free play as in the two preceding volumes.” Robt. S. Rait.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 806. O. ’06. 580w.

  “His present work is well worth the attention of those to whom his
  earlier work appealed; if we have criticized it at all it is only that
  we feel that, good as it is, it would have been better had he remained
  faithful to his original plan.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 80. Mr. 9, ’06. 1250w.

  “The very quality that gave Mr. Mathieson’s first work its distinctive
  excellence is once more apparent in his account of Scottish life
  during the era of the Union. We refer here to the note of
  moderation—and of moderation exercised under rather trying
  circumstances. Mr. Mathieson shows marked skill in blending a
  portrayal of character with the discussion of purely political
  issues.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 245. S. 20, ’06. 1650w.

  “If Burton’s history had not been written, Mr. Mathieson’s would have
  been of considerable value but we greatly prefer the older work, and
  we feel strongly that it should have been conspicuously mentioned.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 368. Mr. 24, ’06. 1060w.


=Matthews, (James) Brander (Arthur Penn, pseud.).= American character.
**75c. Crowell.

  In answer to a French criticism that the Americans loved money only,
  ignored the arts, and despised disinterested beauty, Professor
  Matthews has written this just estimate of our character as a nation,
  and has given an analysis of our national traits and trend, which is
  so unprejudiced that it will claim thoughtful consideration. The
  address was first delivered before Columbia and Rutgers colleges in
  1905.

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  “One may not agree with Professor Matthews at all times; but for the
  most part the views expressed are not only well-considered but we
  think they are sound.”

  + + – =Arena.= 36: 570. N. ’06. 300w.

  “His defence of his countrymen is an excellent bit of work. It is
  energetic but it is not wanting in candour. With the greater part of
  it we heartily agree. But one important matter is, we think, unduly
  ignored.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 581. O. 20, ’06. 150w.


=Mauclair, Camille.= Auguste Rodin; the man, his ideas, his work. $4.
Dutton.

  “It is worth wading through M. Mauclair’s delirious periods to get at
  the suggestive reflections which he has quoted from his adored
  master.” Royal Cortissoz.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 280. F. ’06. 140w.

  “But with all deductions M. Mauclair’s book will be an excellent
  introduction for English students to the work of one of the most
  extraordinary sculptors of this or any age.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 100: 217. Ag. 12, ’05. 790w.


=Maude, Aylmer.= The Doukhobors. $1.50. Funk.

  “Mr. Maude’s book is suggestive rather than wholly satisfactory.” M.
  A. Hamilton.

    + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 249. Ja. ’06. 830w.


=Maxwell, W. B.= Guarded flame. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “Richard Burgoyne, the philosopher hero, marries in late middle age
  the orphan daughter of a scientific colleague,—a girl more than thirty
  years his junior.... The disturbing element enters with the engagement
  of a scientific assistant named Stone, who becomes one of the
  household ... and, without knowing it, wins the love of Burgoyne’s
  niece, a cheerful, normal but attractive girl. Burgoyne, discerning
  his niece’s attachment, and believing it to be returned, broaches the
  subject to his secretary; and Stone ... drifts into an engagement,
  only to realize, when he has committed himself, that he is in love
  with Mrs. Burgoyne and she with him. The progress of this double
  treachery—to his betrothed and his master—assumes tragic dimensions
  owing to Burgoyne being struck down by paralysis, and the story
  reaches a climax in the discovery of the guilty lovers by the sick
  man, and in the enlightenment and suicide of his niece.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An enthralling study of character by an earnest and sympathetic
  student.”

  + + – =Acad.= 71: 136. Ag. 11, ’06. 640w.

  “Mr. Maxwell displays himself as temperamentally sentimental,
  sacrificing truth to illusions. We have criticized his novel seriously
  because it is a serious piece of work. In outlook, treatment,
  restraint, and characterization it is a notable performance. The theme
  is large and heroic, and, subject to the limitations we have
  indicated, is adequately handled.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 238. S. 1. 570w.

      + =Current Literature.= 41: 701. D. ’06. 530w.

  “Mr. Maxwell has produced the most powerfully written book of the
  year. It is not likely to be the most popular one, for it is too true
  to life.”

  + + + =Ind.= 61: 821. O. 4, ’06. 450w.

  “The chief merit of ‘The guarded flame’ is, therefore, not its
  realism, which is common enough nowadays, but the inspiring picture of
  the patience, forgiveness and wisdom of the old scientist.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 90w.

  “The new book is all of a piece; lifelike but not commonplace, exact
  but exalted; it gives work to the mind and arouses the emotions. Its
  structure is orderly and strong—preparation, catastrophe,
  resolution—and the author’s manner of expressing himself, though it
  wearies us with its trick of repetition, is here never smart nor
  feeble. He sees clearly and tells vividly.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 277. Ag. 10, ’06. 440w.

  “This is a story which can hardly be taken lightly. It is composed
  with a deliberate and painstaking intensity. If the record is ‘not
  pleasant,’ neither is it morbid.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 262. S. 27, ’06. 550w.

  “He has skill in the weaving of the tale, but he lacks deplorably in
  taste, in the sense of proportion which should unerringly choose and
  prune each incident with reference to its importance in the finished
  whole.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 564. S. 15, ’06. 630w.

  “The subject is a delicate one, but handled with skill, and the
  characters are powerfully portrayed.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

  “It gains in strength as it proceeds to a final solution.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 250w.

  “When we have added that, in spite of its vigour, there is a certain
  metallic hardness in Mr. Maxwell’s style, and, at times, a certain
  undistinguished homeliness in his characters, we have said all that
  can be fairly urged in disparagement of a work which handles a
  difficult theme boldly and impressively, besides furnishing a welcome
  and striking proof of hereditary talent.”

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 336. S. 8, ’06. 820w.


=Maxwell, W. B.= Vivien. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “Such a novel is like an oasis in a desert to a weary reviewer, and
  rewards him for much toiling through the arid wastes of popular
  story-telling.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 154. Mr. 1, ’06. 250w.


=May, Florence.= Life of Johannes Brahms. 2v. $7. Longmans.

  A life of Brahms “done with untiring faithfulness of a devoted student
  to a beloved master.” (Critic.) “It consists in the main, of the
  record of Brahm’s wanderings from place to place, of his peculiar
  family relationships, of the concerts which he gave, of the concerts
  which other people gave, of the order of appearance of his works and
  of contemporary criticism, mainly laudatory.” (Acad.)

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  “The biography within its limits, is a praiseworthy piece of work, and
  no doubt will remain the standard English life of the master. The
  author’s style is suitable enough to her subject. We cannot, however,
  altogether congratulate her on her translations.”

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 1267. D. 2, ’95. 156Ow.

  “Valuable as undoubtedly is the painstaking collection of data, the
  book is somewhat overweighted by detailed accounts of programs and the
  like ... that it is rather difficult for the reader to see Brahms the
  man in his proper perspective.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 320w.

  “Her work is especially to be commended because she traces the history
  of the progress of Brahms’ music in England from 1867 ... down to the
  present day.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 360. O. 27, ’05. 950w.

  “For readers of Max Kalbeck’s ‘Life of Brahms’ there is not much that
  is entirely new in the bulk of Miss May’s pages; but, pending the
  translation of that exhaustive work, American admirers will find here
  the most complete accessible depository of Brahms lore.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 473. Je. 7, ’06. 330w.

  “She is a passionate partisan of her subject, who is her hero. There
  is no other book in England in which the life of Brahms is so minutely
  recorded.” Richard Aldrich.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 190. Mr. 31, ’06. 1050w.

  “Possibly Miss May has succeeded as well as is possible with so
  unpromising a subject. But profound musical insight she has not, and
  therefore a great part of her two volumes is of no interest to any
  living being.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 5. N. 18, ’05. 1060w.

  “She is far from allowing her admiration for the musician to blind her
  to his shortcomings as a man. Miss Florence May’s qualifications for
  her task are amply proved by the thoroughness of its execution.” C. L.
  G.

    + + =Spec.= 95: 652. O. 28, ’05. 1660w.


=Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough.= Sea-shore life; the invertebrates of the
New York coast and adjacent coast regions. $1.20. N. Y. zoological soc.
(For sale at N. Y. aquarium.)

  The first volume in the “New York aquarium nature series.” “It
  describes the marine invertebrates of the region about New York, but
  on account of the wide distribution of this species, it is applicable
  to the Atlantic coast generally. Like the treatise by Dr. Brooks, this
  work is popular in character, and at the same time records the
  scientific observations of a professional zoölogist of the highest
  standing. It may be used as a reference book for visitors studying the
  collections of the New York aquarium.”—R. of Rs.

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  “Specialists may quarrel with some cases in the author’s nomenclature
  or seek more light on some of his statements, but all will agree that
  the book is a welcome addition to the literature of the seashore.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 220w.

  “He is able to tell what he knows, and to make it interesting, too.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 803. Ap. 5, ’06. 180w.

  “A perusal of the text leads to the conclusion that it combines
  interest with accuracy in an exemplary degree, and is well qualified
  to meet the requirements of the intelligent reader who may yet be
  without technical training in zoölogy.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 538. Je. 28, ’06. 440w.

  Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 320w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 125. Ja. ’06. 110w.

  “Dr. Mayer has succeeded in the difficult task of presenting in a
  readable and popular form a good deal of information regarding the
  habits and distribution of the lower marine animals of the coast of
  New York and of Long Island.” T. H. Morgan.

    + + =Science=, n.s. 22: 701. D. 1, ’05. 310w.


=Mead, Charles Marsh (E. E. McRealsham).= Irenic theology: a study of
some antitheses in religious thought. **$1.50. Putnam.

  “Professor Mead has undertaken to discuss some of the fundamental
  problems of theology with a view to making clear the ground upon which
  a sensible, reverent, and thoughtful Christian of the present day can
  stand.... The theological position is that of evangelical
  common-sense.... The ‘irenic’ character of the discussion comes from
  the fundamental position of the book, that the world of Christian
  thought, like the world of natural science, possesses a series of
  facts, which abide even though they cannot be wholly understood.” (Am.
  J. Theol.) “The principal themes on which he seeks to promote concord
  are the immanence and transcendence of God, the humanity and divinity
  of Christ, the sovereignty of God and freedom of man, and the various
  explanations of the atonement.” (Ind.)

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  “His logic is characteristically keen, his thought and style admirably
  direct and lucid. The book is a contribution to critical theology of
  seriousness and worth, and is adapted to render useful service to many
  students, younger as well as older. It treats of high themes in a
  worthy manner, with unfailing concern for clearness of thought,
  tolerance of divergent opinion, and inclusive recognition of the
  many-sidedness of truth.” James Hardy Ropes.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 551. Jl. ’06. 730w.

  “The author’s keenness and argumentative skill must be recognized.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1226. My. 24, ’06. 230w.

  “Whatever dissent at these and other points Dr. Mead’s argument may
  elicit the irenic spirit pervading it is auspicious for the larger
  ultimate agreement toward which Christian thought is moving on.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 81: 889. D. 9, ’05. 260w.


=Meakin, (James Edward) Budgett.= Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond;
with 24 il. *$3. Dutton.

  “The work is more than a merely descriptive narrative of a highly
  interesting country and people. It is a valuable commentary upon a
  civilization which, by reason of its nearness to Europe and its
  historic link with Spain, possesses more than the usual interest for
  students of the Orient.”—Lit. D.

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  “It will be apparent then, that ‘Life in Morocco’ is something in the
  nature of a scrapbook of notes. Upon the whole and in view of the
  existence of Mr. Meakin’s triology, we cannot say that the work of
  rescuing these papers from their admittedly ephemeral form was
  particularly worth doing.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 14. Ja. 6. 350w.

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 270w.

  “Barring a few unlucky wanderings into Arabic, its pictures and
  impressions, dashed in, it is true, in a broad exclamatory style, are
  very vivid, interesting, and substantially correct.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 310w.

  “The author loves his subject; he knows it, and though he has already
  written three weighty tomes upon Morocco, he yet finds much unknown to
  the unswinkt tourist, with which to delight. Perhaps this is the best
  of his work upon the Moors and their land. Throughout the book
  journalese is veilless and shameless, though in reproducing the
  sayings of the people he often reveals that he appreciates their grave
  and sententious style.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 79. Ja. 20, ’06. 1840w.


=Meakin, (James Edward) Budgett.= Model factories and villages. $1.90.
Wessels.

  “Mr. Meakin’s book is divided into two parts, the first section
  dealing largely with the elementary efforts made by manufacturers
  whose buildings were situated in the centres of cities toward
  ameliorating the conditions of light, air, sanitation, dining
  facilities, and recreation; and with the efforts, more inherently
  successful, of those who had recognized the underlying principle that
  cheap land, away from the heart of the city, in a district that might
  be suitably surrounded by the homes of the workingmen, was the
  essential for real improvement.... The second half of Mr. Meakin’s
  book deals with ‘industrial housing,’ and ... illustrates the success
  which manufacturers have had, in their various and varied schemes,
  toward surrounding their workshops with ideal villages. The whole book
  is strongly indicative of the trend towards co-operation that modern
  industry is taking.”—Dial.

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  “Mr. Meakin’s object in this interesting presentation of the efforts
  towards ‘ideal conditions of labour and housing’ is frankly
  propagandist.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 46. Jl. 8. 520w.

  “Contains an immense amount of information, both interesting and
  instructive, in regard to the progress made during the past century in
  matters referring to the welfare of the laborer and artisan.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 159. Mr. 1, ’06. 300w.

  “Mr. Meakin’s book is a very interesting one, and much might well be
  said in praise of the painstaking way in which the author has
  assembled his material.” Ernest R. Dewsnap.

    + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 185. Mr. ’06. 560w.

  “It will be useful, too, to serious students of economic and
  industrial conditions as by far the most comprehensive account of such
  institutions that has yet appeared.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 234. Jl. 21, ’05. 740w.

  “There is no good reason for the annoying division of the inadequate
  index into two parts.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 407. My. 17, ’06. 280w.

  “Mr. Meakin has done a most excellent work in showing how the best and
  most paying labor is that of healthy and happy workers, and his book
  deserves the careful study of all employers.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 433. S. 23, ’05. 1410w.


=Meigs, William Montgomery.= Life of Thomas H. Benton. **$2. Lippincott.

  “The biographical appeal of the book does not quite bear the accepted
  relation to the historical.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 110w.


=Meiklejohn, John Miller Don.= English language: its grammar, history
and literature. *$1.20. Heath.

  A revised American edition of Professor Meiklejohn’s work incorporates
  into it the latest results of modern scholarship.

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  “In its present form will be found more valuable than ever before.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 50w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 50w.


=Mencken, Henry Louis.= George Bernard Shaw; his plays. $1. Luce, J: W.

  An attempt “to bring all of the Shaw commentators together upon the
  common ground of admitted facts, to exhibit the Shaw plays as dramas
  rather than as transcendental treatises, and to describe their plots,
  characters, and general plans simply and calmly, and without reading
  into them anything invisible to the naked eye.”

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      – =Critic.= 48: 471. My. ’06. 100w.

  “The writer of the present volume does little more than give us a
  résumé of the plays and novels. Mr. Mencken’s English is rather too
  colloquial for elegance. Nor can we admire the tone of the
  biographical note.”

      – =Nation.= 82: 103. F. 1, ’06. 1120w.

  “It is well written and informing.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 914. D. 23, ’05. 180w.

  “It is not necessary to accept the estimate of Mr. Shaw which Mr.
  Henry L. Mencken places upon him in this volume in order to get some
  value out of his arrangement of Mr. Shaw’s plays, and the opinion
  which he gives regarding them.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 323. F. 10, ’06. 110w.


=Menpes, Dorothy.= Brittany. *$6. Macmillan.

  “It is a book which would lie gracefully, among other choice and
  useless knick-knacks, on any drawing room table.”

      – =Acad.= 69: 851. Ag. 19, ’05. 360w.

        =Sat. R.= 101: 687. Je. 2, ’06. 1820w.


=Meredith, George.= Works. New pocket ed. 16v. ea. $1. Scribner.

  Fourteen volumes of fiction, one of short stories, and one of poems
  make up the pocket set of Meredith’s works.

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  “They are engaging and companionable little books.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 367. Je. 1, ’06. 50w.

  “It is good to have such books as this and its fellows in convenient
  and inexpensive form.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 436. Jl. 7, ’06. 590w.

  “The publishers have done well by the novels and by the reader.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 190w.


=Meredith, Owen, pseud. (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton).= Letters personal
and literary of Robert, Earl of Lytton, (Owen Meredith); ed. by his
daughter, Lady Betty Balfour. 2v. $5.50. Longmans.

  “The volumes form no crude collection of miscellaneous letters, but an
  arranged and orderly display of correspondence that illustrates the
  many sides of a most remarkable man.” (Acad.) “Not content with
  stringing her father’s letters together with the usual matter-of-fact
  commentary, she has thrown into her narrative much literary and
  personal feeling.” (Ath.) The letters form an instructive narrative of
  the events of his life throwing light upon his literary work, his
  diplomatic career, and especially his much discussed policy as Viceroy
  of India.

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  “This is one of the most interesting books of the season. She has
  produced a work even more interesting than a ‘Life’ would have been.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 389. O. 20, ’06. 1220w.

  “Lady Betty Balfour was not born a Lytton for nothing. She has a
  style, and her reading has been wide.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 505. O. 27. 2340w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 349. O. 19, ’06. 2410w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 773. N. 24, ’06. 1590w.

        =Sat. R.= 102: 613. N. 17, ’06. 2300w.


=Merejkowski, Dmitri Sergeitch.= Peter and Alexis; tr. by Mr. Herbert
Trench. $1.50. Putnam.

  “Peter and Alexis” is the last of Merejkowski’s trilogy, “The Christ
  and the anti-Christ,” the other two being “The death of the Gods,” and
  “The forerunner.” It deals with a purely Russian theme. “While it
  incidentally exhibits Russia and all classes and conditions of
  Russians at the beginning of the eighteenth century, it centres around
  one of the most piteous examples to be found in all history of what is
  ever a moving and a piteous theme—the gradual alienation of son from
  father, and father from son.... On the one side looms Peter the Great,
  the master-worker, building Russia with his own hands; half man, half
  were-wolf.... On the other side is Alexis, the weakling, the victim of
  fate, naturally affectionate, but utterly inadequate.” The volume
  closes with a description of his journey back to Russia and the
  horrible death awaiting him.

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  “It is clear that the translator has spared no pains to reproduce the
  difficult, heavily laden atmosphere of the tragedy in which
  Merejkowski deals for the first time with a purely Russian theme, and
  he appears to succeed admirably.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1314. D. 16, ’05. 380w.

  “Of the version itself we can say that it is conscientiously executed
  and very readable.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 893. D. 30. 110w.

  “It is a powerfully impressive study of unlovely characters among
  revolting conditions.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 130w.

  “This work is possibly richer in material than either of its
  predecessors, but its construction is so hopelessly chaotic as to
  preclude any serious claim to consideration as a work of art.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 153. Mr. 1, ’06. 460w.

  “As a work of art ... measured by its own intrinsic exigencies, it is
  defective, tho as a poignant, brutally strong portrayal of character,
  and relentless group of big tho elusive forces, it is the performance
  of a literary Achilles whose weakness was not in his heel, but in his
  head.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 917. Je. 16, ’06. 540w.

  “Nothing is so powerful in the book as the character studies.” Stephen
  Chalmers.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 78. F. 10, ’06. 450w.

  “It is tumultuous, turgid and sometimes prolix, while the rhapsodical
  final chapter is all but unintelligible.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 325. F. 10, ’06. 380w.

  “Both shocks through its horror, and grips through its power; it is an
  eloquent book by a sterling artist.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 757. Je. ’06. 50w.


=Merington, Marguerite.= Captain Lettarblair: a comedy in three acts
written for E. H. Sothern; arranged from the prompt book used in the
original Lyceum production. $1.50. Bobbs.

  An old estate which has brought grief to the hero’s father and which
  has been inherited by the heroine without his knowledge, complicates
  their love affairs for three acts, and while the heroine is, unknown
  to her, pressing the hero for money on an old debt in order that she
  may secretly enrich him, the hero in despair and bankruptcy goes off
  to India and a rival forges his name and receives the heroine’s gift.
  In the course of the clever dialogue all this is gracefully untangled,
  and all ends happily for them and for the four minor characters whose
  love affairs furnish much humor thruout the play.

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  “Already a little old-fashioned in the ingenuousness of some of its
  devices, ‘Captain Letterblair’ yet retains much of the freshness and
  buoyancy that made it the success of a season nearly fifteen years
  ago.”

    + – =Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 100w.

  “The play reads well and its cleverness is as scintillating in print
  as it is in spoken words.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 40w.


=Merington, Marguerite.= Scarlett of the mounted. †$1.25. Moffat.

  “The reader will be interested in this northern mining district
  which ‘contains an unsurveyed number of square miles and crooked
  inhabitants,’ according to ‘Scarlett of the mounted,’ who has come
  with the law behind him to establish some kind of order. The
  heroine of the story is the daughter of an old miner, a
  supercilious young lady decidedly bettered by her sojourn at the
  mines. And the plot is brought to a happy ending after various
  ingenious complications.”—Outlook.

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  “It would be misleading to say that the story is one for mature minds,
  for the plot is extremely harmless.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 565. S. 15, ’06. 310w.

  “A fairly good story.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 142. S. 15, ’06. 160w.

  “Miss Merington’s skit fails to convince. Still, it is written
  light-heartedly, and that is something.”

    – + =Putnam’s.= 1: 319. D. ’06. 100w.


=Merriam, George Spring.= Negro and the nation; A history of American
slavery and enfranchisement. *$1.75. Holt.

  Strong pro-negro feeling is shown thruout this volume, which beginning
  with the growth of slavery in America, traces the history of the black
  race in our country down to the present day. All the events in our
  national life which had to do with slavery are carefully considered,
  while chapters are devoted to the leading men both white and black
  whose influence has helped to mold the black man’s destiny. It is a
  comprehensive study, written in an interesting style and leading
  logically up to the conclusion that the solution of the race problem
  lies in dealing with each man according to his merits, regardless of
  color, and leaving the ultimate relation of the races to nature and
  the sovereign powers.

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  “The author’s general knowledge of ordinary historical facts seems, on
  the whole, adequate, but some mistakes have crept in. The negro is
  present only as a lay-figure. The style is terse and interesting, and
  the book has a good index.” Carl Russell Fish.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 903. Jl. ’06. 650w.

  “That tendency to idealize the negro which has been the bane of almost
  every northern writer on the negro question since the publication of
  ‘Uncle Tom’s cabin,’ is not wholly absent from this book, in spite of
  its sane and judicious spirit. On the whole, however, the book is to
  be commended as another evidence that the time has arrived when the
  negro question can be approached by writers in both sections in an
  impartial and scientific spirit.” Charles A. Ellwood.

  + + – =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 274. S. ’06. 340w.

  “The treatment of reconstruction is at once the freshest and most
  systematic part of the book.” H. Paul Douglass.

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 349. S. ’06. 630w.

  “A history of the growth of the negro problem distinguished throughout
  by fairness.”

      + =Critic.= 43: 471. My ’06. 100w.

  “This real value lies in the new point of view from which the negro is
  studied.” W. E. Burghardt Du Bois.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 294. My. 1, ’06. 730w.

  “The historical portion of the work is decidedly open to criticism.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 210w.

  “It does not approach the degree of completeness which severe
  condensation might accomplish, even within the limit of its four
  hundred pages, nor is it to be followed safely either in its
  statements of facts or in its estimates of men and events.”

    – + =Nation.= 82: 248. Mr. 22, ’06. 1140w.

  “The last fifty pages will be of most interest to the reader who
  desires to enlighten himself upon the negro question as it is with us
  today.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 313. My. 12, ’06. 970w.

  “The author, who studies his subject almost altogether from the
  historical standpoint, has not, it is true, grasped his opportunity in
  all its fulness. Nor is his narrative wholly exact. But it is so vivid
  and forceful, and the point of view maintained is so essentially just
  as to carry conviction and prepare the reader for candid consideration
  of the ameliorative suggestions proffered in the closing chapters.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 87. S. 8, ’06. 1680w.

  “Considering that the author so seriously endeavors to give an
  impartial treatment, to maintain a fair attitude, one regrets that he
  did not see fit to base his work upon a thorough investigation of the
  subject.” Walter L. Fleming.

    – + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 703. D. ’06. 1190w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 140w.

  “The criticisms which may be made upon this volume are concerned
  largely with the proportionate attention given to different topics.
  Although, therefore, the volume is not a new study and brings no new
  facts to our notice, it deserves careful attention because of the
  impartial way in which the author has gathered the facts and told the
  story.” Carl Kelsey.

    + – =Yale R.= 15: 216. Ag. ’06. 620w.


=Mertins, Gustave F.= Storm signal. $1.50. Bobbs.

  “Is an intensely dramatic and exciting story of a negro uprising in
  the South. Is a work that is bound to foment racial hatred and to
  arouse the evil passions of both whites and blacks. Its influence
  cannot be other than unfortunate.” Amy C. Rich.

    + – =Arena.= 35: 333. Mr. ’06. 260w.

  “Mr. Mertins, in fact, comes very near being a real novelist. The
  artist has used the problem to make his drama, and has not made his
  drama to exploit the problem.” H. I. Brock.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 103. F. 17, ’06. 1010w.

  “While his work is far from convincing, it is of value in laying
  emphasis on aspects of the question which the advocates of municipal
  ownership are prone to forget.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 43. My. 3, ’06. 240w.


=Merwin, Samuel.= Road builders. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 45. Ja. ’06. 360w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 228. Ja. 25, ’06. 190w.


=Merzbacher, Gottfried.= Central Tian-Shan mountains, 1902–1903:
published under the authority of the Royal geographical society. *$3.50.
Dutton.

  The scientific geographer supplements the work of the earlier
  travellers by filling in, corroborating, and correcting their
  information. Such a work is this which appeals especially to the
  student of geology and glaciers. The author says “In this
  [preliminary] report I have endeavoured more particularly to embody
  observations on the present and past glacier conditions of the
  Tian-Shan, and on peculiarities in the physical features of its valley
  formations; subjects to which, throughout the expedition, my attention
  was especially directed. On the other hand, in order not to give the
  report a compass which would retard its publication, botanical,
  zoological, and climatological observations will have to be almost
  wholly omitted.”

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  “A defect of the volume is the transliteration of native names.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 267. Mr. 3. 1700w.

  “Doctor Merzbacher’s book, preliminary report though it be, [is] one
  for the specialist rather than for the general reader.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 2. Ja. 5, ’06. 730w.

  “The book is a contribution of importance to the literature of the
  mountains, and fills a great gap in mountain geography.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 394. My. 10, ’06. 440w.

  “Is a worthy record of scientific work carried out under great
  difficulties. The author is to be warmly congratulated.”

    + + =Nature.= 73: 227. Ja. ’06. 1030w.

  “The geological detail is so generally diffused on most pages and the
  treatment of the subject is so largely technical that the book lacks
  desirable elements of popularity. Dr. Merzbacher’s first-rate piece of
  work has set the standard high for later explorers, and his book is
  worthy of the scientific labors which he carried out under such trying
  circumstances.” Cyrus C. Adams.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 142. Mr. 10, ’06. 640w.

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 190w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 560. My. 5, ’06. 810w.

    + + =Spec.= 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 200w.


=Metcalf, H. B.=, comp. Gems of wisdom for every day. **$1. McClurg.

  For each day in the year the compiler has chosen a quotation culled
  far from the beaten paths of his predecessors and the result is an
  attractive little volume of interesting and more or less “unfamiliar
  quotations.”


=Metchnikoff, Elie.= Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the French
by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.

  “The present translation of Prof. Metchnikoff’s work has been
  admirably carried out by Mr. Binnie.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 363. Mr. 24. 1120w.

  “It will be popular, too, for it contains important details in the
  history and development of the most interesting chapter in modern
  pathology.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 110. Ja. 11, ’05. 800w.

  “His marshalling of the multitudinous details is masterly and so lucid
  that any one who knows the meaning of the words can follow it with
  ease. And these qualities are enhanced by the true scientific spirit
  and scrupulous fairness with which arguments are handled.”

  + + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 194. My. 25, ’06. 800w.

  “The volume is fascinating reading, and any one who first dips into it
  will in all probability do more, and study it deeply. It forms a
  complete statement of the phagocytic hypothesis, and a masterly
  summary of the whole subject of immunity up to 1902.” R. T. Hewlett.

  + + + =Nature.= 75: 99. N. 29, ’06. 480w.

  “The book is a classic and we owe the translator a heavy debt for
  making it an English one. We can give him no higher praise than by
  affirming that there is nothing in the diction of the text to suggest
  its alien origin.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 173. Ag. 11, ’06. 1900w.


=Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Government regulation of railway rates; a study
of the experience of the United States, Germany, France,
Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Australia. **$1.50. Macmillan.

  “Very one-sided and, so far as our railway conditions come into
  consideration, often absolutely untruthful representations.” A. v. d.
  Leyen.

    – – =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 683. Mr. ’06. 4400w.

  “Unfortunately the author is temperamentally a doctrinaire and an
  advocate. His book evinces a great amount of study, but the results of
  his labor are greatly injured by the author’s unscientific spirit.”
  Emory R. Johnson.

    – + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 186. Jl. ’06. 1210w.

  “Mr. Meyer’s book fully deserves first rank among the plentiful
  literature now appearing in behalf of the railway side of the
  rate-regulation controversy.”

    + – =Arena.= 36: 103. Jl. ’06. 2180w.

  “Despite the wealth of erudition paraded in the footnotes, the
  cautious reader puts the treatise down, unsatisfied, incredulous.”
  Winthrop More Daniels.

    – + =Atlan.= 97: 847. Je. ’06. 410w.

  “As a statement of the difficulties of government rate-making the book
  could hardly be excelled; but as a treatment of the whole problem of
  railway rates it has notable weaknesses.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 281. F. 1, ’06. 710w.

  “The author has produced a remarkably clear and forcible book upon a
  very involved and difficult subject. The boldness of his opinions and
  the vigor of his criticisms will very likely bring down upon his head
  the denunciation or more than one person to whom his opinions are
  politically distasteful, but it will be much easier to denounce him
  than to answer him.” Blewett Lee.

    + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 49. Ja. ’06. 2030w.

  “His statements are supported by a formidable array of statistics, and
  while it is obvious that he has overlooked or inadequately considered
  some of the vital points at issue, his book is useful if only for
  calling attention to certain objections which the advocates of
  municipal ownership are for their part prone to forget, but which must
  be met.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 734. My. 12, ’96. 190w.

  “Notwithstanding the hard work which the volume embodies, the final
  verdict must be that it is the plea of the advocate, not the
  deliverance of the impartial judge.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 204. Mr. 8, ’06. 1100w.

  “The book adds nothing to the theory of transportation. Its only
  service is in its statement of the problem.” Henry C. Adams.

    + – =Yale R.= 14: 417. F. ’06. 1720w.


=Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Municipal ownership in Great Britain. **$1.50.
Macmillan.

  The second of a series of four books on public regulation of industry.
  The object is “to show how deplorably belated is Great Britain with
  regard to street car traction and electric lighting in comparison with
  the United States; to condemn all who have been directly or indirectly
  connected with municipal ownership in England; and to glorify company
  control of public utilities as it exists in American cities.” (Ind.)

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  “However much one may differ from the conclusions reached in this
  book, every student of the subject must feel indebted to the author
  for the clear summary and quotation which he has given of the opposing
  arguments urged at each stage of legislation and the changes that were
  made from time to time in the laws and their execution, and for his
  interesting statistical comparisons between English and American
  developments.” Edward W. Bemis.

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 351. S. ’06. 1360w.

  “Notwithstanding that partisanship, the weakness of some of his
  arguments and the many phases of the subject which he leaves
  untouched ... we commend Professor Meyer’s book to all who wish to
  look at the other and generally unpopular side of municipal
  ownership. It is certainly a notable addition to the short list of
  anti-municipal-ownership books.”

    + – =Engin. N.= 56: 181. Ag. 16, ’06. 780w.

  “It is so obviously a long-distance view, that a reading of Mr.
  Meyer’s book suggests that he has never been in England or Scotland.
  Mr. Meyer shows himself ignorant of English municipal history.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 39. Jl. 5, ’06. 1160w.

  “If intellectual tolerance is not one of the merits of the book, moral
  earnestness is; and the work is one that cannot be lightly answered.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 340w.

  “Mr. Meyer sets himself a task, and it has been performed once for all
  it seems to us.” Edward A. Bradford.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 532. S. 1, ’06. 1980w.

  “It is mainly historical, and will be found a useful compilation by
  those who wish to know the legislative and administrative course of
  events.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 170w.


=Meynell, Everard.= Giovanni Bellini. $1.25. Warne.

  A late addition to the “Newnes art library.” The author says that
  Bellini “was fortunate in his age.... The years spanned by his life
  spanned most significant years in the history of painting, and, riding
  as he did on the crest of the wave of change and development, his work
  is the illustration and commentary of sixty pregnant years.” It is the
  analysis of these forces as they became an integral part of artists’
  expression that the author deals with.

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  “Has all of the good qualities in its sixty-five illustrations and
  clear text that have placed its companions on so firm a basis.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 40w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 310w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 331. Je. 9, ’06. 260w.


=Michelson, Miriam.= Anthony Overman. †$1.50. Doubleday.

  “The community, the editorial office, labor, capital, the reformer,
  the journalist, the ‘essentially feminine’ woman, the doctor, the
  striker, the scab.... This is the inventory of the chief comments of
  ‘Anthony Overman.’ The hero is a renascent Daniel Deronda, with a
  modern as well as a racial difference; the heroine a ‘yellow woman
  journalist.’ Such elements must needs strike fire when they meet,
  and the story deals with their interaction and final ...
  reconciliation.... The way of the altruist is to talk pages about
  himself, and Anthony is no exception; but he is a fine embodiment of
  the passion for doing good and of the suffering over others’
  pain.”—Nation.

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  “There is slight spontaneity in the telling of the story; the fun is
  feeble; the slang is dreary. Miss Michelson has done better work and
  we trust that she will do so once again.”

      – =Bookm.= 24: 179. O. ’06. 430w.

  “One of the most original of recent novels. Its characteristic is a
  determination to see things as they are. The point of view is
  saliently modern, not boastfully so; felt naturally not thrust out as
  a rock of offence.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 250w.

  “Not dull as a story and decidedly edifying as a study.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 544. S. 1, ’06. 550w.

  “All of the characters are superficial and paper-y—and dull.”

      – =Putnam’s.= 1: 319. D. ’06. 240w.


=Michelson, Miriam.= Yellow journalist. †$1.50. Appleton.

  Miss Michelson’s San Francisco heroine is quite as much a girl of
  mettle as was Nancy of “In the bishop’s carriage.” The “gay,
  emotional, unscrupulous little girl-reporter, listening at doors,
  lying, cheating, keen as a rat terrier, looks upon life as war. She
  bows to a code of strictly professional ethics, but it sanctions
  behavior of which you cannot approve.” (Atlan.) “Her quest for ‘copy’
  brings her into intimate relations with public and private scandals,
  family quarrels, divorce cases, and murders. The unscrupulous methods
  which she pursues in the attempt to score a ‘beat’ for her paper are
  hardly less repellent than the details of the cases themselves.”
  (Outlook.) In the end she “gives it all up to marry the reporter that
  she had always secretly admired, although professionally they were at
  swords’ points.” (Dial.)

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  “Miss Michelson is as popular, as ‘catchy’ as ragtime.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 210w.

  “There are just a few writers who have succeeded in reducing to paper
  the atmosphere of a newspaper office ... and Miriam Michelson must be
  numbered among them.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 373. D. ’05, 250w.

  “Miss Michelson is possessed of a very vivacious and snappy style,
  that may make her work entertaining to those who can stand yellow
  journalism unexcused by daily news.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 60w.

      + =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 140w.

  “A clever, readable story.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 100w.


=Mifflin, Lloyd.= Collected sonnets of Lloyd Mifflin; revised by the
author. *$2.60. Oxford.

    + – =Acad.= 70: 60. Ja. 20, ’06. 70w.

  “Contains three hundred or more pieces of unusual merit.” P. H. Frye.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 94. Mr. ’06. 280w.

  “There can be no doubt, in the presence of this collection, that he
  has given proof of a true poetic gift, and made a considerable
  contribution to American literature.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 460w.

  “Sonnets of a very high order of merit—a remarkable exhibition for any
  poet.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 517. Mr. 1, ’06. 130w.

  “The most fertile and workmanlike sonneteer of the day.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1164. N. 15, ’06. 30w.


=Mifflin, Lloyd.= My lady of dream. *75c. Oxford.

  A volume of love lyrics of fragile charm, also a number of sonnets, in
  all of which the author has “sought to apostrophize in an elusive way
  that Spirit which has ever been very dear to me and at whose feet I
  have offered many years of my life.”

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  “The author does better with the stately movement of the sonnet than
  with the freer utterance of song. He has not the gift of liquid
  melody, whatever others he may have.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 290w.

  “A collection of love lyrics informed with that pleasantly sentimental
  fluent lyricism with which Mr. Mifflin’s readers are familiar.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 144. Ag. 16, ’06. 90w.


=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Chatwit, the man-talk bird; il. by the
author. †$1.50. Harper.

  “The book purports to tell the tale of a talking magpie, ‘whose
  loosened tongue and human inclinations gat wrath in the breasts of the
  West-land animals,’ and of course that wrath engendered ten thousand
  woes, and sent many souls of brave birds and animals across the Styx
  before their natural time.”—Nation.

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  “Rather different from the ordinary animal story.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 40w.

  “We should hardly be willing to put the present volume in the hands of
  a child without impressing upon his mind emphatically the fact that
  real birds and animals never, never act as here represented.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 300. Ap. 12, ’06. 170w.

  “Children will find it captivating.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 720w.


=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Crystal sceptre. †$1.50. Harper.

  A young American while on a balloon-trip meets with an accident which
  leaves him on an unknown island among an unheard-of race of black
  creature whom he dubs “missing links.” His battles with ourangs, his
  tiger hunt with poisoned arrows of his own manufacture, his discovery
  of “the goddess,” and the perils incident to his fleeing with her back
  to civilization can satiate a large adventure appetite.

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  “This is a glorified dime novel of the blood-and-thunder genre. Will
  prove none the less interesting to the audience which the book aims to
  reach.”

    – + =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 250w.

  “An exciting tale of ingenious fashioning.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 320w.

  “Will prove decidedly entertaining to the average boy.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 90w.


=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Dunny: a mountain romance. †$1.25. Harper.

  Sylvia Weaver, to pay a debt of gratitude to a mountaineer who had
  been a benefactor to her and her brother Dunny, crosses the continent
  from the east to the Sierras to wed the man. Her only picture of him
  is constructed from an almost ancient photograph and a package of
  letters. This story tells of her heart struggles to render justice to
  Jerry Kirk and to crush her love for his rival. It tells also of
  Jerry’s big-hearted renunciation and heroism; while Dunny with
  child-like buoyancy is the central spirit and peacemaker.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story has its vein of humor, too.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 70w.


=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Ultimate passion: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.

  “With some rawness of execution, Mr. Mighels, in ‘The ultimate
  passion,’ shows welcome vitality, and also introduces a real
  innovation.” Mary Moss.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 45. Ja. ’06. 120w.


=Miles, Henry.= Later work of Titian. $1.25. Warne.

  “This one volume in a series of twenty on painters past and present,
  contains sixteen pages of sanely written comment, description, and
  biography concerning Titian, preceded by a photogravure frontispiece
  and followed by sixty-four full-page half-tone illustrations.... Here
  the author has written modestly and directly, but the half-tones fall
  below the average level.”—Critic.

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  “Quite a find to the man looking for quantity rather than quality in
  reproductions of Titian’s work.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 377. Ap. ’06. 100w.

        =Nation.= 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 310w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 245. Ap. 14, ’06. 120w.

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 332. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.


=Militz, Annie Rix.= Primary lessons in Christian living and healing.
$1. Absolute press.

  A text-book of healing by the power of truth as taught and
  demonstrated by the Master. The book is not purely a Christian science
  study.


=Mill, Hugh Robert.= Siege of the South pole. **$1.60. Stokes.

  The latest issue in Dr. J. Scott Keltie’s “Story of exploration
  series.” The author tells of the beginnings of speculations by the
  ancients concerning this section of the world, and, follows the thread
  of exploration thru the ages down to the twentieth century. All the
  attempts to reach the South Pole are recorded from Captain Cook in
  1775 to Nordenskjöld in 1903.

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  “Dr. Mill’s book does for Antarctic exploration what General A. W.
  Greely’s ‘Handbook of Arctic discoveries’ does for the history of
  exploration at the North pole, and that it does equally well.” H. E.
  Coblentz.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 360. Je. 1, ’06. 490w.

  “It is convenient for reference and also very readable as narrative of
  heroic endeavors and many failures.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 875. Ap. 12, ’06. 100w.

  “A book that deserves wide circulation.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 110w.

  “His book is not only a larger monument of learning but also a more
  entertaining composition than the works on the same topic of Herr
  Fricker and Mr. Balch.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 440. D. 15, ’05. 740w.

  “Of its substantial accuracy there can be no doubt.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 384. My. 10, ’06. 530w.

  “The book is as interesting as it is instructive.” J. W. G.

    + + =Nature.= 75: 103. N. 29, ’06. 890w.

  “There is an inevitable monotony to the book, which will limit its
  reading to scientific readers in great part.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 736. Je. 16, ’06. 80w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 622. Ap. 21, ’06. 1110w.


=Mill, John Stuart.= Subjection of women; new ed.; ed. with introductory
analysis by Stanton Coit. *40c. Longmans.

  “John Stuart Mill’s argument against ‘The subjection of women’ has
  unfortunately not yet become needless, and is reprinted in cheap form,
  with an introduction by Stanton Colt to serve as a weapon in the
  present conflict.”—Ind.

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  “The present editor has prefaced to the essay a lucid analysis that
  will be of service to the reader, who, without it, might have some
  difficulty in following the course of thought which frequently, almost
  imperceptibly, glides from one point of view to another.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 264. My. 06. 340w.

        =Ind.= 60: 1648. Je. 28, ’06. 30w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 240. Mr. 22, ’06. 110w.


=Millar, A. H.= Mary, queen of Scots. *$1. Scribner.

  “The book is, in the main, a careful and not too detailed presentation
  of facts.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 266. Ap. 16, ’06. 170w.


=Millard, Thomas Franklin Fairfax.= New Far East; an examination into
the new position of Japan and her influence upon the solution of the far
eastern question, with special reference to the interests of America and
the future of the Chinese empire. **$1.50. Scribner.

  Mr. Millard “would lead us to feel that the Japanese have been
  overrated; that they have received too much sympathy, especially from
  America; that they need now not sympathy, but cold scrutiny; that they
  are an increasing commercial menace to our trade with Asia; that in
  the administration of Manchuria they will not accomplish what might
  have been done by Russia; finally, that in China they have been behind
  the American boycott, and were the secret instigators to the
  opposition manifested towards the American construction of the
  Canton-Hankau railway.”—Outlook.

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        =Ath.= 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 360w.

  “Of the many books and papers that have been published lately on the
  present topic, none can compete with this one in interest or as a
  course of intelligent information and temperate opinion upon what is
  undoubtedly one of the great crises in the history of mankind.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 696. Ag. ’06. 1360w.

  “He appears throughout to write with judicial freedom from
  partisanship, and aims to fortify his conclusions by a fair statement
  of what can be said on both sides of controverted questions.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 130w.

  “There is hardly one word of Mr. Millard’s comment on the treatise
  that commands assent. Any such argument as that which Mr. Millard puts
  forth is unworthy of serious attention.”

    – – =Nation.= 83: 103. Ag. 2, ’06. 900w.

  “The author does not often leave the reader in doubt concerning his
  meaning; but in numerous instances the phrasing might have been
  improved.” George R. Bishop.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 517. Ag. 25, ’06. 3020w.

  “Mr. Millard’s book is timely because Americans need to have their
  eyes wide open as to what is going on in the Far East, but his
  criticisms will seem to many unjustly prejudiced.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 39. S. 1, ’06. 610w.

        =Sat. R.= 102: 494. O. 20, ’06. 180w.


=Miller, Cincinnatus Heine (Joaquin Miller, pseud.).= Building of the
city beautiful. **$1.50. Brandt.

  In form this work is “a romance embodying the author’s visions of the
  city of God that is to be, for the realization of which Jew and
  Christian join heart and hand. In substance it is a sketch of the
  social Utopia which in the coming age will be based on Jesus’
  foundations, as given in the Lord’s Prayer and the Sermon on the
  Mount.... The spiritualized affection of a noble man for the noblest
  of women ... runs through the whole, and ‘the City beautiful’ at last
  appears in form as transcendently ideal as that in the Apocalypse.
  Taken as a whole, this work, whose chapters are each introduced by an
  appropriate poem, is a prose poem on the evil that is, and the good
  that is to come.”—Outlook.

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  “Considered as a romance of love and service, this story is as unique
  in literature as it is fascinating in its influence over the cultured
  imagination. To us no social vision has yet appeared that is so
  profound in its philosophy, so rich in most vital truth, as this
  master-creation of our poet of the Sierras.”

    + + =Arena.= 34: 654. D. ’05. 4030w.

        =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 50w.

        =Dial.= 40: 300. My. 1, ’06. 330w.

        =Ind.= 60: 1045. My. 3, ’06. 290w.

  “The contents do not live up to the title of the little volume.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 129. Mr. 3, ’06. 200w.

  “A work which in thought and art shows its author at his best.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 519. Mr. 3, ’06. 180w.

  “A thought-provoking volume, written in Joaquin Miller’s best style.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 60w.


=Miller, Elizabeth Jane.= Saul of Tarsus; a tale of the early
Christians; with il. by Andre Castaigne. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome and Damascus furnish a setting for this
  tale of the days following the crucifixion. Saul of Tarsus, Stephen,
  Agrippa and the emperors Tiberius and Caligula are drawn with a touch
  faithful to the thought, manners and customs of the times and
  enlivened by the author’s vigorous imagination.


=Miller, James Russell.= Beauty of kindness. **50c. Crowell.

  A thoughtfully written and charmingly illustrated study of kindness.


=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Christmas-making. **30c. Crowell.

  A little volume in the “What is worth while” series. Mr. Miller makes
  an appeal for the right sort of Christmas observance in the heart and
  in the home.


=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Heart garden. *65c. Crowell.

  Dr. Miller’s message on the subject of the heart garden makes a plea
  for keeping the human heart clear of weeds and full of sweet and
  beautiful plants and flowers.


=Millet, Jean Francois.= Drawings of Jean Francois Millet: 50 facsimile
reproductions of the master’s work with an introductory essay by Leonce
Benedite. *$20. Lippincott.

  Fifty of Millet’s drawings reproduced in photo-lithography by the
  Hentschel-colortype process place within the reach of artists and
  students examples of a great master’s work at a moderate price. “This
  half-hundred of drawings confirms the reiterated proof that it was not
  the indignant fire of a prophet that burned in Millet, but the
  steadfast warmth of a brother of men. The introduction by Léonce
  Benedite sums this clearly and gracefully. It is well, too, to place
  the work, as has been done here, with regard to contemporaries and to
  remind us that Millet excelled by worth, not novelty.” (Int. Studio.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A book of drawings such as this offers ... a better opportunity of
  understanding Millet’s genius than is to be found in the study of his
  paintings, and an opportunity, moreover, still needed, for Millet,
  with all his reputation, has not had the study he deserves.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 447. O. 13. 2280w.

  “A volume that can fitly be described as distinguished. With fine
  appreciation, the exceptional figure of the master is set before the
  reader, special attention being given to his relation to the ideals
  current in his day.” Frederick W. Gookin.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 383. D. 1, ’06. 1200w.

  “M. Benedite has dealt with his material in such a manner as to invest
  even hackneyed details with fresh charm, for he calls up many a vivid
  picture of Millet at every stage of his career, as well as of those
  amongst whom his lot was cast.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 29: 363. O. ’06. 440w.

  “The publication carries the stamp of authentic value.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 53. D ’06. 350w.

  “The frontispiece represents the famous ‘Angelus’ and quite fails to
  translate its proper colors. As to the other plates, one feels as if
  the originals were before one. This is one of the finest art books of
  the season and is all the more welcome because Millet is better known
  by his oils than his drawings yet in them we seem to get closer to the
  man and the purposes that guided him in art.” Charles de Kay.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 886. D. 22, ’06. 440w.


=Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Gale, Henry Gordon.= Laboratory course in
physics for secondary schools. 40c. Ginn.

  The fifty carefully arranged experiments which fill this little volume
  have been chosen with two aims in view, to make a continuous and
  inspiring laboratory study of physical phenomena; and to reduce
  apparatus to its simplest possible terms and yet to present a thoro
  course in laboratory physics. The experiments do not presuppose any
  previous study of the subject involved, or any antecedent knowledge of
  physics.


=Mills, Lawrence Heyworth.= Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achæmenides and
Israel: being a treatise upon the antiquity and influence of the Avesta,
delivered as university lectures. *$4. Open ct.

  The first half of his book is given to a study of the Old Persian
  inscriptions as compared with those sections of the Bible concerned
  with the proclamation of Cyrus for the rebuilding of the temple at
  Jerusalem. The second half of the volume is devoted to the Avesta and
  its influence on the Jews of the exile. The final section discusses
  the debt of Judaism to the Avesta.

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  “Professor Mills’s book is the best study on the spiritual life of the
  Achaemenians which has so far been written. In a work so admirable it
  may seem ungracious to call attention to faults of detail, yet it must
  be said that the English style of Professor Mills’s book is not easy
  reading. Occasionally, also, there is a statement which is open to
  question.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 189. Ag. 30, ’06. 790w.

  “Is a valuable essay in comparative religion.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 432. O. 20, ’06. 230w.


=Mills, (Thomas) Wesley.= Voice production in singing and speaking,
based on scientific principles. **$2. Lippincott.

  The results of a life study of the voice are set forth here, and they
  emphasize the author’s belief that practice and principle should be
  combined in successful voice development. Vocal physiology, breathing,
  and larynx and the laryngeal adjustment, registers, fundamental
  principles underlying voice production, elements of speech and song
  and physical and mental hygiene are among the phases of the subject
  presented.


=Mills, Weymer Jay.= Caroline of Courtlandt street. **$2. Harper.

      – =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 50w.


=Mills, Weymer Jay.= Ghosts of their ancestors; il. by J. Rae. †$1.25.
Fox.

  “Its pages are redolent of the old-time flavor of the
  eighteenth-century Gotham in which its scenes are laid; and if its
  author has not fully availed himself of the opportunity afforded by
  his pleasing conceit of summoning the ghosts of long-dead
  Knickerbockers to advance the love and fortunes of a charming daughter
  of the house of Knickerbocker, he has at least written a little tale
  calculated to while away an hour or so in most agreeable
  fashion.”—Lit. D.

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      + =Lit. D.= 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 110w.

  “The story is full of charm of a kind to be felt rather than defined.
  The satire is never bitter enough to offend, yet always keen enough to
  reach the mark.” Nancy Huston Banks.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 226. Ap. 7, ’06. 990w.

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 80w.


=Milyoukov, Paul.= Russia and its crisis. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.

  “The work would be much improved for American readers if it could be
  re-edited and re-arranged. Although specialized in its treatment it is
  altogether too valuable a contribution to English books on Russia to
  be left unreadable.” C. E. Fryer.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 678. Ap. 16, ’06. 710w.

  “There is no other book in the English language which permits the
  reader to penetrate so far into the mysteries of that witch’s kettle
  boiling between the Baltic and the Black seas.” Ferdinand Schwill.

    + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 579. Ja. ’06. 310w.

  “Professor Milyoukov’s book gives an interesting, readable and, in all
  but one chapter, a logical, coherent explanation of the Russian
  crisis. On this important subject there is no work of equal merit and
  authority accessible to English readers.” James T. Young.

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 441. Mr. ’06. 620w.

  “It is difficult to find words strong enough adequately to express the
  inestimable value of Professor Milyoukoff’s book for every one
  desirous of understanding Russia in the past, the present, and the
  future.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 57. Ja. 18, ’06. 2500w.

  “It affords information not given elsewhere. There are apt comparisons
  at various points between Russian and American conditions.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 137. My. 19, ’06. 290w.

  “Milyoukov’s book is not particularly well written, and in the opinion
  of the reviewer is ill-proportioned; yet it is beyond doubt the best,
  most instructive and most authoritative work on Russia ever published
  in English.” Vladimir G. Simkhovitch.

  + + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 527. S. ’06. 1150w.


=Mims, Edwin.= Sidney Lanier. **$1.50. Houghton.

  “The story of Lanier’s life is here told simply and sympathetically,
  and, so far as possible, by quotations from his own letters or from
  the writings of those who knew him intimately. The first third of the
  book takes him through his storm and stress period, out of the law
  office, and into the serenity that accompanied his settled devotion to
  art. The second portion deals with his musical and literary career and
  his work as teacher and lecturer, all in Baltimore; while the closing
  pages describe the New South, Lanier’s characteristics and ideas, the
  last months of his life, with a final chapter giving the author’s
  estimate of his achievement as critic and poet.”—Ind.

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  “The dignity and clearness both of the narrative and of the critical
  portions of the book are in pleasant harmony with its spirit. The
  volume is a welcome and valuable addition to American biography.” M.
  A. De Wolfe Howe.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 110. Ja. ’06. 670w.

  “Mr. Mims, however, has admirably accomplished the task he undertook,
  of setting before us a living picture of his friend’s charming
  personality.”

      + =Cath. World.= 84: 101. O. ’06. 780w.

  “Is the first complete and adequate life of Lanier.” Jeannette L.
  Gilder.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 355. Ap. ’06. 730w.

  “The characteristics of this interesting volume are its
  picturesqueness, its simplicity, its fulness of detail and its
  dispassionate discussion of Lanier’s claims to a permanent place among
  our American poets of fame.” W. E. Simonds.

      + =Dial.= 40: 120. F. 16, ’06. 1740w.

  “With carefully balanced judgment Professor Mims refrains from
  indiscriminate praise.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 109. Ja. 11, ’06. 850w.

  “In particular the biography makes a welcome contribution to the
  knowledge of his youth and ‘wanderjahre’ and the unfolding of his
  gifts and vocation.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 110w.

  “The chief tests of a biography are accuracy and charm. The former
  this book seems to fulfil; we have not found any misstatement nor
  noted any omissions. Charm the book does not possess.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 60. Ja. 18, ’06. 930w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 871. D. 9, ’05. 710w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 250w.


=Mitchell, John Ames.= Silent war. $1.50. Life pub.

  “The story deals with a group of multi-millionaires who become the
  victims of a socialistic movement—a popular awakening resulting in
  such radical measures as blackmail and assassination—and the plot is
  complicated by a love affair between one of the money kings and the
  daughter of one of the members of the People’s league.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author somehow fails to rise to the full possibilities of his
  theme.”

      – =Lit. D.= 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 220w.

  “The story is interesting and probably will find many readers. It is
  to be hoped that it will circulate among people who will regard it as
  a story merely and not as a socialistic tract. Its effect on
  impressionable Socialists might be harmful.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 210w.

  “The book as a whole is an extremely interesting social study, written
  with quiet charm but decidedly radical in its suggestion, although the
  closing action has none of the quality of a solution in that it falls
  back upon individual relationships and special instances.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 682. N. 17, ’06. 290w.


=Mitchell, S. Weir.= Constance Trescot. $1.50. Century.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

      – =Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 150w.


=Mitchell, Silas Weir.= Diplomatic adventure. †$1. Century.

  Paris is the scene of this story, the time is that of the Civil war in
  America, and the incidents are recorded by a secretary to our legation
  in France. The plot is based upon an assumed incident of a stolen
  dispatch which fell into the hands of the American minister to France
  during the time when the emperor was trying to induce England to
  acknowledge the Confederate states as a nation. Besides the narrator
  and the American officer are a woman who seeks the protection of a
  stranger’s cab and three Frenchmen, nicknamed Athos, Porthos and
  Aramis. There are diplomatic mysteries, impulse with prospective duels
  to atone for it, and finally a merry issue from all complications.

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  “It is as an agreeable a book for an idle hour as one could wish.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 70w.

  “Dr. Weir Mitchell contrives, as only an accomplished writer could
  contrive, to bring into his little novel, mystery, conspiracy,
  comicality, diplomacy and romance, with probability enough to keep
  unbelief at bay.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 43. My. 24, ’06. 170w.

  “A very clever little skit.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 327. My. 19, ’06. 220w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.

  “The book is not quite up to Dr. Mitchell’s self-imposed standard.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 711. Je. 9, ’06. 100w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 755. Je. ’06. 50w.


=Mitchell, Silas Weir=, ed. Pearl. *$1. Century.

  The translation into modern English of a fourteenth-century middle
  English lyric.

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      + =Critic.= 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 120w.

  “We could wish that he had given us the whole poem, but this need not
  preclude our thanks for his very charming version of the portions that
  he thought worthy of translation.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 239. Ap. 1, ’06. 130w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 450w.

  “This beautiful old poem of the middle English period has never been
  translated with so delicate a sense of its tender beauty or with so
  much reverence for its spirit.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 93. My. 12, ’06. 300w.


=Mitton, G. E.= Jane Austen and her times. *$2.75. Putnam.

        =Ath.= 1905, 2: 834. D. 16. 180w.

  “But notwithstanding the ‘made-up’ nature of the book, it is very
  readable and the illustrations are interesting.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 120w.

  “If the present work does not attain to, or claim, much originality,
  it is a clever and readable compilation, with something about it, of
  the sprightly freshness of Miss Austen’s own work.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 158. Mr. 1, ’06. 350w.

  “Miss Mitton has made her book particularly interesting.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 9. Ja. 6, ’06. 1310w.


=Mitton, G. E.= Normandy: painted by Nico Jungman. *$3. Macmillan.

  “There seems to be throughout an attempt to imitate Cassier’s with
  disastrous results.”

      – =Sat. R.= 100: 852. D. 30, ’05. 200w.


Modern mystic’s way. †$1.25. Dutton.

  The author was released from Huxleyan agnosticism before Professor
  James’ psychological discovery of the “subliminal” stratum of
  consciousness which opened the way to realms agreed upon by agnostics
  to be closed. “The revolutionized attitude and transfigured view of
  the world resulting from this are here exhibited. The confession of
  Jacob Behmen is adopted, ‘God is the place of the soul,’ and Jesus’
  saying, ‘All live in him.’ With St. Francis, the mystic sees in bird
  and beast his brother. The problems of prayer and brotherhood clear up
  in his thought that all life is one, the life of God.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “She uses scientific knowledge in a way which only a vision could
  justify; and the vision is absent.”

      – =Acad.= 69: 707. Jl. 8, ’05. 430w.

  “His little book is a valuable addition to the library of devotional
  thought, though it only presents the conceptions of the classic
  mystics in modern form.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 44. S. 2, ’05. 190w.


=Moffat, Mary Maxwell.= Queen Louisa of Prussia. **$3. Dutton.

  The domestic, intellectual and inspirational characteristics of this
  favorite among Prussian queens are arranged with new material to
  fortify them. “She did not make poetry, she did make politics; but she
  made them poetically.... And just as the greatest of all poets is said
  to have been a good business man, this best of all queens could use
  feminine weapons to deal with him whom only such weapons could reach.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

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  “This is by no means the first life of Queen Louisa, but it certainly
  is one which will be read with delight by many who will take it as a
  mere incident in the Napoleonic drama, and by many more perhaps who
  will regard it as a clear exposition of a good and capable woman’s
  life.”

      + =Acad.= 71: 222. S. 8, ’06. 1460w.

  “If it can scarcely be said that Mrs. Moffat has risen to the heights
  of her opportunities, she has, at least written an unpretentious,
  careful, and fairly readable book.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 293. S. 15. 2020w.

  “This book is so clear and delightful that we should like to efface
  ourselves and quote it all.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 717. N. 3, ’06. 900w.

  “Altogether this is a biography that appeals and stimulates and
  convinces, and as such should hold the interest of a wide and
  appreciative audience.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 630. N. 10, ’06. 360w.

  “A mistress of her materials, and gifted with fine powers of
  reflection, the authoress commands a vigorous, original style equally
  adapted to personal portraiture and general description.”

  + + – =Spec.= 97: sup. 651. N. 3, ’06. 1790w.


=Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louise (Stewart) (Ennis Graham).= Wrong envelope
and other stories. $1.50. Macmillan.

  “The principal story is called ‘That girl in black,’ and tells, among
  other things how Despard Morreys—cool, contemptuous, blasé—all but
  died of brain fever on being refused by the mysterious Miss Fforde,
  who is afterward discovered to be no less a person than Lady Margaret
  Fforde, daughter to the Earl of Southwold.... The other stories are
  similar in tone and subject, with the exception of ‘A strange
  messenger,’ which forsakes society for a colliery district, and treats
  of the supernatural. The concluding tale of the volume ‘A ghost of the
  Pampas,’ is by the late Mr. Bevil R. Molesworth, the author’s
  son.”—Ath.

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  “These are tales of a bygone pattern, somewhat flavourless and
  abounding in italics.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 10. Je. 7. 240w.

  “A collection of extraordinarily commonplace tales.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 533. S. 1, ’06. 360w.

  “The stories are fairly interesting, but are by no means on a level in
  execution, quality, or interest with Mrs. Molesworth’s admirable
  stories for young readers.”

  + – – =Outlook.= 83: 912. Ag. 18, ’06. 50w.

  “Although these are quite readable short stories, Mrs. Molesworth’s
  peculiar talent is in writing for children, not for grown-up people.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 98. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w.


=Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald.= Russian court in the eighteenth century.
2v. *$6. Scribner.

  “The atmosphere of Russia in the 18th century is the atmosphere of the
  Blasted Heath whereon the witches danced. ‘Fair is foul, and foul is
  fair.’” The Russian present is viewed through the schemes, plots and
  crimes of the reign of Catherine I., Peter II., Anna, a niece of Peter
  the Great, Elizabeth, Peter III., Catherine II., and Paul.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The whole story is of absorbing interest to one who would watch the
  play of the elemental passions either in individual relations or in a
  barbaric state.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 20. Jl. 1, ’06. 310w.

  “The interest of the subject, more especially at the present moment is
  so great that we have found it almost impossible to lay down his
  book.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 462. D. 29, ’05. 2490w.

  “The eighteen illustrations, finely reproduced from historical
  portraits of the principal actors in the drama, form the most
  unimpeachable feature of the book.”

    + – =Nation.= 82. 456. My. 31, ’06. 680w.

  “There is nothing new in this story. Mr. Molloy’s account is fluent
  and interesting.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 320w.

    + – =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30, ’05. 260w.


=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherard.= History of Venice: its individual growth
from the earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; tr. from the
Italian by Horatio F. Brown. Sold in 2v. sections, per section, *$5.
McClurg.

  Under the imprint of the Istituto Italiano d’arts grafiche, appears
  this important work which will be issued in three parts as follows:
  Part 1, Venice in the middle ages; Part 2, Venice in the golden age;
  Part 3, The decadence of Venice. The author is the leading historical
  writer of Italy to-day, and the translator knows his Venice well. The
  first part, now ready in two volumes, deals with the origin of the
  people, aspect and form of the city, the houses and churches,
  questions of constitution, lands, commerce and finance, the dress,
  manners and customs of the people, industrial and fine arts, and
  culture.

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        =Putnam’s.= 1: 379. D. ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Moncrieff, Ascott Robert Hope (Ascott R. Hope, pseud.).= Highlands and
islands of Scotland; painted by W. Smith, jr.; described by A. R. Hope
Moncrieff. *$3.50. Macmillan.

  A delightful book upon the remoter West Highlands which contains
  chapters upon Tartans, The Holy isles, The land of Lorne, Pibrochs and
  Coronachs, Tourists, The outer Hebrides, Children of the mist, etc.,
  in which Mr. Moncrieff describes little trips from one place to
  another ... the dialects of the people, their manners, etc. The many
  illustrations in color add much to the charm of the text and include
  pictures of Glen Rosa in Arran, Loch Linnhe, Glencoe, Ben Nevis, the
  Hills of Jura, some castles, natives and their homes, views of rivers,
  falls, lakes, islands, and other places.

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  “A lively, readable, rambling book of jottings, very pleasantly
  written.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 570. My. 11. 90w.

    + – =Nation.= 83: 12. Jl. 5, ’06. 150w.

  “Fine volume. The author has given us a great amount of mingled
  instruction and entertainment.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 90w.


=Monroe, Paul.= Text-book in the history of education. *$1.90.
Macmillan.

  “Mr. Monroe can certainly justify his selections, and, take it all in
  all, has given us a book that is the most useful textbook on the
  subject that has yet appeared. The work gives evidence of hurried
  preparation (in certain infelicities of style) and lack of careful
  proofreading.” George H. Locke.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 945. Jl. ’06. 910w.

  “Very suggestive and helpful, in the reviewer’s opinion, is the
  treatment of education as adjustment, and an interpretation of the
  history of educational practice and theory from this point of view.”
  H. Heath Bawden.

    + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 694. Mr. ’06. 1000w.

  “The book is thoroughly practical, being divided into well-marked
  paragraphs and sections; and as it aims to being rather suggestive
  than exhaustive, it should commend itself to teachers.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 240w.

  “It is cause for genuine regret that a piece of work so well begun and
  with such great possibilities should be thus disfigured and damaged by
  a multitude of errors and blemishes. But with all its faults the book
  is probably the best thing available for college classes in the
  history of education.” Edward O. Sisson.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 116. F. 16, ’06. 2760w.

        =Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.


=Montague, Elizabeth May.= Beside a southern sea. $1. Neale.

  Lorraine, beautiful and passionate, in the absence of her husband to
  whom she is but a mere doll, finds her soul’s mate in her husband’s
  brother John. Together they talk of life and its meaning, together
  they strive to mend the broken lives of a woman who has sinned and a
  woman who was sinned against, and finally together they go hand in
  hand out of the story, leaving husband and society for life and love
  on a South sea island where John has established a Christian community
  among the natives.


=Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, jr.= Analysis of racial descent in
animals. Holt.

  Professor Montgomery of the University of Texas regards his work as a
  prologue rather than an exhaustive treatment of his subject. Giving
  the experimental method credit for everything that it can do in the
  direction of interpreting phenomena he turns to the value of the
  comparative method of which he makes critical tests.

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  “Has attained a large measure of success in presenting the general
  problems of evolution as they appear to-day, with the necessary
  technicalities succinctly and, on the whole, clearly presented.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 529. Je. 28, ’06. 240w.

  “A valuable contribution to the methodology of difficult problems in
  evolution.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 335. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.

        =Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 100w.

  “Scholarly work.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 70w.

  “The author’s intimate acquaintance with the great wealth of phenomena
  and with the extensive literature dealt with in this book, makes it
  one of particular importance and value to biological students.” E. G.
  Conklin.

    + + =Science=, n.s. 24: 173. Ag. 10, ’06. 2080w.


=Moody, William Vaughan, and Lovett, Robert Morss.= First view of
English literature. *$1. Scribner.

        =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 80w.

  “Certainly the work has the merit of making the study of literature
  seem a very easy and attractive thing; by no stretching of terms,
  however, can the _View_ be called thoro. Moreover, as in the
  _History_, the suggestiveness of the writing is expected to atone for
  lack of definite statement, dates, etc.” G. C. D. Odell.

    + – =Educ. R.= 32: 317. O. ’06. 410w.


=Moore, Charles Herbert.= Character of renaissance architecture. **$3.
Macmillan.

  “An extremely clear and interesting account of a vast subject;
  authoritative, calm, instructive; an admirable handbook and book of
  reference.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 524. Je. 2, ’06. 320w.

    + – =Architectural Record.= 18: 471. D. ’05. 980w.

  “A study both lucid and critical, of Renaissance architecture by one
  who may almost be classed as an avowed enemy, without sympathy for the
  aims and aspirations of the Renaissance architects.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 706. Je. 9. 770w.

  “He has discounted the legitimate weight of his argument, and given to
  what ought to have been a work of impersonal scholarship an atmosphere
  of carping provinciality.” Royal Cortissoz.

    – + =Atlan.= 97: 281. F. ’06. 390w.

  “A volume ... which for insight, scholarship and creative criticism
  will rank of equal value with the earlier work.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 512. Mr. 1, ’06. 560w.

  “In spite, therefore, of his somewhat hackneyed subject, Mr. Moore’s
  book will be found full of original assertions, and the untiring
  industry of which it is the outcome will no doubt win a certain meed
  of admiration. But the illustrations are mostly commonplace, and fail
  to bring out the salient characteristics of the buildings they
  represent.”

    + – =Int. Studio.= 29: 272. S. ’06. 160w.

  “From such a promising title we expected at least an intelligent
  appreciation of this great historical movement in architecture.
  Instead we find ourselves hurled back into middle Victorianism of the
  deepest dye.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 173. F. 10, ’06. 1690w.

    + – =Spec.= 96: 150. Ja. 27. ’06. 960w.


=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Jessamy bride. **$2. Duffield.

  This new edition of Mr. Moore’s story of the days of Dr. Johnson and
  his tea-drinking companions is handsomely gotten up and includes seven
  illustrations in color by C. Allan Gilbert.

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      + =Ind.= 61: 1401. D. 13, ’06. 50w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.


=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Love alone is lord. †$1.50. Putnam.

      + =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 70w.


=Moore, Frederick.= Balkan trail. $3.50. Macmillan.

  “Mr. Frederick Moore has been the correspondent of the London Times in
  Turkey, Bulgaria, Servia, and Albania. He has seen at close range a
  great deal of the people of the Balkan peninsula, and he has the knack
  of describing his impressions in concise and vivid language. His book
  is a real help to the better understanding of countries now in a
  particularly interesting phase of their political and religious
  development.”—Outlook.

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  “The pictures are of remarkable interest.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 762. Je. 23. 280w.

  “Mr. Moore has succeeded in giving a very good idea of the various
  peoples of the Turkish part of the peninsula, of the various agencies
  at work among them and the general conditions of the country. He
  carried with him a camera, which he used effectively. The
  illustrations, from his photographs, are excellent, and really
  illustrate the text.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 264. S. 27, ’06. 1890w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 50w.

  “We have been so well supplied with the treatises of publicists on the
  Balkan question that we can afford to be grateful to a writer with so
  keen an eye and so modest an intention.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 401. S. 22, ’06. 1350w.


=Moore, George.= Lake. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “A dreamlike study of spiritual development.... The priest who in this
  story lives by the shore of the lake, has, in a moment of religious
  zeal, driven from his parish a schoolmistress who has fallen into the
  deadliest sin that a woman can commit in Ireland; he finds when she
  has gone that her personality has stamped itself upon his heart
  irrevocably; and the story told is the story of the gradual
  development of his nature through love of her, and the learning of the
  lesson that if he is to find the true life that exists somewhere for
  each of us, he must strip himself of his priestly office and find his
  soul in the world of men.... Finally ... it becomes inevitable that in
  order to leave his parish without scandal and hurt to the simple souls
  dwelling there, he should swim across the lake and allow it to be
  supposed that he is drowned.... In the moon light of a warm September
  night he leaves his priestly clothes and his priestly office upon one
  shore of the lake and swims across it to the other, where he assumes
  the habit and destiny of a man. This crossing of the Lake, of course,
  is at once the spirit and allegory of the book.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has never shown himself a more finished artist in words than in
  this book.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1200. N. 18, ’05. 380w.

  “It is such a theme as was wont to appeal to him, but it is not
  satisfactory; it is all too cloudy. The form of the book is also
  difficult; and, indeed, the natural descriptions and the sensitive and
  vivid style are the only things that can be praised without reserve.”

    – + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 610w.

  “Mr. Moore, however, has not risen to the level of his opportunities.
  Compare ‘The lake’ for instance, with Mr. Temple Thurston’s ‘Apple of
  Eden,’ of which the subject is essentially the same, and you will see
  at once how far Mr. Moore has fallen from his former high estate.” H.
  T. P.

    – + =Bookm.= 23: 295. My. ’06. 830w.

  “His ‘later manner’ outranks his earlier.” Carolyn Shipman Whipple.

      + =Critic.= 48: 433. My. ’06. 990w.

  “The handling is not sensational, but it is not altogether free from
  the charge of unwholesomeness. We doubt if Mr. Moore has ever done a
  better piece of writing.” Wm. M. Payne.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 370w.

    + + =Edinburgh R.= 203: 364. Ap. ’06. 1280w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1378. Je. 7, ’06. 630w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

  “The book has much charm, especially in the first half, and some
  interest, especially in the second half.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4, ’06. 630w.

  “From the point of view of thought and style, the book is certainly on
  a high plane. We are charmed in the poetical presentation of the
  picture.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 382. N. 10, ’05. 860w.

  “If I dared to suggest a novelist of whom I was vaguely reminded when
  reading this book, I should name Tourgeneff.” James Huneker.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 93. F. 17, ’06. 1780w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + – =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 190w.

  “Mr. Moore’s work is notable for skill of analysis and for charm of
  style, but it is as free from moral feeling as if there were no guides
  in the world save instinct and impulse; herein lies the limitation
  which keeps it out of the class of lasting fiction.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 757. Mr. 31, ’06. 380w.

  “With singular personages and circumstances unhackneyed, he yet
  contrives a tedious in lieu of a seizing story.”

      – =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. 06. 60w.

  “It is a very subtle piece of work, this that Mr. Moore has done; very
  fine and elaborate, very delicate and profound.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 100: 723. D. 2, ’05. 990w.


=Moore, George.= Memoirs of my dead life. *$1.50. Appleton.

  “An astoundingly frank book.... Frank and brutal and fascinating....
  There is talk about art and literature; but the bulk of the volume is
  given over to narration of various events in the life of Mr. Moore,
  events as a rule published after a man has joined his forefathers....
  It will be all very shocking to our American fiction-fed public, this
  outspoken declaration of a man who is not afraid to declare that the
  love passion is a blessing, good wine a boon, art alone enduring....
  There are thirteen chapters. Several of them appeared in a Neo-Celtic
  periodical. Some are veritable short stories. One, the last, is
  charged with noble images; ‘The lovers of Orelay,’ is the most
  attractive tale; all are cleverly executed and ring as if sincere.”—N.
  Y. Times.

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  “He writes with freedom always, and nowadays with greater grace than
  he was wont to do. But we wish he would exercise his powers on a more
  worthy object than a too-elaborate parody; for after all we have
  really no interest in the sort of man and thing he portrays.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 101. Jl. 28. 690w.

  “In the English edition and unexpurgated form, ‘Memoirs of my dead
  life’ is a shocking book, and its present reviewer delights in the
  statement.” James Huneker.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 613. O. 6, ’06. 1990w.

  “When Mr. Moore is content to leave sexual subjects alone, he writes
  gracefully and effectively on art and music. Although his judgments
  sometimes appear hasty and superficial, and introduces into his
  descriptions a wealth they are always fresh and suggestive. He is
  particularly sensitive to the moods of nature of poetic imagery.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 102: 17. Jl. 7, ’06. 730w.


=Moore, J. Howard.= Universal kinship. $1. Kerr.

  The chief purpose of this volume “is ‘to prove and interpret the
  kinship of the human species with the other species of animals.’ The
  first eleven chapters are devoted to ‘a proof of the physical
  kinship,’ that is a statement of the idea of evolution leading up to
  man. In the second group—five chapters—the physical kinship is traced,
  and much that exists in modern society is but a holdover from mere
  primitive conditions.... Ultimately the author believes peace,
  justice, and solidarity will rule.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

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        =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 177. Jl. ’06. 160w.

  “Much of what the author says is true, but in the attempt to prove his
  thesis he is inclined to ignore the evil side of the brute’s nature
  and the noble side of human nature.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 400. Ag. 16, ’06. 110w.

      – =Outlook.= 83: 45. My. 3, ’06. 80w.


=Moore, John Bassett.= American diplomacy: its spirit and achievements.
**$2. Harper.

  “Prof. Moore surveys and analyzes the field of American negotiation
  and treaty making, and insists upon the fair, square and direct
  methods in vogue from the beginning to the present time as contrasted
  with the European evasive and delusive art. Incidentally the book
  serves as a history of American expansion as well as a number of
  developments of usage, like the doctrine of expatriation and the
  falling into abeyance of the ‘right of search,’ in its extreme
  forms.”—N. Y. Times.

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  “Mr. Moore clears up many misapprehensions and writes with a precision
  and clearness of judgment to which few writers can lay claim. This
  fact is all that redeems the book from the combined faults of brevity
  and comprehensiveness. Throughout the volume, Mr. Moore speaks with
  the authority derived from a thorough mastery of the sources, and with
  a refreshing disregard of views that have gained currency through mere
  force of repetition. His general treatment is free from conventional
  bias.” John Holladay Latané.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 692. Ap. ’06. 710w.

  “Whatever he writes is both authoritative and interesting, and shows
  the most intimate knowledge.” James Wilford Garner.

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 253. Ja. ’06. 560w.

  “One may question his assignments of space or of historical importance
  to one topic or another, or his judgments of men and events, though to
  the reviewer these seem on the whole to be admirable.” Frederic Austin
  Ogg.

      + =Dial.= 40: 190. Mr. 16, ’06. 4440w.

  “The story of the struggle for this concession is told with the same
  masterful command of all the material which characterizes each of the
  essays in this most valuable volume.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 48. Ja. 4, ’06. 420w.

  “We have found the book entertaining as a non-chronological narrative,
  but less valuable as an exposition of principles. Indeed, as an
  expounder of principles, the author writes in altogether too patriotic
  a vein to be weighty.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 247. Mr. 22, ’06. 1050w.

  “This book is stimulating to one’s patriotic ardor; it presents a fine
  record and it is certainly clearly set forth in sound and
  straightforward English. It would appear not unreasonable to suppose
  that such omissions as have been noted may have caused the emphasis to
  be improperly distributed.” William E. Dodd.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 855. D. 2, ’05. 2280w.

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 137. S. 15, ’06. 1940w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 726. D. 2, ’05. 270w.

  “Professor Moore’s own reputation as a diplomat is equaled by his
  ability to write forceful, clear, and fascinating essays.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 200w.


=Moore, John Trotwood.= Bishop of Cottontown: a story of the Southern
cotton mills. †$1.50. Winston.

  Child labor and the extent to which it was carried in the South after
  the close of the war, is described in grim detail in this story of the
  Acme cotton mills. Richard Travis, the man at their head, is a low
  creature who poses as a gentleman and lures pretty girls into his mill
  only to betray them. His underlings are as unscrupulous as he and
  persuade the poverty-stricken whites of the neighborhood to sell their
  little children into real slavery for a term of years at five cents a
  working hour. The book is a strong and terrible arraignment of child
  labor and in the end through the influence of the “Bishop” of
  Cottontown, the woman whom Travis really loved and lost, and other
  better souls, the mills become co-operative and the little children
  are given back their childhood.

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

  “Gives us an excellent description of life in the Tennessee valley.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.


=Moore, Mabel.= Carthage of the Phoenicians in the light of modern
excavations. **$1.50. Dutton.

  “This book is an interesting and succinct account of the work of
  excavation, being accomplished in the Punic tombs of Carthage by the
  Rev. A. L. Delattre, Archpriest of the Cathedral of St. Louis of
  Carthage, and his colleagues. In other words, the book gives the
  results of excavations in certain large tombs, especially the
  Necropolis of St. Louis and the Necropolis of Bord-el-Djedid.”—Spec.

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  “The book may be commended for its simple and straightforward
  description of the successful labours of the Fathers of Carthage on a
  spot where the depredations of the natives are fast destroying the
  ancient remains and monuments. But we cannot follow it in the
  suggestions and theories which it contains.”

    + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 610. Jl. ’06. 190w.

  “As an account of the diggings in three principal necropolises, the
  book is of real value to the student of archaeology, altho it contains
  no great treasures.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 1164. My. 17, ’06. 200w.

  “When the author passes from fact to comment and conjecture her work
  is not so valuable. But there is very little in the book that departs
  from the category of facts, and for the exhaustive care which has been
  displayed in compiling this record from the many publications of the
  White fathers and from other sources there can be nothing but praise.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 82. F. 10, ’06. 500w.

  “The tourist who visits northern Africa today will find this volume
  worth taking along. Where the author diverges from her story of the
  finds to matters of history or ethnology some inaccuracies appear.”

  + – – =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “As an appetiser nothing could well be better than this little
  treatise.”

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 646. Ap. 28, ’06. 330w.


=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Deeds of daring done by girls. †$1.50. Stokes.

  A half-dozen stories that portray fearless young heroines, some of
  whom are drawn from royalty of mediaeval times.


=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Lace book. **$5. Stokes.

    + + =Int. Studio.= 27: 280. Ja. ’06. 130w.


=Moore, T. Sturge.= Albert Durer. *$2. Scribner.

  “The reader must go elsewhere for a full and formal narrative of
  Dürer’s career, but Mr. Moore will take him close to the secret of the
  German master’s art.” Royal Cortissoz.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 280. F. ’06. 150w.


=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. 4 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.

  “It is soon apparent that Mr. More deals competently with all or
  nearly all of his topics; he writes on the basis of an uncommonly
  broad and serious general preparation, and after supplying himself
  specifically with the knowledge appropriate to each task.” George
  McLean Harper.

    + + =Atlan.= 98: 561. O. ’06. 3980w. (Review of series 1–4.)

  “Fully up to the standard of the two earlier books.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 373. My. 3, ’06. 690w. (Review of third series.)


More five o’clock stories in prose and verse. 75c. Benziger.

  Mainly legends of saints written for the instruction of Catholic young
  people.


=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of discovery in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.

  A group of valiant and unconquerable men have their deeds exploited in
  these pages. They range from the daring Norsemen and Columbus to the
  indefatigable Peary. The author has caught the spirit of romance and
  adventure necessary to make these men fit subjects for our young
  American’s hero worship.

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  “A popular work of a most acceptable type.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 77. Jl. 21. 210w.

  “It is well suited to the needs of young readers—particularly as
  collateral reading in school—and some of their elders will also enjoy
  the compact but graphic narrative.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 80w.

  “These tales are interesting and inspiring, and furnish an adequate
  notion of what was accomplished in the great work of discovering a
  continent.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 258. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.

  “In the main his narratives are trustworthy but there are some
  striking exceptions.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 190w.


=Morris, Clara (Mrs. Frederick C. Harriott).= Life of a star. **$1.50.
McClure.

  “In her new volume, ‘The life of a star’, as in her earlier ‘Life on
  the stage,’ Clara Morris mingles with the natural vivacity of the
  artist’s attitude a certain charmingly feminine intimacy and frank
  egotism. It is quite as if the actress clothed her memory in a
  bewitching, much-beribboned house gown and sat down to enjoy a cup of
  tea with it. Happily it is a serviceable memory, flexible, and well
  provided with material. Years of entrances and exits, plaudits,
  receptions, and train-catchings brought the actress into flashing
  contact with many interesting people of the passing generation.”—N. Y.
  Times.

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  “It will bear comparison with some of the best of similar work by
  authors of acknowledged rank in literature.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 20. Jl. 1, ’06. 290w.

  “In all this bright rush of recollection and easily voluble femininity
  one is always conscious of the writer. The tone is as conversational
  as a dinner talk—and, one is tempted to say at times as perceptibly
  elevated.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 590w.

  “While there is nothing of vital importance recorded, the incidents
  are vivaciously related, and the spirit of the writer shows
  pleasantly.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 285. Je. 2, ’06. 60w.

  “Full of human interest, human pathos, and dramatic intensity.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 160w.


=Morris, J.= Makers of Japan. *$3. McClurg.

  “To supply history through the medium of biography,” has been the
  author’s aim in preparing this volume, “to convey a general impression
  of Japan and her people: the workings of reform, as exemplified in the
  lives of some of her patriots.” Consequently the twenty-two chapters
  are each devoted to one of the makers of Japan. The part which His
  Majesty the Emperor, The last of the Shoguns, Marquis Ito, Enomoto,
  Okuma, Oyama, Togo and all the others played in the introduction of
  reforms is given in detail and “the situation in Japan now that those
  measures for which they were responsible may be said to have taken
  full effect” is discussed. There are 24 illustrations from
  photographs.

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  “His work is admirably successful: it is careful without being
  laboured, and learned without being dull.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 570. Je. 16, ’06. 270w.

  “A readable book. His materials are neither abundant, nor of first
  rate authority. The portraits in the volume are excellent, except the
  one of the Mikado, which is old and hackneyed.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 205. Ag. 25. 1920w.

  “Not a past master in literary composition is Mr. J. Morris. It is
  just the book needed, and often called for in vain at many libraries.”

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 326. N. 16, ’06. 510w.

  “His book is invaluable because it turns from things of the spirit and
  gives what is virtually a biographical history of the new Japanese
  government and nation, laying emphasis upon the concrete and
  tangible.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 1115. N. 8, ’06. 400w.

  “Than this volume no more readable or reliable book on Japan has been
  produced of late years.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 661. N. 3, ’06. 390w.


=Morris, Sir Lewis.= New rambler, from desk to platform. $2. Longmans.

  Twenty-eight short papers and addresses which deal “with the place of
  poetry in education, with provincial ‘institutes’ with a school of
  art, with the education of girls, with the teaching of science.” (N.
  Y. Times.) “Especially commendable are the remarks on ‘The place of
  poetry in education.’ Talleyrand’s warning to the youth who had no
  taste for whist,—‘Young man, you are preparing yourself for a
  miserable old age,’—he thinks might also be addressed to the young
  person insensible to the charms of poetry.” (Dial.)

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        =Acad.= 69: 1172. N. 11, ’05. 1120w.

  “His experience of life and acquaintance with literature make his
  reflections and reminiscences and counsels well worth reading.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 92. F. 1, ’06. 430w.

  “The picture which most of the discourses conjure up is that of an
  elderly gentleman whose juniors have asked him his opinion, more out
  of politeness than curiosity, on some subject about which he really
  knows no more than they do, and who therefore proceeds to expound with
  all the pomp of platitude, and the manner of one who has discovered
  the obvious after years of profound reflection.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 4: 434. D. 8, ’05. 430w.

  “Many of the essays—indeed, most of them—are excellent reading; the
  addresses bear unmistakably the mark of the British beast. You can see
  in your mind’s eye as you read the solid provincials listening to the
  words of the distinguished speaker. And the words are dull and the
  matter quite lacks the whimsicality and individuality, the personal
  note, which lends the essays charm.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 24. Ja. 13, ’06. 490w.

      – =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 310w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 490w.


=Morse, Edward Sylvester.= Mars and its mystery. **$2. Little.

  A book for the general reader. In approaching the interpretation of
  the markings of Mars the author gives a brief historical summary of
  what has already resulted from observation, shows in what proportion
  the constantly changing canals reveal evidence of life, and presents
  what he has been able to draw of the Martian details, with a
  transcript of his notes made at the time of observation, and finally
  has made an imaginary sketch of how the world would look from Mars.

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      + =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 300w.

  “A fascinating question is here discussed in a plain and thorough
  treatment for the general reader.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 631. N. 10, ’06. 380w.

  “The book is marred in one or two places by a rather savage personal
  attack upon a British astronomer in good standing, partly, apparently,
  on account of religious convictions. The book is interesting, and well
  worth reading to all these who wish to learn the opinions of various
  authorities on the most fascinating of all planets.” Wm. H. Pickering.

    + – =Science=, n.s. 24: 719. D. 7, ’06. 540w.


=Morse, John Torrey, jr.= Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee. **$3. Little.

  “A timely contribution to Massachusetts biography.... The memoir,
  which is followed by selections from the writings and speeches of
  Colonel Lee, is hardly a biography, but rather a biographical sketch
  dealing with the subject’s early life, his career in the Civil war,
  and his connection with Harvard.”—Am. Hist. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 483. Ja. ’06. 60w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 18. Ja. 4, ’06. 1370w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 888. D. 9, ’05. 60w.

  “Mr. Morse has made an interesting book, much less local than a less
  skillful writer would have produced. It is disfigured by several
  mistakes on the part of the compiler, but none of them is of capital
  importance.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 440w.


=Morse, Margaret Fessenden.= Spirit of the pines. †$1. Houghton.

  “In the solitude of the New Hampshire woods, two lovers of nature find
  more and more points of affinity until all the world is glorified by
  “The light that never was on sea or land.” But the great White terror
  has been present from the first, and the two souls are strong enough
  to heed its ‘Thou shalt renounce! Thou shalt renounce!’ Although a
  tragedy, the little romance is, upon the whole, far from tragic. The
  letters of the young people are as breezy as the mountain top. There
  are many touches of humor and wholesome wisdom.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ind.= 60: 1378. Je. 7, ’06. 120w.

  “It is, to put it briefly, the story of love and renunciation that
  Miss Morse tells us, with a beauty of sentiment and language that
  stamps her work one of the daintiest products born of imagination in
  many a day.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.

  “Is a graceful little idyll.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 230w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

      + =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 50w.

  “While the romance is slight, it is refined and combines strength with
  pathos.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 80w.


=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Famous actor families in America. **$2.
Crowell.

  Beginning with the Booths, the author has given a series of delightful
  sketches and stories of the Jeffersons, the Drews, the Barrymores, the
  Sotherns, the Hollands, the Hacketts, the Wallacks, the Boucicaults,
  the Davenports and the Powers. In connection with them many other
  noted names are dealt with, and the whole is illustrated with 40 full
  page plates and provided with a valuable bibliography. The volume is
  both authoritative and interesting and will appeal to theatre-goers,
  playwrights, critics, and readers in general.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

  “The volume has no index, but it needs one.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 50w.

  “Of the information contained in this book there is much that is
  useful, much more that is trivial, but very little that is original,
  and of that little it must be added none is particularly valuable.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 290. O. 4, ’06. 310w.

  “The material is abundant, and for the most part it has here been
  judiciously used. The perspective of praise is not always preserved,
  and the reader might infer that the living had often proved themselves
  equal to the dead.” Brander Matthews.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 794. D. 1, ’06. 540w.

  “It is delightful reading in a general way, full of attractive
  personalities and episodes connected with the most picturesque of
  professions.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 630. N. 10, ’06. 190w.

  “This is perhaps the most useful and informing single volume on the
  American stage, past and present, that the general reader, who is also
  a lover of drama and of acting, can place upon his bookshelves.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 130w.

  “It is written in a spirit of reverence and appreciation for the work
  of the past generation, and with generosity and sympathy for the
  living representatives.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 160w.


=Moss, Mary.= Poet and the parish. †$1.50. Holt.

  An unconventional poet weds a woman of rigidly Puritanical notions.
  His intolerance of her straight-laced ideas passes the ill-bred limit
  and reaches brutality. In the background are the members of the parish
  who with united voice cry out against his indiscretions. The rupture
  which the divergence in the temperament of husband and wife is bound
  to create is nevertheless averted and a reconciliation is effected.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is only in the latter chapters of the book that Miss Moss seems to
  fall away from the higher standard that she set herself at the outset.
  None the less, she has failed to spoil a book which contains much that
  is strong and fine and eminently true.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 387. D. ’06. 530w.

  “The story, we think, would have been more powerful, if not more
  immediately effective, if its tone had been less light and satirical.
  It should, perhaps, be enough that there are no dull or meaningless
  persons or events, and that a deeper note seems to sound beneath the
  trebles and tenors of the social-comedy strain.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 330w.

  “She has written a novel of much originality, and has written it with
  such cleverness and spirit that whoever begins it will be unwilling to
  lay it down until the last word is read.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 699. O. 27, ’06. 720w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “Good workmanship and entertaining qualities are happily combined.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 290w.


Mother Goose: her book, with pictures by Harry L. Smith. [+]75c.
Duffield.

  All the old rhymes which delight the nursery of today just as they
  delighted the nurseries of long ago are to be found unchanged in this
  comfortable volume in the new, tho not too modern, dress which Harry
  L. Smith has designed for them.


=Mott, Lawrence.= Jules of the great heart, “free” trapper and outlaw in
the Hudson bay region in the early days. †$1.50. Century.

  “We could readily spare much of the tiresome patois.”

    + – =Acad.= 69: 1335. D. 23, ’05. 220w.

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 889. D. 30. 360w.

  “Stands out prominently among the books of the month.” Frederick Taber
  Cooper.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 634. F. ’06. 230w.

  “It is strong, imaginative, and picturesque, and as the first work of
  a very young writer deserves to be specially noted. The dialect ... is
  about the thorniest we have ever had to cope withal, and is likely to
  discourage many readers.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 190. F. ’06. 160w.

  “Mr. Mott is to be congratulated at once on the way in which he has
  sketched the scenes of the old trapper’s labours and also upon his
  peculiar success in the management of the French-Canadian dialect.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 83. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.


=Mottram, William.= True story of George Eliot in relation to “Adam
Bede,” giving the real life history of the more prominent characters;
with 86 il. mainly from photographs by Allan P. Mottram and Vernon H.
Mottram. **$1.75. McClurg.

  Adam Bede, Dinah Morris, Mrs. Poyser and Seth Bede are set in the
  walks of life from which they emerged to the plane of book people. The
  author is “grand nephew of Adam and Seth Bede” holding that relation
  to the Evans family from which the Bedes are drawn. The sketches are
  intimate ones, biographical in nature, and include a wealth of
  incident.

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  “As a whole, the book is written in a tone of alternate religious
  devotion and personal panegyric that becomes tiresome to the less
  piously enthusiastic.” Percy F. Bicknell.

      – =Dial.= 41: 385. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 463. D. 29, ’05. 610w.

  “The subject and love of the subject make the whole story clear and
  its prose good.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 777. N. 24, ’06. 520w.

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 160w.

  “The chapter on ‘George Eliot’s’ life is, we think, a mistake. Mr.
  Mottram tells us nothing that we did not know before; but he does
  condescend to something like special pleading.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 150w.


=Moulton, Forest Ray.= Introduction to astronomy. *$1.25. Macmillan.

  “In the first fourteen chapters the book sets forth the methods by
  which the science is developed, the important features of the solar
  system and the mechanical principles involved in celestial
  dynamics.... On the firm grounding of facts set forth in the first
  fourteen chapters, the evolution of the solar system is discussed with
  a fulness and precision found in no other astronomical work of its
  grade.... The final chapter is devoted to stars and nebulæ in which,
  as before, the selection of the important things is notable.”—J. Geol.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is well brought up to date.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 78. Jl. 21. 830w.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 569. Jl. ’06. 160w.

      + =Dial.= 41: 12. Jl. 1, ’06. 60w.

  “There is sometimes a tendency to expand verbosely.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 140w.

  “The work is to be heartily commended to the geologist who wishes a
  brief and trustworthy summary of the recent developments in
  astronomical science.” T. C. C.

      + =J. Geol.= 14: 458. Ag. ’06. 580w.

  “Students of astronomy will find in Prof. Moulton’s volume an
  excellent text-book which, by its lucidity and wealth of detail, will
  enable them to obtain a fairly thorough grasp of their subject.” W. E.
  R.

    + + =Nature.= 74: 538. S. 27, ’06. 320w.

  “He has arranged his material logically and convincingly.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 766. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “This book is an elementary, descriptive text, suited to those who are
  approaching the subject for the first time, and from this point of
  view the selection of material is quite satisfactory, though not
  always presented in logical order.” W. J. Hussey.

    + – =Science=, n.s. 24: 397. S. 28, ’06. 570w.


=Moyes, Rt. Rev. James.= Aspects of Anglicanism; or, Some comments on
certain incidents in the ’nineties. $2.50. Longmans.

  From a Roman catholic standpoint these papers throw “many lights upon
  the inconsistency of the Anglican position, the historical flaws in
  the Anglican title, and the weakness of the arguments advanced against
  Rome.” (Cath. World.)

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  “Monseigneur Moyes’ able articles are worthy of their present
  permanent form.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 270. My. ’06. 530w.

        =Spec.= 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 240w.


=Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus.= Mozart, the man and the
artist as revealed in his own words, comp. and annotated by Friedrich
Kerst, tr. into Eng., and ed. with new introd. and additional notes, by
H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.

      + =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 30w.

  “[The translation is] especially praiseworthy for its faithful and
  delightful reproduction of the composer’s colloquial and careless
  epistolary style.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 999. O. 25, ’06. 90w.

    + + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 280w.

  “The translations have been admirably made by Mr. Krehbiel, and his
  additions to the notes (indicated by brackets and his initials) are
  valuable.” Richard Aldrich.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.


=Müller, (Friedrich) Max.= Life and religion; an aftermath from the
writings of the Right Honourable Professor F. Max Müller by his wife.
**$1.50. Doubleday.

  “A volume of extracts from the writings of the late Professor Max
  Müller, selected and arranged by his wife. It is not a controversial
  work, and should not be treated as such; rather, it is as though the
  veteran humanist and philologist invited the reader to sit with him by
  the fireside, and there confided to him the thoughts and aspirations
  which had guided his path during a long and successful life.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The first impression of the book is perhaps a little disappointing;
  because, from its necessarily disjointed nature one does not instantly
  perceive the uniting thread. Many of his paragraphs sound much like
  the empty professions of those who have learned such things by rote;
  but one does not read far without finding that the author speaks
  whereof he knows.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

      + =Dial.= 40; 152. Mr. 1, ’06. 630w.

        =Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 80w.

  “We will say frankly that while all that we find here about ‘Life’ is
  admirable, some of the utterances concerning ‘Religion’ seem of less
  value.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 873. N. 25, ’05. 220w.


=Muller, (Friedrich) Max.= Memories: a story of German love; tr. by
George P. Upton, il. new ed. $2.50. McClurg.

  The memories span the way from childhood to manhood and reveal
  introspective fancies about the “soul that rises with us, our life’s
  star” as it gradually expands to meet the demands of love which in
  this instance is exquisite agony. The book is prettily illustrated and
  appears in holiday binding.

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      + =Dial.= 41: 399. D. 1, ’06. 80w.

  “The story lacks plot, incidents or situations truly, but it abounds
  in beauty, grace, and pathos that strongly appeal to those influenced
  by ideality and the love of nature.”

    – + =Ind.= 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

        =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 40w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 30w.


=Munk, Joseph Amasa.= Arizona sketches. **$2. Grafton press.

  “Dr. Munk’s style is wholly lacking in literary finish, but his
  account of ranch life and other matters in the southwestern corner of
  the United States teems with interesting facts and photographs.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 192. F. ’06. 100w.

  “This is a good example of a new type of book, in which the literary
  element is subordinate to the pictorial.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 8O. Ja. 25, ’06. 860w.


=Munn, Charles Clark.= Girl from Tim’s place; il. by Frank T. Merrill.
†$1.50. Lothrop.

  “The author’s heroine and surroundings are not fictitious. ‘Tim’s
  Place’ was in the northern wilderness of Maine, to which Mr. Munn goes
  in the hunting season, and the girl was employed by its owner, who
  compelled her to work barefooted and gave her only the cast-off
  clothing of men to wear. The story of her escape and after life
  compose the book.”—N. Y. Times.

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      + =Ind.= 60: 1376. Je. 7, ’06. 280w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 180w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.


=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 169. Ja. ’06. 470w.


=Murray, A. H. Hallam.= High road of empire: sketches in India and
elsewhere. **$5. Dutton.

  With special attention to the picturesque side of travel along the
  “highways of a fascinating land,” the author aims “to recall pleasant
  memories to those who have already fallen under the spell of its
  potent charms,” and to awaken in the less fortunate “the determination
  to become better acquainted with the great empire in the East.”

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  “A volume of which the text is perfect for its easy common sense.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 797. D. 9. 670w.

  “The writer can make his somewhat commonplace experience alive by a
  reserved enthusiasm.” H. E. Coblentz.

      + =Dial.= 40: 235. Ap. 1, ’06. 540w.

  “One feels, after reading it, that one has passed some pleasant hours
  with a gentlemanly, well-informed companion, nowhere obtrusive,
  nowhere tiresome, nowhere pretentious.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 1284. My. 31, ’06. 470w.

  “The accompanying narrative combines with many a bright picture of
  contemporary Anglo-Indian society just enough history to give
  permanent value to the book.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 28: 180. Ap. ’06. 150w.

  “The text is pleasant, gossipy talk, with a due modicum of history and
  archaeology.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 98. F. 1, ’06. 110w.

  “His book is as refreshing as if it dealt wholly with untrodden paths
  and fields.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ’05. 140w.

  “A very pleasing book on India.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 259. Ap. 21, ’06. 330w.

  “The author treats of the varied features of India with an intimate
  and illuminative touch. Entertaining and instructive text.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 120w.

  “A most excellent, accurate, praiseworthy, intelligent book, written
  by one who invariably goes to matins when he can, and whose heart is
  full of sympathy for India. But he does not see India; that is the
  pity of it!”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 13. Ja. 6, ’06. 1270w.

  “A pleasant mixture of guide-book and history, ‘The high-road of
  empire’ gives both to eye and ear a vivid impression of the East.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 541. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.


=Myrick, Herbert.= Cache la Poudre: the romance of a tenderfoot in the
days of Custer. $1.50. Judd.

  “The absence of the constructive method, even of ordinary coherence in
  the story, indicates an unaccustomed hand.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 132. F. 3. 120w.

  “Mr. Myrick knows a great deal about the West and has diligently
  collected a lot of material of historical value, but he has spoiled it
  by diluting it with a trashy romance.”

    – + =Ind.= 60: 457. F. 22, ’06. 170w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 13, ’06. 100w.

  “His plot is of the simplest, his language crude, and his construction
  awkward, but there is about the book a flavor of sincerity and
  intimate knowledge that holds the interest even of those who may be
  disposed to regard it as a dime novel in pretentious garb.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 140w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 853. D. 2, ’05. 110w.

  “As a romance the merit of the publication is not conspicuous enough
  to invite serious comment. As a curiosity the book is quite worth
  looking over, both for what is in it and the elaborate arrangement of
  the material into forewords, prologues, parts, epilogues, and
  addenda.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 270w.

  “A Third avenue melodrama de luxe.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.


                                   N


=Nayler, James Ball.= Kentuckian. $1.50. Clark.

  This “is a narrative of Ohio in the sixties, and is concerned with the
  operations of the Underground railroad and the exploits of a gang of
  horse thieves. The hero is a young man from the other side of the
  river, who becomes the district school teacher, and falls in love with
  the prettiest of his pupils. This is not exactly an original
  invention, but it may be allowed to serve once more.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by William M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 140w.

  “A delightful old-fashioned story with many midnight turns in it.”
  Mrs. L. H. Harris.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1220. My. 24, ’06. 220w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w.


=Needham, Raymond, and Webster, Alexander.= Somerset house, past and
present. **$3.50. Dutton.

  “This exhaustive history of the Duke of Somerset’s palace, the
  illustrations of which include many reproductions of interesting
  portraits and old prints, embodies the results of much arduous
  research, in the course of which many new facts have been discovered.
  It is indeed far more than a mere account of a famous building, for
  its authors have made excursions into archaeological and topographical
  by-paths, so that it will appeal to the antiquarian as well as the
  student of history.” (Int. Studio.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We lay down this book with admiration of its thoroughness, and a
  clear perception that it is a notable addition to the literature of
  London.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 33. Ja. 12, ’06. 1290w.

  “The authors have done their work well, and produced an illustrated
  history of one of London’s most important palaces which is both
  accurate and interesting.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 65. Jl. 21. 1190w.

  “They have interwoven into their history of Somerset house much that
  is new, or rather much that has never found its way into the pages of
  the standard English histories.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 160. Jl. 19, ’06. 500w.

      + =Int. Studio.= 26: 88. Mr. ’06. 80w.

  “Our author’s vehement protestantism is somewhat too much in
  evidence.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 495. Je. 14, ’06. 1580w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 830w.

  “The student will find within their pages much to which access is
  difficult elsewhere.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 240w.

  “A capital book, pleasantly written and remarkably accurate.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 824. Je. 30, ’06. 1290w.


=Negri, Gaetano.= Julian the apostate: an historical study; tr. by the
Duchess Litta-Visconti-Arese, with an introd. by Pasquale Villari. 2v.
*$5. Scribner.

  “The author uses the person of Julian as a lay figure on which to
  arrange his philosophical tenets, in the form of a trophy.” (Lond.
  Times.) Julian was “a man of brilliant intellect and strenuous
  morality in revolt from a corrupted Christianity. As such the Emperor
  Julian gained from the Church of his time the name of ‘Apostate,’
  which has stuck to him since. As such he heads a long line of those
  whom the false representatives of Christianity have scandalized into
  rejection of the faith presented to them so deformed and smirched....
  He is not, however, hindered by his admiration for the austere
  idealist who is his hero from seeing his faults and fallacies, and
  pronouncing ‘insane’ his attempt to revitalize and purify an effete
  and corrupted paganism.” (Outlook.)

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  “May not be free from minor defects, but it has this great merit—that
  there is perfect sympathy between the author and his subject and for
  this reason it may be said to add to our knowledge of this most
  fascinating emperor, though it brings to light no new facts about his
  brief and romantic career. Though some obscurities may be due to the
  author, the translator shows a disposition, regrettable in what is
  intended to be a popular work, to employ unfamiliar and borrowed words
  where simpler terms might with advantage have been used.”

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 87. Ja. 27, ’06. 1510w.

  “The work is diffuse, and even repetitious, but never tiresome.
  Without a knowledge of the original, one may believe the translator to
  have been for the most part successful.” Francis A. Christie.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 631. Ap. ’06. 1150w.

  “The monograph, which is written in a delightfully interesting style,
  is evidently based on a careful and discriminating study of the
  original authorities. The translator’s accuracy is almost equal to her
  taste, but we may note a few trifling corrections.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 830w.

  “Some slips will be found in these two large volumes, and one rather
  large error—the acceptance as genuine of Julian’s letters to
  Iamblichus.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 324. Ap. 19, ’06. 600w.

  “Gaetano Negri, whose volume has been thoroughly well translated from
  the Italian, treats his subject with an understanding untouched by
  partiality.” George S. Hellman.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 529. S. 1, ’06. 1020w.

  “His study of the original sources, both pagan and Christian, has
  given him an intimacy with Julian’s life and Julian’s world which
  imparts vitality both to his work and to the interest of its readers.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 240w.

  “Much praise is due to the Duchess Visconti-Arese for the excellent
  rendering of this work. It is full of boldness and originality. We are
  only afraid that the unwieldy presentation of his mature reflection
  may compromise its undeniable merit.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 143. F. 3, ’06. 1800w.

  “Signor Negri’s volumes on Julian deserve a cordial welcome. His
  philosophy of history and his philosophy of religion are almost as
  vague as Julian’s, and are not very illuminating; but the crowded
  pictures they contain of Julian and his contemporaries will be found
  interesting and informing even by those who are familiar with Gibbon
  and Harnack.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 1008. Je. 30, ’06. 1860w.


Nelson’s encyclopædia; ed. by Frank Moore Colby and George Sandeman.
12v. $42. Nelson.

  “A high class reference work for busy men. Since there is no pretence
  to literary merit the lack of it can scarcely be criticized.... Each
  distinct part on a large subject is treated as a separate article in
  its appropriate alphabetical order.” (Nation.) “British and American
  authorities have collaborated in its preparation.... Much of it
  appears to have been freshly written up to date.... Biographical
  articles are numerous, and personal estimates, when included, are
  generally judicious and impartial.... Copious illustrations are a
  strong point in this work—over fifty full-page plates, plain or
  colored in each volume, with a multitude of minor sort.... Maps also
  occur in abundance.... A vast amount of information has been
  compressed into the very moderate limits of a twelve-volume work.”
  (Outlook.)

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  “To sum up—this first volume leads us to believe that ‘Nelson’s
  encyclopedia’ will be a compact, accurate, agreeably written
  presentation of the sum of human knowledge at the entrance of the
  twentieth century.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 639. S. 13, ’06. 560w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  “Despite many grave faults, it is, in concise treatment of topics of
  general and current interest, perhaps the most useful compilation yet
  published.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 210. S. 6, ’06. 860w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

  “It seems as if the ideal cyclopedia had been found for readers of
  English.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Careful examination and impartial criticism will yield a favorable
  opinion of the new work.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 286. S. 29, ’06. 670w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  “This is perhaps the most ambitious attempt yet made in this country
  to produce a low-priced encyclopedia of first-class literary quality.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Topics, brought well up to date and treated with a thoroughness
  hardly surpassed in more pretentious works.”

  + + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 3.)


=Nesbit, Wilbur Dick.= Gentleman ragman; Johnny Thompson’s story of the
Emigger. †$1.50. Harper.

  The ubiquitous office boy of the village newspaper bursts into print
  in these series of humorous sketches and tells in his own way all
  about his editor, his editor’s friends and the people of Plainville in
  general. The result is genuinely funny from the story of how the
  barefoot cure succeeded so well in Plainville that not one of the
  patients ever suffered from bare feet again, to the account of how a
  rural shopping expedition was conducted. An old feud and a tangled
  three-stranded love interest carry the thread of the story to a happy
  ending and a double wedding.

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  “An ample native Americanism in man, woman, and boy is unfolded with
  full measure of native American humor in the language of the country,
  resulting in a fabric, inexpensive but entirely wholesome and clean.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 170w.

  Reviewed by Otis Notman.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 623. O. 6, ’06. 80w.

  “Literally and hilariously, a ‘howling success.’”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 250w.

  “The book will find favor with many readers who enjoy a good-natured,
  satirical view of their neighbors.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 100w.


=Nesbitt, Frances E.= Algeria and Tunis; painted and described by
Frances E. Nesbitt. *$6. Macmillan.

  Seventy colored illustrations picture scenes which the traveler meets
  by rail from Algiers to Constantine and Tunis. There are streets,
  buildings, mosques, scenes in the market, in the homes and in the
  deserts, and there are evening effects with “transparent purity” and
  “colour in crystal clear.” The accompanying text provides historic and
  descriptive bits of interest to the tourist.

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  “The author does both pictures and print, and does both well; but her
  sketches are more valuable as well as more delightful than her
  descriptions.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 278. S. 8. 820w.

  “In spite of this laxity of language and of a certain amount of
  worked-over, guide-book information, the volume is unmistakably
  written by one who possesses the artistic temperament, a keen eye for
  color, and upon whom light and shadow exert their magic power.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 289. O. 4, ’06. 530w.

  “While the work is delightful from every standpoint to the reader in a
  quiet library, we trust that, for the sake of the intending traveler,
  an edition may be published in small compass, even at the risk of
  omitting the charming illustrations of the present volume.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 861. Ag. 11, ’06. 100w.

  “It is altogether an extremely pretty and artistic gift-book.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 170w.

  “The pen descriptions, too, are very good; now and then we get an
  element of humour, and now and then of sentiment; but all is marked
  with a literary touch of unmistakable skill.”

      + =Spec.= 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 300w.


=Nevill, Dorothy, lady.= Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill. ed. by
Ralph Nevill. *$4.20. Longmans.

  Lady Dorothy Nevill, daughter of Horatio Walpole, now eighty years
  old, goes back in her reminiscences to England of the ’thirties.
  “During a long life—she began to keep a diary in 1840—she has known
  ‘everybody,’ as the phrase goes; has been on the best of terms with
  princes, peers, parsons, and peasants; has dabbled in literature and
  seen much of literary men and women; has enjoyed political meetings
  and race meetings almost equally; has seen every play and made friends
  with all the prominent players. But she has never made systematic
  notes, or kept a journal for long together, so that her reminiscences
  are what they pretend to be—stories or impressions called to mind
  after a long lapse of time.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “At the end of the publishing season these reminiscences will probably
  be described as the liveliest volume that it has produced. It is
  crammed with good things from beginning to end.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 413. O. 27, ’06. 1160w.

  “Lady Dorothy Nevill’s recollections resemble nothing so much as
  drawing-room conversation in its happier moments. They are bright,
  charitable, rather inconsequential; and if they sometimes descend to
  trivialities, a pointed anecdote soon brings gaiety back again.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 574. N. 10. 1530w.

  “A lively picture of the past and a not less vivacious account of some
  aspects of the present.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 358. O. 26, ’06. 1110w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 230w.

  “The book is full of good things, scattered over its pages without
  much regard to order. The part of the ‘Reminiscences’ which, to be
  frank, disappoints us is that relating to Lord Beaconsfield.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 550. N. 3, ’06. 1520w.

  “It is, then, not as a profound study of men and manners that the
  reader will find this volume of reminiscences valuable, but rather as
  a series of brilliantly coloured sketches of social life in early and
  mid Victorian times.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 788. N. 17, ’06. 1720w.


=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Modern slavery. **$2. Harper.

  Mr. Nevinson traveled incognito thru the Portuguese province of Angola
  in west central Africa for the purpose of discovering the true facts
  of the tyrannical slave-trade secretly carried on by the Portuguese in
  spite of the Berlin treaty of 1895. The chapters of his book reveal a
  dark blot on the page of present-day history, and make a plea to the
  just and compassionate for its removal.

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  “His volume deserves careful reading by all who can help in bringing
  to an end the abominations it pathetically describes, and it ought to
  be of considerable service in furthering that object. Incidentally it
  supplies much welcome information about the general conditions of life
  in this part of Africa.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 762. Je. 23. 840w.

  “The book is deeply interesting and gives the impression of being
  over-drawn in no particular. The author’s tone is moderate and he
  evidently relates the situation exactly as he saw it and not as he
  might have seen it.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 280w.

  “Quite apart from its merits as a study of slavery, the book is
  fascinating in its descriptions of African life and scenery, and is a
  most admirable book of travel.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 998. O. 25, ’06. 370w.

    + + =Nation.= 83: 21. Jl. 5, ’06. 1250w.

  “Mr. Nevinson describes in detail and in picturesque and weird
  language the wickedness and horrors that he went out to see.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 369. Je. 9, ’06. 1270w.

  “His narrative impresses us as the work of a careful, keen, and honest
  observer, and while it includes much resting on hearsay, it also
  presents evidence that seems imperatively demanding an answer.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 528. Je. 30, ’06. 290w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 150w.


=Newcomb, Simon.= Compendium of spherical astronomy with its
applications to the determination and reduction of positions of the
fixed stars. *$3. Macmillan.

  “The first of a projected series having the double purpose of
  developing the elements of practical and theoretical astronomy for the
  special student of the subject, and of serving as a handbook of
  convenient reference for the use of the working astronomer in applying
  methods and formulæ.... The volume now before us ... is for
  astronomers, who will find it exceedingly useful for reference in
  their investigations.... The whole is divided ... into three parts;
  the first on preliminary subjects, the second on fundamental
  principles of spherical astronomy, and third on the reduction and
  determination of positions of the fixed stars. The nine appendixes
  supply a number of handy tables and formulæ.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is the most important addition to the literature of the subject since
  the appearance of the works of Chauvenet and Oppolzer. The volume is
  invaluable both to the advanced student and to the professional
  astronomer. The usual number of misprints, apparently inevitable in a
  first edition, have made their appearance, but none of those noted are
  likely to cause the reader any great difficulty.” F. H. Seares.

  + + – =Astrophys. J.= 24: 305. N. ’06. 840w.

  “Great care has evidently been used in securing the accuracy which is
  especially desirable in a treatise of this kind.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 245. S. 1. 630w.

  “Much of the information is set down in a readily accessible form for
  the first time, and all of it by a master hand. Of the value of the
  book to the student, especially to the beginner, we are more
  doubtful.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 375. N. 9, ’06. 760w.

  “We do not know a more excellent book on its subject.” P. H. C.

      + =Nature.= 74: 379. Ag. 16, ’06. 820w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 40w.

  “This work is too technical for review in our columns, and we need
  only say that, for the purpose of the astronomer, it fully comes up to
  the expectations raised by Professor Newcomb’s great reputation.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 61. Jl. 14, ’06. 240w.


=Newcomb, Simon.= Side-lights on astronomy; and kindred fields of
popular science: essays and addresses. **$2. Harper.

  Twenty-one popular essays and addresses dealing with the structure,
  extent and duration of the universe, and with other general scientific
  subjects, are here gathered together under such chapter headings as:
  The unsolved problems of astronomy, What the astronomers are doing,
  Life in the universe, How the planets are weighed, The fairyland of
  geometry, Can we make it rain? The relation of scientific method to
  social progress, and The outlook for the flying machine. The volume
  has two dozen illustrations and a good index.

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        =Current Literature.= 41: 688. D. ’06. 580w.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 250w.

  “There is a wide field of entertaining information in Professor
  Newcomb’s book. One can depend upon the accuracy of the information
  offered ... and one can be sure of picturesque treatment of a subject
  of the most absorbing interest.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 150w.

  “It would be hard to find a serious book more entertaining, or a light
  book that affords better exercise in reasoning.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 544. D. 20, ’06. 840w.

  “We would commend the volume to all desirous of obtaining a
  trustworthy idea of the present state of astronomical knowledge and of
  the problems which still baffle the astronomer.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 140w.


=Newman, Ernest.= Musical studies: essays. *$1.50. Lane.

  “Mr. Newman’s groupings of principles and motives are on a broad and
  comprehensive scale, and are free from the ambiguity that mars so many
  works on musical criticism.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 90w.


=Newman, John Henry, cardinal.= Addresses to Cardinal Newman, with his
re- Neville. *$1.50. Longmans.

  “Before his death, Father Neville, Newman’s literary executor,
  prepared the contents of this volume for the press. Its main contents
  are a collection of sixty odd addresses to the Cardinal, with his
  replies, on the occasion of his elevation to the purple. There is also
  a prefatory narrative of the events relating to the conferring of that
  dignity. The letter of Cardinal Nina offering the hat, and Newman’s
  reply, as well as his letter to the pope, are given in English, while
  the Italian and Latin forms are found in an appendix.”—Cath. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 702. F. ’06. 190w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 328. O. 6, ’05. 540w.

  “No student of Cardinal Newman should neglect this book.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 122. Ja. 27, ’06. 310w.


Nibelungenlied; translated by John Storer Cobb. *$2. Small.

  The translator says: “In preparing a new translation of the
  Nibelungenlied, my aim has been to contribute to an expansion of the
  knowledge of a work that affects us more nearly than the Iliad, for it
  is the product of the poetic faculties of the race to which we belong.
  I have followed the original, phrase by phrase, without avoiding the
  negligencies, the obscurities, the repetitions, that it presents....
  The text of the Nibelungenlied has been the subject of extended
  commentaries and profound study, and I have felt myself bound to
  render it with most respectful exactitude.”


=Nicholson, Meredith.= House of a thousand candles. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  “Persons who enjoy well-written mystery tales will not be disappointed
  in ‘The house of a thousand candles.’”

      + =Arena.= 35: 110. Ja. ’06. 290w.

  “The wonder is, not that Mr. Nicholson did passably well, but that he
  did not do a good deal better.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 22: 495. Ja. ’06. 350w.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “The story is common in type, but unusual in quality.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 48. Ja. 4, ’06. 120w.

  “Despite its impossibilities, has won its way into the select circle
  of the ‘six best sellers.’”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 510w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 150w.


=Nicholson, Meredith.= Poems. *$1.25. Bobbs.

  Three score lyric poems which touch the chords of memory, of hope, of
  love and happiness and sorrow.

            “Now ’tis the violins that loudest cry,
            And now in saddest key the ’cellos sigh.
                        ··········
            Chords that are love and life, and even the sharp,
            Hard pain of death—chords of the golden harp.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In these verses he reveals a delicacy of perception, a love of nature
  and an appreciation and reverence for the deeper and finer things of
  life which one would little suspect in the author of ‘The house of a
  thousand candles.’” Amy C. Rich.

      + =Arena.= 36: 221. Ag. ’06. 570w.

  “We find in these pieces a graver and more reflective note than in the
  earlier ones—the natural mark of a maturer experience and a widened
  outlook.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 240w.

  “Despite many fine single lines in the book, it is mainly pleasurable
  because of its variety of reminiscent moods.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 144. Ag. 16, ’06. 190w.


=Nicolay, Helen.= Boys’ life of Abraham Lincoln. †$1.50. Century.

  Authoritative, in that it is based upon the standard life of Lincoln
  by his secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, well illustrated and
  simply told, this young people’s story of the great American citizen
  will appeal to all young Americans who are some day to become
  citizens.

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  “Miss Nicolay has succeeded in presenting a thoroly human character of
  a wonderfully human man.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

  “Simple language has usually been employed, but perhaps too sparing
  use has been made of anecdotes.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 70w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 70w.

  “All in all, it is a very vivid and inspiring narrative, and is bound
  to take its place in the list of books that ought to be read and
  reread by every American boy and girl.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 140w.

  “This book should be in every public library. It is filled with
  inspiring, beautiful, pathetic, and humorous stories of the man who
  gave his life, daily, for his country. The pictures, by Jay Hambridge
  and others, are usually adequate and artistic.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 580. N. 3, ’06. 250w.


=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Key of the blue
closet, a volume of clever essays on life and conduct, men, books and
affairs. **$1.40. Dodd.

  Thirty essays stimulated largely by personal recollections include
  such themes as “Never chew your pills,” “Swelled heads,” “In the world
  of Jane Austen,” “The art of packing,” “The tragedy of first numbers,”
  and “The key of the blue closet.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His literary gift can clothe the commonplace with attractiveness and
  invest familiar things with a new interest.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 190w.

  “It is this talent for noting immediately, and remembering the little
  interesting bits of information about persons and things ... that has
  enabled him to place before us this collection of observations against
  which at least the fault of dullness can never be brought.” Elizabeth
  Banks.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 285. My. 5, ’06. 1170w.

  “It is full of homely truths, set forth wisely and agreeably for the
  reading of ordinary mortals.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 120w.

  “A book of genial wit and wisdom.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 120w.


=Nicolls, William Jasper.= Coal catechism. **$2. Jacobs.

  A little leather hand-book that answers nearly seven hundred questions
  grouped under twenty-six headings on the subject of coal. The
  questions are so arranged as to lead an uninformed inquirer thru
  various stages of the origin, development and uses of coal until a
  full knowledge of the subject has been obtained.


=Nielsen, Frederik.= History of the papacy in the XIXth century.
**$7.50. Dutton.

  “These volumes ... are written from a point of view which the English
  editor, Dr. Arthur J. Mason, of Cambridge likens to ‘that of a
  large-minded and statesmanlike High Churchman among ourselves.’ The
  first volume extends to the death of Pius VII. in 1823, the second to
  the death of Pius IX. in 1878. A third volume, soon to follow, covers
  the pontificate of Leo XIII. The historian goes back to the beginning
  of the eighteenth century, when the first fight for ‘the Pope’s
  infallibility, which was the pith and marrow of the whole contention,’
  was won by the Jesuits against the Gallican Jansenists. The subsequent
  history, which he relates down to the adoption of that dogma by the
  Vatican council in 1870, might be summarized as the ‘Modern
  development of ultramontanism into papal autocracy.’”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the execution of his task Nielsen chiefly falls short, in our
  judgment, by a deficient sense of proportion.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1349. D. 6, ’06. 880w.

  “The translation prepared under the direction of Dr. Mason, of
  Cambridge, England, will be received with interest by scholars.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 360w.

  “Bishop Nielsen’s work is a magazine of facts dispassionately related,
  but somewhat lacking in the broad views of the course and tendency of
  events which make the narrative instructive to the general reader.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 390w.


=Nitobe, Inazo.= Bushido: the soul of Japan. **$1.25. Putnam.

  “A singularly suggestive and winning little book.” Alonzo K. Parker.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 191. Ja. ’06. 500w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 80w.

      + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 238. Jl. 15, ’06. 100w.


=Nordau, Max Simon (Südfeld).= Dwarf’s spectacles and other fairy tales,
tr. from the German by Mary J. Safford. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “The translation, by Mary J. Safford, is bald and not very attractive,
  and the illustrations are poor—in some cases positively bad.”

    – + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 893. D. 30. 480w.


=North, Simon Newton Dexter.= “Old Greek,” an old-time professor in an
old-fashioned college; a memoir of Edward North, with selections from
his lectures. **$3.50. McClure.

  “The book is a delightful picture of the man and the teacher.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 120w.

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 13. Ja. 6, ’06. 1040w.


=Norton, William Harmon.= Elements of geology. *$1.40. Ginn.

  The present work “is the outcome of the need of a text-book of very
  simple outline, in which causes and their consequences should be knit
  together as closely as possible.” The author therefore “departs from
  the common usage, which subdivides geology into a number of
  departments,—dynamical, structural, physiographic and historical, and
  to treat in immediate connection with each geological process the land
  forms and the rock structures which it has produced.”


=Noyes, Ella.= Casentino and its story. **$3.50. Dutton.

  To the region of the upper Arno, a retreat of reminiscence associated
  with the names of St. Francis and Dante, the author has lent an
  atmosphere “rich in breadth and dignity, in warmth and simplicity.”
  (Ath.) “She pioneers us with praiseworthy skill and clearness through
  the tangled maze of feuds and crimes which make up the mediaeval
  history of the Casentino; and more especially, through the Chronicles
  of the Counts of Guidi, who were the rulers of that region.” (Lond.
  Times.) There are twenty-live full page illustrations in color, and
  many line drawings by Miss Dora Noyes.

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  “Miss Noyes has carried out her undertaking with unequal success. The
  arrangement of the book is unfortunate. Miss Noyes writes with obvious
  and sincere enthusiasm and apparently, a thorough knowledge of the
  ground over which she has taken us. But as a writer of ‘landscapes’
  she does not succeed. The chapter on the home life of the peasants,
  their religious observances and their work in the fields is
  admirable.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 86. Ja. 27, ’06. 1440w.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 5. Ja. 13. 320w.

  “The author’s work is worthy of its charming dress. She is full of
  poetic feeling and knows how to express it.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 82: 113. Ap. ’06. 290w.

  “Unfortunately this enthusiasm, and the luxury of indulging a very
  lively historical imagination, have betrayed the author into
  generalizations and theories that a scientific analysis of history
  will not always justify.”

    – + =Dial.= 40: 131. F. 16, ’06. 280w.

        =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ’05. 60w.

  “The writer’s part is scholarly and literary, showing both conscience
  and ability.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 520w.

  “She has an unusual talent for making pen pictures of scenery vivid,
  and she seems to have overlooked none of the literary, artistic, or
  historical memorabilia of the valley. If at times her material is spun
  rather thin, that is a defect inevitable in works of this kind.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 54. Ja. 18, ’06. 260w.

  “Miss Noyes knows the Casentino thoroughly, and imparts her knowledge
  graciously and attractively. Her book is thoroughly readable.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 24. Ja. 13, ’06. 1080w.

        =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 2, ’05. 60w.

  “Though succinct it is never dull, and by the skilful handling of her
  considerable knowledge, the author has made an intricate subject
  plain.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 470w.


=Noyes, Walter Chadwick.= American railroad rates. **$1.50. Little.

  “Judge Noyes’s book is sound in principle, impartial in spirit, and
  clear in statement, but its value is lessened by the fact that it is
  in greater part an elementary presentation of what has been more fully
  stated by more than one previous writer.” Emory R. Johnson.

    + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 184. Jl. ’06. 1090w.

  “So central is his theme that the book easily takes high rank in our
  American literature of railway economics.” Winthrop More Daniels.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 847. Je. ’06. 370w.

  “Of the two books, the broader, as the title denotes, is that of Mr.
  Haines, the more intensive and special is that of Judge Noyes.” H.
  Parker Willis.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 82. F. 1, ’06. 1470w.

  “While there is little that is new in Judge Noyes’s exposition of the
  principles underlying railway practice, the material is presented with
  a directness and lucidity that entitle the book to a very high rank in
  the literature on the subject.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 282. F. 1, ’06. 150w.

  “It may be said that it is as a whole the best balanced book on the
  subject that the present controversy has evoked.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 203. Mr. 8, ’06. 660w.

  “We know of no book which will give the lay reader so clear and so
  authoritative a statement of the fundamental legal principles which
  must govern in the determination of the pending question concerning
  government regulation of railway rates as Judge Noyes’s volume.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 937. D. 16, ’05. 410w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 210w.


=Nugent, Meredith.= New games and amusements for young and old alike.
**$1.50. Doubleday.

  Mr. Nugent creates for the boy of ten a magic world and makes of his
  young devotee a veritable wizard. The book contains wonderful
  soap-bubble tricks, with the recipe used for producing immense bubbles
  lasting from five to ten minutes; it tells how to engineer yacht races
  in the clouds, how to make sunshine engines, and how to have a circus
  on a kite string. There are numerous illustrations made by the author
  and his collaborator, Victor J. Smedley.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is distinctly novel in the suggestions offered, and is thus
  a pleasing departure from its type.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 52. Ja. 16, ’06. 110w.

  “Between the cover boards of the ‘New games and amusements’ lies
  verily an enchanted land.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 460w.


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

  “This translation, by Mrs. Bandelier, has been made with much care,
  and will replace that of Buckingham Smith ... as the authoritative
  English version of the earliest detailed account of the Gulf states.”

    + + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 390w.


                                   O


=O., A. V.= “Jack” by a religious of the Society of the Holy Child. 45c.
Benziger.

  A true story of how Jack, in the course of a mischievous and
  adventurous boyhood, changed in the estimation of his friends from an
  addition to the family which they could not decide whether “to deplore
  or be proud of,” to “a Christian, a hero, and a gentleman.”


=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Columbus, the discoverer. **$1. Harper.

  In sketching the life of Columbus for the “Heroes of American history”
  series, special effort has been made to accentuate the well verified
  facts in the great discoverer’s career. Meagre facts only are recorded
  of his youth, but from his arrival at the “hospitable portal of La
  Rabida” the narrative proceeds on surer authority. The author shows
  the character of Columbus in public and private relations, and
  possesses him with the attributes which render him a worthy hero for
  sane worship.

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  “A life of the great discoverer well calculated to interest young
  people in his personality.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 80w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

  “Mr. Ober’s book has one great charm, however, which bursts out
  occasionally in a way that whets the appetite for more. He has
  apparently followed in the footsteps of Columbus.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 820w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 70w.


=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand De Soto, and the invasion of
Florida. **$1. Harper.

  Uniform with the “Heroes of American history” series. A vivid
  portrayal of the varying fortunes of De Soto and his band which lends
  the charm of romance to the historical facts of the memorable
  expedition. The book is illustrated with reproductions of old pictures
  and a map showing the course of De Soto’s journeys thru Mexico,
  Florida and Cuba.

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      + =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

  “A capital account of the life of this particular hero, but with it
  there may seem to the fastidious reader to be rather too much of the
  fanciful.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13, ’06. 90w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 30w.


=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Hernando Cortés, conqueror of Mexico. **$1.
Harper.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 478. Ja. ’06. 30w.

  “A readable biography.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 80w.


=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Pizarro and the conquest of Peru. **$1.
Harper.

  The latest volume in the “Heroes of American history” series. The
  account is a full one of the man, who with a mere handful of soldiers
  invaded and made conquest of the Inca’s stronghold in Peru. The volume
  of less than three hundred pages condenses a great deal of material
  which has heretofore existed only in a bulky unabridged form.

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      + =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 430w.

  “Mr. Ober has condensed, edited, and presented in attractive form the
  essentials of history, and, having given himself to the study of early
  Spanish America, seems a competent guide.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 80w.

  “A good deal of information hitherto only accessible in bulky
  histories has been condensed and made entertaining in this volume.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 120w.


=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Vasco Nunez de Balboa. **$1. Harper.

  In continuation of the “heroes of American history” series. Mr. Ober
  offers a sketch of Balboa whose valorous exploits are tinged with
  fascinating romance. The various stages of his career show him a
  penniless adventurer, self-elected governor of Darien, savior of the
  settlement when on the point of dissolution, subjugator of the
  caciques, discoverer of the Pacific, servant of the king, and builder
  of the first brigantines that ploughed the waters of the Southern
  ocean. Finally as traitor to his sovereign he is executed in the town
  he had unwearyingly helped to found.

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      + =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 30w.


=O’Brien, William.= Recollections. **$3.50. Macmillan.

  “It is a charming and finely touched description of the career of a
  young Irishman of genius in a time of stress and storm.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1330. D. 23, ’05. 670w.

  “He tells his tale modestly and sincerely, without striving to put his
  best foot foremost and without any trace of bitterness towards
  opponents.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 83: 107. Ap. ’06. 990w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 110w.

  “Mr. O’Brien’s book takes rank with Mr. Justin McCarthy’s
  politico-autobiographical reminiscences. While its scope is narrower,
  its vividness is more intense. The author at times writes, as it were,
  with his very heart’s blood; and thus writing he cannot fail to
  command a reading.” Percy F. Bicknell.

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 37. Ja. 16, ’06. 1910w.

  “Lacks the historic value which attaches to Mr. Michael Davitt’s ‘Fall
  of feudalism.’”

      + =Ind.= 60: 930. Ap. 19, ’06. 380w.

  “They constitute in fact a human document wherein may be read not
  merely the personal characteristics of their author, but the
  predominating traits of his countrymen.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 470w.

  “Unfortunately, too. Mr. O’Brien is throughout careless about dates,
  and the index is little help to anybody who wishes to follow in a
  serious spirit a rambling and disjointed story.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 439. D. 15, ’05. 1710w.

  “The book will be read with interest by all who have lived through
  those days and who are interested in Irish affairs.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 120. F. 8, ’06. 320w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 450w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 110w.

  “So long as Mr. O’Brien keeps to personal touches, and to his
  delightful Irish humor and sentiment, we find him a very pleasant
  storyteller.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 493. Ap. 21, ’06. 1550w.

  “Both in tone and style the book is a pleasant one, and every one who
  wishes to form a clear idea of the Nationalist case against the
  British Government from 1865 to 1883 should make a point of studying
  it though unquestionably it requires careful checking from other
  sources.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 302. F. 24, ’06. 1640w.


=Ogden, Horatio Nelson.= Child in the church. 25c. Meth. bk.

  The order for the administration of baptism to infants according to
  the discipline and usage of the Methodist Episcopal church, together
  with the duties of parents, the apostles’ creed, and the catechism,
  make up this booklet, which has as a frontispiece a blank certificate
  of baptism. The volume forms a dainty baptismal gift.


=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Don-a-dreams: a story of love and youth.
†$1.50. Century.

  The practical, everyday world seems a very sordid thing to one who
  follows the story of this dreamer of dreams, who from nursery
  make-believes and childish day dreams passes into a youth of ideals
  and is left in his early manhood still a visionary but with many
  dreams come true. With a skilful touch Don is put before us;
  misunderstood by a commonplace father, an acknowledged failure at a
  practical college course, a failure in New York where he tries to make
  a living as a super at a second class theatre or at anything else, he
  suddenly blossoms into a recognized genius as a writer of plays. And
  through years of struggle, from earliest childhood, his love for
  Margaret, his ideal, burns like a white flame, and in return she loves
  him, marries him and makes him happy, altho like the rest of the
  world, she may not always understand him.

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  “All the earlier part of the book is shadowy, and hardly prepares us
  for the vivid, admirable picture of life in New York that comes
  later.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 527. N. 24, ’06. 190w.

  “It is a book of fine fibre in purpose and execution, romantic,
  touching, amusing.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 333. O. 18, ’06. 460w.

  “‘Don-a-dreams’ is his first novel, but Mr. O’Higgins has made no
  mistake in his new departure.” Otis Notman.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 623. O. 6, ’06. 550w.

  “It is all very tenderly and charmingly told, and we like it better
  because our dreamer is not of those who think wallowing in the mire
  synonymous with ‘knowing life.’”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 400w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 200w.

  “Its consistent literary quality lifts it far above the level of
  ordinary fiction.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 100w.


=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Smoke-eaters. $1.50. Century.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 140w.


=Okakura-Kakuzo.= Book of tea. **$1.50. Duffield.

  These essays relate to tea, not as a beverage but as an aesthetic
  symbol. “Within the pages of this volume is condensed the whole
  philosophy of tea, together with its history, poetry, symbolism and a
  synopsis of its relation to religion and art as they exist in Japan.
  The author writes with sympathy ... and with a graceful felicity of
  expression.” (Ind.)

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        =Ath.= 1906, 2: 512. O. 27. 160w.

  “Charming group of essays.” Frederick W. Gookin.

      + =Dial.= 41: 105. S. 1, ’06. 1260w.

  “What ‘Sartor resartus’ is to the realm of the utilitarian ‘The book
  of tea’ is to the realm of the esthetic.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 461. Ag. 23, ’06. 280w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 128. Jl. ’06. 50w.


=Okey, Thomas.= Story of Paris. $2. Macmillan.

  “The greater part of the 400–odd pages of this volume are taken up
  with the story of the city from its beginnings as a Gallo-Roman camp
  to its expansive latter days. The last pages contain generous
  descriptions of the landmarks, museums, galleries, churches, and
  theatres of the present.” (N. Y. Times.) “It is not too much praise to
  say that the book supplements the information contained in Baedeker,
  and supplies as well a background for the greater enjoyment of such
  volumes as Theodore Child’s ‘The praise of Paris,’ Richard Whiteing’s
  ‘Paris of to-day,’ of Amicis’s ‘Ricordi di Parigi.’” (Outlook.)

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        =Ind.= 61: 753. S. 27, ’06. 170w.

  “The guide is a curious cross between a Baedeker and a Hare, without
  the satisfying definiteness of the former or the charm of the latter.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 167. Ag. 23, ’06. 240w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.

  “The intending visitor to Paris could hardly have a more valuable vade
  mecum than Mr. Okey’s little volume.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 673. Jl. 21, ’06. 100w.

  “We are glad to be able to commend highly this little book which fully
  maintains the high standard which the volumes in this series nearly
  always attain.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 277. S. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “The historical, literary, and artistic aspects of the city are
  worthily treated.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 65. Jl. 14, ’06. 60w.


=Oliver, Frederick Scott.= Alexander Hamilton: an essay on American
union. *$3.75. Putnam.

  The work of an Englishman which gives an estimate of Alexander
  Hamilton’s character and presents a record of political and historical
  conditions in the United States in Hamilton’s day. “Mr. Oliver calls
  his work an essay on American union; but it is far more than that. At
  bottom it is a grave and singularly eloquent plea for the great union
  of a close and lofty and disinterested Imperialism. And it is an
  immense compliment to Mr. Oliver to say that his conclusions and his
  exhortations are worthy of having been directly inspired by such a
  figure as Alexander Hamilton.” (Lond. Times.)

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  “A very thoughtful and clever essay on the life and work of Alexander
  Hamilton.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 39. Jl. 14. 470w.

  “Tho the book has some marked blemishes, it is so filled with deep and
  original thinking that it is worthy the careful attention of every
  student of Hamilton and our early political history. It is written in
  an interesting, cultured style, which at times becomes brilliant.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1117. N. 8, ’06. 470w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.

  “He has depicted Hamilton with force and clearness, with humour, with
  sympathy and charm. He has treated a big subject in a large and
  masterly way. No book has appeared lately which conveys a more
  valuable lesson or one more tactfully and skilfully unfolded.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 165. My. 11, ’06. 3340w.

  “To our minds, his narrative is by far the most interesting and vivid
  account that has yet been published; but, being neither a publicist
  nor an economist ... he is positively disqualified from the task of
  estimating Hamilton’s work.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 1770w.

  “There are some errors of fact, due perhaps to faulty proof reading,
  but the worst fault is the author’s bias and distortion of facts,
  which frequently make his conclusions valueless.” R. L. Schuyler.

    – – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 357. Je. 2, ’06. 1120w.

  “As a portrait of Hamilton the work exhibits most of the defects
  inherent in all admittedly partisan productions, and it further
  suffers from the animus apparent in the treatment of those within as
  well as without the Federalist party who placed themselves in
  opposition to ‘the little lion.’ But his is a singularly fresh and in
  many respects a singularly charming study, distinctive alike in point
  of view, in method, and in style.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 204. N. 3, ’06. 450w.

  “Mr. Oliver’s book seems to us the most brilliant piece of political
  biography which has appeared in England for many years. A clear and
  vigorous style, wit, urbanity, a high sense of the picturesque, and a
  remarkable power of character-drawing raise much of it to the rank of
  a literary masterpiece.”

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 58. Jl. 14, ’06. 2040w.


=Olmsted, Stanley=, Nonchalante. †$1.25. Holt.

  Student life, especially the life of two American students in a German
  university town, is cleverly handled in this story, and the nonchalant
  heroine, with musical aspirations, is well suited to her surroundings.
  The book presents a phase, a passing episode, interesting and amusing,
  but superficial in that it deals with that frivolous side of things
  which is so typical of student days. The cafés, the theatres, the
  bleak boarding houses are well drawn, and poor Fraulein Mittelini’s
  tragic struggle for fame is really worthy of sympathy.

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  “The author has succeeded ... in giving [the heroine] some genuine
  fascination. The style is too obviously imitative of that of Mr.
  James.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 50w.

  “The grip of the book is the grip of Miss Bilton—but it is
  entertaining even when she is off the stage.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 287. My. 5, ’06. 540w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.

      – =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 100w.


=Oman, Charles William Chadwick.= Inaugural lecture on the study of
history delivered on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1906. *35c. Oxford.

  In this lecture on the teaching and study of history the Chichele
  professor “perceives the great virtues of the tutorial system. He
  recognizes a fact which is often overlooked by zealous reformers, that
  no system of teaching can flourish which does not meet the wants of
  the learners; and this general truth is in a particular sense
  applicable to the universities of England.... The fact ‘that must be
  faced is, that Oxford is a place of education as well as a place of
  research,’—these words strike the real keynote of Professor Oman’s
  inaugural address.” (Nation.)

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  “It is remarkable for several characteristics and for a good deal of
  courage. From start to finish it is lively; the writing, while it is
  occasionally of great dignity is sometimes brilliant and even
  humorous.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 322. Mr. 17. 1100w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 388. My. 10, ’06. 1100w.


=Omar Khayyam.= Rubaiyat: a new metrical version; rendered into English
from various Persian sources, by George Roe, with introd. and notes.
**$1.50. McClurg.

  The translation adopts a middle course between the versions of Omar
  which sacrifice the letter to the requirements of good verse and those
  which in order to be literal, sacrifice the spirit to the letter.

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        =Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 70w.


=Omond, George William Thomson.= Bruges and West Flanders; painted by
Amedee Forestier; described by G. W. T. Omond. *$3. Macmillan.

  In the main Mr. Omond treats his subject historically, but even from
  this point of view, he catches the spirit of sentiment and romance.
  “Each one of these quaint, often-despoiled towns has remaining some
  romantic relics and picturesque buildings—belfry, market-place, Hotel
  de Ville—old gateways, or churches enriched with paintings.”
  (Outlook.) “And what Mr. Omond so successfully does for Bruge-LaMorte,
  he also does for the other towns of West Flanders—Ypres, Furnes,
  Nieuport—revivifying them with the story of a glorious past.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

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      + =Ind.= 61: 754. S. 27, ’06. 160w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 279. Ap. 5, ’06. 80w.

  “He has been deeply touched by the ruined greatness that surrounds
  prosperous Ostend and would show others how they may come under the
  spell.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 145. Mr. 10, ’06. 870w.

  “While the text of the book is not remarkable in any way, it is
  written in clear, simple style.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 715. Mr. 24, ’06. 340w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 120w.

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 664. My. 26, ’06. 320w.


=Oppenheim, E. Phillips.= Maker of history. †$1.50. Little.

  The plot of Mr. Oppenheim’s new story with a mystery grows out of an
  episode in which an English youth actually witnesses a meeting between
  the Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Germany, and turns up in Paris
  with a loose sheet of a treaty between the two, relative to an attack
  upon England. How this same Englishman is hidden away in Paris by
  spies, and why his sister is also abducted, and what sympathies stir
  one Sir George Duncombe to action in their behalf furnish motive power
  for a lively story.

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  “Is a capital story filled with mysterious and exciting happenings,
  but one regrets to see Mr. Oppenheim writing down to this level after
  he has shown that he is capable of such work as ‘A prince of
  sinners.’” Amy C. Rich.

      + =Arena.= 35: 447. Ap. ’06. 330w.

  “It is an amazing medley, highly characteristic of the author. Without
  trenching on politics, one may be permitted to doubt the wisdom just
  now of accentuating the jealousies of nations.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 432. S. 30. 190w.

  “In substance, of course, it is merely a sort of exalted dime novel.
  But is written with such admirable restraint, such a matter-of-fact
  style, as though the events were being chronicled for the columns of a
  conservative daily newspaper, that you are cleverly led on from mild
  curiosity to a breathless sort of interest.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 633. F. ’06. 560w.

  “This stirring story is told with neatness and dispatch.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 154. Mr. 1, ’06. 250w.

  “Mr. Oppenheim handles his material cleverly and makes of it a good
  story of adventure.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1166. My. 17, ’06. 300w.

  “The story is told with the vim and dash characteristic of Mr.
  Oppenheim’s work, and is one of the best tales he has yet produced.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 140w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 925. D. 30, ’05. 90w.

  “The story proceeds with cumulative interest to the end. The love
  interest of the story is secondary, but good, although the character
  drawing is occasionally exaggerated.” Stephen Chalmers.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 15. Ja. 13, ’06. 820w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

  “Altogether the romance is an exceptionally good specimen of
  sensational story-telling.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 231. Ja. 27, ’06. 150w.

  “It is all nonsense, but it is not boring nonsense.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 8. O. 14, ’05. 420w.

    + – =Spec.= 95: 571. O. 14, ’05. 130w.


=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Man and his kingdom. †$1.50. Little.

  Love, intrigue and revolution in a South American state make a riotous
  setting for Mr. Oppenheim’s story. The man of the hour is a wealthy
  young Englishman who sides neither with the revolutionists nor yet
  with the president’s party, but is a friend to both. His Beau Desir, a
  fertile valley near the town, with two hundred Englishmen to till it
  would fain express the temper of his neutrality, but the disquieting
  elements of the town creep into it. There are lively quarrels,
  attempted murders, and thrilling escapes, all of which have local
  color and atmosphere.


=Oppenheim, E. Phillips.= Master mummer. †$1.50. Little.

  “Mr. Oppenheim has trodden a beaten path when, it would seem from his
  earlier success in invention, he might have struck out afresh for
  himself.”

    + – =Reader.= 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 180w.


=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Millionaire of yesterday. †$1.50. Little.

  A new illustrated edition of Mr. Oppenheim’s story that gives a vivid
  picture of two men, widely divergent types, one an invincible hero,
  the other a leaner, in the African bush making a grim fight for life
  and fortune.


=Oppenheim, Lassa.= International law. *$6.50. Longmans.

      + =Edinburgh R.= 203: 471. Ap. ’06. 8240w.

  “The best and most important part of this system is his rule of giving
  his readers the law as it is, and not as it ought to be. This,
  combined with his natural impartiality, makes his book an extremely
  fair and rational one.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 373. My. 3, ’06. 460w.

  “The arrangement is clear and logical, and the matter of the work is,
  so far as we have examined it, fully up to date, and presented with
  acumen and moderation.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 544. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.


=Orczy, Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara, baroness.= I will
repay. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  The scenes of Baroness Orczy’s dramatic tale are enacted in the
  terrible days of the French revolution. Ten years before its reign of
  terror, Juliette Marny is compelled by her father to take a vow to
  bring about the ruin and death of Paul Déroulède, the man who, tho
  against his will, had killed her brother in a duel. So much for the
  prologue. When the story opens, the revolution is well under way.
  Déroulède is a popular leader. Juliette, housed with his mother for
  safety, loves him, yet is obedient to relentless Fate which is
  dragging her to the fulfillment of her vow. She denounces him to the
  terrorists, and in attempting to undo her treachery brings both
  herself and Déroulède under the Merlin suspect law. Their escape from
  France closes a chapter of thrilling incidents.

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  “There are not so many characters to stage in this book as in a former
  success of the same author’s, dealing, like this with revolutionary
  Paris, and we find less variety of scene, less incident: but the same
  dramatic power is abundantly demonstrated.”

      + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 579. N. 10. 150w.

  “It is, in truth, a very fair story of its semihistoric wholly
  respectable sort.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 390w.

  “The story is full of exciting situations and thrilling moments.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 100w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 869. D. 15, ’06. 630w.

    – + =Sat. R.= 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 90w.


=Orczy, Baroness.= Scarlet pimpernel. †$1.50. Putnam.

  “A brilliantly vivid story abounding in dramatic incident.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 80w.


=Orczy, Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara, baroness.= Son of
the people: a romance of the Hungarian plains. †$1.50. Putnam.

  The old story of the rich and handsome peasant who wins the hand of an
  impoverished nobleman’s daughter against her will and later, by
  proving his nobility of soul, turns her scorn to love, is given a
  charming Hungarian setting in this romance of the plains. The peasant
  life and character are strongly contrasted with the traditional pride
  of the nobility; the lines of caste are well portrayed, the priest,
  the Jew, the aristocrat, and the son of the soil, the thrift of the
  peasant, the prodigality of the lord are all interwoven with the love
  story.

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  “It is sentimental and of a conventional type, but the setting is new,
  and so it takes on a novel air.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 227. F. 24. 260w.

  “It is a strong and attractive piece of work, vivid in description and
  characterization, dramatic in action.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 230w.

  “The story is well told, and as interesting as any other thrice told
  tale.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 825. O. 4, ’06. 110w.

  “This really interesting book is hurt by wordiness and repetitions of
  good effects, yet not unto destruction.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 59. Jl. 19, ’06. 430w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

  “Judicious condensation and elimination would have greatly improved
  and strengthened ‘A son of the people,’ but it has decided merits as
  it is.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 506. Ag. 18, ’06. 490w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 224. N. ’06. 160w.

  “The book interests and attracts despite the poverty of the plot.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 244. F. 24, ’06. 200w.


=Orr, Rev. James.= God’s image in man and its defacement in the light of
modern ideals. **$1.75. Armstrong.

  Professor Orr discusses “the conflict between the Biblical and the
  modern view of man—his nature, origin, and primitive condition, his
  sinfulness and the divine redemption from it. The difference between
  the so-called Biblical and the modern views is that the former
  regards God’s image in man as aboriginal, the latter regards it as
  ultimate. Man’s redemption from sin, therefore, the former regards
  as a reconstructive work, the latter as constructive or
  evolutionary.”—Outlook.

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  “There can be no question of Professor Orr’s deep religious interest,
  his courage, his marvelous grasp of the material of present-day
  learning, and his perception of the seriousness of the questions now
  pressing for solution; but I do not think that the work under review
  can give much help to a man who is seized of the significance of the
  great intellectual and religious movements of the present and feels a
  sympathetic interest in them.” George Cross.

    + – =Bib. World.= 28: 220. S. ’06. 1290w.

        =Ind.= 61: 823. O. 4, ’06. 510w.

  “What seems hardly fair in Professor Orr’s argument is the prominence
  given to Haeckel as the representative of the modern view.”

    + – =Outlook.= 81: 940. D. 16, ’05. 220w.

  “Dr. Orr conducts his argument with a creditable moderation of
  language, and states the problems which he discusses fairly.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 986. D. 9, ’05. 250w.


=Orr, Rev. James.= Problem of the Old Testament considered with
reference to recent criticism. **$1.50. Scribner.

  “A volume of lectures given at Lake Forest college by Dr. James Orr,
  of Glasgow. Dr. Orr represents the conservative view in his attitude
  toward modern criticism. The present volume is largely devoted to the
  repetition of the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The temper of the book is admirable. Dr. Orr’s disposition of his
  material appears to be excellent. We think it is safe to say that
  nowhere will the student find in so compact a form an abler
  arraignment of the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis, which is Dr. Orr’s
  immediate object of attack, than in the present work.” Kemper
  Fullerton.

  + + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 705. O. ’06. 1720w.

  “A comprehensive survey of the chief problems of the Old Testament
  from the conservative point of view, but considered with fairness and
  candor.”

    + + =Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 20w.

    + + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 374. Ap. ’06. 440w.

  “There is no book in English that presents with such fulness and
  strength, from the conservative point of view, the problem of the Old
  Testament.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 350w.

  “Professor Orr is astute, a keen logician, and he has made himself a
  thoro master of his material.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1490. Je. 21, ’06. 940w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15. ’06. 120w.

  “The problem of old Testament is twofold—religious and literary. So
  far as the principles of the religious aspect of the problem are
  concerned, we agree with him; but so far as the literary aspect of the
  problem is concerned, we take leave to doubt.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 130. Ap. 12, ’06. 1390w.

  “The multitudinous points taken by Dr. Orr against the prevailing
  critical opinions present to the unlearned reader a formidable array.”

    – + =Outlook.= 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 500w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 50w.

  “We may say that Dr. Orr is a strong conservative, though fifty years
  ago he would have been regarded as a dangerous radical, that he has
  stated his subject thoroughly, though not we cannot but think, with an
  open mind; and that he always expresses himself with courtesy and good
  taste.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 230w.


=Osborn, Albert.= John Fletcher Hurst: a biography. *$2. Meth. bk.

  A biography which is autobiographic in nature so successfully has the
  compiler eliminated himself in producing what the Bishop said or what
  has been said about him. The sketch touches upon his boyhood,
  education, European experiences, ministerial work, and duties as
  president of the Drew theological seminary.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Erl B. Hulbert.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 362. Ap. ’06. 90w.

  “The task has been performed with equal loyalty and ability, and the
  book is every way a fitting memorial of a man of great gifts, high
  character, and broad influence.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 60w.

  “Mr. Osborn’s biography, in a word, is a worthy memorial of a great
  Christian and a great American, and a book which should enlarge the
  horizon and stimulate to a higher life all into whose hands it falls.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 430w.

  “The only criticism to be brought against this biography is that the
  index is extravagant in its dimensions.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 14. Ja. 13, ’06. 520w.

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 160w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 90w.


=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Motormaniacs. [+]75c. Bobbs.

  “Pretty little stories they are too, when we are permitted to pause
  and enjoy them, and the motormaniacs are always entertaining and
  capital company to the end of the run.”

      + =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 110w.

  “The dialogue is comic, and the narrative runs with a swing and zest
  which are valuable aids to easy reading.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 100w.

  “The book is full of humour and energy.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 497. O. 6, ’06. 110w.


=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Wild justice. †$1.50. Appleton.

  Nine stories of life in the South sea islands which take their title
  from the first tale. The author spent a number of years among crude
  Pacific natives with his step-father Robert Louis Stevenson. His
  characters are drawn from these inhabitants “well-meaning but
  generally inefficient missionaries, unscrupulous traders, and refugees
  and adventurers in search of victims. It is not an edifying life, and
  the manly virtues seem to be conspicuously absent.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “They are all good, but of no one of them can it be said that it is
  strikingly and exceptionally good.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 510. Ap. 28. 240w.

  “The tales all have a swing in the telling and show that the author is
  in his own field.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 70w.

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 149. Ap. 27, ’06. 550w.

  “The fascination of the unusual pervades its pages.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.

  “There is a certain bizarre humor, however, in these tales which
  somewhat redeems the sordidness of their subject matter.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 70w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 625. My. 19, ’06. 60w.


=Osgood, Herbert Levi.= American colonies in the 17th century. 2v. **$5.
Macmillan.

  “As a whole the work is the first adequate account of the origin,
  character, and development of the American colonies as institutions of
  government and as parts of a great colonial system; and it displays,
  on the part of the author wide and deep knowledge of the documentary
  evidence for colonial history and rare powers of analysis and
  interpretation. In a style remarkably clear, forcible and accurate the
  reader will regret the presence of so many cleft infinitives.” Charles
  M. Andrews.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 397. Ja. ’06. 3060w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=O’Shea, Michael Vincent.= Dynamic factors in education. *$1.25.
Macmillan.

  “It has been the author’s object to show that in the early years of a
  child’s school life, ‘motor expression’ in his teaching is ‘essential
  to all learning.’ He has endeavored to indicate mainly in outline,
  ‘how the requirements of dynamic education can be provided for in all
  departments of school work.’ Further, he says in his preface, ‘I have
  sought to point out that there is a definite order in which the motor
  powers develop, and that in our instruction we will achieve the
  highest success only as we conform quite closely to this order.’”—N.
  Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is clear and, if one is not annoyed by its diffuseness,
  interesting.”

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 654. Ag. ’06. 180w.

  “The book seems poorly suited for the use of the practical teacher for
  whom it is announced, or the professional student. In spite of the
  author’s resolution to the contrary, it is burdened with methods of
  investigation, where results alone should be given.” Edward O. Sisson.

    – – =Dial.= 41: 89. Ag. 16, ’06. 580w.

  “A fair and comprehensive book. It is sound psychology sensibly
  applied.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 201. Mr. 31, ’06. 310w.

  “The whole volume is what the subject is, dynamic, and is as important
  for parents as for teachers.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 90. My. 12, ’06. 200w.

  “It is admirably suited to be a handbook for advanced classes who
  desire to pursue special topics exhaustively, by first reading a
  guidebook and then following up the literature of the subject. The
  style is so clear and the treatment so concrete and inductive that the
  general reader will understand most of it. One of Professor O’Shea’s
  chief contributions is in selecting those laws and phenomena that have
  an educational application and clearly showing the application.”
  Frederick E. Bolton.

    + + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 367. N. 15, ’06. 510w.

  “Is not epoch marking; it is in part what has been said before by
  other writers, but it has two virtues—it is reasonably complete, and
  it is of great importance.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 639. My. 19, ’06. 90w.

  “On the whole, we know of no more satisfactory discussion of what is
  thus far known of the evolution of motor control, its relation to
  education, and of the place of the manual arts in education.”

    + + =School R.= 14: 459. Je. ’06. 510w.

  “The style is not so overburdened with ‘educational jargon’ as to
  interfere with the enjoyment and edification of the general reader.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 240w.


=Osler, William.= Counsels and ideals; from the writings of William
Osler. **$1.25. Houghton.

  In culling selections from his less technical lectures and addresses,
  Dr. Osler aims to offer “individual influence” and “inspiration” to
  the student or general reader. “Wise counsels abound in this
  volume—counsels inspired by high ideals and wide experience. The real
  man whom they present is no more like the individual whose words were
  so travestied by the press on a recent occasion as to threaten the
  dictionary-makers with a new word, ‘oslerize,’ than the caricature of
  the political cartoonist is like its original.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A book which may be read with pleasure and lasting profit, not only
  by every member of the medical profession, but also by the general
  public. Dr. Camac has made his selection with judgment.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 301. Mr. 10. 730w.

      + =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 190w.

  “What most impresses one on examining this selection from forty-seven
  of the author’s fugitive pieces is not only the professional and
  practical wisdom displayed, and the breadth of view revealed, but also
  the wide reading in writers not commonly held to be a necessary part
  of a doctor’s library.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 93. F. 1, ’06. 390w.

    + + =Ind.= 60: 929. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.

  “They afford very interesting reading.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 680w.

  “What he writes, however, is of household, individual interest, and it
  is presented in a manner which causes facts to breathe eloquence and
  conviction.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 48. Ja. 27, ’06. 350w.

  “To dip into these pages anywhere is to meet with a thoughtful,
  strong, and sagacious man.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 130w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 90w.


=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Conversations on chemistry. Pt. 1, General
chemistry; authorized tr. by Elizabeth Catherine Ramsay, $1.50; Pt. 2,
Chemistry of the most important elements and compounds; authorized tr.
by Stuart K. Turnbull, $2. Wiley.

  The authorized translation of Ostwald’s “Die schule der chemie.”
  Addressed distinctly to elementary pupils, the subject is presented in
  dialogue, the conversations taking place between master and pupil.
  Such subjects are treated as substance, properties, solution, melting
  and freezing, density, compounds, elements, oxygen, hydrogen,
  nitrogen, air, etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Miss Ramsay has done her work with much skill, and has made the
  dialogue not less natural and vivacious than it is in the original.”

    + + =Nature.= 72: 364. Ag. 17, ’05. 330w. (Review of pt. 1.)

  “Most points are worked out with great ingenuity and address to an
  entirely logical conclusion. The allusion to things and phenomena of
  real human interest and the suppression of pedantry are also to be
  warmly commended. The actual work of translation has, on the whole,
  been well done.” A. S.

  + + – =Nature.= 74: 173. Je. 21, ’06. 570w. (Review of pt. 2.)

  “The chief value of the book, must lie, therefore, in showing
  something of the spirit and the methods best adapted for arousing the
  interest of the young pupils in elementary science.” William
  McPherson.

      + =Science=, n.s. 22: 829. D. 22, 05. 220w. (Review of pt. 1.)


=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Individuality and immortality: the Ingersoll
lectures, 1906. **75c. Houghton.

  Professor Ostwald, professor of chemistry at the university of
  Leipzig, treats the question scientifically. “At the very outset, the
  lecturer calls attention to the fact that our knowledge ‘is an
  incomplete piece of patchwork;’” but, he adds, “each one is bound to
  make the best possible use of it, such as it is, never forgetting that
  it may at any time be superseded by new discoveries or ideas. In this
  truly scientific spirit, very remote from the dogmatism of the
  churches, Professor Ostwald proceeds to consider what immortality may
  be supposed to be, and what reasons we have for believing it.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The chief value of this work is in showing the attitude which the
  scientifically trained mind tends to take to those problems where the
  clear principles and positive methods of the physical sciences do not
  obtain.” W. C. Keirstead.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 555. Jl. ’06. 560w.

  “The discussion is an interesting one, both from its statement of
  scientific views and from the glimpse it affords of the mind of the
  author. It is, nevertheless, strangely incomplete, almost ignoring the
  deeper questions at issue.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 228. Ap. 1, ’06. 1680w.

  “It is an exceedingly interesting discourse, and quite up to date,
  scientifically speaking; it is full of fine moral thoughts, but it
  contains very little Christian consolation.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 116. F. 24, ’06. 230w.

      – =Outlook.= 82: 716. Mr. 24, ’06. 150w.


=Ottley, Rev. Robert Lawrence.= Religion of Israel: a historical sketch.
*$1. Macmillan.

  “It is a readable outline of the history from a modern point of view,
  chiefly at second-hand.” George F. Moore.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 144. Ja. ’06. 70w.


=Outram, James.= In the heart of the Canadian Rockies. **$3. Macmillan.

  “His counsel is sound, and his knowledge reaches far. The volume was
  well worth writing.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 560w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 20w.

    + + =Ind.= 60: 457. F. 22, ’06. 420w.

  “He has succeeded in producing a useful piece of work, which brings
  together an account of all that has been accomplished in the Canadian
  Rockies by himself and by other kindred spirits.” G. W. L.

  + + – =Nature.= 73: 362. F. 15, ’06. 720w.

  “The book is written by a man who has his soul in the story.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 210w.


                                   P


“=P., Q.=” How-to buy life insurance. **$1.20. Doubleday.

  A book that “has been written and published in the interest of the
  policyholder primarily. It undertakes to free the subject from the
  technical obscurities that so frequently interfere with a clear
  understanding of its elements and to give the plain citizen
  straightforward advice and information as to the various types of
  policies in the market and the relative advantages of each.” (R. of
  Rs.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a practical guide to the policyholder desirous of figuring out for
  himself the real cost of his insurance and of choosing between rival
  companies, ought to be found of substantial value by the busy man,
  because of the comparative tables and specimen blanks given in the
  appendix. These could be considerably improved upon in certain
  respects, but they are a distinct advance over what has been furnished
  by most other books on the subject.”

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 350w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 408. Je. 23, ’06. 720w.

  “It is a helpful and suggestive manual.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 80w.


=Page, Curtis Hidden=, ed. Chief American poets: selected poems by
Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman, and
Lanier. *$1.75. Houghton.

  “The selections have been made with good taste and judgment and the
  notes are ample and to the point.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 90w.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 96. F. 1, ’06. 150w.

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 158. F. 22, ’06. 170w.

  “Such a book would be a great convenience for the use of a class
  studying American literature.”

      + =School R.= 14: 233. Mr. ’06. 100w.


=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Negro: the southerner’s problem. **$1.25.
Scribner.

  “These essays are characterized by a sanity of spirit and a
  painstaking thoroughness.” C: A. Elwood.

      + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 698. Mr. ’06. 440w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 88. My. 12, ’06. 510w.


=Page, Thomas Nelson.= On Newfound river. †$1.50. Scribner.

  “In the story we meet ... the Southern life of an earlier day:
  hot-tempered men and gracious women, trusty slaves, negro-hunting
  whites, the grocery-store-town-meeting, and the open-air court of
  justice. The love-story, however, is the thing and is young, Arcadian,
  rough-running, happily arriving. Mr. Page explains that it is a story
  enlarged; explicitly not a novel, but ‘a love story, pure and simple,’
  and such it will be found.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 40w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 130w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

  “A delicate, finished specimen of its author’s art.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 170w.

  “It is a story pure and sweet amid the poisonous blossoms of fiction
  that nowadays spring thick, an idyll of loyalty and of love, thrilled
  through and through with ‘the tender grace of a day that is dead.’”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 440w.

  “The most appreciative comment that can be made on this story is that
  he has not spoiled it; the old charm still lingers.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 80w.


=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Little garden calendar for boys and girls. $1.
Altemus.

  “This is one of the best children’s books in recent years. It is
  bright and entertaining and while holding the interest of the young in
  the story that is told, it imparts a vast fund of information which
  every child should know.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 222. F. ’06. 320w.


=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Lucky piece: a story of the North woods. $1.50.
Outing pub.

  A tale of the Adirondacks whose hero is an idle young man of more
  wealth than ambition, and whose heroine undertakes to teach him the
  definite purpose in life. A Spanish luck piece brings friends, wealth
  and happiness in its train of talismanic bestowals.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a pleasant story, with some well-drawn characters and just
  enough plot to carry the reader comfortably along to the last
  chapter.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 50w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.


=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Sailor of fortune; memoirs of Capt. B. S.
Osbon. **$1.20. McClure.

  “Captain Osbon, whose memoirs are given practically as he detailed
  them to the writer, Mr. Albert Bigelow Paine, lived among some of the
  most stirring scenes of the past century, and his narrative presents
  with extraordinary vividness events of which he was an actor or an
  eye-witness.” (Lit. D.) “This lively record covers whaling,
  buccaneering, the Civil war, journalism, and almost everything but
  love.” (World To-Day.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Paine, the redactor of these stories of sea life, has succeeded
  admirably in preserving the personal quality of the actor-narrator,
  and we easily accept the ‘yarns’ as a long succession of fireside
  talks face to face with the man who lived them.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 180w.

  “Cannot fail to be a joy to old and young.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 667. O. 13, ’06. 190w.

  “His reminiscences of famous men are numerous and characteristic.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

  “Mr. Paine has done well what must have been a difficult task. The
  book will amuse and enchain the reader who has a love for the unusual
  and picturesque.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 110w.

  “Every chapter reads like a condensed historical novel.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 50w.


=Paine, Dorothy C.= Maid of the mountains. †$1. Jacobs.

  To Carol, a mountain maid of North Carolina, comes a good fairy in the
  guise of Beth, a happy tender-hearted little girl, who brings real aid
  to the sufferings of the mountain family. Among other things, she
  gives a benefit entertainment in which it is discovered that Carol has
  a beautiful voice, and a wealthy but childless woman in the audience
  decides to take her north. The movement of the book is rapid, ranging
  from train wrecks to doll dressing, and is certain to delight the
  heart of adventure-loving children.


=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Praying skipper and other stories. $1.50.
Outing pub.

  “The fact that not one of this collection of seven stories is a love
  story, in the ordinary sense of that saccharine term, is a point in
  its favor. In making sentiment secondary to action the author has
  heightened the effect of both.” (N. Y. Times.) The stories following
  the title story are: A victory unforeseen, The last pilot schooner,
  The jade teapot, Corporal Sweeney, deserter, and two other thrilling
  sea tales which have the merit of not being told in dialog by an old
  salt.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ind.= 60: 1375. Je. 7, ’06. 300w.

  “Vigorous, straightforward yarns, and as satisfactory as they are
  exciting.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 355. Je. 2, ’06. 440w.

  “There are pathos and humor in the book, and both the pathos and the
  humor grip the reader tightly.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

  “These are stories of the kind men like—told with considerable vigor
  and dealing with active life.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 80w.


=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Story of Martin Coe; il. by Howard Giles.
$1.50. Outing pub.

  Martin Coe, gunner’s mate, deserts from the American navy to lead a
  revolution in a South American state. By a strange chance he comes at
  length to a little Maine village where his regeneration begins. It is
  love that clarifies his nature, and brings to the surface the broken
  oath, neglected duty, general culpableness. His honor demands
  atonement, and his obedience to the call sends him back to the navy to
  serve out his term.

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  “The best thing about the book, however, is the fact that, though
  Martin is regenerated, he remains he same Martin Coe to the end—a
  typical sailor hero—than whom there is not any better either in real
  life or in fiction.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 540w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

  “The character is well enough conceived, but a touch of caricature
  throughout weakens the personality and decidedly impairs the love
  story. The book as a character-study is lacking in close
  interpretation.”

    – + =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 80w.


=Painter, Franklin Verzelius Newton=, ed. Great pedagogical essays;
Plato to Spencer. *$1.25. Am. bk.

  “This anthology of selections from writers ancient and modern, pagan
  and Christian, upon educational topics has the merit of bringing
  together from the most diverse sources the best thoughts that have
  been entertained of the educational ideal which is still the object of
  pursuit. It is a source-book of the history of this pursuit, embodying
  its major documents—a history not always marked by progress.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The chief objection to these selections is that there is no unified
  basis of selection.”

    + – =Bookm.= 22: 643. F. ’06. 240w.

        =Dial.= 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 50w.

  “The book will meet the demand among students of educational history
  for an acquaintance with the original sources of information, and will
  form an acceptable and useful volume supplementary to any standard
  history of education.”

      + =El. School T.= 6: 438. Ap. ’06. 80w.

        =Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 80w.

  “He has failed signally in his purpose, and not wholly or mainly
  because of space limitations, but rather because of manifest lack of
  broad historic scholarship and clear pedagogic insight. His selections
  are in the main inconsequential fragments, and the translations are
  often poor.” Will S. Monroe.

    – – =J. Philos.= 3: 79. F. 1, ’06. 480w.

  “An excellent companion book is this to any of the current histories
  of education.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 940. D. 16, ’05. 130w.

  “The student of education who is without access to a large library
  will be grateful for what the editor has provided, and will profit
  greatly by a careful study of these pages.” W. B. O.

      + =School R.= 14: 310. Ap. ’06. 250w.


=Pais, Ettore.= Ancient legends of Roman history; tr. by Mario E.
Cosenza. *$4. Dodd.

  Professor Pais, connected with the University of Naples, brings
  together here a number of lectures on the early Roman legends which
  form the substratum of later political and social development.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The translation is marred by some constantly recurring errors. Very
  few of the radical views advanced in these lectures will ever be
  generally accepted, but they cannot fail to arouse opposition and to
  stimulate fruitful discussion. The erudition and acumen of the author
  are truly remarkable.” Samuel Ball Platner.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 872. Jl. ’06. 1180w.

  “The book is a scholarly one, essentially for the scholar.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 60w.

  “While in the main satisfactory, [the English version] frequently
  lacks in point of clearness, the involved parenthetical structure of
  the sentences making it difficult at times to follow the author’s
  arguments.”

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 201. Mr. 16, ’06. 400w.

  “Professor Pais has sifted the origins of Rome without fear or pity.
  The style is not smooth. The lack of an index can only be excused by
  the consideration that such an index would have added materially to
  the bulk of the book. The maps are good.”

  + + – =Ind.= 59: 1481. D. 21. ’05. 630w.

  “The translation is very well done, although the paragraphing is often
  bad. The index, which is indispensable in a work of this kind, has
  been omitted.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 474. Je. 7, ’06. 1410w.

  “Although technical and teeming with data of detail, Prof. Pais’s work
  ... should form the means of valuable supplementary reading for
  students of Roman history.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 104. F. 17, ’06. 840w.

  “The book should challenge the attention of all who care for
  archaeology and early Roman history.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ’05. 120w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 90w.


=Palmer, Frederick.= Lucy of the stars: il. by Alonzo Kimball. †$1.50.
Scribner.

  “Mr. Frederick Palmer combines in admirable balance the functions of
  war-correspondent and novelist. When the piping times of peace are at
  hand, he will sit down to his desk and write you as pretty a story as
  you could wish to read in an idle hour, and when the war-trumpet
  sounds, he will sally forth until he is in the thick of the scrimmage
  collecting observations for a graphic portrayal of the scene of
  carnage. It is this dual activity that now gives us ‘Lucy of the
  stars’ as a successor to ‘With Kuroki in Manchuria.’ We like Mr.
  Palmer’s portrait of the imaginary Lucy, as we liked his portrait of
  the real Kuroki, but we object most strenuously to the fate that he
  has bestowed upon her.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a pity that such good material should be used on so
  persistently pessimistic a theme. The characters are clearly and
  consistently drawn, the story is well, and in places wittily told, and
  ‘Lucy of the stars’ is a charming heroine.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 300w.

  “The merit of the book lies in the presentation, under an unusually
  attractive aspect, of public life across the Atlantic in certain
  latter-day phases; yet it can scarcely be said to fulfil the
  conditions requisite for that difficult achievement, a successful
  political novel.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 298. S. 15. 160w.

  “In order to write a great novel, it is necessary to sympathize with
  all your characters. Mr. Palmer has not done this; nevertheless, ‘Lucy
  of the stars’ is worth reading.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 120. Ag. ’06. 270w.

    + – =Critic.= 49: 192. Ag. ’06. 80w.

  “The story is more than worth reading for [Lucy’s] sake, even if its
  outcome does rudely shock our romantic sensibilities.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 368. Je. 1, ’06. 260w.

  “Sensible, normal people will not care for a romance in which sorrows
  and griefs are the only heroes and heroines.”

    – + =Ind.= 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 80w.

  “Although written with spirit, and though the author has brought a
  keen observation to bear upon a wide range of experience, the story
  has been a disappointment.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 338. My. 26, ’06. 490w.

      – =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 30w.


=Palmer, William T.= English lakes. *$6. Macmillan.

  “We fail, in this volume, to find many of the interesting stories of
  adventure and sport on the fells, or glimpses of the dalesman’s life,
  such as made its predecessors readable in spite of a somewhat
  unchastened style. The style, indeed, is all there. Strange words
  abound.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 329. S. 9. 1180w.

  “His bright and chatty narrative, in spite of its want of style, is
  eminently readable.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 278. Ja. ’06. 240w.


=Pancake, Edmund Blair.= Miss New York. $1.50. Fenno.

  A story with a college setting. The heroine is a “discovery” made one
  day by a student who comes upon a rude hut in the mountains near the
  town. She and her mother are evidently in hiding. For what purpose
  remains a mystery thruout the course of a tale that defies the reader
  in the matter of making even a guess at the probation accompanied by
  sunbonnet and calico.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 343. My. 26, ’06. 220w.


=Parker, Edward Harper.= China and religion. **$3.50. Dutton.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 727. Ap. ’06. 50w.

  “We cannot conclude without congratulating him upon the research he
  has displayed and upon the readable style which makes an abstruse
  subject easily grasped by the general reader.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 455. D. 22, ’05. 970w.

  “His method of composition is peculiar and his literary graces are not
  very great. On the whole, it is cool, clear, impartial.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 477. Je. 7, ’06. 820w.

  “Mr. Parker is a profound Chinese scholar, and is possibly the highest
  living authority upon the subject with which he deals in the volume
  under notice.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 53. Ja. 13, ’06. 1550w.

  “His excellent book should be regarded as the best and simplest
  English authority on this important subject.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 340w.


=Parr, G. D. Aspinall.= Electrical engineering in theory and practice.
*$3.25. Macmillan.

  “The present volume treats only of the elements of the subject and it
  is to be amplified later or possibly followed by a second volume, the
  new material to comprise electrical machinery and its applications....
  There are three chapters dealing with the fundamental facts and laws
  regarding magnetism and statical and current electricity. Then follow
  three chapters dealing with the interrelated subjects, resistance,
  electro-magnetism and induction. The remainder of the work is of a
  more practical nature and covers measuring instruments, incandescent
  lamps, and the thermal and chemical production of electro-motive
  force.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work as a whole differs somewhat from other books on the market.
  In general its field may be said to be similar to that with the same
  title by Slingo and Brooker, which is also an English book. It will be
  read with profit by practical engineers desiring a broad general view
  of the principles of electrical engineering practice.” Henry H.
  Norris.

    + + =Engin. N.= 56: 55. Jl. 12, ’06. 870w.


=Parrish, Randall.= Bob Hampton of Placer. †$1.50. McClurg.

  The Sioux uprising in 1876 furnishes the main incidents for this story
  of Wyoming and Montana, and of Bob Hampton, a gambler and disgraced
  army officer, who saves the life of Naida, old Gillis’s girl, at the
  risk of his own, only to discover that she is his own daughter. He
  does not reveal himself to her however, but gives her up for the sake
  of her future, then quietly renounces his old life and keeps watch
  over her from afar. In the end he dies a brave death, leaving her an
  untarnished name and a gallant soldier lover. It is a stirring tale of
  frontier life and Indian warfare culminating in a description of the
  Custer massacre.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 80w.

  “Its theme, indeed, is so like that of Harte’s ‘Protégé of Jack
  Hamlin’s’ as to make it seem rather more reminiscent than original. A
  certain racy quality of its own, however, it preserves.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 120w.

  “Is one of the good Western stories—not especially literary, but
  thoroughly interesting, and excellent in plot and characters.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 8, ’06. 100w.


=Parrish, Randall.= Historic Illinois: the romance of the earlier days.
**$2. McClurg.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 755. Ap. ’06. 50w.

  “The book will interest the general student of our national history as
  well as the people of Illinois.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 90w.

  “Altogether the book is highly attractive, and will be found
  particularly useful in the schools, every one of which should be
  provided with a copy.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 94. F. 1, ’06. 250w.

  “It would be difficult to find a picture of pioneer days at once so
  true to the spirit of the time and so accurate in detail.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 150w.

  “Altogether he gives a very tolerable idea of Illinois history.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 89. F. 10, ’06. 400w.

  “His book, in a word, is encyclopaedic in scope. No pretense is made
  to original research, but the authorities followed are sound, and
  there is little to criticise.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 150w.

  “An entertaining volume of historic romance.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 80w.


=Parrish, Randall.= Sword of the old frontier; a tale of Fort Chartres
and Detroit. †$1.50. McClurg.

  “Mr. Parrish writes with colour and spirit, and his ingenuity in
  devising new variations in adventure is admirable.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 280w.

  “One thing to be said in favor of Randall Parrish’s books is that the
  melodrama does not appear in streaks; it is part of their very
  essence; you recognize it at once from a certain trick of style that
  sounds like an echo of Ouida at her worst.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 22: 632. F. ’06. 580w.

  “The story is strictly conventional in type, but the type is one that
  has justified its right to exist.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 4. Ja. 6. ’06. 200w.


=Parry, David Maclean.= Scarlet empire. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  A book to make the socialist satisfied with things as they are. A
  young socialist weary of life plunges into the sea. He wakens in a
  lost Atlantis, known as the Scarlet Empire. Here is a social democracy
  in which people dwell in slavery; the state owes every man a living
  which it grants in a grudging sense, food, conversation, education and
  marriage, all being limited. The hero sickens of his satiety of
  scholastic practices, and after gruesome experiences escapes with
  three companions to his own New York world.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “‘The scarlet empire’ is not a discussion of socialism. It is rather a
  developed misconception of socialism. It is a house built on the
  illusive sands of fundamental error or false premises.” Ellis O.
  Jones.

      – =Arena.= 36: 330. S. ’06. 2050w.

        =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 80w.

  “Crudely written as it is, it sets forth a skilfully constructed plot
  and shows a certain enthusiasm for his subject on the part of the
  author, but throughout the book the great aim seems to be not only to
  satirize all the doctrines that Socialists hold dear, but even, where
  possible, to burlesque them.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 604. Ap. 21, ’06. 1420w.

  “The satire is light but cleverly aimed.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

  “As a story the book is fairly readable, but as a contribution to the
  discussion of the social problem it has no slightest claim to
  consideration.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.

  “Mr. Parry has missed a splendid chance and has missed it so widely
  that he almost obscures the chance.”

      – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 476. Ap. 14, ’06. 520w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 759. Je. ’06. 120w.


=Parsons, Mrs. Clement.= David Garrick and his circle; il. **$2.75.
Putnam.

  “Mrs. Parsons’s book is first of all a life of the greatest of
  English actors, a record of his triumphs and a study of his
  methods. It is also a broad picture of the social life of the day.
  Garrick is followed into all the circles he frequented, and we
  make the acquaintance of the great company of his friends and
  associates.”—Outlook.

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  “She has written a very charming and entertaining book, which clothes
  wide learning in graceful though transparent chiffon. The pity is that
  she has not always—or not often—distinguished between lightness of the
  right and the wrong kinds.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 415. O. 27, ’06. 140w.

  “Among stage records the present volume will take an agreeable place.
  It is written with abundant verve, and shows a wide range of reading.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 703. D. 1. 840w.

  “The chief fault in Mrs. Parsons’s book is its diffuseness. The author
  has done her work thoroughly, however, and carefully; such research
  commands respect, because of what it exacts in the gathering. Students
  will find her volume a mine of information, and an available
  reference-book, with its commendable bibliography and appropriate
  illustrations.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 170w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 60w.

  “This is a work of vastly superior quality to the great majority of
  books, especially those of recent date, relating to the stage and its
  associations.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 377. N. 1, ’06. 1010w.

  “It has the easy cleverness of a clever woman’s letter, but it is
  perhaps a little too vivacious, too allusive, too up-to-date and too
  on-the-spot for a stately tome of 400 pages.” Brander Matthews.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 794. D. 1, ’06. 990w.

  “This book, besides being an admirable study of Garrick, is a gallery
  of admirably executed eighteenth-century portraits, a repertory of
  most delectable anecdotes that strike with perfect truth the keynote
  of the period, and a mine of curious and out-of-the-way information in
  regard to eighteenth-century theaters, the physical conditions of the
  stage, the tumultuous behavior of the audiences, the costumes of the
  actors and actresses, and no end of other matters of a kind that will
  be keenly relished.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 714. N. 24, ’06. 410w.

  “She has humor, has this admirer of the great English actor, and a
  clever way of expressing it; she also has the knack of recreating the
  whole from a fragment. And, at the same time, she is a capable serious
  historian of stage and drama.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 180w.

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 200w.

  “He has found here an admirable chronicler.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 831. N. 24, ’06. 250w.


=Parsons, Ellen C.= Christus liberator. **30c. Macmillan.

  “The author has managed to pack in a surprising amount of concrete and
  stirring story.” L. Call Barnes.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 199. Ja. ’06. 160w.


=Parsons, Frank.= Heart of the railroad problem: the history of railway
discrimination in the United States, with efforts at control, remedies
proposed, and hints from other countries. **$1.50. Little.

  Twenty years of study and observation have been brought into Dr.
  Parsons’ treatment of this subject. “The study reveals the facts in
  reference to railway favoritism—or unjust discrimination from the
  beginning of our railway history to the present time, discloses the
  motives and causes of discrimination, discusses various remedies that
  have been proposed, and gathers hints from the railway systems of
  other countries to clarify and develop the conclusions indicated by
  our railroad history.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is by far the most important, authoritative and comprehensive
  popular discussion of the rate question that has appeared, and no
  intelligent American should fail to read it.”

  + + + =Arena.= 35: 658. Je. ’06. 3700w.

  “An exhaustive and authoritative work that is extremely clear and
  interesting, while affording the most complete and satisfactory view
  of the railway question and the true relation of the railways to
  commercial enterprises, to the government and to the people, that has
  ever been published in any land.”

  + + + =Arena.= 36: 557. N. ’06. 9730w.

  “The merits of Mr. Parsons’s book are in its thorough and compendious
  presentation of the various evils that have come to pass in the making
  of railway rates. If the treatment is open to criticism, it is along
  the line of the genesis of these conditions.” John J. Halsey.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 35. Jl. 16, ’06. 1350w.

  “As a critic of existing conditions, the author has done his work
  well.” William Hill.

      + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 575. N. ’06. 250w.

  “The book is a readable collection of single instances of railroad
  enormities. In the hands of one acquainted with the essentials of
  transportation, it may prove of service; in the hands of a novice, it
  is likely to engender prejudice and disseminate error.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 17. Jl. 5, ’06. 850w.

  “The book is a useful one and brings the subject down to date, but it
  casts only the scantiest light ahead.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 287. My. 5, ’06. 790w.


=Parsons, Henry de Berkeley.= Disposal of municipal refuse. $2. Wiley.

  “The book is mainly devoted to the characteristics of the material
  collected in New York, the uses to which it may be put, and the
  principles underlying its sanitary and economic handling.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We take pleasure in commending Mr. Parsons’ book, within the limits
  covered by it, as a fair and able presentation of the main points
  involved in the disposal of municipal refuse, more particularly by
  cremation.”

    + + =Engin. N.= 55: 558. My. 17, ’06. 1130w.

        =Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.

      + =Nature.= 74: 630. O. 25, ’06. 580w.


=Partridge, William Ordway.= Czar’s gift. **40c. Funk.

  A pretty little tale of how Paul, the wood carver, made for the czar a
  statue of his lost daughter so beautiful that it won for Paul’s
  brother, the nihilist, release from the mines in Siberia, and brought
  them both the czar’s forgiveness and protection.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Arena.= 36: 220. Ag. ’06. 360w.


=Passmore, Rev. T. H.= In further Ardenne: a story of the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg. **$2.50. Dutton.

  This little section tucked away between Belgium, Prussia, France and
  Lorraine has not been much written about owing to its not being among
  the “Beaten track itineraries.” The author very generously offers to
  “pay your fare for you, so to speak, and take you there, and present
  you to its beauties and interests and simple kindly folk, without
  troubling you to move out of your chair.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The charm of this book is that the author has the power of
  communicating his ‘etat d’âme.’”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1236. N. 25, ’05. 260w.

  “If the author had restricted himself to what he knew and saw, or was
  told on good authority, he would have made a noteworthy addition to
  the very limited number of works on his subject.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 250w.

  “Enthusiasm, spontaneity, kindly humor, and a sprightly style
  characterize the volume.” H. E. Coblentz.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 234. Ap. 1, ’06. 370w.

    + + =Ind.= 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 180w.

  “It is a real book, not a made book, that he has given us.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 422. D. 1, ’05. 430w.

  “Would that Mr. Passmore had put all of his experience in simpler
  phrase. His command of verbal wealth and imagery too often leads him
  from standards safe astray.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 520w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 809. N. 25, ’05. 350w.

  “This is no guide-book; it is far better—a book to read, and read
  again, and then to follow, not like the blind Baedekerite, but as one
  follows Walton.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 151. Mr. 10, ’06. 360w.

  “A very entertaining volume, in which history, legend, folk-lore, and
  description are linked together by a mind attuned to the picturesque,
  the romantic, and—the humorous.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 310w.

  “We think a style less wanton than Mr. Passmore’s and more sweet than
  Baedeker’s would serve the purpose better.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 14. D. 9, ’05. 300w.

  “Mr. Passmore is both historical and descriptive, and in both
  characters shows much energy.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 290w.


=Paston, George, pseud. (Miss E. M. Symonds).= Social caricature in the
eighteenth century. *$15. Dutton.

  “George Paston’s book deals textually and pictorially with the various
  phases of social caricature and of the social groups, the places, the
  fashions which inspired the pens of the artists, who were ever on the
  alert for abnormal tendencies—‘Le Beau Monde,’ the Pantheon, Carlisle
  House, the Mall, Hyde Park, Dramatic and musical, Literary and
  artistic, and, finally, Popular delusions and impostures.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is perhaps inevitable that the text of the book itself, being
  obviously ‘written up’ to the illustration, should be less interesting
  as a whole, though abounding in isolated good things.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 240. F. 24. 1400w.

  “What is really the first complete work on the subject of English
  eighteenth century caricature that has yet appeared.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 28: 86. Mr. ’06. 330w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 30. Ja. 26, ’06. 160w.

  “George Paston’s text is a splendid achievement of thoroughly
  sympathetic work, whether seen from the point of view of history or
  criticism.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 367. Je. 9, ’06. 890w.

  “The volume is full of the entertaining and curious from cover to
  cover.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 794. My. 19, ’06. 340w.


=Paternoster, George Sidney.= Cruise of the Conqueror: being the further
adventures of the motor pirate; with a front. by Frank T. Merrill.
$1.50. Page.

  A sequel to “The motor pirate,” whose hero, it will be remembered,
  after bringing repeated terror to England shot over the edge of a
  precipice to certain death. How he comes to life and is in the present
  story the “same truculent hero in an eight-foot, gold-coated motor
  boat, capable of something over forty knots an hour at sea.” (Ath.)
  suggests exciting possibilities for the present tale of adventure. Nor
  does Mr. Paternoster make sure of his elusive hero at the end of the
  present story, the evasion suggests another reappearance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not strong in characterization or literary style; but it has go
  and vigour.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 200w.

  “Aside from the glamourless love interest, the further adventures of
  the motor pirate form, as they should, exciting reading.” Stephen
  Chalmers.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 560w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

  “The author contrives that his melodrama shall be to a certain extent
  convincing.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 120w.


=Paterson, Arthur, and Allingham, Helen (Mrs. W. Allingham).= Homes of
Tennyson. **$2. Macmillan.

  The homes of Tennyson have been painted by Mrs. Allingham, and Mr.
  Paterson has furnished the descriptive portions which are written
  “from a personal rather than a biographical standpoint.” “The book
  pleasantly deals with Farringford, in the Isle of Wight, where
  Tennyson usually spent the winter, and with Aldworth, on the borders
  of Surrey, and Sussex, the summer home of Tennyson’s declining years.”
  (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ’05. 60w.

  “There is not one word in his book that could have wounded the
  susceptibilities of Tennyson, yet the record is full of interest and
  charm.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 28: 181. Ap. ’06. 110w.

    + – =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 120w.

  “Mr. Paterson’s share in this book, whose value is quite unaffected by
  his defects—sentimentality and exaggerated adoration of Tennyson—would
  call for no remark had he not loaded his pages with a construction
  that must give pain to the sensitive reader.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 340w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ’05. 210w.

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 728. D. 2, ’05. 60w.

  “The descriptive letterpress, by Mr. Arthur Paterson, is worthy even
  of the work of Mrs. Allingham. He commands a style that is graphic in
  the best sense.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 648. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.


=Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton.= Poems; with an introd. by Basil
Champneys. $1.75. Macmillan.

  “All the poems, with the latest changes in them (whether improvements
  or otherwise) are brought together in a single volume of clear and
  stately print. A remarkably faithful portrait is included in the
  six-shillings’ worth, and Mr. Basil Champneys adds an introductory
  discourse in which a sufficiency of biographical detail has
  place.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 71: 366. O. 13, ’06. 1640w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 240w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 702. O. 27, ’06. 1250w.

        =Putnam’s= 1: 378. D. ’06. 90w.


=Patrick, William.= James, the Lord’s brother. **$2. Scribner.

  The author stands on debatable ground in his monolog which aims to
  show that the author of the Epistle of James is the James whom St.
  Paul refers to as “the Lord’s brother” in Galatians i, 19. “His
  conclusion is the one that Christian men would naturally wish to be
  true but it must be confessed that serious difficulties are in the
  way. These Dr. Patrick combats with great ability, but with a success
  that seems somewhat contingent on the predilection of his readers.”
  (Outlook.)

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  “We welcome his volume as a scholarly and reasonable contribution to a
  clearer understanding of the forces at work during the apostolic age.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 138. Ap. 20, ’06. 930w.

      – =Nation.= 83: 152. Ag. 16, ’06. 430w.

  “With ample learning makes a very plausible argument.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 130w.


=Patten, Helen Philbrook.= Music lovers’ treasury. **$1.20. Estes.

  An anthology of poetry, ancient and modern, referring to music and
  musicians.

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  “A volume that certainly merits its title.”

    + + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ’05. 70w.

        =Ind.= 59: 1544. D. 28, ’05. 40w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 645. S. 30, ’05. 80w.

  “The compiler has generally succeeded in avoiding the merely
  commonplace or distinctly bad, and the anthology is pleasing.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 275. Ap. 28, ’06. 300w.


=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50.
Macmillan.

  “The value of Mr. Paul’s history lies in its being a convenient record
  of events or, as we have said, above, an enlarged Annual register. It
  will be excellent material for the historian of the future, when he
  comes to deal with the time of which he treats.”

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1309. D. 16, ’05. 1550w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “By judicious omission and emphasis, the author’s strong grasp of the
  subject as a whole and his sense of dramatic unity he has produced a
  sort of journalistic prose epic of the British Empire, centering about
  the two protagonists Beaconsfield and Gladstone. This volume seems in
  many ways the best of the four which have thus far appeared.” Wilbur
  C. Abbott.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 898. Jl. ’06. 1930w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “Fair-mindedness continues to be a marked feature of this able and
  lively work.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 892. D. 30. 560w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “On the whole, Mr. Paul deserves warm congratulations on the last
  volume of his attractive history.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 860w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “Mr. Paul writes entertainingly and satisfactorily, and as this
  information can be found nowhere else, except with great trouble in
  scattered special treatises or in voluminous biographies, his book
  will unquestionably be heartily welcomed by a large number of
  readers.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 390w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “His work is everywhere compact, but his terse and vigorous style
  gives emphasis to what might otherwise easily read like a mere summary
  of political events.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 95. F. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “The effect on the mind is produced by the continual bias of the
  writer’s judgment, together with the bitter and ungracious way in
  which the judgment is expressed. We regret that so good a book should
  be marred by such tiresome defects, for Mr. Paul is interesting and
  painstaking and clear.” G. Townsend Warner.

    + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 604. Jl. ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

  “It is entertaining even where most exasperating; its sharpness and
  color will not allow the interest to flag; in fact, there is nothing
  on modern history comparable to it unless it be Hanotaux’s recent work
  on ‘Contemporary France.’”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 833. Ag. 9, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 14. Ja. 12, ’06. 840w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “The book is not written by the Mr. Paul whom the House of Commons
  knows. But neither is it written by the delightful author of ‘Men and
  letters’ and ‘Stray leaves.’ It is written by that able and useful but
  less distinguished person, a daily journalist. There is nothing of
  great importance in it.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 660w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “Here he is again bright, rapid, epigrammatic, free from all vagueness
  or hesitation, delivering positive and definite views, telling his
  story in short sentences, whose meaning no one can mistake. He is not
  a partisan in the sense of endeavoring to suppress the case for the
  side to which he does not belong while setting out the whole of his
  own. But he has strong opinions, and allows them to appear.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 120. F. 8, ’06. 2310w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

  “Alertness of mind and the ability to visualize and present pointedly
  are his to an extraordinary degree. They give his work all the
  sprightliness of a contemporary record. After the brave beginnings of
  his earlier volumes we are not quite satisfied with this one.”
  Christian Gauss.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 176. Mr. 24, ’06. 1750w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “For him who wishes a brilliant account of English politics and the
  working of that great governmental machine, the English constitution,
  there is no better book.” Christian Gauss.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 845. D. 8, ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 5.)

        =Outlook.= 81: 1081. D. 30, ’05. 80w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “It need hardly be added that his pages are distinguished by the ease,
  candor, honesty and incisiveness that gave such a charm to the earlier
  installments.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “Mr. Paul is a clever journalist whose fascinating style of writing
  and peculiar type of humour succeed in making the dullest subjects
  entertaining.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 215. Ag. 12, ’05. 1800w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “This volume may be recommended as a work of reference and at the same
  time a very entertaining reading, for it is full of shrewd and
  philosophic sayings about political parties, is suffused with dry
  humor, and contains occasional flashes of wit.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 303. Mr. 10, ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “In many of the transactions described by him, Mr. Paul, as an active
  politician must have taken some part. During most of the period
  covered by this volume, Mr. Paul’s opponents were in power. Yet the
  story is told with scrupulous impartiality: nought is set down in
  malice: and though in so concise a work there must necessarily be much
  suppression, the perspective is admirably caught and maintained. An
  absence of picturesque detail is the price we have to pay for sober
  style, relieved by touches of caustic but not ill-natured humor.”
  Arthur A. Baumann.

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: 477. O. 20, ’06. 1920w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “He writes so well, his judgment is, on the whole, so sound, that we
  cannot but deplore the deficiencies of his narrative.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “The new volume, like the volumes which have preceded it, is
  brilliantly written. Whatever qualities or defects Mr. Paul may have
  as an historian, his style is, in the main, beyond criticism. His
  narrative may occasionally be inadequate, but it is never dull.”

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 726. N. 10, ’06. 1660w. (Review of v. 5.)


=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= Life of Froude. **$4. Scribner.

  Thru the personal assistance of Miss Froude and Ashley Froude, the
  historian’s only son, the biographer has gathered a generous amount of
  new and interesting material by means of which he traces Froude’s
  character and career. “He was one of England’s really great
  historians.... No historian has done so much as Mr. Froude to
  interpret aright the English reformation and its great characters, no
  one so much to explain Henry VIII, and no one so much to dispel the
  romantic mystery which has enveloped the character and career of Mary
  Queen of Scots, who deserves to be ranked, as Froude’s realistic
  portraiture has ranked her, with Jezebel of Israel, Lucretia Borgia of
  Italy, and Catherine de’ Medici of France.” (Outlook.)

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  “A book that from beginning to end is always attractive, although, for
  our part, we feel that the biographer has given too much attention to
  the controversies in which Froude was engaged.”

  + + – =Acad.= 69: 1217. N. 25, ’05. 1480w.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 901. Jl. ’06. 750w.

  “His book is a series of essays about Froude; It is in no sense a
  biography, like Froude’s own work on Carlyle.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 164. F. 10. 1470w.

  “In Froude he has a spicy subject. He was sure to produce a lively
  book.” Goldwin Smith.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 680. My. ’06. 5050w.

  “Mr. Herbert Paul is well fitted to write a sympathetic life of
  Froude, both because, of his own historical studies and because, like
  Froude himself, he possesses imagination and a sense of style.” H. T.
  P.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 529. Jl. ’06. 2420w.

  Reviewed by George Louis Beer.

      + =Critic.= 49: 180. Ag. ’06. 1990w.

  “Whether it be that sympathy with his subject has imparted to him
  something of Froude’s own consummate art as a literary craftsman,
  certain it is that he has produced a very readable account.” Percy F.
  Bicknell.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 80. F. 1, ’06. 2630w.

  “The biography ... which has something of an ‘official’ character, is
  made subordinate to the description and estimate of his writings.” A.

    + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 397. Ap. ’06. 1800w.

  “No reader can finish Mr. Paul’s volume on Froude without a vivid
  impression of the life which it is written to commemorate. Had he
  contented himself with narration, and omitted the discussion of his
  hero’s merits as an historian, the volume would have been more useful
  and permanent.” Charles A. Beard.

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 683. Mr. 22, ’06. 1610w.

  “A work whose biographical and critical sides are, however, very
  uneven.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 100w.

  “If Mr. Paul has failed to produce a masterpiece, he has written what
  will be accepted as an adequate life, and perhaps it may prove to be
  the final one. It is an excellent piece of work, considering the
  limitations imposed.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 490w.

  “Perhaps the most exact title for this interesting book would have
  been ‘Froude: a sketch.’ It is alive from the first page to the last.
  It is full of Froude and full of his biographer.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 417. D. 1, ’05. 2270w.

  “Marked by his usual force, point, and vivacity.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 452. My. 31, ’06. 2510w.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 875. D. 9, ’05. 1670w. (Reprinted from Lond.
          Times.)

  “His admiration lends a charm to his volume, but also imparts to it
  its two chief defects: it could be lessened in bulk with advantage ...
  and its tone is throughout too much that of one who is retained to
  defend an accused from attack. But in the main we agree with Mr.
  Paul’s interpretation.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 520w.

  “There is, perhaps, nothing really new in the volume, but there is
  certainly a great deal of vigorous, pungent, and intellectually
  brilliant comment on the views and accomplishments of the late
  historian.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 118. Ja. ’06. 190w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 52. Ja. 13, ’06. 1530w.

  “This is a very delightful and refreshing book. Is one of the best and
  happiest portraits we have seen painted with that most graphic of
  instruments, the pen, for a long time.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 148. Ja. 27, ’06. 1870w.


=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= Stray leaves. **$1.50. Lane.

  “Ten brilliant papers by Herbert Paul the accomplished critic and
  historian.... As characterizations the essays on Bishop Creighton and
  George Eliot are most stimulating.... In his book reviews Mr. Paul ...
  defends his point of view with nimble wit and careless confidence. He
  differs with Leslie Stephen in his estimate of George Eliot. He
  analyzes the essays and addresses of Mr. Balfour, touching upon the
  political position of the ex-leader with caustic irony.... The review
  of Lucas’s ‘Life of Charles Lamb’ is favorable and highly
  appreciative.... ‘The study of Greek’ and ‘The religion of the Greeks’
  show the cleverness of the author from another point.”—Outlook.

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  “The main reason why Mr. Herbert Paul is not a great critic is that he
  is not fundamental. An agreeable, witty and learned writer, he still
  lacks the patient analytical power and penetration required for any
  true illumination of his subject.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 278. S. 22, 06. 1470w.

  “The articles reprinted by Mr. Herbert Paul under the title of ‘Stray
  leaves’ are pretty sure to repeat the success of his similar
  collection ‘Men and letters.’”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 364. S. 29. 580w.

  “Apart from this absurd notion as to the uselessness of a little
  Greek, Mr. Paul has written a good book.”

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 480w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 180w.

  “Is as rich in pleasure-giving quality as its predecessor, ‘Men and
  letters.’”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 329. S. 28, ’06. 1070w.

  “They are unfailingly pleasant reading. ‘Pleasant’ is exactly the
  adjective.” Montgomery Schuyler.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 814. D. 1, ’06. 108Ow.

  “Altogether, one could not read a more entertaining and enlivening
  book than this collection of papers.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 290w.

  “The ‘Stray leaves’ were worth gathering together and preserving.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 60w.


=Paulsen, Friedrich.= German universities and university study;
authorized tr. by Frank Thilly and W: W. Elwang. **$3. Scribner.

  Here “the German university is surveyed from every side—compared with
  the universities of other countries, with its old self in former ages,
  its relation to German national life, the instructors and their
  instruction, the students and their studying, and lastly the separate
  faculties as they prepare students for four professions. Altho his
  exposition of present conditions leaves no feature neglected, what
  interests one most in the present book is the practical aspect, the
  bearings of each feature of the university.”—Ind.

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      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 609. N. 17. 1780w.

  “While useful and authoritative, the volume is not wholly suited to
  English readers.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 310w.

  “A volume might be written in praise of this admirable book. A second
  volume might be written on the thoughts concerning American higher
  education which it suggests. It will at once be accepted as the
  authoritative book on its subject. Fortunately the translation
  effectively preserves some of the best qualities of Paulsen’s very
  readable style.”

  + + + =Educ. R.= 32: 315. O. ’06. 1040w.

  “An all-round presentation of the most satisfying
  completeness—historical, descriptive, practical.”

  + + + =Ind.= 60: 1103. My. 10, ’06. 580w.

  “Fresh in the clear, forcible English of Professor Thilly.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 208. S. 6, ’06. 1250w.

  “Such a volume as this, so rich both in information, and in
  suggestion, cannot be too strongly commended to the attention of
  American faculties and students.”

  + + + =Outlook.= 83: 285. Je. 2, ’06. 560w.

  “This translation of the elaborate work of Professor Paulsen, the
  leading authority on the subject, will therefore be welcomed by all
  who are interested in the question of university education, for its
  historical retrospects throw light upon the causes which have given to
  the German universities their exceptional position.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 577. O. 20, ’06. 1700w.


=Payne, John.= Selections from the poetry of John Payne made by Tracy
and Lucy Robinson; with an introduction by Lucy Robinson. *$2.50. Lane.

  Mrs. Robinson says in her introduction that this volume of poems is
  published as “an appeal to all lovers of poetry on behalf of one of
  its uncrowned kings—widely known, it is true, as a translator, but as
  a poet receiving less than insular recognition.” The selections
  include ballads, blank verse and sonnets, “they are exquisitely
  graceful, and yet profoundly impressive, pervaded by a moving
  undertone of sadness, which perhaps reaches its full expression in the
  beautiful poem ‘The grave of my songs.’ How the poet could have
  remained in comparative obscurity so long can only be explained by the
  pre-eminence of his translations, and his own exceeding modesty as to
  his original writings.” (Outlook.)

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  “These ‘Selections’ have been made with excellent taste and judgment
  by Tracy and Lucy Robinson, the latter furnishing the Introduction
  which is done with sympathetic insight and with fine appreciation of
  the subject.” Edith M. Thomas.

    + + =Critic.= 49: 141. Ag. ’06. 550w.

  “Is supplied as an extremely interesting study of his work as a
  whole.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 326. My. 16, ’06. 930w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 696. S. 20, ’06. 340w.

  “The first impression made by the selection is that of a marvelous
  virtuosity, an amazing metrical and verbal ingenuity. Of the
  poeticalness, so to say, of Mr. Payne’s literary impulse there can be
  no doubt.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 750w.

  “His inventive genius and remarkable use of melodious English give an
  unusual pleasure to the appreciative reader.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 220w.


=Peabody, Francis Greenwood.= Jesus Christ and the Christian character.
**$1.50. Macmillan.

  “This is a companion volume to “Jesus Christ and the social question.”
  It examines the teaching of Jesus concerning personal life, and the
  applicability of the Christian type to the conditions of the modern
  world.”—Bib. World.

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  “It is a most valuable addition to the literature of Christian ethics.
  It is an immensely fruitful book for all; but it has peculiar
  eye-opening value for the student afflicted with academic theological
  myopia.” Herbert A. Youtz.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 765. O. ’06. 700w.

  “Here is learning and wisdom and perception of human need, and the
  word spoken in season, made attractive and convincing and vital by
  association with the Supreme Person.” George Hodges.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 250w.

        =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.

  “The book embodies a clear insight into the fundamentals of the method
  and of the subject-matter of Christian ethics. And when to this high
  scholarly value one adds its extraordinary practical suggestiveness in
  the concrete problems of modern life, it is evident that the book is
  one which every pastor and teacher should read.” G. B. S.

  + + + =Bib. World.= 28: 428. D. ’06. 460w.

  “The thinking is strong and clear, but somewhat conservative.” W.
  Jones Davies.

    + + =Hibbert J.= 5: 219. O. ’06. 840w.

  “The lectures are full of power and present a study of Christian
  ethics which is truly inspiring.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 222. Ja. 25, ’06. 220w.

  “The foot notes show a wide reading in modern studies upon the
  character of Jesus Christ. The body of the book shows large
  familiarity with the character and teaching of Jesus Christ.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ’05. 190w.

  “Scholarly and yet simply phrased treatise.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 80w.


=Pearse, Mark Guy.= Pretty ways o’ Providence. *$1. Meth. bk.

  A group of thirteen stories, simple possible tales, all bearing
  testimony to the kindly rift that lets the light of heaven thru. How
  definite good guided Henry Craze in his love-making, saved shy Man’el
  Hodge from his baneful love-coaching, and touched the heart of a
  hardened drunkard to transform his dreary cottage into a place fit for
  the home-coming of his little maid, are among the “pretty ways o’
  Providence.”

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      + =Outlook.= 83: 225. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.

  “These are pretty little stories of excellent moral tone, a little
  over-sentimental and pious in a Methodist fashion, but pleasantly and
  simply written with appreciation of country atmosphere and rustic
  ways.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 150. Ag. 4, ’06. 30w.


=Peck, Ellen Brainerd.= Songs by the sedges. $1. Badger, R: G.

  “Miss Peck has a pretty fancy and a light touch, which are just the
  qualities needed for this sort of reminiscent verse.” Wm. M. Payne

      + =Dial.= 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 150w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 925. D. 30, ’05. 40w.


=Peck, Rev. George Clarke.= Vision and task. $1. Meth. bk.

  Fifteen sermons in which the task of Christian living is expressed in
  terms of life to-day, and is brought home with the force of current
  comparison. The titles include: The passing of mystery; The plain
  heroic breed; A vision for the wilderness; A lesson for the street;
  The biography of a back-slider; Doing good by proxy; The hindering
  God; The thorn as an asset; The paramount duty; and The divine
  dependence.

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  “These are strenuous sermons, clearly conceived, and delivered in
  clear and forcible English.” Edward Braislin.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 573. Jl. ’06. 180w.

  “This is a collection of sermons eminently good. Their vision is
  clear.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 892. D. 9, ’05. 60w.


=Peck, Harry Thurston.= William Hickling Prescott. **75c. Macmillan.

  “If this were the only existing life of Prescott it would leave much
  to be desired; taken in connection with the lives by Ticknor and Mr.
  Rollo Ogden it will serve a genuinely useful purpose.” M. A. De Wolfe
  Howe.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 117. Ja. ’06. 640w.


=Peckham, George Williams, and Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford.= Wasps,
social and solitary; with an introd. by John Burroughs. **$1.50.
Houghton.

  “The book of the Peckhams is valuable as a whole because it gives us
  an accurate description of the types of behavior of many different
  genera and species of wasps.” J. B. W.

    + + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 172. My. 15, ’06. 1160w.


=Peixotto, Ernest Clifford.= By Italian seas; il. by the author.
**$2.50. Scribner.

  “The interest of the book lies, of course, in the pictures rather than
  the text, altho the latter satisfactorily fills its function of
  supplying a running descriptive commentary enlivened by picturesque
  anecdotes and observations of peasant life on all sides of the
  Mediterranean. For the author fortunately interprets his title,
  liberally, and includes not only the overwritten Riviera, but
  Dalmatia, Malta and Tunis, which are still pervaded by Italian
  influences.”—Ind.

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  “Pleasant and informing book.” Wallace Rice.

      + =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “The sketches of the Austrian coast of the Adriatic are especially
  interesting, for strangely enough, it is rarely visited by the
  tourist. But the numerous pen drawings and half tones of this
  handsomely printed book will do something toward removing this
  ignorance, for after we have read it and looked at the pictures we
  shall know more about it than many who have been there.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1290. N. 20, ’06. 170w.

  “Mr. Peixotto’s style is always clear, picturesque and mellow, and
  often poetic, and he draws his word-pictures with the same dexterous
  touch with which he sketches his pen-and-ink pictures of church
  spires, tall cypresses, or ruined monasteries.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 512. D. 13, ’06. 450w.

  “In publishing another edition of Mr. Peixotto’s book a few misspelt
  Italian and French words should be corrected, but in the present
  edition one hardly notices these rare errors in the enjoyment of the
  author’s straightforward, wholesome style whether he gives us a
  word-picture or an etching.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 130w.

  “The book is really good reading, a capital record of travel for the
  stay-at-home, observant of the picturesque, appreciative of historical
  associations as of artistic beauties, and as for the illustrations,
  Mr. Peixotto long since passed the stage in his career where praise of
  his work was necessary.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 379. D. ’06. 180w.

  “Mr. Peixotto’s descriptions of his wanderings through Italy and
  across the Adriatic have the fascination of a novel.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 50w.


=Pemberton, Max.= My sword for Lafayette; being the story of a great
friendship; and of certain episodes in the wars waged for liberty, both
in France and America, by one who took no mean part therein. †$1.50.
Dodd.

  Zaida Kay is a young American who after the battle of Yorktown follows
  Lafayette to France. “There is mutiny on the high seas; there is a
  miraculous escape; there is an idyllic sojourn in a quaint little
  village on the coast of England, and a romantic marriage with a young
  French girl in hiding there from enemies at home.” (N. Y. Times.) And
  before a return to America is accomplished the two are led thru a maze
  of happenings precipitated by Frenchmen fighting for liberty.

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  “The author has a certain facility of invention, but his style is
  without flexibility, and his figures are rarely anything more than
  puppets.” Wm. M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16, ’06. 100w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 271. Ap. 28, ’06. 260w.

  “For the most part the episodes are trite, and without exception the
  characters are lifeless puppets. But it is perhaps in dialogue that
  Mr. Pemberton fails most signally.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 561. My. 5, ’06. 230w.


=Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell).= Charles Godfrey
Leland: a biography. 2v. **$5. Houghton.

  “All who knew Charles Godfrey Leland knew that the man was stronger
  than his work. It is this man that Mrs. Pennell draws for us. From her
  pages radiates a personality that refreshes and rejoices, a vitality
  that heartens, and invigorates the reader. Not but that the
  biographer, proud of her brilliant uncle, does her best to give some
  account of what he achieved. And here she serves him truly.... The
  biography is mainly the work of Leland’s own pen. It consists almost
  entirely in transcripts from his memoranda, notes, and other papers,
  and of letters written to his family and to celebrities, American and
  English, with some of their replies. Mrs. Pennell furnishes the
  necessary links, transitions, and explanations, drawing upon her
  knowledge of the man and his ways, acquired during the period of her
  intimate companionship with him.... The illustrations consist of two
  frontispiece portraits of ‘the Rye,’ and facsimile reproductions of
  letters written to him by Lowell, Holmes, Tennyson, Browning,
  Bulwer-Lytton and many others.”—Nation.

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  “She has done ample justice to the fine traits in her uncle’s
  character, and has produced a biography which will be read with
  pleasure by all to whom his talents and achievements were known.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 686. D. 1. 1410w.

        =Current Literature.= 41: 648. D. ’06. 1220w.

  “As a companion and supplement to the ‘Memoirs’ of 1839, it helps to
  furnish a full-length portrait of an unusually interesting man.” Percy
  F. Bicknell.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 198. O. 1, ’06. 1850w.

  “A life absorbed in interests of so romantic a nature cannot fail to
  furnish a rich find to the biographer, and Mrs. Pennell has acquitted
  herself admirably of the task.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20. ’06. 370w.

  “Is one of the really important books of the kind that have appeared
  this season.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

  “This readable biography, permeated with the strong personality of its
  subject has the shortcomings that Leland’s versatility made
  practically avoidable.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 262. S. 27, ’06. 1430w.

  “This and other failings of his, Mrs. Pennell does not see; it is
  perhaps, not a part of her chosen task to see them. That she gives
  great charm to her record goes without saying; and that her estimate
  of her uncle as a person of importance is just, no reader will be
  disposed to deny.” H. W. Boynton.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 625. O. 6, ’06. 1580w.

  “If the tone is rather more admiring than would be the case if it were
  not all in the family, is nevertheless an exceedingly readable book,
  full of letters and anecdotes of real intrinsic interest.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “The life and character of Charles Geoffrey Leland [are]
  sympathetically interpreted by his niece.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 553. N. 3, ’06. 2430w.

  “Mrs. Pennell has very cleverly contrived in this way to make her
  brilliant uncle’s cheerful, enthusiastic personality pervade the book,
  and to give, at the same time, his own valuation of the different
  tasks to which his versatility applied itself during his long career.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 390w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 140w.

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 3. D. 8, ’06. 1960w.


=Pepper, Charles Melville.= Panama to Patagonia: the Isthmian canal and
the west coast countries of South America. **$2.50. McClurg.

  The author, a member of the Permanent pan-American railway committee,
  dates his study from the year 1905. His lessons in physical and
  commercial geography show that the geographical sphere of the canal
  includes the Amazon basin, the Argentine wheat plains and the Andes
  treasure box of mines from Panama to Patagonia. The author analyzes
  the national tendencies, political history, governmental policies and
  the unfolding of industrial life among the inhabitants. He urges
  America to share in the opportunity which the canal enterprise has
  created for contributing to the civilization that comes thru the
  spread of commerce and industry.

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  “There are few matters treated in the volume which are of interest to
  the ordinary traveller or reader.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 364. S. 29. 590w.

  “The book is timely, well written, and copiously equipped with maps
  and illustrations.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 200w.

  “The book before us will be of value to every American who would keep
  in touch with our own commercial development; nor less does it deserve
  a place in the alcove devoted to books of travel.” Thomas H. MacBride.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 322. My. 16, ’06. 1160w.

  “The book is a useful one for its descriptions of the countries and
  people which we ought to know much more about than we do and for the
  trade and industrial facts and figures it contains.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 875. Ap. 12, ’06. 250w.

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 327. S. 28, ’06. 730w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 291. My. 5, ’06. 270w.

  “It embodies ... a serious and commendable effort to enlighten the
  American public as a matter of National concern.” George R. Bishop.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 333. My. 26, ’06. 3900w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 390w.


=Perez, Isaac Loeb.= Stories and pictures; tr. from the Yiddish by
Helena Frank. $1.50. Jewish pub.

  The translator makes note of the fact that fully to understand these
  sketches one needs to know intimately the life of the Russian Jews who
  figure here, and to be familiar with the love of the Talmud and the
  Kabbalah which color their talk. These stories are “intensely Jewish”
  but are told in the spirit of the author’s broad views and wide
  sympathies.

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  “The author possesses the master-power which enables him to impart to
  commonplace and even sordid happenings that deep human interest which
  lifts his work above the plane of mediocrity to that of genius.” Amy
  C. Rich.

    + + =Arena.= 36: 684. D. ’06. 180w.

  “Ought to be of interest to any one, regardless of creed, to whom a
  sympathetic study in human nature is always precious.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 330w.

  “They are short in form, depending in the main upon a dramatic
  perception of character, having no narrative interest, or very little.
  The various difficulties confronting the translator have not been
  entirely overcome; but to reproduce a local dialect is almost as
  impossible as to reproduce the subtle qualities of style.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 432. O. 20, ’06. 190w.


=Perkins, Mrs. Lucy (Fitch).= Goose girl: a mother’s lap book of rhymes
and pictures. †$1.25. McClurg.

  A book of verse and pictures for little people.

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  “The simple little rhymes are quaint and pleasing, and the full page
  and smaller pictures, in black and white, are done with cleverness and
  charm.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 60w.

  “A folio volume with a ‘stunning’ cover, and with rhymes and pictures
  above the average in effectiveness and genuine wit.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 40w.


=Perrigo, Charles Oscar Eugene.= Machine shop construction, equipment
and management. $5. Henley.

  The author “attempts in this book to give a comprehensive didactic
  treatment of this subject. There are two main divisions of this
  subject which should be kept distinct; they discuss (1) The plant, or
  the producing implement, and (2) Operation, or the handling of this
  implement. They are just as separate and independent as are
  construction and operation in the case of railways: though
  inter-related at many points, they are the concern of different
  classes of men, based on wholly different sets of principles, and have
  to meet quite different conditions.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work has much interest as a record, even though far from thorough
  or comprehensive, of the methods and object of laying out a machine
  shop and controlling its operation.”

      + =Engin. N.= 55: 194. F. 15, ’06. 1340W.


=Perry, Bliss.= Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.

  “Confronted by a figure looming eccentrically large in its
  environment, as persistently and perversely suggestive of the
  picturesque as that of Carlyle, and equally rich in opportunities for
  misinterpretation, the author has set himself to depict it with much
  the thoroughness and anatomical accuracy shown by the old Dutch
  masters in the great period of Dutch painting.” (N. Y. Times.) “Mr.
  Perry’s work is modest in compass, but shows throughout that he has
  studied the documents with care and patience.... In general the
  narrative portions are well told and properly balanced.... Much the
  most important sections of the book deal with sources and here Mr.
  Perry has a field almost entirely his own.” (Nation.)

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  Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

      + =Atlan.= 98: 853. D. ’06. 1530w.

        =Current Literature.= 41: 640. D. ’06. 950w.

  “Mr. Perry’s critical judgment is calm, sane and discriminating. His
  attitude is friendly always, at times enthusiastic, although never
  that of an enthusiast: he never slips his moorings, critically.” W. E.
  Simonds.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 317. N. 16. ’06. 2060w.

  “It is unusually well written. The materials for anything like a
  satisfactory estimate are wanting.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1231. N. 22. ’06. 660w.

  “Altogether the volume will probably take its place as the sane and
  authoritative life of Whitman for many years to come.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 306. O. 11, ’06. 1210w.

  “His book throughout is a striking instance of the value of poise. No
  significant details are slurred over, no difficult passages are
  omitted, no grotesque features are softened, no preliminary effort has
  been considered superfluous, respect for ‘nature as she is’ reigns in
  the picture: yet the work complete is saved from any suspicion of the
  meticulous by a fusing glow of imaginative insight.” Elisabeth Luther
  Cary.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 717. N. 3, ’06. 1850w.

  “Shunning partisanship as well as prejudice, Prof. Perry has been
  inclined to present a psychological rather than a material biography.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. ’06. 200w.

  “Mr. Perry has made the first successful attempt to bring within a
  book of moderate compass a complete biography and critical study of
  that unique personage in American literature, Walt Whitman.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 110w.


=Perry, John G.= Letters from a surgeon of the civil war; comp. by
Martha Derby Perry; il. from photographs. **$1.75. Little.

  Mrs. Perry has brought together her husband’s letters written during
  1862–64 while he was serving as surgeon with the Twentieth
  Massachusetts volunteers. “His brief and modest letters, supplemented
  by a few editorial insertions, tell a story of hardship and danger,
  especially in the Wilderness campaign and before Petersburgh, that
  easily might have tempted another to essay a more ambitious style.”
  (Dial.)

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      + =Dial.= 41: 71. Ag. 1, ’06. 310w.

        =Nation.= 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 50w.

  “A new volume of considerable interest and some historical value.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 557. S. 8. ’06. 670w.


=Perry, Ralph Barton.= Approach to philosophy. **$1.50. Scribner.

  To make the reader “more solicitously aware of the philosophy that is
  in him, or to provoke him to philosophy in his own interests” is the
  author’s aim in the present work. In the first part of the work the
  author establishes his approach to philosophy thru practical life,
  poetry, religion and science; the second part furnishes “‘the reader
  with a map of the country to which he has been led,’ to provide ‘a
  brief survey of the entire programme of philosophy.’” The third part
  “emphasizes the point of view, or the internal consistency that makes
  a system of philosophy out of certain answers to the special problems
  of philosophy.” (Philos. R.)

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  “Dr. Perry has compressed a wonderful amount of information into a
  short space. Nevertheless we are sorry for the beginner who approaches
  philosophy by way of such a wilderness of -isms.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 169. F. 10. 440w.

  “One closes the book with the conviction of having enjoyed and
  profited by a gracefully written, a skillfully planned, and
  well-sustained discussion of the vital relationship of philosophy to
  practical interests, its inevitableness, its characteristic problems,
  and its representative systems. The non-technical will doubtless find
  this approach well designed to lead to intimacy.” Albert Lefevre.

      + =Philos. R.= 15: 204. Mr. ’06. 1810w.

  “Dr Perry possesses the power of writing English that is lucid and
  distinguished—a rare gift in a philosopher—and this fact, combined
  with an extremely wide range of reading, enables him to display the
  historic field of philosophy in a manner that, so far as we are aware,
  has no precedent other than the famous work of Dean Mansel. This
  admirable work should be in the hands of every thinker.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1012. Je. 30, ’06. 760w.


=Perry, Thomas Sergeant.= John Fiske. **75c. Small.

  A late “Beacon biography” which presents the life of this worthy
  historian in summary form, comprehensively viewing the man’s life and
  labors, “and because the theme was a man of letters rather than
  affairs, the qualities of an extended essay are more conspicuous than
  those of biographical narrative.” (Atlan.)

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  “This brief biography cannot be commended for accuracy, abundance of
  information, discriminating judgment, or literary merit.” F. G. D.

    – – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 717. Ap. ’06. 170w.

  “One feels in the spirit and outlook which form the background of the
  little book the peculiar qualifications of Mr. Perry for undertaking
  what he has performed so well.”

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 117. Ja. ’06. 360w.

  “One turns from it with the feeling that the picture is drawn in bold,
  strong lines, regretting only that fuller detail was not attempted.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 250w.

        =Ind.= 60: 1548. Je. 28, ’06. 60w.

  “Is one of the best, if not the best in the series.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 897. D. 16, ’05. 150w.

  “This little biographical essay would make an excellent preface to the
  collected works of John Fiske. There is a great deal in it.”
  Montgomery Schuyler.

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 77. F. 10. ’06. 840w.

  “He is, indeed inclined to be over-eulogistic, and his portrayal
  suffers from awkward phraseology. But in spite of this he contrives to
  convey a good idea of Mr. Fiske both as man and as writer.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 220w.

  “A very excellent biography of John Fiske.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 60w.


=Peters, Madison Clinton.= Jews in America: a short story of their part
in the building of the republic; commemorating the 250th anniversary of
their settlement. $1. Winston.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 477. Ja. ’06. 40w.

  “The results are so interesting that one cannot but wish that the work
  had been more thoroughly done.” Frederic Austin Ogg.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 260. Ap. 16, ’06. 1590w.


=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= History of Egypt from the XIXth to
the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.

  “It is rather a series of citations from original sources than a
  history in the modern sense of the term.”

  + + – =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.

  “May be said to be almost a model of a presentative history as
  distinguished from a philosophical one.” L. H. Gray.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 358. D. ’05. 350w.

  “It is not history in the popular sense of that term, but it is rather
  a chronological arrangement of the materials out of which a running
  narrative could be constructed. As a compendium, it is invaluable to
  the scholar.” Ira Maurice Price.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 16. Jl. 1, ’06. 260w.

  “He has made a book for students and for specialists, a book which
  enables us to say that the best and most inclusive history of Egypt is
  in English; but it is not one that can be read with ease or possesses
  literary merit.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 104. F. 1, ’06. 610w.


=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Researches in Sinai. **$6. Dutton.

  Dr. Petrie’s researches in the desert region to which Sinai belongs
  offer large returns to the student of archaeology. “On the way he
  picked up a few unconsidered trifles in the way of ancient remains;
  but his main work lay at Maghareh, where the turquois had been mined,
  and at neighboring Serabít, where was erected the temple to Hathor,
  the Lady of the Turquois. This temple Mr. Petrie’s party planned and
  excavated, with the results that, considering the remoteness of the
  region from Nilotic civilization and the frequency with which the spot
  has been researched, are truly amazing.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 957. Jl. ’06. 60w.

  “Its ingredients are excellent, stamped with the hall-mark of the
  author’s original and independent mind. We only sigh for a little more
  art in the concoction of them, a little more sense of the difference
  between a book and the rough notes for several books.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 231. Je. 29, ’06. 1250w.

        =Nation.= 83: 168. Ag. 23, ’06. 1620w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 870w.

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 660w.

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: 81. Jl. 21, ’06. 1640w.

    + + =Spec.= 96: 986. Je. 23, ’06. 1580w.


=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Christian origins. *$1.75. Huebsch.

  This book has grown out of a series of lectures delivered by the
  author at the University of Berlin, during the past winter. The
  viewpoint from which he treats the origin of Christianity is
  historical, and a complete interpretation of the meaning of his method
  with its relation to other methods is furnished in the introduction.
  The two main divisions of his study are Preparation and foundation of
  Christianity, and The evolution of early Christianity into the church.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This volume is in our judgment the most important religious work that
  has appeared during the past year.”

  + + + =Arena.= 36: 97. Jl. ’06. 3100w.

  “Brilliant though it is, needs to be corrected and restrained in its
  most important positions before it can be taken as a scientifically
  reliable narrative of the origins of the Christian faith.”

    + – =Cath. World.= 83: 554. Jl. ’06. 680w.

  “The work is condensed and devoid of technicalities, and has been
  rendered into excellent English.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 323. My. 16, ’06. 980w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 50w.

  “The work of this great scholar will be widely accepted as conclusive.
  It presents a serious challenge to the Church. To answer it
  effectively will require, besides equal genius, preparedness to make
  some concessions.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 380w.


=Phelps, Albert.= Louisiana; a record of expansion. *$1.10. Houghton.

  “The book as a whole, shows careful study of the sources, and its
  accuracy is commendable. There are, however, some errors, due partly
  to a failure to examine recently discovered documents and partly to
  other causes.” John R. Ficklen.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 408. Ja. ’06. 980w.

  “The volume is among the most scholarly of the extensive literature
  called forth by the recent centennial anniversary of the acquisition
  of this vast territory.”

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 140w.

  “The work bears the stamp of originality, not that it offers any fresh
  facts to the student, but rather because of the appreciations which it
  gives of many events and movements.”

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 119. Ap. ’06. 140w.

  “The account of the Reconstruction, though brief, is the first
  satisfactory treatment of that tumultuous epoch in Louisiana history.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 470w.

  “In accurate scholarship and depth of research it ranks well also, but
  the last third of the book,—concerning the Civil war, its cause and
  results—is unfortunately written in a controversial vein with strong
  Southern sympathies.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 630. Mr. 15, ’06. 440w.

  “A narrative exhibiting unity and coherence, and dealing with large
  events in a large way. One of the best of the ‘Commonwealths’
  histories.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 560w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 60w.


=Phelps, Idelle.= Your health. **75c. Jacobs.

  The colored drawings by Helen Alden Knipe which illustrate this little
  volume of toasts add much to its attractions. The toasts themselves
  are not wholly new but cover a broad field extending from “the world”
  to “babies,” and from “the Garden of Eden” to “a bird, a bottle and an
  open-work stocking.”

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  “Something of the champagne flavor belongs to the collection of
  toasts.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 40w.


=Philippi, Adolf.= Florence; tr. from the German by P. G. Konody.
*$1.50. Scribner.

  “This is an excellent compendium of the art and, on the whole, of the
  history of Florence. Misprints are, unfortunately, rather numerous.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 520w.


=Phillipps, L. March.= In the desert. $4.20. Longmans.

  “This interesting volume is a triumph of impressions.” (Ath.) “It is
  concerned with two unrelated topics; the French scheme of colonization
  in Algiers, and the influence of the Sahara desert on Arab life,
  architecture, religion, poetry, and philosophy.... In his thesis that
  the Arab character is the outcome of the influence of the desert, Mr.
  Phillipps gives us a sketch of the effect of the desert life on
  himself, and applies his experience to that of the Arab.” (Dial.)

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  “A vivid, plausible, and spirited piece of word-painting, which may
  safely be commended to all save the real student and the practised
  traveller in Africa.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 133. F. 3. 480w.

  “The author has made an entertaining contribution to our knowledge of
  Arab life and art.” H. E. Coblentz.

      + =Dial.= 40: 233. Ap. 1, ’06. 470w.

  “Would that Mr. Phillipps had never thought it his mission to simplify
  history! That omitted, he had written a very charming book.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 368. N. 3, ’05. 1110w.

  “The book is interesting and suggestive, though the style is at times
  somewhat discursive and it is a little difficult to follow the
  author’s train of thought.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 449. My. 31, ’06. 290w.


=Phillips, David Graham.= Deluge. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  “It must rank as a conservative under-statement of conditions as they
  are now known to exist. As a romance this novel compares favorably
  with ‘The cost’ in human and love interest while as a section taken
  from present-day public life it is equal to ‘The plum-tree.’”

  + + + =Arena.= 35: 97. Ja. ’06. 2690w.

  “His strongest piece of work up to the present time.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 372. D. ’05. 520w.


=Phillips, David Graham.= Fortune hunter; il. by E. M. Ashe. †$1.25.
Bobbs.

  The fortune hunter of the title of Mr. Phillips’ latest story is an
  actor who spends his days in making love to girls of wealthy parents.
  In ever choosing, in going out of his way, in fact, for the course of
  least resistance he comes to well deserved grief. And the hearts that
  are broken do mend.

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  “The story ... has little plot, but is deeply interesting from cover
  to cover; and the closing half of the volume is especially admirable.”

    + – =Arena.= 36: 220. Ag. ’06. 380w.

  “Mr. Phillips tantalizes us with the richness of his material and
  provokes us by the comparatively meagre use that he has made of it.”
  H. T. P.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 179. O. ’06. 380w.

  “Rather clever is this sketch of this type of social nuisance.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 130w.

  “The author of ‘The fortune hunter’ has added too much realism to his
  romantic compound.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 80w.

  “Is but a slight tale, and one rather grudges its author’s very real
  powers to such ephemeral productions as are coming from his pen.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 520w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 60w.


=Phillips, David Graham.= Plum tree. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  “Story, in a sense, there is none; style, in a literary sense, there
  is none; merely a serviceable prose, straightforward and energetic.”
  Mary Moss.

  + + – =Atlan.= 97: 44. Ja. ’06. 470w.


=Phillips, David Graham.= Social secretary. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  “An entertaining, breezy story.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 140w.


=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Mr. Scraggs: introduced by “Red Saunders.”
†$1.25. Grafton press.

  Ezekiel George Washington Scraggs is introduced by his friend Red
  Saunders. The incidents in his strenuous matrimonial career—eighteen
  marriages all told—are recounted with a humor that “has a suggestion
  of the slapstick, but like the slapstick it never fails to get a hand,
  and mixed with it now and then a little genuine wit and more than a
  little shrewd, practical frontier wisdom.” (Pub. Opin.)

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  “The stories are by no means dull and if they were not so obviously
  intended to be funny, if our smiles were not literally held up and
  challenged on every page, they could be read with real enjoyment.”
  Mary K. Ford.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 197. Ap. ’06. 520w.

  “There are seven stories in the book, and it would be hard to decide
  which is the funniest. The tales are not nearly as funny as the man
  who tells them, and his way of telling them.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 740w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

  “It cannot be denied that the travesty is lively and entertaining in a
  high degree.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17. ’06. 90w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 220w.


=Phillips, Stephen.= Nero. **$1.25. Macmillan.

  In this latest play of Mr. Phillips “the world is a picture, not a
  stage, and all the men and women not players, but talkers.” (Lond.
  Times.) “It is a play, because it shows a will conflict—the struggle
  between Nero and Agrippina, between natural affection and lust for
  power—but it is even more a spectacle, illustrating polychromatically
  the successive stages of Nero’s madness. It has fine poetic
  passages—appropriately ‘purple’—as we shall see; it has vivid studies
  of bed-rock character and fierce elemental passions. It blends the
  fragrance of rose-leaves with the scent of blood. It sates the eye
  with splendid pictures and the ear with voluptuous music of both verse
  and orchestra. At the end of it all one gasps and is a little dizzy,
  in short, it is a tremendous production.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is to be feared that Mr. Stephen Phillips will add little to his
  reputation by the latest of his dramatic poems.”

      – =Acad.= 70: 223. Mr. 10, ’06. 720w.

  “The action of the play does little but show us the different phases
  of character, but that it does with ingenuity and sufficiency.” Edward
  Everett Hale.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 291. My. ’06. 640w.

  “It is a poor descent of the talents, from which one can only wish the
  author a speedy return upon himself to the promise of six years ago.”
  Arthur Waugh.

      – =Critic.= 49: 20. Jl. ’06. 1050w.

  “Artifice and rhetoric seem to be the chief ingredients of the work.
  The decline from ‘Paolo and Francesca,’ and ‘Ulysses’ is
  discouragingly marked.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 326. My. 16, ’06. 360w.

  “It contains a number of fine passages. But as a vision of life in
  action, it is feeble and ineffective. And the failing is not merely
  executive, it is fundamental; the piece is not conceived dramatically,
  but pictorially and emotionally.”

    – + =Ind.= 61: 520. Ag. 30, ’06. 200w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1164. N. 15, ’06. 50w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 439. Mr. 24. ’06. 1440w.

  “The defect of ‘Nero’ is the defect of all its author’s plays.
  Throughout it we are on the surface of things, never inside them.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 5: 72. Mr. 2, ’06. 1260w.

  “It proves him more conclusively than his previous plays did a
  talented writer of elegiac verse, and expert composer of cycloramic
  spectacle, who thinks habitually rather in terms of poetic phrase
  than, as has been the way of the true dramatist, in terms of
  character, of concerted situation, of human destiny as it is shaped
  from the clashing, fatal actions of men.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 710w.

  “‘Nero.’ one judges, will not add to the author’s claims as a
  regenerator of the contemporary English-speaking stage. But it will
  not deprive him of his laurels as one of the very few contemporary
  English-writing poets.” Montgomery Schuyler.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 173. Mr. 24. ’06. 1360w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16. ’06. 110w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

  + + – =North American.= 182: 749. My. ’06. 300w.

  “The whole play has the air of being written for the stage with the
  effect of the stage accompaniments always before the writer’s mind.
  The versification has the grave fault of a lack of organic strength.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.


=Phillips, Stephen.= Sin of David. **$1.25. Macmillan.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + – =North American.= 182: 749. My. ’06. 310w.


=Phillips, Thomas W.= Church of Christ, by a layman. *$1. Funk.

  “The writer has little conception of the inwardness of religion, or
  the historic continuity and development of Judaism and Christianity.
  The book ‘fails to convince’ largely because the real issues are not
  touched.” Elbert Russell.

      – =Bib. World.= 28: 77. Jl. ’06. 170w.

  “The volume is well worth reading, though based, as we believe on
  exaggerated views of the evils of denominationalism, and of failure to
  appreciate the importance of the philosophical and systematic
  presentation of the underlying principles of the gospel plan of
  salvation.”

    + – =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 192. Ja. ’06. 220w.


=Phillpotts, Eden.= Knock at a venture. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 100w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 170w.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 170w.


=Phillpotts, Eden.= Portreeve. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “Mr. Phillpotts has placed the spirit of the Greek Fate in the breast
  of the daughter of a Dartmoor farmer. Because the man whom she has
  tricked into making a half-proposal of marriage to her, married the
  woman he loved, she pursues him through life inexorably and without
  mercy, finally working his death.” (Pub. Opin.) “Fiendish pertinacity,
  fiendish coolness, fiendish ingenuity are hers. She is miasmatic ice
  with a heart of malignant fire. She gives her victim law; he climbs;
  she strikes ... leaving him once again a little further from his ideal
  and from happiness. Finally, all but robbed of his livelihood, robbed
  of his hopes of children, robbed of the simple faith of God that was
  his dearest possession, he breaks. A raving lunatic, he all but
  murders the woman’s foolish husband, and dies a horrible death in an
  attempt to murder the woman herself.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “When all is said, this is a powerful, almost a great book. A full,
  wise and glowing piece of work.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 139. F. 10, ’06. 860w.

  “‘The portreeve’ is full of interesting material. But the composition
  seems to be sometimes at the sacrifice of verisimilitude.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 430w.

  “It lacks the grim tensity of ‘The secret woman,’ the lyric enthusiasm
  of ‘Children of the mist;’ but on the other hand, it has a more even
  strength, a greater dignity that comes from reserve force.” Frederic
  Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 283. My. ’06. 760w.

  “One lays down ‘The portreeve’ in astonishment at the inventiveness
  and ability that can use the same scenes and the same class of people
  so often, yet with increasing interest.” Charlotte Harwood.

      + =Critic.= 48: 433. My. ’06. 380w.

  “Mr. Phillpotts comes nearer than anyone else to being the legitimate
  successor of Mr. Hardy as a rustic realist, and he has a considerable
  measure of the imaginative power which can invest a simple passionate
  complication with the severe attributes of high tragedy.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 210w.

  Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.

      – =Ind.= 60: 1041. My. 3, ’06. 340w.

  “A turgid dark tale ending in madness and death.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 80w.

  “For all the strain it may put upon our belief, has in it much of its
  author’s sense of natural beauty and fine sense of sincerity of
  purpose, and a sympathy with the poor and the oppressed that is not
  exceeded by any living novelist.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 45. F. 9, ’06. 580w.

  “‘The portreeve,’ far nearer the Hardy level than he has ever reached
  before, is undoubtedly the best work Mr. Phillpotts has done so far.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 192. Mr. 31, ’06. 1160w.

  “Mr. Phillpotts has never sketched the loveliness and majesty of the
  Dartmoor country with a surer hand. The motive is one of the most
  repellent within reach of the novelist, and is worked out with
  unsparing boldness.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 756. Mr. 31, ’06. 230w.

  “It is a grim, hopeless tragedy woven out of the hard lives and plain,
  simple speech of the Dartmoor people.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 390w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 130w.


=Phillpotts, Eden.= Secret woman. $1.50. Macmillan.

  “A striking example of fine character-drawing revealed through a
  highly trying medium.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 34. Ja. ’06. 240w.


=Phin, John.= Seven follies of science: a popular account of the most
famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made
to solve them, to which is added a small budget of interesting
paradoxes, illusions, and marvels. *$1.25. Van Nostrand.

  The seven follies discussed are squaring the circle, the duplication
  of the cube, the trisection of an angle, perpetual motion, the
  transmutation of metals—alchemy, the fixation of mercury, the
  universal medicine and the elixir of life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Engin. N.= 55: 677. Je. 14, ’06. 220w.

        =Ind.= 60: 988. Ap. 26, ’06. 120w.

  “He writes for the man in the street, and we can give no higher praise
  than to say that the man in the street will understand him.” J. P.

    + + =Nature.= 75: 25. N. 8, ’06. 1110w.

        =Outlook.= 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.

  “An absorbingly interesting discussion of a subject of no particular
  value.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 60w.

  “His book is a very agreeable excursion into a forgotten but curious
  field of enquiry.”

      + =Spec.= 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 470w.


=Phythian, J. Ernest.= Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; a short biographical
sketch by the author, and 56 full-page reproductions in hf.-tone and a
photogravure front. *$1.25. Warne.

  The latest issue in the “Newnes’ art library” “deals in a large way
  with the group of men among whom Dante Gabriel Rossetti made so
  distinct a name. The author covers his ground by chronicling the
  history of the movement with little or no personal comment.” (Critic.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Writes with a sober accuracy.” Ford Madox Hueffer.

      + =Acad.= 69: 1296. D. 9, ’05. 110w.

        =Critic.= 48: 377. Ap. ’06. 60w.

        =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 90w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 245. Ap. 14, ’06. 330w.


=Pickthall, Marmaduke.= House of Islam. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “An imaginative picture of the curious Mohammedan world on the fringe
  of the Sultan’s domain.... The benighted, barbaric, yet intensely
  human, house of Islam.... Mr. Pickthall’s plan has been to set a
  saintly, almost Biblical Sheykh in the midst of ambitious men, relying
  upon the vividness of this presentation and the conflict of character
  for the interest of his work. Plot there is, but it is unsymmetrical,
  unimportant. The important thing is that all the machinery of the East
  is set in motion and for a while the reader is transported to the
  desert and the mosque, to the wineshop and the bazar.”—Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Pickthall rouses our interest and respect; he is as yet without
  that last touch of inspiration, which rouses enthusiastic conviction.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 311. S. 29, ’06. 220w.

  “Our only objections are that Mr. Pickthall is at times too resolutely
  Oriental for the ordinary reader to follow him easily, and that he
  would gain occasionally by straightforward narrative where facts are
  conveyed by brief allusion only.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 297. S. 15. 720w.

  “He has failed to breathe into his characters the breath of life.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 130w.

  “‘Saïd the fisherman,’ it is true remains his masterpiece, but ‘The
  house of Islam’ has very great merits.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 290w.

  “The geography, architecture, and figures are in admirable proportion:
  the characters stand out and live; the style is swift, pictorial, and
  amiably cynical, fitting its theme.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 300w.

  “The strength of the book lies not so much in the story—although it is
  an extremely human one—but in the struggles and bloodshed of religious
  strife, the superstitions of the various sects, and the author’s
  delicate brush upon these things and upon picturesque Asia.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 530w.

  “The author has excellent command of his subject, but he writes with
  little consideration for his hearers, never appealing to their
  experience with that instinctive sympathy which helps to bring home to
  them the episodes of so foreign a narrative. As a result the
  characters are peculiarly remote, and the story is difficult to
  follow; although a series of admirable pictures impresses itself upon
  the mind.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 80w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 891. D. 1, ’06. 730w.


=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= Corsican lovers; a story of the vendetta.
$1.50. Dodge.

  A Corsican vendetta forms the basis of this adventurous tale in which
  the fate of many people and two large estates, one Corsican and one
  English, are involved. The heroine, Vivienne Batistilli wipes out the
  vendetta by marrying her family’s enemy, Bertha Renville, the heiress,
  marries the friend of her guardian’s son, and by this arrangement the
  good and bad receive their just deserts; but there are many wild
  adventures before all this is safely brought about, and there are many
  interesting characters involved, perhaps the most truly Corsican being
  Cromillian, the moral bandit.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is amusing (in its way).”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.


=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= Sarah Bernhardt Brown and what she did in a
country town. $1.50. Waters.

  The heroine of Mr. Pidgin’s new story is a poor girl of obscure family
  who achieves by sure and steady progress the lady bountiful plane.
  There are arrayed in the background no less than well to the fore a
  variety of characters drawn from rural New Hampshire. The plot itself,
  which travels from Dolby City, Montana, to Snickersville, New
  Hampshire, must of necessity lose force in transit. The story may be
  called a companion volume to “Quincy Adams Sawyer.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If Mr. Pidgin’s humor is very primitive his supply of talk and
  narrative (such as it is) is apparently limitless.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w.

  “Combines a rather sensational plot with somewhat too extended and
  thinly drawn out descriptions of country character and rustic pranks.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 80w.


=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Ancient grudge. †$1.50. Houghton.

  “While lacking the swing and vitality to animate large issues, he
  possesses, perhaps unknown to himself, a fine personal gift. This is a
  delicate sensitiveness to the feelings of very young people.” Mary
  Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 110w.

  “It is a pleasure, occasionally, to take up a book written with the
  ability, the intelligent sympathy, the serious purpose that stamp the
  new volume by Arthur Stanwood Pier.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 495. Ja. ’06. 380w.

  “The book is an honest piece of work which one is the better for
  having read.”

      + =Reader.= 71: 453. Mr. ’06. 220w.


=Pierce, Rev. Charles Campbell.= Hunger of the heart for faith, and
other sermons. *$1. Young ch.

  A series of sermons delivered at the Cathedral open-air services in
  Washington, D. C. There is an introduction by Bishop Satterlee.


=Pierce, James O.= Studies in constitutional history. *$1.50. Wilson, H.
W.

  Beginning with the spirit of ’76, these studies treat of American
  constitutional history in a clear concise manner which will appeal to
  both the student and the man of affairs. Such subjects as The United
  States a nation from the Declaration of independence, The beginnings
  of American institutions, The ethics of secession, The American and
  French revolutions compared, The beneficiaries of the federal
  constitution, Slavery in its constitutional relations, A century of
  the American constitution, Our unwritten constitution, America’s
  leadership, The American empire, Righteousness exalteth a nation, and
  America’s place in history are treated in the light of eighteen years
  of active lecture work upon kindred subjects.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The lectures or addresses are pitched in a somewhat exalted key, and
  are calculated to stimulate patriotism and extol the progress of
  America. Judge Pierce has not always been careful in the use of
  authorities. On the whole we must conclude that the volume has no
  peculiar interest and makes no special appeal to the specialist, the
  student, or the general reader. The reviews and addresses on the whole
  well adapted for their purpose, do not make an indispensable volume
  for the library.”

  + – – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 172. O. ’06. 480w.

  “A series of studies of value to the careful delver into the facts of
  American constitutional history is to be found in Mr. Pierce’s book.
  It is typical of the lawyer mind that created it. Cautious,
  conservative, and never going beyond the evidence, but here and there
  is very suggestive.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 257. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.

  “We do not always agree with the views expressed, and occasionally we
  feel that where the views are sound (as they usually are) Mr. Pierce
  has failed to support them by the strongest arguments. But on the
  whole, there is remarkably little to criticise in his pages which
  convey in small compass a large amount of information useful alike to
  the student of constitutional history and the general reader anxious
  to improve his acquaintance with the circumstances attending the
  political, social, intellectual, and religious growth of the United
  States.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 200w.


=Pierson, Arthur Tappan.= Bible and spiritual criticism; being the
second series of the Exeter Hall lectures on the Bible delivered in
London, England, February, March, and April, 1904. **$1. Baker.

  A companion volume to “God’s living oracles.” There are twelve
  lectures treating spiritual faculties, methods, organism, structure,
  progress, symmetry, types, wisdom, verdicts and verities. They are a
  defence of the inspiration and integrity of the Holy Scriptures—the
  discussion of which theme is “a solemn business,” says the author.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Under the blinding influence of a false theory of inspiration this
  book presents a strange jumble of gold, silver, and precious stones
  with wood, hay, and stubble.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 374. F. 17, ’06. 220w.


=Pierson, Delevan Leonard=, ed. Pacific Islanders: from savages to
saints; chapters from the life stories of famous missionaries and native
converts. **$1. Funk.

  The taming and Christianizing of cannibal tribes make a record of
  remarkable conquests for the churches. This narrative extols the
  fearless initiative of missionaries in entering these fields and
  arousing its people from a state of man-eating savagery. It records
  the history of missionary work, the resources of the islands, and
  future possibilities of the natives.


=Pigafetta, Antonio.= Magellan’s voyage around the world; the original
text of the Ambrosian ms., with Eng. translation, notes, bibliography
and index, by James Alexander Robertson; with portrait, and facsimiles
of the original maps and plates. 2v. *$7.50. Clark, A. H.

  An accurate transcription from the sixteenth-century Ambrosian
  manuscript of Milan appears in these volumes with a page-for-page
  translation into English. “Pigafetta is the best and fullest authority
  for Magellan’s voyage which is here completely presented in English
  for the first time.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 478. Ja. ’06. 80w.

  “The most complete and accurate presentation of the Pigafetta
  manuscript and the data appertaining to it that has ever been made in
  any language. In the introduction and his excellent bibliography, Mr.
  Robertson has brought together the most complete array of data on the
  subject yet available.” James A. LeRoy.

  + + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 125. O. ’06. 880w.

        =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 751. N. ’05. 60w.

  “A work of laborious and admirable scholarship which should prove of
  interest both to professional students of history and ethnology and to
  the curious reader of travellers’ tales.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 240w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 649. O. 6, ’06. 630w.

  “We have nothing but praise for this interesting and learned work.”

  + + + =Spec.= 97: 400. S. 22, ’06. 1310w.


=Pigou, Arthur Cecil.= Principles and methods of industrial peace.
*$1.10. Macmillan.

  “Mr. Pigou has given us a study that will command admiration for the
  closeness of his reasoning no less than for the power with which a
  vast mass of material has been used.” C. J. Hamilton.

    + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 247. Ja. ’06. 850w.


=Pittman, Captain Philip.= Present state of the European settlements on
the Mississippi, with a geographical description of that river
illustrated by plans and draughts; ed. by Frank H. Hodder. *$3. Clark,
A. H.

  An exact reprint of the original edition, London, 1770, with
  facsimiles of the original maps and plans. An introduction, notes, and
  index have been furnished by the editor, making the volume valuable to
  historical students. “It is a comprehensive account of the Illinois
  country and its inhabitants, with sketches in detail of the several
  French posts and villages situated therein, as personally viewed by
  him in 1766–67.... It contains, in a compact form, much useful and
  reliable information (nowhere else to be found) concerning the
  Mississippi valley and its people at that transition period.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The notes made for this edition while not voluminous are of decided
  value.” Edwin E. Sparks.

    – – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 150. O. ’06. 260w.

        =Dial.= 39: 315. N. 16, ’05. 50w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 80w.


=Plantz, Samuel.= Church and the social problem: a study in applied
Christianity. *$1.25. Meth. bk.

  With the aim of assisting in bringing Christian ideals into the domain
  of our social and industrial life, this discussion presents the
  present situation of social reconstruction, considers whether the
  church has a special mission to society as well as to the individual,
  and brings forward some things the church can and ought to do in order
  to meet the obligations which the problems of the hour impose upon
  her.


=Plato.= Myths of Plato; text and translation; with introductory and
other observations by J. A. Stewart. *$4.50. Macmillan.

  “This book is likely to prove more stirring, and more lasting, in its
  appeal, than many a piece of scholar’s work, no less learned, perhaps.
  but with less of the whole man in it.” R. R. Marett.

      + =Hibbert J.= 3: 839. Jl. ’05. 1700w.

  “The whole book is certainly full of suggestion: even if we must
  add—as I think we must—that the view of Plato’s attitude here taken is
  a little unhistorical, and that the metaphysical doctrines here
  suggested are a little crude.” J. S. Mackenzie.

  + + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 242. Ja. ’06. 1370w.

  “A useful book. The translation is excellently executed in the
  pseudo-archaic Biblical ‘Morte d’Arthur’ style, which is distasteful
  to many critics, but which on the whole is better suited to the myths
  than is the easy colloquialism of Jowett. It is substantially
  correct.” Paul Shorey.

  + + – =J. Philos.= 3: 495. Ag. 30, ’06. 1790w.

    + – =Quarterly R.= 204: 68. Ja. ’06. 480w.


=Platt, Isaac Hull.= Bacon cryptograms in Shakespeare and other studies.
**$1. Small.

  The author says: “I wish distinctly to deny that what I am about to
  present proves Bacon’s authorship of the plays. What I do claim, and I
  think in reason, is that they seem to constitute grounds for a very
  strong suspicion that he was in some manner concerned in their
  production or associated with them.” “The book consists of eight more
  or less connected papers, the most important of which are The Bacon
  cryptograms in Love’s labour’s lost, which deals with the Latin of
  Act. V., Scene I., The Bacon cryptograms in the Shakespeare quartos,
  and The testimony of the first folio.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Sundry old fooleries in the ‘cipher’ line, with a few new ones of the
  same sort set forth in better typography than such stuff deserves.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.

  “The Shakespearians may breathe a sigh of relief, and resume their
  immemorial repose. Mr. Platt, at any rate, cannot break their sleep.”
  Charles H. A. Wager.

    – – =Dial.= 40: 90. D. 1, ’06. 1230w.


=Plummer, Alfred.= English church history from the death of King Henry
VII to the death of Archbishop Parker. *$1. Scribner.

  “These lectures are not intended for experts, and, in the first
  instance, were not intended for publication. They were written for
  popular audiences in connection with the Exeter Diocesan church
  reading society; and their object was, and is, to stimulate interest
  in the fortunes of the Church of England at a very critical period of
  its history.” “The main interest of Dr. Plummer’s lecture lies,
  naturally, in their account of the fortunes of the Church of England
  in the period under review, and it is as a succinct epitome of that
  story that the little sketch is chiefly valuable, though the author’s
  judgment of political events and the men of action in them is often
  very happily expressed.” (Yale R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We regret that he is so swayed by ecclesiastical prepossessions as to
  descend to the arts of special pleader.” Eri B. Hulbert.

      – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 352. Ap. ’06. 340w.

  “Many will dissent from Professor Plummer’s judgments, and regret the
  scant courtesy shown to all opponents of the Establishment. But for
  all that, he has given in these lectures a suggestive and
  thorough-going treatment of the period under review.” J. F. Vichert.

    + – =Bib. World.= 28: 76. Jl. 28, ’06. 530w.

  “He knows how to be severe to both sides when they deserve it, is
  unfavorable in his estimation of Wolsey, and not too hard on Henry
  VIII.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 86. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.

  “A little volume of decided merit.” Williston Walker.

    + + =Yale R.= 15: 95. My. ’06. 490w.


=Plunkett, Sir Horace Curzon.= Ireland in the new century. *60c. Dutton.

  “The appreciative student of social and economic problems will welcome
  this very readable and inciting book.” J. Dorum.

    + + =Westminster R.= 164: 525. N. ’05. 3250w.


=Plympton, Almira George.= Old home day at Hazeltown. $1.25. Little.

  The trials of Roxy, a brave hearted little maid, and her grandmother
  who are looked upon as encumbrances in a cross daughter-in-law’s
  household furnish the first part of this story. The second part tells
  how Roxy’s long absent father returns during “old home day,” buys
  grandmother’s old estate, and heaps coals of fire upon the head of the
  relative who had grudgingly housed the two.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 40w.


=Pocock, Roger.= Curly, a tale of the Arizona desert. †$1.50. Little.

  “The fact that the story is told in a vivid and spirited manner and
  that it is crowded with exciting and melodramatic incidents only makes
  its potential influence for harm all the greater.”

    – + =Arena.= 35: 111. Ja. ’06. 280w.


=Poincare (Jules) Henri.= Science and hypothesis: with a preface by J.
Larmor. *$1.50. Science press.

  “Professor Poincaré is one of the most brilliant and original thinkers
  of our day.... And withal, being a Frenchman, he is able to write in a
  vivacious style.... The secrets of the trade of the man of science
  have never before been exposed so frankly. He shows how the progress
  of science has been at times impeded by too much knowledge.... A false
  hypothesis is often of more service than a true one, because it leads
  to new discoveries.... And Professor Poincaré’s main object is to show
  how hypotheses are useful and why they are justifiably held to have
  more value and precision than the experiments which served to
  demonstrate them.”—Ind.

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  “It is a book which ought to be much more widely read than it is
  likely to be.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 458. Ag. 23, ’06. 340w.

  “We really cannot recommend this translation. But every one who is
  interested in these subjects should read M. Poincaré in the original.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 4: 233. Jl. 21, ’06. 1480w.

  “There is certainly no one with the same intimate knowledge of
  mathematical and physical science who could have written with the same
  authority and produced a volume in which so much charm and originality
  are condensed. The wealth of his store of illustration is boundless,
  and the stringency of his logic leaves us without answer. Even in
  cases where our instincts rebel, we are carried away by the
  fascination of the language, which in each subdivision of the subject
  takes us with dramatic power to its artistic dénouement. The English
  translation errs, perhaps, on the side of following too literally
  every sentence, and sometimes even every word in the sentence, of the
  French original.” Arthur Schuster.

  + + – =Nature.= 73: 313. F. 1, ’06. 2260w.

  “Certain defects in his equipment are, however, quite prominent. In
  the first place, he lacks psychological training. M. Poincaré is
  handicapped by the lack of a general logical theory upon which to base
  his special logical investigations. Our author has no general theory
  of knowledge; and he passes by the most obvious epistemological
  considerations without so much as a nod of recognition. I fear that
  the reader has been given but a slight notion of the exceeding
  interest and suggestiveness of this work. If there is much that should
  awaken caution, there is also a fund of wise and penetrating
  observations. Those who are least attracted by the author’s
  conclusions may well be repaid for the reading by the impressive
  survey which he gives of the present state of mathematical and
  physical science.” Theodore de Laguna.

    + – =Philos. R.= 15: 634. N. ’06. 3380w.


=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Henry VIII. *$2.60. Longmans.

  The magnificent Goupil-Scribner edition of 1902 makes its
  re-appearance in a modest two-volume reprint shorn of its glory and
  portraits save for the frontispiece, Holbein’s chalk drawing of King
  Henry.

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  “The new edition, which is neat, serviceable and well printed, will
  enable the ordinary reader to make acquaintance with a most valuable
  contribution to the historical study of a vexed time and a disputed
  character.”

      + =Acad.= 09: 1111. O. 21, ’05. 70w.

  “There can be no doubt that the present compact volume will prove far
  more useful for purposes of historical study than its bulkier and far
  more expensive predecessor. As far as the present reviewer is able to
  discover the volume is entirely free from misprints and minor errors.”
  Roger Bigelow Merriman.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 650. Ap. ’06. 680w.

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 506. O. 14. 60w.

  “A model biography of its kind. It is well proportioned throughout,
  and its literary style is excellent.” Edward Fuller.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 288. My. ’06. 370w.

  “Perhaps the strangest part of Professor Pollard’s work is his account
  of the origin and progress of the movement that separated England from
  Rome. It seems that the author’s view of Henry’s character as man and
  monarch is entirely too favorable.” Laurence M. Larson.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 291. My. 1, ’06. 1590w.

  “For the use of the student the present form is decidedly preferable,
  and it does better justice to the author himself, as we know now
  exactly the evidences on which each particular statement rests. The
  book certainly is the result of great industry and very high ability.”
  James Gairdner.

    + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 155. Ja. ’06. 1660w.

    + – =Ind.= 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 530w.

  “The cheaper edition may challenge the costlier on the scholarly
  plane.”

      + =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ’05. 130w.

  “Is a careful and able narrative of one of the most vital periods of
  English history.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 896. D. 16, ’05. 170w.

  “Has been reissued in a less expensive and more convenient form and
  with revisions and additions that greatly increase its value.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82. 135. Ja. 20, ’06. 2360w.


=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation,
1489–1556. *$1.35. Putnam.

  “Pollard’s biography is fuller than that of Canon Mason, and it is
  very fortunately, for the ordinary reader, free from the high church
  prejudices of Jenkyns and Dixon.” John McLaughlan.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 352. Ap. ’06. 260w.


=Pollock, Frank Lillie.= Treasure trail. $1.25. Page.

  An exciting narrative of the efforts of two rival search parties to
  locate certain gold bullion stolen from a Boer government and stored
  in a steamer sunk somewhere in the Mozambique channel. It is a tale of
  chance, of daring, with adventure no whit below the spirit of its
  eager gold hunters.


=Poole, Ernest.= Voice of the street; a story of temptation. †$1.50.
Barnes.

  “The story of a young street Arab, Jim, possessed of a splendid voice,
  who emancipates himself from all those deteriorating influences which
  Mr. Poole calls the ‘street,’ and finally becomes a great singer. At
  the same time it is the story of self-sacrificing love on the part of
  a young girl who in order to support ‘Lucky Jim’ and her father turns
  thief. The book is not intended for mere entertainment. It is the
  portrayal of the better and the lower influences at work among the
  poor of the East End of New York. Mr. Poole knows these people well
  and he has spoken for them as their interpreter.”—World To-Day.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While admitting the book’s uncommon quality, one may question whether
  the ending is, in the truest sense, a happy one.”

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 640. Ag. ’06. 850w.

  “Ought to have been a fine novel. But somehow it is not.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 100w.

  “In short, the thing which pleases and satisfies the critical sense in
  this book is the approach it makes toward interpretation and
  presentation of the life of the poor according to the modern
  conscience, while at the same time giving it the form and dignity of
  real literature.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1546. Je. 28, ’06. 930w.

  “Poole is too much influenced by the hysterical manner for his story
  to endure.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 40w.

  “Here the situations depicted are so poignant and yet natural, the
  characters are so lifelike that we almost forget the crudities in the
  manner of telling and the general commonplaceness in the make-up of
  this very human little story.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 320w.

  “Though there is never relief from movement, there is often a drag in
  the process of the tale. Vigor, directness, and the absence of mock
  sentimentality, however, weigh heavily on the other side.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w.

  “He has dramatic insight, an unsensational realism and a downright
  sympathy for those who struggle for the better.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 150w.


=Pope, Jesse Eliphalet.= Clothing industry in New York. $1.25. Univ. of
Mo.

  “This book is Volume I of the ‘Social science series’ of the
  University of Missouri.... The study was made at first hand in New
  York City and is restricted to men’s and children’s outside wearing
  apparel and to women’s cloaks. The history of the clothing industry is
  traced, showing how the change was gradually made from custom to
  ready-made work, the development of the sweating and factory systems.
  The questions of wages, hours of employment, systems of production and
  of payment are described at length. Then the author turns to the
  conditions of employment at home, sanitation, income and expenditures,
  passing to regulation by law, trade unions, etc.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

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  “The work has been well done, and the result is not merely a good
  history of a special trade, but it teems with social facts of great
  value.”

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 240. Ja. ’06. 160w.

  “Much research has evidently gone to the making of this bulky volume
  and its results are summed up with great clearness.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 327. Mr. 17. 350w.

  “Throughout the volume, however, there is lacking the scientific
  accuracy of the trained statistician and the scholarly background of
  the student well read in economic history.” Edith Abbott.

    + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 252. Ap. ’06. 810w.

        =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ’05. 60w.

  “The slenderness of the author’s acquaintance with the actual
  conditions obtaining in the clothing industry in New York, is
  indicated by the omission of all reference to the decision of the
  Court of Appeals, in the case in re Jacobs, promulgated in 1885.”
  Florence Kelley.

      – =Yale R.= 14: 433. F. ’06. 340w.


=Porter, General Horace.= Campaigning with Grant. *$1.80. Century.

  An intimate record of Grant’s movements during the Civil war, made up
  from General Porter’s careful and elaborate notes taken on the scene
  of action. The aim has been to “recount the daily acts of General
  Grant in the field, to describe minutely his personal traits and
  habits, and to explain the motives which actuated him in important
  crises by giving his criticisms upon events in the language employed
  by him at the time they took place.” There are numerous illustrations,
  maps and a facsimile of the letter containing the oft quoted “I
  propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”

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  “The book is undeniably entertaining, and in its present attractive
  dress should have a new lease of life.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 30, ’06. 150w.

  “Will long maintain its place as one of the best books about the Civil
  war, not only because it is authoritative, but more especially because
  it is full of human and personal interest, and it is written with
  animation and with compelling descriptive power.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 60w.


=Potter, Mrs. Frances B. (Squire).= Ballingtons. †$1.50. Little.

  “As a literary production the story deserves high praise. It is
  realistic in the best sense of that much-abused term, and the
  depressing effect of the story is at times counteracted by an
  underlying vein of humor which permeates much of the dialogue. Yet it
  is a book that we cannot find it in our heart to recommend, as it does
  not solve the problem and the general effect upon the reader’s mind is
  decidedly depressing.” Amy C. Rich.

    + – =Arena.= 35: 447. Ap. ’06. 290w.

  “What gives the book its uncommon distinction is the sense that you
  get everywhere in it of the far-reaching effect of human passions; the
  sense of how love and sorrow, cruelty and unkindness, even such a
  negative quality as indifference, extend their silent influence to
  every hour of the day, every relation of life.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

  + + – =Bookm.= 22: 371. D. ’05. 520w.

  “Perhaps in the very fullness of its pain, in the intensity of its
  message in the searching cry of the book, lie the value and
  significance of the story.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 347. Mr. 17, ’06. 140w.

  “Presenting a climax of ethical and practical significance.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 60w.


=Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman.= Reminiscences of bishops and
archbishops. **$2. Putnam.

  “The bishops and archbishops of whom Bishop Potter writes are thirteen
  in number, the bishops being all Americans; the archbishops of course,
  are Englishmen. The reminiscences embrace exactly forty years,
  beginning as they do in 1866, when the author was chosen secretary of
  the House of bishops. It is the personal note that the author aims to
  sound, rather than the professional or biographical.”—Lit. D.

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  “Fails to gratify the expectations created by its title or to fulfil
  the promises of its preface. Fully a third of the matter comprised in
  the ten biographies is quoted.”

    – + =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 180w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 190w.

  “The net result of the book is to prove that ecclesiastics are like
  other men, in having a saving sense of humor, in regard for substance
  rather than for form in religion, and in emphasis upon character
  rather than on possessions.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 350. O. 25. ’06. 330w.

  “The present volume contains many valuable and entertaining
  reminiscences.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, 06. 170w.

  “Bishop Potter has an enviable reputation as a talker, and these pages
  will not diminish that reputation.” Cameron Mann.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 667. O. 13, 06. 980w.

  “This is a book to interest laymen no less than the clergy.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 382. D. ’06. 150w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 60w.


=Potter, Margaret Horton (Mrs. J. D. Black).= Genius. †$1.50. Harper.

  This story is the first of the author’s proposed “Trilogy of destiny,”
  three stories of Russian life. It follows the career of a famous
  Russian composer who was destined by a cruel unscrupulous, iron-handed
  father for the army and intrigue. How he slips thru the clutches of
  what seemed inevitable fate and is saved to a life which develops the
  artist’s temperament in him is presented with a free stroke in keeping
  with the rapid action.

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  “The book is not without some strong pages. But as a picture of
  Russian life it is not to be taken seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 283. My. ’06. 360w.

  “This is the best written and the sanest of any of Miss Potter’s
  books. It is impossible, however, to approve such liberties as she has
  taken with the lives of men so lately dead.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 170w.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 280w.

  “A book in certain qualities rather above the average, but its
  ambitiously cultivated style is a fair example of the way in which
  English should not be written.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 230w.

  “The parts are greater than the whole.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 177. Mr. 24, ’06. 460w.

  “There is an irresistible fascination about the great grey land which
  captivates the imagination and proves an endless treasure to both
  writer and reader alike.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 759. Je. ’06. 80w.


=Potter, Mary Knight.= Art of the Venice academy, containing a brief
history of the building and its collection of paintings as well as
descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their
artists. **$2. Page.

        =Int. Studio.= 29: 183. Ag. ’06. 110w.

  “The work is appreciatively and sympathetically written.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 40w.


=Pottinger, Sir Henry.= Flood, fell and forest: a book of sport in
Norway. 2v. $8.40. Longmans.

  “We note some repetition and overlapping of matter, but all things
  considered, the tales are well told, if occasionally with some
  pardonable complacency.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 280w.

  “Though we could have spared some digressions from his portly volumes,
  we have not found a page too long.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 350. O. 20, ’05. 740w.

  “But there is little in Sir Henry’s two volumes to make them worth
  printing. We hardly think that even professionally inclined outdoor
  people will find much amusement in these books.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 73. F. 3, ’06. 550w.

  “Every lover of Norwegian sport will be grateful to an author who can
  revive for him a host of pleasant memories.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 868. N. 25, ’05. 410w.


=Powell, Edward Payson.= Orchard and fruit garden. **$1.50. McClure.

  “This book should be possessed by every farmer in the Republic and by
  all persons who have land for a few trees and berry bushes.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 330. Mr. ’06. 660w.

      + =Reader.= 6: 727. N. ’05. 180w.


=Powell, Frances.= Prisoner of Ornith farm. †$1.50. Scribner.

  “The startling abduction of Hope Carmichael from her own wealthy
  family and luxurious surroundings to the mysterious farm in
  Connecticut where she is held a prisoner in a barred room on the plea
  of insanity, her numberless wild and futile attempts at escape and the
  power over every one with whom he comes in contact of the villainous
  counterfeiter Lannion—these things combine to make a more than
  thrilling narrative.” (N. Y. Times.)

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  “Is melodrama of the baldest sort.”

      – =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 70w.

  “Miss Powell has the story teller’s art of awakening interest in plot
  and characters, which is unsatisfied until the denouement is reached.”

    + – =Ind.= 40: 931. Ap. 19, ’06. 160w.

  “There is no doubt this is sensationalism of a successful sort. It is
  exciting enough to make one forget even the toothache.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 185. Mr. 24, ’06. 230w.

  “[Has] vividness and suspense and [shows] considerable ingenuity in
  sustaining the reader’s attention in the main situation by the
  dramatic way in which the successive incidents are managed ... weak as
  to the motive for action.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.

        =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 80w.


=Powell, Mary Elizabeth.= Dying musician. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

  A poem filled with pathos and longing which is the anguish of
  unrealized happiness. For the musician has loved and suffered:

                “Then should thy judgment move
                To censure harsh, for having dared to love
                (E’en as great Tasso) one above me far
                And hopeless of attainment as a star—
                My one defense,—even as his—must be
                Because I loved, what not to love and see
                Was more or less than mortal and than me.”


=Power, John O’Connor.= Making of an orator. **$1.35. Putnam.

  In his suggestions to young orators. Mr. Power emphasizes the value of
  individuality. While obeying certain structural principles he advises
  the student to encourage his natural freedom of speech and to learn
  that rhetoric “was designed as an aid to speakers and writers, and not
  as a means of bettering their natural ability.”

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  “The book has many valuable suggestions, and will repay all who are
  ambitious to excel in any branch of oratory.”

      + =Cath. World.= 84: 416. D. ’06. 140w.

  “It contains a number of excellent hints and suggestions to the public
  speaker of any sort, conceived and presented in a simple and
  unpretentious fashion.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.

  “This book is undoubtedly interesting and valuable; yet it is not
  entirely obvious who will most appreciate its interest and value.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 210. S. 6, ’06. 670w.

  “A book that is not only useful, but entertaining.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 413. Je. 23, ’06. 330w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 767. Jl. 28, ’06. 300w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 50w.

  “This is an interesting book.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 990. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.


=Powers, Harry Huntington.= Art of travel: the laboratory study of
civilization. 2d ed. 50c. Bureau of University travel, Trinity place,
Boston.

  Some of the topics discussed by way of valuable suggestion to the
  prospective traveller are the art, purpose, method and means of
  travel, university travel, outfit and travel in different countries.


=Powers, Harry Huntington, and Powe, Louise M.= Outlines for the study
of art. v. 2. $1.50. Bureau of university travel, Trinity place, Boston.

  An outline for the later period of Italian art beginning with Leonardo
  and ending with the decadence. The text furnishes a guide for the
  laboratory study of the period and is written to accompany a
  collection of reproductions.


=Powles, H. H. P.= Steam boilers, their history and development. *$6.50.
Lippincott.

  About one-third of the work is devoted to the work of old-time
  engineers in boiler design beginning with the spherical boiler made by
  Hero of Alexandria in 150 B. C. Then follow chapters in plain,
  cylindrical, Cornish and Lancashire boilers, water-tube boilers, and
  motor-car boilers. His closing chapters compare various types of
  boilers, and discuss boiler development in general.

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  “We do not see that the book will be of any particular use to an
  engineer familiar with boiler design and construction; but it may
  possibly find a useful place on the shelves of public libraries, where
  there is a constant demand for popular information on technical
  subjects. Its chief value is as a history, but it is far from
  complete.”

    – + =Engin. N.= 55: 192. F. 15, ’06. 330w.


=Pratt, Agnes Louise.= Aunt Sarah, a mother of New England. $1.50.
Badger, R: G.

  Sarah Marsh, dubbed Aunt Sarah by her friends, is a typical example of
  an undemonstrative, stoical, but, withal, motherly New England woman
  of the Civil war times. She has two sons. Francis, the younger, leaves
  home to study. While away he discovers that his pledge of love to Hope
  Hamilton was a mistake. Hope, with true heroism, releases the student,
  to the relief of Philip, the elder son, a serious-minded manly young
  fellow who silently cherished a love for Hope. When the war summons
  comes the mother bravely speeds her sons on their way to the front,
  both of whom return; one to die, the other to find his happiness.


=Pratt, Antwerp Edgar.= Two years among New Guinea cannibals: a
naturalist’s sojourn among the aborigines of unexplored New Guinea; with
notes and observations by his son, Henry Pratt, and appendices on the
scientific results of the expedition. *$4. Lippincott.

  The title would suggest that the explorer of the volume went armed for
  such frays as Rider Haggard’s “She” depicts. On the contrary he is
  occupied with the inoffensive pursuit of birds and plants, butterflies
  and moths. The bower bird, the blue bird of paradise, a new variety of
  orchid, a magnificent scarlet creeper, spider’s webs and wonderful
  butterflies are of vastly more interest to Mr. Pratt and hence to his
  readers than the surrounding cannibals. “The scientific results of the
  expedition were a new reptile, a new fish, and a number of new
  lepidoptera.” (Lond. Times.)

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  “The reader who cares for chronicles of forest life will find many
  pleasant pages.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 76. Jl. 21. 930w.

  Reviewed by Wallace Rice.

      + =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 360w.

  “His anthropological notes are meagre, and if he had observed the
  natives more closely he would not have called them ‘cannibals’ even to
  provide himself with a grim and awe-inspiring title.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 340w.

  Reviewed by Cyrus C. Adams.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 660w.

  “Mr. Pratt is, however, a naturalist, and it is in this capacity he
  should be mainly judged. But on the whole the book is somewhat
  disappointing from this point of view as well.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 660. My. 26, ’06. 1130w.

  “We cannot here follow Mr. Pratt’s wanderings in search of his prey,
  but we can assure our readers that he makes a very entertaining
  narrative out of them.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 310w.


=Pratt, Edwin A.= Railways and their rates. Dutton.

  “Although partisan in its character, the book contains much valuable
  information conveniently arranged.” William Hill.

    + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 123. F. ’06. 220w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 288. O. 4, ’06. 720w.

  “Mr. Pratt’s book is not exactly light literature, but his style
  commends itself to serious readers. Especially we commend his serenity
  of temper. We commend Mr. Pratt’s book to those who prefer to follow
  their judgments rather than their feelings in a complex situation.”
  Edward A. Bradford.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 589. S. 22, ’06. 1610w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 100w.


=Preissig, Edward.= Notes on the history and political institutions of
the old world. **$2.50. Putnam.

  “A series of notes on the history of the countries of the old world
  from the earliest times, supplemented by notes on their institutions,
  religions, literature, art, and geographical features, and by a number
  of maps.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A text book of rather unusual scope which promises to be of
  considerable value.”

    + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 340. S. ’06. 120w.

  “A convenient students’ manual of general history.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 100w.

  “Is a history on the lines of Myers, tho fuller and not so
  convenient.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 237. Ag. 2, ’06. 16w.

  “As there is little promise of a short cut in this portly octavo we
  fear it will be avoided by the retarded freshman or sophomore.
  Unfortunately it is not well adapted for the use of other readers.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 290. O. 4, ’06. 650w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 459. Jl. 21, ’06. 280w.

  “For advanced study the work is of little value, but it is distinctly
  meritorious as a compact presentation of salient facts, dates, etc.,
  and should prove popular both as an aid to the beginner and as a handy
  reference work for the library, the study, and the newspaper office.
  For purposes of consultation, however, it would have been improved by
  more exhaustive indexing.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.

  “A useful historical treatise.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 50w.


=Prescott, William Hickling.= Complete works. Lib. ed. 12v. $12.
Crowell.

  A complete library edition of Prescott’s works and in addition the
  authorized “Life of Prescott” by George Ticknor. It represents the
  best workmanship of the times, and contains illustrations which are
  the result of special research including reproductions of portraits,
  maps and paintings. Each volume is supplied with an index as well as a
  synoptical list of contents.

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  “In general the edition is a desirable one.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 100w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 878. D. 15, ’06. 460w.

  “The present edition has been carefully edited as to text, is printed
  from new type, and has many well chosen illustrations. May be
  commended to all those who wish to have a complete library edition.”

    + + =Outlook=. 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 100w.


=Preston, Sydney Herman.= On common ground. †$1.50. Holt.

  The man who goes “Back to nature” to rejuvenate himself, succeeding
  “without either the morbid egotism or illusive susceptibility” of his
  teens, keeps a diary. It is this from-day-to-day record that tells of
  his farm occupations, of the shortcomings of Joseph, his
  man-of-all-work, and of the garrulity of Mrs. Biggles, his
  housekeeper. In tales of this kind the Ponce de Leon quest is never
  unaccompanied with a romance. Olivia Humphrey is near by, is engaging,
  is a musician. The wooing is natural even to the prosaic.

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  “A very ordinary sort of book, and highbrowed intellectuals have no
  right to find the slightest enjoyment in reading it. There is
  therefore a lurking sense of shame in the necessity I feel for
  confessing to a genuine enjoyment in its perusal.” Edward Clark Marsh.

    – + =Bookm.= 24: 56. S. ’06. 1010w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 347. My. 26, ’06. 390w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.

  “This sort of writing is becoming too easy for the author, and too
  tedious for the long-suffering reader.”

      – =Outlook.= 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 50w.


=Prichard, Kate O’Brien Hesketh, and Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh
(E. and H. Heron, pseud.).= Don Q. in the Sierra. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  Don Q. has abstracted the qualities of his birthright chivalry and has
  employed them strangely enough in his fearless bandit adventures.
  Relentless and merciless with the unworthy wayfarer who happened to
  fall into his clutches, he was equally remarkable for “the splendour,
  of his generosities, his almost diabolic courage, his spirit of
  chivalry, and, perhaps most of all, his unswerving fidelity to the
  poorest who served him.” Here are more tales to delight the admirers
  of the invincible Don Q.

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  “In spite of the sameness, they are eminently readable. You sit down
  with the book and find yourself unable to put it aside until you have
  finished it.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 500w.


=Prince, Morton.= Dissociation of a personality: a biographical study in
abnormal psychology. *$2.80. Longmans.

  The subject described in this study is Miss Christina L. Beauchamp, a
  patient of Dr. Morton’s whose three personalities struggled with each
  other for the control of the body and brain. They were “the saint, the
  woman, and the devil. The Saint, the typical saint of literature ...
  may fairly be said, without exaggeration to personify those traits
  which expounders of various religions ... have held up as the ideals
  to be attained by human nature.... The Woman personifies the frailties
  of temper ... ambition.... Sally is the Devil, not an immoral devil
  ... but rather a mischievous imp.” (N. Y. Times.)

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  “It is not easy for the amateur to estimate the value of this work to
  the members of the healing profession, but every one must recognize
  that it is most conscientiously done.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 449. My. 12, ’06. 870w.

  “Most excellent reading for the layman, the physiologist, and the
  student of psychology.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 549. My. 5. 550w.

  “If ‘The dissociation of a personality’ were a work of the
  imagination, it would be a noteworthy production. That it is, instead,
  the latest work of science concerning the human soul shows how far we
  have traveled from the invisible Ego of our fathers.” E. T. Brewster.

    + + =Atlan.= 98: 425. S. ’06. 910w.

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 272. My. ’06. 620w.

  “A distinctly notable contribution to our comprehension of the
  vicissitudes of personality.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 266. Ap. 16, ’06. 430w.

  “This humorous, pathetic and tragic story is written with the vivacity
  of a romance and apparently without sacrificing scientific accuracy.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 165. Ja. 18, ’06. 890w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 531. Ap. 7, ’06. 1260w.

  “Well written, and, despite its length and some little repetition, of
  absorbing interest, even to such as usually confine their reading to
  lighter literature.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 282. Ap. 5, ’06. 1690w.

  “The facts of the case are told in a very direct and interesting way.”
  A. D. L.

    + + =Nature.= 75: 102. N. 29, ’06. 430w.

  “The specific value of the present work lies in the exhaustive
  circumstantial, and reliable account of the physical, social, moral,
  and intellectual habits, attainments, etc., of the various
  personalities assumed by the patient, in relation to her own proper
  selfhood and to the external society in which she moved.” Edgar C.
  Beall, M. D.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 548. S. 8, ’06. 680w.

  “As a scientific study in an obscure field of research now being
  actively explored, Dr. Prince’s work is one of interest.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 230. Ja. 27, ’06. 210w.


=Prior, Edward S.= Cathedral builders in England. *$2. Dutton.

  Mr. Prior tells the story of mediaeval churches, monastic, secular,
  collegiate and parochial, whether built for monks, canons, or parish
  use, whether they were designed as cathedrals, or have now come to
  have a bishop’s chair. The author begins with the year 1066 and covers
  the time to the present century. Each of the nine periods into which
  the book is divided opens with a list of cathedrals discussed in the
  chapter devoted to that time. There are ample illustrations in black
  and white.

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  “It is satisfactory to find the subject approached after a masterly
  and in many respects an original fashion.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 143. F. 3. 1430w.

  “The book is full of vital interest, and should be put into the hands
  of all young students of the history of their native land.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 371. Je. ’06. 150w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 434. My. 24, ’06. 1510w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 270w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 280w.

  “A good account, with interesting illustration.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 423. Mr. 17, ’06. 1390w.


=Pritchett, Henry Smith.= What is religion? and other student questions:
talks to college students. **$1. Houghton.

  President Pritchett’s sound advice to young men is along the lines of
  the science of religion, the significance of prayer, joining a church,
  etc. He answers the question “What is truth?” and “What is religion?”
  “in a practical manner far more likely to influence young men in the
  right direction than more eloquent addresses which depart more from
  the vital questions to be discussed.” (Critic.)

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  “Many persons more than students will find food for thought in the
  little volume.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 471. My. ’06. 90w.

  “He speaks as a scientist without dogmatic prejudices, and in a free,
  outspoken and brotherly manner.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 824. O. 4, ’06. 210w.

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 572. Mr. 10, ’06. 180w.


=Proctor, Edna Dean.= Songs of America and other poems. **$1.25.
Houghton.

  Aside from her patriotic numbers including poems for Flag day and
  Columbus day, and her Indian legends, Miss Proctor offers a group of
  memorial verses the best of which are those on Emerson and Whittier.

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  “Patriotic pieces conceived with an admirable seriousness of mood, and
  elaborated with a good command of poetic materials, but without any
  very fresh distinctions of inspiration.”

      + =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 220w.

  “Its spirit is purely American, and it is written in pure English.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 768. N. 11, ’05. 80w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.


=Prouty, Charles A. and others.= President Roosevelt’s railroad policy.
50c. Ginn.

  “The book has a certain ephemeral value, although the views of all
  four of the participants may be found more adequately expressed
  elsewhere.”

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 174. Mr. ’06. 140w.


=Prudden, Theodore Philander.= Congregationalists: who they are and what
they do. 40c. Pilgrim press.

  “A little book whose aim is to make known the wide influence of the
  Congregational churches and their relation to national development and
  institutions.”

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  “He has made a comprehensive and convenient book of reference and
  instruction.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 28, ’06. 60w.


Pryings among private papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, by the author of “A life of Sir Kenelm Digby.” *$2.50.
Longmans.

  The compiler has gleaned from the Reports of the Royal historical
  commission “anecdotes and odds and ends, carefully eschewing
  everything biographical, historical, political, or instructive.” The
  result is a pot-pourri which illustrates the social life of English
  ancestors from the “cradle to the grave.”

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  “Altogether this is a good book for an unoccupied hour, especially as
  it contains interesting allusions to famous individuals.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 862. D. 23. 100w.

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 396. Je. ’06. 150w.

  “There is almost nothing new in the book.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 63. F. 3, ’06. 530w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 29. Ja. 6, ’06. 240w.


=Puffer, Ethel D.= Psychology of beauty. *$1.25. Houghton.

  “The truth is, there is a prime defect in Miss Puffer’s theory—a
  somewhat zealous unwillingness to allow for ideal significance in
  beauty. Yet the book is not one with which the critic can dispense.
  The psycho-physical factors are justly apportioned, the main theory is
  at least a right account of important elements; and the concrete
  applications are a distinct advance on the road towards an efficient
  science.” H. B. Alexander.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 215. Ap. ’06. 910w.

        =Lit. D.= 31: 983. D. 30, ’05. 1300w.


=Purchas, Samuel.= Hakluytus posthumous; or Purchas his pilgrimes.
*$3.25. Macmillan.

    + + =Acad.= 71: 155. Ag. 18, ’06. 1060w. (Review of v. 13 and 14.)

  “Messrs. MacLehose are indeed to be congratulated on the successful
  issue, now arrived at its sixteenth volume, of this noble addition to
  the history of the conquest of the earth by modern commerce. We say
  addition, for Purchas is so rare a volume, that the work comes to most
  of us as new.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 438. O. 13. 760w. (Review of v. 16.)

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 893. D. 22, ’06. 220w. (Review of v. 17 and
          18.)

  “The record here given is delightfully full of surprising incidents,
  and it will be a queasy taste that will not find much in these two
  volumes to charm a leisure hour and stimulate thought.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 480w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)


=Putnam, James Jackson.= Memoir of Dr. James Jackson; with sketches of
his father, Hon. Jonathan Jackson, and his brothers, Robert, Henry,
Charles, and Patrick Tracy Jackson; and some account of their ancestry.
**$2.50. Houghton.

  Dr. Jackson was a Boston physician of note in the first part of the
  last century, his brother was on the supreme bench of Massachusetts
  from 1813 to 1824, and his father, Jonathan Jackson, a Newburyport
  merchant, was a delegate to congress and held various state offices.
  The sketch reminds the present generation of its debt to Dr. Jackson
  “for the establishment on sound foundations of the medical learning
  still growing to more and more.” (Outlook.)

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  “Will be of general interest, as well as of moment to Bostonians.”

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 483. Ja. ’06. 80w.

  “The book will interest other than medical men.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 290w.

  “Is in many respects an ideal biography, not only because it presents
  a most attractive character satisfactorily, but because it makes the
  background of people and places, from which that character emerged,
  just clear enough.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 290w.

  “Dr. Putnam’s memoir is prepared with great good taste and modesty.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 124. F. 8, ’06. 1340w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ’05. 100w.

      + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ’05. 130w.


=Pyle, Edmund.= Memoirs of a royal chaplain. *$4. Lane.

  “The fullness and accuracy of Mr. Hartshorne’s dates and the excellent
  index add immensely to the value of this volume ... incidentally the
  letters throw considerable light on English manners and mode of life,
  and on the condition of medicine during the reign of George II.” A. G.
  Porritt.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 381. Ja. ’06. 790w.

  “Every mention of a celebrity produces a small biography. Not content
  with this, he digresses, on the smallest provocation, into all sorts
  of matters which have no connection whatever with the text. But with
  all its faults students of the eighteenth century must feel grateful
  to Mr. Hartshorne for the publication of this volume.” H. M’N.
  Rushforth.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 172. Ja. ’06. 910w.

  “These letters are not pleasant reading. As part of the history of the
  Church of England in what were perhaps its most degenerate days these
  letters have an obvious value.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 158. Jl. 19, ’06. 310w.


=Pyle, Howard.= Story of champions of the round table. **$2.50.
Scribner.

  “Mr. Pyle Writes as fascinatingly as he illustrates.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w.


=Pyle, Katharine.= Nancy Rutledge. †$1.25. Little.

  All about the work and play of a group of children who attend a Quaker
  school.

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        =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 20w.


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=Quayle, William Alfred.= Prairie and the sea. *$2. Meth. bk.

  “This is a series of pleasing out-of-door talks and rambles. The
  author, Mr. William A. Quayle, is always sympathetic in his moods, is
  an ardent worshiper at the shrine of nature, and is at times playful,
  at other times ecstatic. The book is made beautiful by a very large
  number of altogether charming photographs and marginal
  drawings.”—Outlook.

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  “His work belongs to the great average output of nature essays—not
  striking, but thoroughly readable on the whole, and, together with the
  accompanying pictures, making up an attractive volume.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 240w.

  “It is not original and it is not all worthy, it is not all in the
  best taste—but there’s undoubtedly a charm about both pictures and
  text.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 104. F. 17, ’06. 650w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 60w.


=Quick, Herbert.= Double trouble; or, Every hero his own villain.
†$1.50. Bobbs.

  A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale which substitutes hypnotic power for
  the potion of Stevenson’s story. Florian Amidon, an educated upright
  young banker, wakes up one morning to make the startling discovery
  that he has lost five years of his life to another personality—to
  Eugene Brassfield, of whom Amidon has not the slightest consciousness.
  The trouble for Amidon which grows out of the anything but
  irreproachable life of Brassfield furnishes the motif of the story,
  and introduces a series of novel situations.

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  “This novel has two legitimate claims to public interest. It is a
  pleasing love-story quite out of the ordinary beaten path of fiction,
  and it is a popular study of one of the latest assured results of
  modern psychology—the subliminal self or double personality.”

      + =Arena.= 36: 108. Jl. ’06. 670w.

        =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 180w.

  “The story, moreover has a crisp and animated style that adds greatly
  to the charm. We can assure the reader of this tale much
  satisfaction.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 380w.

  “The tale moves with alacrity and is never dull.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.

  “A capital story of strange happenings most convincingly told.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 78. F. 10, ’06. 480w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

  “A pervading sense of humor, reminiscent of Stockton, sheds an air of
  plausibility over the situation.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 110w.


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=Racster, Olga.= Chats on violins. *$1.25. Lippincott.

  “Space hardly permits detailed examination, but what she does present
  in the way of history and theory she sets forth clearly and in a form
  well adapted to meet the approval of the casual reader upon such a
  subject.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 80w.


=Rae, John.= Sociological theory of capital: being a complete reprint of
the New principles of political economy, 1834; ed. with biographical
sketch and notes by C: Whitney Mixter. **$4. Macmillan.

  “Concerning the present reprint, Professor Mixter deserves much credit
  for the labor he has bestowed on the original work to make it more
  readable.” Lester W. Zartman.

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 442. Mr. ’06. 930w.

  “In preparing for publication a reconstructed edition of ‘The new
  principles of political economy’ by John Rae, the editor has rendered
  economic science a real service.” Isaac A. Loos.

    + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 56. Ja. ’06. 1340w.

        =Nation.= 81: 504. D. 21, ’05. 250w.

  “Neither as radical nor as original as it was in 1834. Professor
  Mixter ought not to have given to the public such a volume as this
  without adding an index.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 274. F. 3, ’06. 320w.


=Raine, Allen, pseud. (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe).= Queen of the rushes, a
romance of the Welsh country. †$1.50. Jacobs.

  The drowning of Jonathan Rees of Scethryg and his band of reapers
  forms the tragic opening of this story of the Welsh country and the
  Welsh country people. Little Gwenifer, watching for her mother on the
  shore, sees her go down when the boat is overturned and is struck dumb
  by the shock. Gildas, the young son of the old mishteer, takes his
  father’s place on the estate, and cares for the little dumb girl who
  is known thruout the neighborhood as queen of the rushes. She loves
  Gildas with a mute devotion, and on the night when his wife leaves
  him, pleads dumbly with her to return, is thrown upon the rocks, and,
  in the shock of it, recovers her speech. This of course, opens the way
  for her happiness and that of her benefactor.


=Ramanathan, Ponnambalam.= Culture of the soul among western nations.
**$1.25. Putnam.

  “The author of this book is Solicitor General for Ceylon. His recent
  visit to this country will be recalled in many cultured centers—in
  colleges, churches, and the better class of clubs. His aim here is to
  show that, in the Western countries, people have wandered far away
  from the early conceptions of Christianity when chief importance was
  attached to oral teachings of the faith by men who had reached
  perfection or sanctification, through the development of perfect love
  in the soul.”—Lit. D.

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        =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 100w.

  “The little book may be recommended to those who wish to become
  acquainted with the higher religious life of present-day India. They
  will find little to surprise or repel them; a good deal to attract.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 220w.

  “The spirit of Mr. Rámanáthan’s teaching is admirable, and his use of
  the Scriptures for confirmation is ingenious. What he speaks from a
  profound spiritual experience is incontestable. His doctrine that the
  knowledge of God reaches its acme in a state of feeling disjunct from
  thought and will is psychologically impossible, as well as rationally
  untenable.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 237. S. 22, ’06. 310w.


=Ranck, George Washington.= Bivouac of the dead, and its author. **$1.
Grafton press.

      + =Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 60w.


=Randall, Edward C.= Life’s progression: research in metaphysics.
*$1.60. Henry B. Brown co., 496–8 Main st., Buffalo, N. Y.

  A book which makes no use of creeds nor faith, which believes that
  positive knowledge has displaced them both and also the idea of death,
  that origin and destiny are not beyond the grasp of mortals, that in
  the spirit world laws are fixed and are immutable, that dissolution is
  not annihilation but liberation and opportunity and that God is
  universal good and dwells in the heart of all mankind.


=Rankin, Carroll Watson.= Girls of Gardenville. †$1.50. Holt.

  “The sweet sixteen,” club and the doings of its sixteen girlish
  members, the three Stones counted as one because they were triplets
  and couldn’t all leave home at once, fill this book with wholesome
  young life from cover to cover. How two of them tried to paper a room
  so as to give their mother something which she could not give away,
  how one of them played fireman; how they held a rummage sale; how they
  secured a Hallowe’en pumpkin; all this and more is told in the course
  of the story.

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  “The tone of the book is commendable; it teaches sound principles
  without being priggish.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 50w.

  “The tales are not vigorous or interesting enough either in content or
  in style to have other than the negative value of supplying harmless
  and diluted amusement to young readers.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 145. Mr. 10, ’06. 130w.

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 40w.


=Ransom, Caroline Louise.= Studies in ancient furniture; couches and
beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. *$4.50. Univ. of Chicago
press.

      + =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 50w.


=Raper, Charles Lee.= Principles of wealth and welfare; economics for
high schools. *$1.10. Macmillan.

  Professor Raper says in the preface of his book: “It is only a simple
  and elementary discussion of the more important principles which are
  involved in the consumption, production and distribution of wealth ...
  as a means to an end—a means to human welfare in all of its manifold
  aspects.”

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  “It appears to the reviewer that the author fails to put in a clear
  light the principle of decreasing returns in relation to land. The
  best part of this volume is found in its descriptions, as description
  is ordinarily understood; however, in the higher realm of description,
  where description resumes under the briefest formulæ the widest range
  of facts, the work is not strong.”

  + + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 341. S. ’06. 490w.

  “A more distinctly American book has hardly ever come into our hands.
  Not only the spelling, but also the mode of regarding events, the
  standpoint from which the different aspects of life are viewed, is
  distinctly that of the other side of the Atlantic. Besides stimulating
  our thoughts, the work has also the advantage of being written
  throughout in a simple and easy style.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 402. O. 6. 1390w.

  “By way of special criticism of ‘Wealth and welfare,’ it may be noted
  that economic terms are used without sufficient accuracy of
  definition. The text is happily written, less in the once-upon-a-time
  style than much high-school economics, and does in fact give a ‘simple
  and elementary discussion of the more important principles’ of the
  science.”

    + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 521. O. ’06. 310w.

  “The style is clear, if sometimes oracular; and the doctrine generally
  sound.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 414. N. 15, ’06. 80w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 120w.


=Rashdall, Rev. Hastings.= Christus in ecclesia. *$1.50. Scribner.

  Reviewed by Clarence Augustine Beckwith.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 376. Ap. ’06. 130w.


=Raven, John Howard.= Old Testament introduction, general and special.
**$2. Revell.

  “An introduction written from the traditional point of view, dating
  the Pentateuch, e.g., from 1300 B. C., Job, Proverbs, and Song of
  Songs from 1000 B. C., and the Psalms from 1075–425 B. C.”—Bib. World.

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  “The conservatism of this book is of an extreme type and lacks good
  scholarly foundation.”

      – =Bib. World.= 27: 319. Ap. ’06. 50w.

  “The book is antiquated in its methods as well as in its results.” L.
  W. Batten.

      – =Bib. World.= 28: 73. Jl. ’06. 510w.

  “A fair and manly argument, to which is appended a select bibliography
  impartially referring both to allies and adversaries.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 150w.


=Rawling, C. G.= Great plateau. $5. Longmans.

  “An excellent record of two remarkable expeditions, one in company
  with his friend Captain Hargreaves to central Tibet in 1903.... The
  other through eastern Tibet after the British Indian force had
  occupied Lhassa. The first journey was undertaken at a time when Tibet
  was rigidly closed to foreigners; the second was rendered possible by
  the success of the Younghusband mission.... After the occupation of
  Lhassa, Captain Rawling travelled with Captain O’Connor, the agent of
  the Indian government, through Shigatse and Holy Manasarowar to
  Gartok. Armed with orders from the Tibetan authorities they were
  admitted to audiences and places that would otherwise have been
  impossible. The hardships and inconveniences were many but the
  expedition was unique and of considerable scientific importance....
  His volume is fully illustrated.”—Sat. R.

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  “The reader in search of novelty will hardly fail to obtain a book of
  travel among people who for the most part had never seen a European
  before, and Capt. Rawling’s modest narrative will be found full of
  interest and variety.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 19. Ja. 6. 1540w.

  “To those who are interested in the development and the geography of
  Tibet the volume will contain some new features, but the general
  reader will find small profit in the book. The story of the first
  expedition is a weary tale of countless marches and camps, but the
  account of the Gartok expedition has at least the grace of vivacity
  and freshness.” H. E. Coblentz.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 235. Ap. 1, ’06. 300w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 2. Ja. 5, ’06. 1080w.

  “The story of the journey through the villages and among the fruitful
  fields could scarcely be spoiled even by dull narration, and this book
  is brightly written.” Cyrus C. Adams.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 141. Mr. 10, ’06. 1420w.

  “To all who are interested in Tibet in particular and geography in
  general, Captain Rawling’s book makes strong appeal.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.

  “The style of the book is throughout clear and modest, the
  descriptions are full of vigour, and the interest of the subject is of
  the highest.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 490w.


=Rawnsley, Rev. Hardwicke Drummond.= Months at the lakes. $1.75.
Macmillan.

  “Canon Rawnsley gives the impressions he has derived from his study
  for twenty years of ‘the changes in the face and mood of Nature.’”
  (Ath.) “Although the Canon devotes a chapter to every month, the
  dazzling colors in which he sees them prevent us from realizing which
  stage of the year we have reached, and the individual features of
  plant and tree are wholly lost in a shower of light. If there are any
  dark days they are cheered by ‘Bands of hope meetings, parish room
  concerts, magic lantern entertainments, and tea drinkings.’ In
  December, finally, we feel that we have passed a very innocent and
  brightly coloured year, although we are not quite sure that we have
  been at the lakes.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Canon Rawnsley is an amiable observer of men and manners; he has an
  eye for natural beauty, and an ear for every echo of folk-tale or
  tradition that lingers in the dale; but he seems to be almost
  incapable of expressing himself in precise and straightforward
  English.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 595. Je. 23, ’06. 800w.

  “If we are inclined to ‘skip’ some of his descriptive matter, we read
  with pleasure every word concerning local tradition and custom, of
  which the Canon is evidently a master.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 637. My. 26. 110w.

  “The Canon’s style, moreover, starred as it is with a great variety of
  pretty words, and fashioned into innumerable conceits, seems, if not
  impertinent, at least irrelevant when you remember the respect with
  which Wordsworth subordinated his pen to the truth.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 216. Je. 15, 06. 270w.

        =Nation.= 83: 11. Jl. 5, ’06. 160w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 570w.

  “Canon Rawnsley’s volume will be a delight to many readers,—to those
  who may yet test the truth of his pictures, and to those who must be
  content with using them to call back the past.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 837. My. 26, ’06. 210w.


=Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.).= Hearts and creeds. †$1.50.
Little.

  There is real strength in this story of an English-Protestant girl who
  marries a French-Catholic. Both are typical of their race and creed,
  altho both are extremists and both have strong personality. The scene
  is laid in Quebec, where the two races abide like oil and water, and
  the love which brought Arline and Armédie together, the prejudices
  which all but wrecked their married life, and the epidemic which
  thrust aside all barriers and by leaving them face to face with death
  brought them together again are strongly drawn. The social and
  political life of Quebec is well handled and there are many
  interesting characters.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 558. Jl. ’06. 240w.

  “For once, Miss Ray’s usual brisk fashion of telling a story has
  apparently deserted her.”

      – =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 130w.

  “For readers whose imaginations are not abreast with the times this is
  a good story, and it is exceedingly well delivered.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 698. S. 20, ’06. 420w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 194. Mr. 31, ’06. 290w.

  “An unusually good story.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.

  “An attractive love story.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7, ’06. 240w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 757. Je. ’06. 40w.


=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Janet: her winter in Quebec. †$1.50. Little.

  Ronald Leslie and his sister Janet, on whom has suddenly fallen the
  care of their mother thru the wreck of their father’s mind and
  fortune, become fast friends of Day Argyle, a New York girl and her
  brother Rob, invalided from Exeter by an accident at foot-ball.
  Together, in spite of their troubles, they spend a delightful winter
  in Quebec, and thru Mrs. Argyle and Sir George Porteous, a most
  amusing Englishman of much heart and money if little brain, Janet and
  Ronald become self-supporting.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 70w.


=Raymond, Evelyn (Hunt) (Mrs. John Bradford Raymond).= Sunny little
lass. †$1. Jacobs.

  Glory Beck, her blind grandfather, and Bo’sn, the dog, lived happily
  together in “the littlest house in New York” and did many odd jobs,
  until one day Glory heard that her grandfather was to be taken to
  “Snug Harbor,” the seamen’s home, where they never took little girls.
  But she went bravely on serving and peddling peanuts with this fear in
  her heart until one day Bo’sn came home without her grandfather. Then
  she set out to find him, and the story is not allowed to end unhappily
  for either the old sailor or his sunny grandchild.


=Rea, Hope.= Peter Paul Rubens. $1.75. Macmillan.

  The latest volume of the “Great masters series,” edited by G. C.
  Williamson furnishes a fifty-page life of Rubens with another hundred
  pages devoted to a critical estimate of his paintings. There is a well
  selected and carefully reproduced group of illustrations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 891. D. 16, ’05. 150w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 160w.


=Read, Carveth.= Metaphysics of nature. *$2.75. Macmillan.

  “The work, may be classed with the most important works published in
  this generation.” David Phillips.

  + + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 393. Ap. ’06. 1130w.

  “No short notice like this can do justice to the closeness of the
  argument, the soundness and comprehensiveness of a book which must be
  ranked with the most important of recent years.”

  + + + =Nature.= 73: 290. Ja. 25, ’06. 910w.

  “I have found it the most stimulating and entertaining work in
  philosophy that I have read for some time, and this in spite of the
  fact that I find its most ambitious undertaking unsupported by
  argument, vague and futile.” Charles M. Bakewell.

  + + – =Philos. R.= 15: 324. My. ’06, 4240w.


Readers’ Guide to periodical literature, 1900–1904, cumulated; ed. by
Anna Lorraine Guthrie. $16. Wilson, H. W.

  The cumulative system of indexes, which resulted from the
  consolidation of the Cumulative index to a selected list of
  periodicals and the Readers’ guide to periodical literature begins
  with this volume a series of five year indexes. It is a 1640 page
  volume indexing sixty-seven magazines. Since an index to periodicals
  is used primarily to find out what the magazines contain on a
  particular subject and is less frequently consulted for questions of
  authorship and title, this index is first of all a subject index. An
  author entry is given to each article, and title entries have also
  been given in the case of fiction, unusually distinctive titles, and
  sometimes poetry. Book reviews are indexed under the name of the
  author of the book and are usually given a subject entry also.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The scope of the work is so extensive that it well deserves its name,
  and should prove of perennial usefulness to the writer, the clergyman,
  the debater—in fine, to all who have occasion or desire to enlarge
  their understanding of any subject.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 500w.

  “We have always used Poole, and were prepared to swear by it. But the
  new volume absolutely discounts the older as a book of reference.”

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 72. F. 3, ’06. 470w.

  “The ‘monthly guide’ and the cumulated annual volumes are in constant
  use in this office, and are highly valued for their comprehensiveness,
  accuracy, and general mechanical excellence.”

  + + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 220w.


=Reagan, John Henninger.= Memoirs with special reference to secession
and the Civil war. $3. Neale.

  By offering his memoirs to the public Judge Reagan is but discharging
  what he believes to be a duty to brave, self-sacrificing and patriotic
  people. His growth along the lines of rugged self-dependence has made
  him an honest, unprejudiced interpreter. He hopes by example to
  stimulate young readers to honorable aspirations, and further to show
  by authentic documents, Confederate and Federal, the justice of the
  cause of the late Confederate states.

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        =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 210w.


=Reddall, Henry Frederic (Frederic Reddale, pseud.).= Wit and humor of
the physician, a collection from various sources classified under
appropriate subject headings. **50c. Jacobs.

  Anecdotes, jokes and jingles concerning the profession of medicine.
  Such things as a doctor and his friends would enjoy, after dinner
  stories which would bear fruit in “that reminds me.” They are
  classified under such headings as: Some neat replies, The ignorant
  patient, Peculiar cases, Strange situations and Hospital anecdotes.


=Redesdale of Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st baron.=
Garter mission to Japan. $1.75. Macmillan.

  In passing from the Old Japan which filled the author’s “Tales” fifty
  years ago to the New Japan of the present volume the author says: “As
  for me, when I see these things I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I have
  been asleep and centuries have passed over my head.” The record deals
  principally with the chief object of the expedition which was that of
  carrying the insignia of a Knight of the garter to the Emperor of
  Japan. “To live as a youth in feudal Japan and to gather up the lore
  about tycoons, ronins, etc., and of gods, men and things which have
  utterly vanished, and then again in life’s afternoon and as a king’s
  envoy, to enter the same land when panoplied in modern steel and
  machinery, is a rare privilege.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The narrative is one of sustained interest. The circumstances and
  environment are described with the grace and restraint proper to a
  record of what took place on Japanese soil. Lord Redesdale’s hand has
  lost none of its cunning.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 122. Ag. 4. 1020w.

  “The author’s pages have a richness of suggestion and interpretation
  which is absent from those of most writers on Japan.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1114. N. 8, ’06. 420w.

  “Most wonderful of all, and most to be commended to those of our
  readers who have never seen Japan, is the picture which Lord Redesdale
  conjures with singular vividness and convincing force, of a people
  trained to greatness, because trained to the pursuit of great ideals,
  under a code of national ethics unique in the history of the whole
  world, of which the first and last commandment is that where Japan is
  concerned ‘self entirely disappears.’”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 232. Je. 29, ’06. 2640w.

  “With such companions as Kuroki, Togo and Asano, and with sport,
  travel and novel experiences with people, country gentlemen and palace
  occupants, all told of so pleasantly, one must call this little book a
  garden of delights.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 560w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 473. Jl. 28, ’06. 2640w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 755. N. 17, ’06. 1420w.

  “There is a great deal more in Lord Redesdale’s book than a mere
  account of ceremonials and the general doings of the mission. It is an
  impressionist sketch of the difference between the old and the new in
  Japan, written by one who is no mere globe-trotter but has seen both.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 440w.

  “Lord Redesdale’s account of the Garter mission to Japan is
  interesting for more reasons than one. In the first place it describes
  a ceremony unique in history. In the second place ... is interesting
  because the author is better able than most living Englishmen to
  compare the new Japan with the old.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 235. Ag. 18, ’06. 1170w.


=Reed, Helen Leah.= Amy in Acadia. †$1.50. Little.

  “The travellers are not very attractive in themselves, but their
  conversation is often full of interest.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 70w.


=Reed, Helen Leah.= Brenda’s ward; il. †$1.50. Little.

  Brenda now becomes mistress of her own manse which is no more
  pretentious than a charming Boston flat where she houses and looks
  after the welfare of a bright lovable Western girl.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A readable story.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 90w.


=Reed, John Calvin.= Brothers’ war. **$2. Little.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 480. Ja. ’06. 30w.

  “It is a valuable contribution to its subject, in both philosophy and
  fact, and it deserves a wide circulation.” F. E. Chadwick.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 927. Jl. ’06. 680w.

  “This book should have a large place in the thought of the future
  historian.”

      + =Arena.= 36: 106. Jl. ’06. 280w.

  “A wealth of personal reminiscences helps to render his discussion of
  topics fresh and original, though, it must be said, too, somewhat
  desultory.”

    + – =Cath. World.= 82: 833. Mr. ’06. 340w.

  “Certainly the book deserves attention, whether the proposed solution
  does or not. It is not exactly well written, but it is distinctly
  impressionistic and first-hand.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 192. F. ’06. 490w.

  “The book is valuable because it is written by one who is familiar
  with much that he writes about; but there are many who will hardly
  agree with some of the conclusions presented.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 92. F. 1, ’06. 610w.

  “Its economic bases are usually sound, tho they serve too frequently
  as starting points for extravagant assumptions; there are shrewd
  judgments set off against mere collocations of words, and there is
  restrained and measured expression mingled with wild hyperbole. Yet
  for all its shortcomings, it is a book well worthy a larger audience
  in the North.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 340. F. 8. ’06. 600w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 348. Ap. 26, ’06. 1840w.

  “Is most remarkable for the large modern view which informs it as a
  whole.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 302. My. 12, ’06. 1070w.

  “Its most noteworthy contribution to the subject is the clear and
  illuminating exposition of ‘national’ feeling in the South before the
  war.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 89. My. 12, ’06. 160w.

  “Taken all in all, it is a fair, informing, and impressive
  presentation of the southern attitude.”

  + + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 27. Ja. 6, ’06. 180w.

  “The tendency of his book is to make each section more fully recognize
  the other’s point of view.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 230w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 80w.


=Reed, Myrtle.= Spinner in the sun. **$1.50. Putnam.

  There is a mystery in Miss Reed’s new story. “It is a tale of village
  tragedy working out the purification and redemption of its actors”
  (Lit. D.) among whom are the woman who behind a chiffon veil had for
  twenty-five years brooded over her wrongs and unhappiness, a
  “whimsical old maid with a sour hatred of all men-kind” and Piper Tom,
  who pipes love notes in the wood.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      – =Acad.= 71: 503. N. 17, ’06. 250w.

  “Nothing but humor could redeem the extravagant, sentimental
  presentment offered as a reading of life. But humor is nowhere
  present.”

      – =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 190w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 674. O. 13, ’06. 350w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1. ’06. 150w.

  “We prefer the author as she showed her wit in ‘The book of clever
  beasts.’”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 100w.


=Reeve, Sidney Armor.= Cost of competition: an effort at the
understanding of familiar facts. **$2. McClure.

  The theory that competition is the one great curse of to-day is
  vigorously advanced in this volume. “As a remedy Mr. Reeve puts
  forward the abolition of all rent, all interest, all commercial
  competition and barter, and the return to first principles, when
  friendly savages exchange fish for hare without regard to profit or
  cost.... The chapters upon sweatshops and prostitution, upon
  congestion in great cities with the resultant evils of landlordism,
  upon the effect of competition in debasing the pulpit, the stage, and
  literature will fix the attention even of those who dissent from some
  conclusions.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Its social vision may be astigmatic, but it is unmistakably
  penetrating.” Winthrop More Daniels.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 845. Je. ’06. 730w.

  “It is written with all the zeal of a missionary, and upholds the
  cause of socialism with vigor and earnestness.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 370w.

  “We commend it to all who are interested in the grave economic, labor
  and humanitarian problems of the day, and who are possessed of time
  and courage sufficient to follow through what for these busy days is a
  long and somewhat technical discussion.”

  + + – =Engin. N.= 55: 564. My. 17, ’06. 610w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 359. Mr. 10, ’06. 1100w.

  “His book is worth attention by students of our social pathology, and
  deserves a sympathetic reception as a sign of the times and as a
  contribution toward their amendment.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 96. F. 17, ’06. 710w.

  “The economist, concerning whom a good deal that is disparaging is
  here said, will not be hard put to expose the fallacies underlying the
  structure so laboriously erected, while the ‘non-technical’ reader is
  likely to beat a hasty retreat before the heavy artillery of
  mathematical formulae with which the argument is supported.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 323. F. 10, ’06. 280w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 130w.


=Reeves, Jesse Siddall.= Napoleonic exiles in America: a study in
American diplomatic history, 1815–1819. pa. 50c. Hopkins.

  Review by Kendric Charles Babcock.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 441. Ja. ’06. 350w.


=Reich, Emil.= Failure of the “higher criticism” of the Bible. *$1.
Meth. bk.

  Critical articles written during the past two years, and lectures
  delivered during a recent tour thru England and Scotland appear here
  in book form for the purpose of destroying the scientific support of
  higher criticism, and of constructing “the right method of
  comprehending the Bible.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He resorts to rhetoric and claptrap, and appeals less to reason than
  to ignorance and prejudice.”

    – – =Acad.= 69: 1221. N. 25, ’05. 720w.

  “Dr. Reich is quite ignorant of his subject, he is unacquainted with
  the objects, methods, and views of higher criticism, and admittedly
  considers it unnecessary to treat the study seriously.”

    – – =Lond. Times.= 4: 403. N. 24, ’05. 1500w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 180w.

  + – – =Sat. R.= 101: 86. Ja. 20, ’06. 300w.

  “We cannot congratulate the anti-critics on their new ally.”

    + – =Spec.= 93: 62. Ja. 12, ’06. 1260w.


=Reid, G. Archdall.= Principles of heredity, with some applications.
*$3.50. Dutton.

  “Although addressed largely to medical men this volume will be found
  of great value to all students of human progress and social problems.
  The work begins therefore with a clear statement of the various
  theories of heredity and evolution. The reviewer knows of no book in
  which the significance of these differences is more plainly shown. The
  reviewer has seldom seen a more carefully worked out thesis.” Carl
  Kelsey.

  + + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 254. Ja. ’06. 640w.

  “Of the three general characters which distinguish Mr. Reid’s book,
  this ‘real lucidity’ ... is the first and the most valuable. The
  second general feature of this volume is what the sportsman would call
  its keenness. The third feature ... is the mere fact that it is
  written by a medical man.” C. W. Saleeby.

  + + – =Fortnightly R.= 84: 604. O. ’05. 5430w.

  “If true at all, the reasoning is in advance of our general
  knowledge.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 345. Ap. 26, ’06. 250w.

  “It is this quality of suggestion, of imagination, and the ability to
  compel history to contribute facts to his arguments, that make his
  work valuable to the student, and also readable to the unscientific
  thinker.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 649. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.


=Reid, George Winston.= Conscience. $1. W. F. Brainard, N. Y.

  “Heat is the common bond of the separate sciences, and binds them into
  one science. Since the Latin ‘cum’ or ‘con’ signifies ‘together,’ the
  sciences united or the philosophy of the sciences may be called
  ‘Conscience.’” So thru the following chapter the author evolves his
  conception of conscience, Matter, or the science of chemistry, Energy,
  or the science of physics, The heavenly bodies or the science of
  astronomy, Life, or the science of biology, Consciousness, or the
  science of psychology, and Conscience, or scientific philosophy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume is a queer jumble of natural physics, metaphysics,
  epistemology and religion, in which the method is that of piecing
  together brief quotations from the greatest variety of diverse
  sources.”

      – =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 60w.


=Reid, Sir (Thomas) Wemyss.= Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid, 1842–1885; ed.
with introd. by Stuart J. Reid. $5. Cassell.

  “This is a book the last page of which leaves us in an Oliver
  Twist-like state of asking for more.” (N. Y. Times.) “Wemyss Reid was
  notable as a literary man, a biographer, and a writer of fiction. But
  his Memoirs are chiefly important as those of the editor of the Leeds
  ‘Mercury,’ a powerful paper of the moderate Liberal school in a
  stirring time. He flourished in what was perhaps the palmiest epoch of
  British journalism, when the editor of a great journal himself
  directed its policy and was a statesman of the pen, not a mere
  organist or the manager of a Yellow concern.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not even the promise of ‘revelations,’ not even the prospect of the
  day, when Liberal policy will throw reticence to the winds, can atone
  for the banality of the present sad and sorry instalment.”

    – – =Acad.= 69: 1145. N. 4, ’05. 1050w

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 610. N 4. 470w.

  “The interesting matter in the volume could be presented in less than
  a score of pages.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 230w.

  “There are too many records of personal adventure, tours, and so on,
  which were hardly worth preserving in print. But on the whole the book
  is interesting.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 361. O. 27, ’05. 840w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 56. Ja. 18, ’06. 870w.

  “The author’s acquaintance with most of the leading English statesmen
  and literary men of the past two generations makes his memoirs not
  only a valuable addition to the modern English history, but fills them
  to the brim with delightful bits and anecdotes.” Elizabeth Banks.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 847. D. 2, ’05. 1780w.

  “Sir Wemyss Reid is an excellent example of a good second-class
  ranker.”

      – =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 400w.

  “Perhaps the most important, though not, in our opinion, the most
  interesting or attractive, sections of his volume are those which deal
  with the internal divisions in the Liberal party.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 819. N. 18, ’05. 1510w.


=Reinsch, Paul Samuel.= Colonial administration. *$1.25. Macmillan.

  “The author has no theories to exploit, and makes but few criticisms
  in the condensed space at his command.” Edwin E. Sparks.

      + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 577. Ja. ’06. 270w.

        =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 178. Jl. ’06. 70w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 70w.

  “The author, in fact, seems to be less well prepared to deal with the
  Philippines than with the colonial possessions of Great Britain,
  France, Germany, and even Java.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 511. Mr. 1, ’06. 960w.

  “A work that not only shows wide reading, but presents a careful study
  of the ultimate as well as the immediately practical character of the
  problems to which a colonial policy gives rise.” W. F. Willoughby.

      + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 562. Jl. ’06. 810w.

  “It is, of course, largely expository, but it is also constructive to
  a high degree, and every one engaged in colonial administration might
  wisely keep it near at hand for ready reference. Every chapter is
  compact and readable, and is rendered the more valuable by concrete
  illustrations from the practices and experiences of colonial
  governments the world over.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 38. S. 1, ’06. 700w.

  Reviewed by F. J. Goodnow.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21:135. Mr. ’06. 720w.

  “It is a valuable epitome of the administrative methods of the great
  colonising powers as they exist to-day, and it contains also some
  interesting speculations upon the ethical basis of activity.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 149. Ja. 27, ’06. 230w.

  “It is as valuable a comparative study as was its predecessor
  [‘Colonial government’] which is high praise.”

    + + =Yale R.= 14: 446. F. ’06. 150w.


=Reinach, Salomon.= The story of art throughout the ages; tr. by
Florence Simmons. **$2. Scribner.

  “Taken as a whole, the work is a masterpiece of taste, of judgment,
  and of condensation, and should be in the library not only of every
  lover of art, but of every cultivated person.” George B. Zug.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 930. Jl. ’06. 590w.


=Remington, Frederick.= Way of an Indian. *$1.50. Fox.

  “In the form of a story Mr. Remington has reproduced his popular
  pictures of Indian life. He has taken the period between the discovery
  of gold in California and the death of General Custer in the battle of
  the Little Big Horn, and has given us the life story of a Cheyenne boy
  with all the ambitions and aspirations of his race.... The story
  ranges from conflicts with rival tribes to massacres of immigrants,
  and, of course, in the last chapter civilization triumphs over
  savagery.” (Pub. Opin.) 15 pictures by the author illustrate the book.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A remarkably realistic life-history of a typical Indian.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 90w.

  “As a story, is singularly strong, if crude and simple, and, as a
  study in primitive instincts, and an epitome of the struggle that
  attended the coming of the whites into the buffalo country, is a
  wonderfully effective piece of work.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 630w.

  “Has told a very effective story of the tragic clash of the Indians of
  the Northwest with the resistless onward movement of the white man.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 240w.

  “If he does not fully succeed in making us feel as if we had been
  inside the skin of a redman ... at least we are given ... a vivid and
  picturesque exhibition of this typical Indian and his ways.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 190w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.

  “It is written from the Indian point of view, and is vivid,
  picturesque, and truthful.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.

  “The literary quality of Remington’s stories may be a matter of
  dispute, but whose canvases rank before his in America’s gallery of
  historical painters?”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 40w.


=Remsburg, John E.= Six historic Americans: Paine, Jefferson,
Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Grant: the fathers and saviors of our
republic, freethinkers. $1.25. Truth seeker.

  To the five names generally conceded as first among the historic
  figures of the first century of national existence the author adds
  that of Thomas Paine fortifying this patriot’s claim to prominence and
  setting straight his misinterpreted religious views.


=Repplier, Agnes.= In our convent days. **$1.10. Houghton.

  “Miss Repplier writes with a grave humour which makes easy reading,
  but naturally her chronicle is somewhat ‘small beer.’”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 104. Ja. 27. 240w.

  “Miss Repplier, in her latest volume, has recalled the past years, and
  presented them with such living power that, in all the charm, the
  frankness, the mischievousness, and romance of childhood, they live
  again.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 82: 560. Ja ’06. 760w.

  “Her admirable little stories are written to entertain, not to
  ‘improve’ ... they are free from the slightest suggestion of the
  sentimental or the banal.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 160w.

  “A book of charming autobiographical tales.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 200w.

      + =Reader.= 7: 341. F. ’06. 230w.


Representative essays on the theory of style, chosen and edited by
William Tenney Brewster. *$1.10. Macmillan.

      + =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 60w.

  “The essays are most excellently chosen.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 100w.


=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Thalassa. †$1.50. Brentano’s.

  At the death of her father a young girl leaves her artistic and
  literary set in Florence with its Bohemian culture and goes to live
  with her guardian in England. Orme with his shaggy strength first
  repels than attracts Aldyth, eventually he plays the Rochester rôle
  and she that of Jane Eyre.

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  “Once the characters are staged—and this process is somewhat long
  drawn out—the dénouement is inevitable to those who know their ‘Jane
  Eyre.’ We cannot bestow higher praise than to say that this does not
  detract from our sustained interest in the characters and their
  story.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906. 2: 125. Ag. 4. 90w.

  “We have read few recent novels with greater pleasure.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 430w.


=Reynolds, John Schreiner.= Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865–77.
$2. State co., Columbia, S. C.

  “Beginning with a rather brief sketch of the provisional government
  set up by President Johnson, the author next exhibits in detail the
  workings of the administrations of the ‘carpet-bagger’ Governor Scott,
  of Governor Moses the ‘renegade secessionist,’ and of Governor
  Chamberlain, the ‘reform’ Republican. One chapter is devoted to the Ku
  Klux trials, another to the disgusting story of the ‘public frauds,’
  and two chapters to the election of Hampton in 1876, the bargain with
  the Washington administration, and the overthrow of the rule of the
  ‘carpet-bagger’ and the negro.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Reynolds loses sight of the philosophy of history in the combat
  of opposing parties.” Frederick W. Moore.

    – + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 180. O. ’06. 430w.

  “Mr. Reynolds has unusual qualifications for writing the history of
  that chaotic period; he was an observer of much about which he writes,
  he knew many of the leaders of the opposing forces, and he is familiar
  with the periodical and pamphlet literature from which the history of
  the Reconstruction must largely be drawn. It is much to be regretted
  that he did not see fit to indicate for the benefit of other students
  the sources from which he drew his information.”

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 118. S. 1, ’06. 470w.

  “In spite of certain faults of temper and attitude, the book is, in
  many respects, worthy of high praise. A patient care in the gathering
  and use of its voluminous and minute data is everywhere observable,
  and a judicial method is attempted thruout, tho unfortunately not
  always maintained.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 639. S. 13, ’06. 170w.

  “Mr. Reynolds endeavors to be fair, temperate in statement, and sure
  in his conclusions. He has succeeded in a high degree but not
  entirely.” William E. Dodd.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 306. Ag. 18, ’06. 1330w.

  “This history is not judicial. It abounds in statements of fact, but
  is sparing of references to sources.”

      – =Outlook.= 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.


=Reynolds, Sir Joshua.= Discourses; with introd. and notes by Roger Fry.
*$2.50. Dutton.

  A new fully annotated and illustrated edition of Sir Joshua Reynolds’
  lectures delivered to the students of the Royal Academy. “The enduring
  value of the ‘Discourses’ arises from the fact that they attempt to
  expound the laws of artistic expression from the artist’s point of
  view, and as Mr. Fry observes, it is rare that a writer has at once
  the requisite practical knowledge and the power of generalization.”
  (Ath.) Each lecture receives a critical introduction explaining by
  biographical or other data the artist-lecturer’s attitude on a given
  subject. There are 30 illustrations from the works of painters most
  frequently cited.

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  “Mr. Fry has paid the book a greater compliment by letting it speak
  for itself, and in his introductions to the various discourses and
  above all in his little notes to the illustrations he has shown
  himself to be imbued with all the better side of Reynold’s catholic
  criticism, besides proving himself an independent critic, whose
  observations are pregnant, illuminating and just.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 2060w.

  “To the serious student it is rendered of great value by the critical
  introductions which it contains.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 652. N. 11. 330w.

  “There is much good reading in this celebrated book, for the student
  who knows how to make the proper deductions for himself or can use
  caution in taking advantage of Mr. Fry’s guidance.” Royal Cortissoz.

  + + – =Atlan.= 97: 274. F. ’06. 200w.

  Reviewed by Charles Henry Hart.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 227. Ap. 1, ’06. 580w.

  “A good edition.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 90w.

  “Injustice, however, is very rare in Mr. Fry, and this one example of
  it is the only fault to be found with an excellent book.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 73. Mr. 2, ’06. 1150w.

  “Mr. Fry’s contributions, whether in the shape of contradiction,
  reinforcement, or explanation, are always able and intelligent.”

      + =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 240w.

  “Mr. Roger Fry, the most recent editor of the literary Reynolds ...
  has presented an interpretation which is full of interest for the
  student of art.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 891. D. 16, ’05. 250w.

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 80w.

  “A most interesting edition of ‘Reynolds’s Discourses.’”

      + =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 170w.


=Rhoades, Cornelia Harsen (Nina Rhoades).= Polly’s predicament: a story;
il. by C: Copeland. †$1.50. Wilde.

  Polly, young, bright and just out of school, accepts the invitation of
  a shallow-minded woman to spend three months in Europe. While at
  Carlsbad Polly is bound to a foolish promise which results in
  continuing the separation of a father from his little girl whom he
  supposes dead.


=Rhodes, James Ford.= History of the United States from the compromise
of 1850. Vol. 5. **$2.50. Macmillan.

  “It is full, exact and impartial. Controversial questions are weighed
  judicially with an unfailing and laborious effort to get all the best
  evidence available. If Mr. Rhodes’s treatment of such subjects is at
  times somewhat prolix, that proceeds from his extreme desire to lay
  the whole case for each side before the reader.” J. A. Doyle.

  + + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 183. Ja. ’06. 260w.

  + + + =Ind.= 60: 113. Ja. 11, ’06. 170w.

  “Although Mr. Rhodes’s discussion of the treatment of prisoners leaves
  something to be desired, we welcome it as one of his most important
  contributions to correct understanding and sane judgment on a topic
  concerning which a dispassionate view is still difficult.” C. H.
  Smith.

  + + – =Yale R.= 14: 427. F. ’06. 650w.


=Rice, Cale Young.= Plays and lyrics. $2. McClure.

  “A stout and very handsome volume containing the better of the
  author’s early lyrics, many new ones, and two plays in verse,
  ‘Yolanda’ and ‘David.’”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To our taste, Mr. Rice’s lyric work in this volume far outvalues his
  dramatic. There is vital motive, touchingly rendered.” Edith M.
  Thomas.

      + =Critic.= 49: 219. S. ’06. 310w.

  “His work in this larger compass and maturer form deserves far more
  praise than could be accorded to those first fruits and gives us much
  sincere and conscientious workmanship. The old straining for effect is
  still apparent although far less so than formerly.” Wm. M. Payne.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 68. Ag. 1, ’06. 260w.

  “If Mr. Rice had used his brain a little more, not only on ‘minutiæ’,
  but on the meaning of his poems, his book would have been half as long
  and twice as good.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 225. Je. 22, ’06. 470w.

  “Occasionally he writes in simplicity as well as sincerity, without
  labored linguistic bravuras, or moody excesses: at such times, if not
  impeccable, he is often pleasurably poignant.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 143. Ag. 16, ’06. 680w.

  “Mr. Rice’s lyrical poetry has not in general the distinction of his
  dramatic.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 495. Ag. 11, ’06. 1970w.


=Richards, John Morgan.= With John Bull and Jonathan. **$4. Appleton.

  The author of this book of personal reminiscences is the father of
  “John Oliver Hobbes” (Mrs. Craigie), and was for a time the owner of
  the London academy when the London times gave it up. An American’s
  life in England and the United States, is the theme, and regarding it
  the foreword states: “In putting on record my reminiscences of life on
  both sides of the Atlantic I do so from a British-American point of
  view. I have not attempted to give advice to ‘pilgrims’ about to visit
  England or the United States. There are no descriptions of climate and
  scenery ... nor statistics ... nor do politics enter into any of my
  observations. My narrative concerns my own personal experiences in
  both countries.”

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        =Acad.= 69: 1170. N. 11, ’05. 690w.

  “He has not, however, the literary art of his brilliant and
  accomplished daughter, and mixes trivialities not worth publication
  with the more solid portions of his narrative.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 721. N. 25. 400w.

  “An odd book, which, indeed, judged by a literary standard is no book
  at all.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 4: 422. D. 1, ’05. 610w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 175. Mr. 24, ’06. 1470w.

  “A more attractive topic in his recollections is the contrast between
  London as it was when he first came over to this country in 1867 and
  as it is now, and generally between England and America. Now and then
  Mr. Richards’s memory is a little at fault.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 933. D. 2, ’05. 350w.


=Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth (Howe).= Silver crown: another book of
fables for old and young. †$1.25. Little.

  Patience, obedience, hospitality, duty promptness, and selflessness
  are among the lessons taught in these forty or more short fables. The
  keynote is the universality of good without time and space
  limitations.

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  “Forty-five simply written little fables, each one with its own
  delightful conception, and bearing its own little moral, fragrant with
  aspiration.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 80w.


=Richards, Thomas Cole.= Samuel J. Mills, missionary pathfinder, pioneer
and promoter. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.

  The life of Samuel J. Mills follows closely the founding and
  promulgating of American foreign missions. The influences brought to
  bear upon his awakening to the subject of missionary work, his
  education, and contemporary plans for the beginning of definite work
  in heathen lands, and later his own untiring efforts at home and on
  the Dark continent which was his passion, furnished material for a
  full and thoroly subjective study of the man and his work.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Outlook.= 83: 141. My. 19, ’06. 160w.


=Richards, William Rogers.= God’s choice of men; a study of Scripture.
**$1.50. Scribner.

  This book “is not a volume on theology, but a book of sermons; and if
  it does not succeed in justifying the Westminster doctrine of
  election, it does what is much more important, it interprets a
  Scriptural doctrine of election which is both rational and
  inspirational. Besides courage and clearness, these sermons have
  another characteristic—very clear-cut portraiture of modern characters
  typified by Scriptural characters.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Full of sound, practical argument and exhortation to Christian faith
  and duty.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 110w.

  “This volume of sermons is characterized by clearness of thought and a
  quiet courage of conviction. These sermons are worth reading by laymen
  for their spiritual instructiveness and by clergymen as suggestive
  models.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ’05. 370w.


=Richardson, Charles Francis.= Choice of books. **$1.25. Putnam.

  A revised edition of Professor Richardson’s practical book which among
  other additions contains a lengthy appendix on “Suggestions for
  household libraries.”

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  “After the passage of a full quarter-century, Professor Richardson’s
  treatise on the choice and use of books remains the most complete, the
  most reasonable, and one of the most readable of books hitherto
  written on that head.” H. W. Boynton.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 456. My. ’06. 570w.

      + =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 30w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 539. Ag. 19, ’05. 70w.

  “A valuable and practical book on reading.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 938. D. 16, ’05. 60w.


=Richardson, John.= Wacousta: a tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy.
Illustrated ed. $1.50. McClurg.

  To the reissue of the text of Richardson’s thrilling old romance have
  been added some spirited illustrations, the work of C. W. Jeffreys.
  Pontiac’s treachery to gain possession of the English posts in the
  West, foiled by a beautiful Indian girl who forewarned the commandant
  at Detroit, makes possible a tale of adventure full of dramatic
  situations.


=Richman, Irving Berdine.= Rhode Island; a study in separatism. **$1.10.
Houghton.

  “The most enjoyable of the books on Rhode Island. It will not displace
  the solid history by Arnold, but the changes of a half-century will
  give it a place of its own.” Wm. B. Weeden.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 410. Ja. ’06. 380w.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 140w.

  “A compact and useful summary.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 200w.

  “A welcome fruitage of the accurate researches into American history
  so earnestly pursued of late.” Louis Dyer.

    + + =Hibbert J.= 4: 705. Ap. ’06. 580w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 1060w.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 168. Mr. ’06. 350w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 70w.


=Rickert, (Martha) Edith.= Folly; with a front. by Sigismond de
Ivanowski. †$1.50. Baker.

  Folly, the frivolous, whose wealth of hair tones with the “coppery
  gold of unfolding peach-buds ... never pretty ... but with the smile
  that would turn the head of the devil himself” furnishes an unusual
  study of the alluring feminine type. The ban of human opinion would
  relegate her to outer darkness for leaving her home and husband and
  placing her love in the keeping of a man to whom she is irresistibly
  drawn, one upon whom disease had passed the death sentence. In spite
  of the inverted moral perspective, Folly works out her own salvation,
  gathers force and courage in her negative struggle and in the end
  rights her stand in a manner to free the reader from the story’s
  depression. Thruout her freakish career she is never deserted by a
  “complaisant, upright and at times stupid” husband, a tender
  sympathetic mother-in-law and a staunch and loyal friend of her school
  days.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =Acad.= 70: 287. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.

  “The book is written with brightness and fluency, but it is
  repulsive.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 474. Ap. 21. 260w.

  “The book is interesting as being the product of a vigorous but
  undisciplined talent.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 191. Ap. ’06. 830w.

  “This is one of those books that deliberately enlist our sympathies on
  the side of wrong-doing, yet maintain throughout a hypocritical pose
  in defence of morality.” Wm. M. Payne.

      – =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “A more revolting denouement can only be imagined by Bernard Shaw.”
  Mrs. L. H. Harris.

      – =Ind.= 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 110w.

      – =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 40w.

  “Except for a certain artificiality in the handling of some of the
  situations and the resulting dialogue, the story is a good one, and
  well told.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 147. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

  “The difficult theme is worked out with reserve and discrimination.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 758. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 465. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w.


=Rickett, Arthur.= Personal forces in modern literature. **$1.25.
Dutton.

  Papers which “are not intended as contributions to critical literature
  ... but are concerned rather with the ‘personal equation’ of the
  writers discussed than with the purely literary aspects of their
  work.” Newman and Martineau represent the moralist type; Huxley, the
  scientist; Wordsworth, Keats, Dante and Gabriel Rossetti, the poet;
  Dickens, the novelist; Hazlitt and De Quincey, the vagabond.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Despite shortcomings, however, Mr. Rickett’s book is the agreeable
  work of a man of taste and many sympathies; while he himself hastens
  to deny that it is profound.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 757. Je. 23. 1180w.

  “Mr. Rickett has, we think, indulged himself too far in the method of
  ‘intermittent bursts;’ he leaves with us no impression of a
  well-considered singleness of aim. There are few errors in matters of
  fact.”

      – =Dial.= 41: 210. O. 1, ’06. 450w.

  “It is in the detail of his several subjects however, that Mr. Rickett
  is most entertaining. Without being actually profound, he is
  occasionally shrewd and suggestive, if not always quite accurate or
  just.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 334. O. 18, ’06. 520w.

  “As a whole, however, they are a good piece of work.”

      + =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 210w.


=Ridgeway, William.= Origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse.
*$3.75. Macmillan.

  “Some failings notwithstanding, no one who takes an interest,
  scientific or otherwise, in the origin and descent of the horse should
  fail to read this brilliant book on these subjects.”

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 8. Ja. 6, ’06. 1490w.

  “It is the simple truth that no such addition has been made in biology
  to the study of a domesticated animal since Darwin wrote.”

  + + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 255. Mr. 3. 2030w.

  “This long argument would gain greatly if the book were divided up
  into shorter chapters, each with its due table of contents.” G. Le
  Strange.

    + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 402. Ap. ’06. 680w.

  “Recommending him to make a better study of that portion of his
  subject which relates to Arabia, if he would establish his theory on
  really solid ground.” W. S. Blunt.

    + – =Nineteenth Century.= 59: 58. Ja. ’06. 7610w.


=Riedl, Frederick.= History of Hungarian literature. *$1.75. Appleton.

  A volume uniform with “Literatures of the world” series. “In no
  country in the world is literature so much a part of history, of its
  patriotic feelings, and of the struggle to preserve the liberties as
  in Hungary.... It mirrors throughout the simple, unsophisticated
  feelings and thoughts of men who loved their country wholly,
  sincerely, faithfully, and were ready to lay down their lives to
  preserve its freedom. Here if ever, the soul of the people is revealed
  in its literature.”

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        =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 90w.


=Ries, Heinrich.= Economic geology of the United States. *$2.60.
Macmillan.

  “The aim of the author ... is to give the reader in an encyclopaedic
  way an account of the economic geology of the United States, including
  Alaska, but excluding our insular possessions. As the main object is
  to set forth the facts of occurrence and the production of minerals he
  has to assume that those who follow his work have some general
  knowledge concerning the origin, structure and accidents of rocks....
  Dr. Ries begins his presentation with a study of American coals....
  After coal, petroleum and natural gas are briefly and well-treated,
  then building materials, clays, limes and cements. Next in succession,
  salines, gypsums, fertilizers, and abrasives, followed by the usual
  amount of minor minerals, and of mineral waters, closing with a
  singularly insufficient account of soils and road materials.... The
  second part of the book is devoted to ore deposits.... The book is
  amply illustrated.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 240. Ja. ’06. 170w.

  “As a whole the book is excellent as it now is; with the revisions of
  later editions which its goodness should ensure it, it is likely to
  become a standard work.” N. S. Shaler.

      + =Engin. N.= 55: 75. Ja. 18, ’06. 1440w.

        =J. Geol.= 14: 660. O. ’06. 100w.

  “The book has many well selected maps and plates and an excellent
  bibliography.” Robert Morris.

      + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 254. Ap. ’06. 110w.

  “Altogether the work is an admirable one, and we strongly commend it
  to teachers in this country as a source of concise, accurate, and
  recent information regarding the mineral deposits of the United
  States.”

    + + =Nature.= 73: 437. Mr. 8, ’06. 340w.

  “On the whole, the book may be pronounced excellent—one that every
  broadminded business man should have, and that deserves the wide
  acceptance in the colleges that it is finding.” A. C. Lane.

      + =Science=, n.s. 23: 225. F. 9, ’06. 1060w.


=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Riley songs o’ cheer. $1.25. Bobbs.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.


=Riordon, William L.= Plunkitt of Tammany hall. †$1. McClure.

        =Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 80w.


=Ripley, William Zebina=, ed. Trusts, pools and corporations. *$1.80.
Ginn.

  “These selected readings and cases admirably supplement the usual
  text-books, and put the essence of the most suggestive collateral
  material in the hands of every student. As labor-saving devices alone,
  they will amply repay their cost.” Winthrop More Daniels.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 849. Je. ’06. 210w.

  “Most of the contributions attain, each in its own way, a high
  standard of merit.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1045. My. 3, ’06. 220w.

  “Some chapters are of high individual merit, and all as individual
  bricks contribute to the making of a solid and useful whole.” H. C. E.

    + + =Yale R.= 15: 333. N. ’06. 480w.


=Roach, Abby Meguire.= Some successful marriages. †$1.25. Harper.

  Thoroly modern matrimonial problems are illustrated seriously,
  humorously and realistically in this group of stories. Tact, loyalty,
  man’s and woman’s philosophy all enter into the illustrated
  give-and-take process necessary to the harmonious adjustment of wedded
  lives along understood lines of liberty.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “Its limitation is a lack of humor, which results in a
  self-conscious style from time to time, and leads one to suspect
  that the characters are not quite average—as they are intended to
  be—but ultra-introspective, thinking their way through difficulties
  that over and over should dissolve in fun.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 220w.


=Roads, Charles.= Bible studies for teacher training: analytical,
synthetic side lights; a normal class text book. *60c. Meth. bk.

  Suggestive outlines to be followed in both analytical and synthetic
  study of the Bible.


=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Heart that knows. $1.50. Page.

  When Jim Calder is made mate of the good ship G. G. Goodridge he does
  not marry Luella Warden as he has promised, but, stinging under the
  evil insinuations of a forged letter which a designing woman has shown
  him, he sails out of the Bay of Fundy and away leaving Luella to her
  shame. How he fares on the high seas, and how Luella brings up her son
  alone and undefended, and how this son after twenty years finds the
  father who wronged his mother and himself, loves him and brings him
  home, is the story of the book.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 71: 552. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

  “It is a bold, compelling piece of work, intimately realistic, except
  where the author has occasion to transport two of the leading
  characters to eastern seas.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 650. N. 24. 100w.

  “We forget the improbability in the joy of the workmanship.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 755. S. 27, ’06. 420w.

  “Mr. Roberts’s new novel has all the characteristics of his previous
  work, with some additional distinction.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 200w.

  “We have a right to expect better things than this from Mr. Roberts or
  nothing at all.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 450w.

  “We find it less satisfactory in plot than in its delightful scenery
  and delineation of character.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 564. S. 15, ’06. 630w.

  “It is not so much a story, however, as a series of cameo-like
  character studies of a small town.”

    + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 100w.


=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Red fox: the story of his adventurous
career in the Ringwaak wilds and of his final triumph over the enemies
of his kind. †$2. Page.

  “Among the many writers of nature-books none is more satisfactory than
  Mr. Roberts.” Amy C. Rich.

      + =Arena.= 35: 105. Ja. ’06. 220w.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 341. My. ’06. 300w.

  “It isn’t a sincere piece of work. There isn’t enough to a fox; his
  psychology, his interests, his daily round is too limited to sustain
  him throughout a volume. The author has tried to meet the lack of
  substance with style.”

    – + =Critic.= 48: 122. F. ’06. 250w.

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 660w.

  “It is a good specimen of the work of a well-known author.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 200w.


=Roberts, Morley.= Idlers. †$1.50. Page.

  “A very modern tale, dealing very modestly with British society—with
  true love, unsanctified passion, stark madness, and many vanities and
  pretences of this wicked world.... The hero is intellectually a fool
  ... a fine strapping young chap of true English meat, dull, but sound.
  Being the only son and heir of a baronet, his mother, who believes
  firmly in mustard plasters, has kept him out of the army and the
  university. Therefore going up to London, he promptly falls a victim
  to the wiles of a certain charmer of the town ... very beautiful and
  very, very wicked.... The book is full of malign caricatures of
  British types, the malignity lying largely in the closeness of the
  caricature to the living original.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This tale of intrigue is well handled, and sometimes well told. It is
  always told with power; and it has the merit of being essentially
  interesting.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 681. N. 18. 340w.

  “The book would be melodrama, if not for the atmosphere of reality it
  exhales, and the fine sanity of the lesson it teaches.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 189. Ap. ’06. 300w.

  “There is nothing to redeem ‘The idlers’ from being the worst of
  fungus fiction except this element of masculine health in closing the
  situation.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.

      – =Ind.= 60: 1043. My. 3, ’06. 450w.

  “It is a good story for people who like their romance spiced with wit
  and anchored to a sense of things as they are.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 117. F. 24, ’06. 670w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

  “The present story seems to us deplorable, if not reprehensible,
  because it is cynical and too realistic in its presentation of
  viciousness and decadence in fashionable London society.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.


=Robertson, Florence H.= Shadow land: stories of the South. $1.25.
Badger, R: G.

  Two of these three tales of the South reveal the “Old mammy” of
  slavery days, showing her unfailing loyalty and devotion to her
  “mistis.” Two “Knobite” waifs of the Southwest Virginia mountains “who
  had paired off with the birds,” ignorant of everything save humanity’s
  heart-throbbings give the title to the third, “Children of the woods.”


=Robertson, John Mackinnon.= Short history of free thought, ancient and
modern. 2v. *$6. Putnam.

  “This outspoken and admirable work first published in 1899, has now
  been re-written, and enlarged to such an extent that it fills two
  stout volumes instead of one.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Robertson is always stimulating and often amusing: and these two
  volumes are no exception.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 268. S. 8. 160w.

      + =Dial.= 41: 62. Ag. 1, ’06. 40w.

  “He writes fluently with a pen that never falters, always with a
  felicity of phrase that make his writing agreeable reading.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 880w.

  “It might be termed the history of unbelief. It is comprehensive. But
  it is not marked by any notable philosophical insight or dramatic
  power.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 140w.


=Robertson, Morgan.= Land ho! †$1.25. Harper.

  Angus McPherson, otherwise known as Scotty, “a man with a face like a
  harvest moon and the soul of a Scotsman” is the principal figure in
  several of the adventures narrated in Mr. Robertson’s new book of sea
  tales. “The sea, as Scotty and the rest of Mr. Robertson’s heroes know
  it, is a hard mistress, exacting a heavy toll of labor and sorrow and
  making little return; and as a whole Mr. Robertson’s book does not
  make cheerful reading.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His style is powerful, but his insight is always exercised on
  gruesome situations.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “As a whole the stories are very readable.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 455. F. 22, ’06. 300w.

  “The book is always interesting.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 811. N. 25, ’05. 270w.

  “The tales are remarkable rather for ingenuity than for any convincing
  quality.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 90w.

  “A rattling, rousing, salty story.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 20w.


=Robie, Virginia.= Historic styles in Furniture. *$1.60. Stone.

  “The title indicates the special point of view of this new ‘furniture
  book.’ Sometimes the century made the style, as in the fifteenth
  century; sometimes the period, as with the Italian Renaissance;
  sometimes the monarch, as with Louis XV. Taking each style as a
  chapter division, the author writes clearly of its development,
  highest type, and merger into other styles. The illustrations are
  admirably chosen and well printed.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For a convenient and well-balanced account of the general trend and
  development of styles this book is to be commended.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 29: 114. O. ’06. 450w.

  “Mistakes, however, are discoverable, and some of them seem as if
  caused by a lack or knowledge of the actual pieces.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 538. Je. 28, ’06. 610w.

  “The book which is popularly written, adequately serves two
  purposes—an introduction to those elaborate monographs by specialists
  already mentioned: a text-book by the means of which the modest house
  holder may be inspired to beautify his home in many artistic ways.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 233. Ap. 7, ’06. 270w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 70w.


=Robins, Edward.= William T. Sherman. *$1.25. Jacobs.

  “It is designed for popular reading, a somewhat slight work but at the
  same time unpretentious. While by no means a scientific military
  biography, it yet gives the main facts in the life of Sherman
  correctly, and in as much detail as the ordinary reader requires.” J.
  K. Hosmer.

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 928. Jl. ’06. 690w.

  “Quite up to the creditable standard of its predecessors.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 60w.

  “He has made an excellent portrait of the great soldier, giving the
  shadows as well as the lights.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 239. Ap. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “His is distinctly not a biography, but a military memoir.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 510w.

  “There is a pleasant atmosphere of fairness about his book.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 50. Ja. 27, ’06. 520w.

  “It presents a truthful and striking portrait, and is very acceptable
  as a military memoir. It is to be wished that in his presentation he
  had attained a higher level of literary quality.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 170w.

  “The book is written attractively and with due regard to the official
  and standard authorities.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 120w.


=Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes).= Dark lantern; a story with a
prologue. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 55. Ja. ’06. 270w.


=Robinson, Edward Kay.= Religion of nature. **90c. McClure.

  “A scientific attempt to justify the ways of God to man.... The
  seeming ruthlessness, the cruelty of nature has been a stumbling-block
  to many patient thinkers. Mr. Kay Robinson, having found a haven of
  refuge, is anxious that others should share it.... The key of his
  solution is simply this—that real suffering can only be experienced
  when it is ‘conscious’; and that since man is the only animal that has
  attained consciousness man alone can suffer pain.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has in no sense taken a survey of the vast and varied
  considerations that would occur to one who had read widely and thought
  deeply on the growth and development of religious ideas.”

      – =Acad.= 70: 570. Je. 16, ’06. 1970w.

  “This book deserves serious consideration. In the end we must find a
  verdict of ‘not proven,’ at the same time acknowledging with lively
  gratitude the suggestiveness and the admirable ideal of this
  interesting book.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 34. Jl. 14. 1520w.

  “The essay is an interesting one, but to many persons it will not seem
  that it is possible to follow the author in all his deductions.”

  + + – =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 170w.

  “A book that is sure to interest a large number of readers. In the
  opinion of the present writer, though, Mr. Robinson fails to prove his
  thesis.”

    + – =Nature.= 74: 513. S. 20, ’06. 550w.

  “The motive and spirit of the writer are more commendable than his
  reasoning.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 864. Ag. 11, ’06. 110w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 110w.

        =Spec.= 96: 978. Je. 23, ’06. 1540w.


=Robinson, Edwin Arlington.= Children of the night. **$1. Scribner.

  “Shows real poetic insight and a fine touch.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 50w.


=Robinson, Emma Amelia, and Morgan, Charles Herbert.= Short studies of
Old Testament heroes. *50c. Meth. bk.

  Bible heroes are treated in text book manner for any who wish a short
  and simple Bible course.


=Robinson, Frederick S.= English furniture. *$6.75. Putnam.

  A late addition to the “Connoisseur’s library.” The subject is treated
  historically from the collector’s point of view, covering the entire
  period of furniture-making in England down to the beginning of the
  nineteenth century. “After the different styles of furniture have been
  dealt with and their characteristics compared and their particular
  points shown, Mr. Robinson provides a few notes on the materials,
  manufacture, and care of furniture made of oak, walnut and mahogany,
  giving instructions for polishing, the retaining of the color of the
  wood, etc.” (N. Y. Times.) There are 160 collotype plates and one
  photogravure all appearing at the end of the work.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On a subject crowded with sociological interest and aesthetic
  pleasure, Mr. Robinson has given us a book that should form the type
  and pattern for future volumes in the ‘Connoisseur’s library,’ and at
  the same time, be the last word on English furniture for at least a
  generation.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 487. My. 19, ’06. 480w.

  “Mr. Robinson’s book is indispensable to a connoisseur.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 272. Mr. 3. 730w.

  “Furniture collectors and dealers will find helpful and valuable
  information in this book.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 628. Mr. 15, ’06. 840w.

      + =Int. Studio.= 28: 180. Ap. ’06. 170w.

  “Mr. Robinson’s may be described as a very useful general survey of
  the history of this branch of art, and as a worthy successor to Mr.
  Dillon’s book on porcelain, published in the same series.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 270. Ag. 3, ’06. 80w.

  “It may be stated as a general truth that the book is written
  throughout with a strong personal character impressed upon it, as
  being the work of one who has collected or at least studied and
  gathered material on his own account.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 125. F. 8, ’06. 870w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 220w.

  “Altogether the book is a valuable and attractive addition to the
  series.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1082. D. 30, ’05. 260w.


=Robinson, James Harvey.= Readings in European history. Abridged ed.
*$1.50. Ginn.

  A high school text which is a collection of extracts from the sources
  chosen with the purpose of illustrating the progress of culture in
  Western Europe since the German invasions. Each chapter is accompanied
  by a carefully chosen bibliography.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 727. Ap. ’06. 60w.

  “The book is so admirably adapted to its purpose of aiding the
  imagination and rendering more vivid the history of Europe from the
  period of the German invasions that it is gratifying to have it in a
  form in which it will find its way into the hands of many pupils who
  would not otherwise have known it.”—F. G. B.

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 168. O. ’06. 240w.

  “Selected with a wide knowledge of the field, and nice judgment of the
  needs of youthful learners.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 70w.

        =Nation.= 82: 382. My. 10, ’06. 60w.

  “Good judgment has been used in the abridgment, but the omission of so
  many important and interesting extracts is a cause for regret. The
  book fills a long-felt want.” M. W. Jernegan.

  + + – =School R.= 14: 619. O. ’06. 130w.


=Roche, Francis Everard.= Exodus: an epic on liberty. $1.50. Badger, R:
G.

  The period of this poem is fixed sometime prior to the Trojan war and
  the action extends thru eighteen days and part of the miraculous three
  days and nights of continued darkness over the land of Egypt. The
  fable which deals with the oppression of the Israelites by the
  Egyptians assumes that liberty—inseparable from the redemption and
  happiness of mankind—looks to the Exodus from Egypt as the true
  turning point in its triumph over the ills of slavery and despotism.


=Roden, Robert F.= Cambridge press, 1638–1692: a history of the first
printing press established in English America, together with a
biographical list of the issues of the press. *$5. Dodd.

  The second volume in a series on “Famous presses.” The author deals
  historically and bibliographically with the history of the first
  printing press established in English North America. “The treatment of
  the subject comprehends a list of the publications of the Cambridge
  press; sketches of the several printers whose names are connected with
  its history; and matters of interest connected with the rare volumes
  published at this early date, the history being given in many
  instances of their transmission from purchaser to purchaser and of the
  constant appreciation of the market value of these much-sought-after
  treasures. This method of treatment brings the reader in contact with
  many collectors of Americana during the last century whose names are
  as familiar as household words to librarians and students.” (Am. Hist.
  R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book has a meagre index, but on the whole is a satisfactory piece
  of work, the only serious blemish being the unnecessary attack on the
  Boston collectors.” Andrew McFarland Davis.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 906. Jl. ’06. 730w.

  “He certainly has made a valuable and useful book, and if it is in
  parts rather barren reading, it is because the history of the first
  press established in English America is not a very fruitful theme. It
  is to the historian of early presses in America and to the
  bibliographer and the collector of early American imprints that this
  book must of necessity appeal.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 224. S. 13, ’06. 430w.

  “It will prove itself a necessity in the library of any collector.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 420w.


=Rogers, Bessie Story.= As it may be: a story of the future. *$1.
Badger, R. G.

  “As it may be” jumps to the year 2905 and shows how sickness and
  consequently doctors have been eliminated not thru spiritual freedom
  but thru liberty that results from nourishing the body according to a
  set of Utopian principles.


=Rogers, Joseph Morgan.= The true Henry Clay. **$2. Lippincott.

  Reviewed by M. A. de Wolfe Howe.

        =Atlan.= 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 100w.


=Rogers, Julia Ellen.= Tree book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the
trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation. 16 plates in
color and 160 in black and white from photographs by A. Radclyffe
Dugmore. **$4. Doubleday.

  “One of the fruits of efforts recently made to bring the literature of
  popular science and nature-study to a sane and solid basis.” (Dial.)
  Pt. 1 contains an introduction, names of trees, a sketch of tree
  families, and a key to the principal ones followed by fifty
  biographical chapters, each treating one family; pt. 2 is devoted to
  the subject of forestry; pt. 3 deals with the uses of the products of
  the forest; and pt. 4 describes the life of the trees.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style is pleasing and popular, while on the whole the work is
  scientifically accurate.” Bohnmil Shimek.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 358. Je. 1. ’06. 1040w.

  “The technical arrangement of the book is admirable and most
  practical.” Mabel O. Wright.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 1410w.


=Roosevelt, Theodore.= Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter. **$3.
Scribner.

  “His pages are alive with healthy incident and an observant criticism
  of birds and beasts, together with an admirably expressed appreciation
  of the wild and beautiful districts he visited in search of sport.
  From a British point of view this work is enhanced by being written in
  good readable English.” P.

    + + =Acad.= 70: 89. Ja. 27, ’06. 1540w.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 168. F. 10. 260w.

  “Mr. Roosevelt’s style is, as usual, practical and prosaic, almost
  unimaginative. But the volume is well-nigh cyclopaedic upon the ground
  that it covers. The author gathers large stores of information, and
  does not jump at conclusions. He is scrupulous as to the accuracy of
  the smallest details.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 49. Ja. 16, ’06. 420w.

  “It would be hard to put one’s finger on another writer on sport who
  is so keen an observer as President Roosevelt, or who gives us in his
  chapters on hunting so many interesting and good observations on
  natural history.”

    + + =Ind.= 59: 1535. D. 28, ’05. 450w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 10w.

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 70. Ja. 13, ’06. 1400w.

  “It is written by a man who is a delightful ‘raconteur,’ and who has
  an intense conviction of the virile reality of his own life and of the
  deep integrity of the life around him.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 380w.

  “The volume that records his adventures is straightforward, vigorous
  and pithy, with no wasted words and no ineffective ones.”

      + =Reader.= 7: 339. F. ’06. 310w.


=Roosevelt, Theodore.= Square deal. $1. Allendale press.

  Ideals of citizenship, success in life, nobility of parenthood, the
  problem of the South, the Chinese question and the essence of
  Christian character are among the subjects treated here. It is a book
  of cullings from the President’s addresses. A new photogravure
  portrait appears on the frontispiece.


=Root, Jean Christie (Mrs. J. H. Root).= Does God comfort? by one who
has greatly needed to know. **30c. Crowell.

  Thru sorrow, loss, and temptation has come to the author the assurance
  that all that God has given to him He will give to every soul that
  honestly seeks Him.


=Ropes, James Hardy.= Apostolic age in the light of modern criticism.
**$1.50. Scribner.

  “The author, a professor at Harvard, in 1904 delivered a course of
  Lowell institute lectures on the apostolic age. The publication of
  these lectures places within reach of those who may be inquiring what
  New Testament criticism has done with the reputations of Paul and
  Peter, a clear, graphic account of the happenings of the apostolic
  days as at present understood by historians.... The aim is to describe
  the currents of thought, and life which made the apostolic age so
  great, and the success of the endeavor is notable.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A concise and scholarly discussion, in attractive popular form, of
  the history and literature of the apostolic age.”

    + + =Bib. World.= 27: 480. Je. ’06. 30w.

  “Considering the field covered the work is brief, but more than a
  compensation for inadequacy of space to certain details is offered in
  the clarity and vividness in which the whole movement is portrayed.
  The résumé of recent criticism bearing on the period is fair and
  impartial.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1118. N. 8, ’06. 370w.

  “The poetical element in the character of the man of Tarsus has rarely
  found more sympathetic and forceful exposition.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

  “Examination of the work reveals not only a thorough and painstaking
  scholar, but also a writer of no little skill in holding material well
  in hand, in suppressing overplus of detail and bringing salient points
  into the clear, and also in presenting critical results with a minimum
  of offence to the traditionalist. There are occasional blunders in
  proofreading.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 37. Jl. 12, ’06. 360w.

  “Professor Ropes gives an admirable survey of Jewish Christianity, an
  admirable character sketch of the Apostle Paul, and an admirable
  summary of the modern view respecting the date, origin, and form of
  composition of the four Gospels. His interpretation of Paul’s theology
  is, unfortunately, couched too much in modern theological phraseology,
  and he seems to us to fail to bring out the most fundamental
  characteristic of Paul’s teaching, namely, its subjective character.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 427. O. 20, ’06. 500w.


=Roscoe, Henry Enfield.= Life and experience of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe
written by himself. *$4. Macmillan.

  “There is a refreshing old-time atmosphere about the volume of
  reminiscences recently written by the famous English chemist.... There
  is much ... in the way of illuminating recollections of later giants
  of the nineteenth century—the illustrious Bunsen, who pointed him the
  path to success in chemical research; Faraday, Pasteur, Huxley,
  Tyndall, Lister, Kirchoff, Helmholtz, Dalton, Jevons, and, outside the
  realm of science, Gladstone, Martineau, Francis Newman, Richard
  Hutton, John Bright, and Sir Leslie Stephen. But perhaps the most
  interesting aspect of this volume lies in the light it throws on the
  progress of scientific investigation in Great Britain.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It should also be available at all public libraries as the story of
  one who has made use of his life and health to do work which has
  benefited his fellow-citizens, his fellow-countrymen, and the world at
  large.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 77. Jl. 21. 680w.

  “Not for a long time has there come from England an autobiography of
  more all-around interest.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 515. Ag. 30, ’06. 760w.

  “It contains pleasant references to numerous men of mark, but it is as
  a valuable contribution to the history of education that it claims
  lasting recognition.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 278. Ag. 10, ’06. 1090w.

  “The index is so meagre as to be almost worthless.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 43. Jl. 12, ’06. 610w.

    + + =Nature.= 74: 289. Jl. 26, ’06. 1750w.

  “An unassuming and leisurely narrative.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 407. Je. 23, 06. 1740w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 529. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 110w.

        =Spec.= 97: 332. S. 8, ’06. 600w.


=Rose, Arthur Richard.= Common sense hell. **$1. Dillingham.

  Mr. Rose, a practical business man, proves that hell fire is an
  absolute absurdity, and then reveals the reasonable, logical, sane and
  adequate hell which awaits each person who dies in his sins.


=Rose, John Holland.= Development of the European nations, 1870–1900.
2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.

  A two-volume work by the historian of the Napoleonic period. The
  author says: “After working at my subject for some time, I found it
  desirable to limit it to events which had a distinctly formative
  influence on the development of European states.” The two great
  impulses of the world—Democracy and Nationality as developed in the
  nations of Europe during the past four decades—are fully discussed and
  criticised from the vantage point of a twentieth century observer.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 70: 474. My. 19, ’06. 1500w.

  “Though Mr. Rose’s essays have considerable value, they are very far
  from justifying his title or constituting a history of the period.”
  Victor Coffin.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 895. Jl. ’06. 1040w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Dr. Rose has a sound judgment and a clear lucid style. Our only doubt
  is whether in every case he can have obtained certain data on which to
  found his conclusions.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 723. Je. 16. 1910w.

  “It must be said that the second volume is of a distinctly lower grade
  than the first. There is in it a note of weariness of the task. It is
  correct and up to date, but the language is less vivid. But both
  volumes are always and everywhere absolutely simple and clear, so that
  concise and correct information on whatever of importance pertains to
  modern European history, within the period covered, is available to
  anyone.” E. D. Adams.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 63. Ag. 1, ’06. 1670w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Combining wide reading, sound judgment, and an absence of party
  spirit not often found together.” W. Miller.

    + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 396. Ap. ’06. 560w.

  “The title-page of Dr. Rose’s latest book is full of promise. The book
  itself, however, disappoints the hopes thus invoked. It is an
  eminently readable book. Dr. Rose is a craftsman of experience, who,
  on the whole, does his work well.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 816. O. 4, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 80w.

  “The substantial merits of this volume, which contains a large amount
  of useful information laboriously compiled, are obscured by a
  slipshod, sometimes almost illiterate style.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 34. F. 2, ’06. 1470w.

  “Mr. Rose is somewhat uneven in style. Yet the period he deals with is
  so important and so interesting, and reliable works upon it are so
  few, that his volumes deserve a warm welcome.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 515. Je. 21, ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “As a pioneer work this must rank very high. The author shows great
  independence of thought as well as judgment and discretion.” R. L.
  Schuyler.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 857. D. 2, ’05. 460w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Taken as a whole, the volume offers an interesting if not valuable
  insight into the attempts of old régimes to adjust their policies to
  the irrepressible growth of internal liberty of thought and action.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 632. O. 6, ’06. 2360w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Until the private papers of great personages and state documents now
  locked up shall come to light, the sources of history used by Dr. Rose
  can hardly be enlarged. The reader cannot fail to see in his work the
  hand of a careful and sympathetic student of the struggle of nations
  toward the realization of their ideals.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 43. Ja. 6, ’06. 290w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “His work is singularly valuable for an understanding of the
  international relations of contemporary Europe.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 568. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “A period of European history as yet only cursorily treated ... has
  been graphically summed up in a scholarly manner.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’06. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Dr. Rose has the faculty of writing history in an entertaining way
  and making the essential facts stick in the memory.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It is skilfully planned, carefully executed, and exhibits on every
  page a sincere desire to master the problem and present it fairly and
  accurately.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 100: 782. D. 16, ’05. 1900w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 183. F. 3, ’06. 1600w.


=Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of.= Lord Randolph
Churchill. **$2.25. Harper.

  Lord Rosebery, tho a political opponent yet from the point of view of
  intimacy and affection presents a reminiscence and a study rather than
  a life of Lord Churchill. He sets this “brilliant half-success” in the
  field of high politics, reveals the qualities that made for mastery
  and also those that marred a brilliant career. There are side lights
  thrown upon such men as Gladstone, Beaconsfield, Salisbury, Parnell,
  and others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The best literary work, in our opinion, which he has produced.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 395. O. 6. 1370w.

  “In literary quality and in the human interest of its pages, this book
  will bear comparison with the former monographs of the distinguished
  author.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 300w.

  “The book is small, but every page attracts, instructs, and inspires.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 335. O. 5, ’06. 960w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 413. N. 15, ’06. 240w.

  “One cannot but wonder, on closing this fascinating yet disagreeable
  volume, why its author wrote it. At the end, you are conscious, more
  than anything else, of a bad taste in the mouth.” Edward Cary.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 736. N. 10, ’06. 1120w.

  “What this monograph lacks in care and polish is more than made up for
  by its spontaneity, and by the vital interest of Lord Rosebery’s
  comments on the political parties of his own day, and on a career
  which has some striking points of resemblance to his own.” Arthur A.
  Baumann.

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 422. O. 6, ’06. 1840w.


=Rosegger, Petri Kettenfeier.= I. N. R. I.: a prisoner’s story of the
cross, tr. by Elizabeth Lee. †$1.50. McClure.

        =Ath.= 1905, 2: 893. D. 30. 280w.

  “Powerful and admirably translated story.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 1077. D. 23, ’05. 2030w.


=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Foundations of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.

  “Like Professor Ross’s previous studies of the influence of social
  control upon human society, his work of analysis and criticism of the
  foundations of sociology deserves universal recognition as a
  contribution of the first order to both sociological literature and
  sociological science.” Frederick Morgan Davenport.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 541. S. ’06. 1720w.


=Ross, Henry M.= Her blind folly. $1.25. Benziger.

  The story of a girl’s unhappy marriage and its attending trials
  relieved by the Roman Catholic faith.


=Ross, Janet Anne (Mrs. Henry J. Ross).= Florentine palaces; with 30 il.
by Adelaide Marchrist. **$1.50. Dutton.

  “It is with the historic and literary associations of the Florentine
  palaces—the bold, massive, rusticated buildings, so characteristic,
  Fergusson says, of the manly energy of the republic in the Medicean
  era—that Mrs. Ross is chiefly concerned.” (Ath.) “She gives to us
  suprisingly scant information concerning architecture, but a great
  deal about the important events which happened within the buildings
  she describes or in connection with them.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style is somewhat dry, but the book is none the less a delightful
  one to dip into here and there.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 210w.

  “Her book is a mine of valuable information, gathered not only from
  the standard works of Villari and other writers, but also from
  little-known contemporary records inaccessible to the English reader.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 887. D. 30. 560w.

  “Mrs. Ross has every qualification for writing a book of this kind.”

    – + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 120w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 872. Ap. 12, ’06. 50w.

  “The volume will be found more interesting for reference than for
  consecutive perusal.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 331. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.

  “A solid study, a reference book for any one who may purpose spending
  intelligently a winter in Florence.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 27. Ja. 13, ’06. 480w.

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 100w.

  “She writes history admirably well, having a due consideration for the
  general reader, and not shrinking from recounting, in a fresh and
  pleasant way, old stories which the superior person may sniff at as
  stale. The work is not free from small inaccuracies.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 274. Mr. 3, ’06. 230w.


=Rossetti, William Michael.= Some reminiscences of William Michael
Rossetti. 2v. *$10. Scribner.

  Interesting recollections and anecdotes concerning founders of the
  Pre-Raphaelite movement that bring the reader in touch with a
  procession of famous artists and men of letters. “Of course, we want,
  too, illuminating gossip about our remarkable figures. That is why we
  welcome Mr. Rossetti’s reminiscences. We need to know all we can about
  humanity—not because humanity is Pre-Raphaelite, but because it is
  interesting.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It would be difficult to find a commentary more useful to those
  interested in the men and movements of the last sixty years.”

      + =Acad.= 71: 466. N. 10, ’06. 1590w.

  “Next to the outspokenness with which we have dealt ... the most
  striking attribute of the confessions is common sense.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 541. N. 3. 1800w.

  “The general tone of these memoirs is a little disappointing. Mr.
  Rossetti is so afraid of saying something that he has said already, as
  well as seeming either to blow his own trumpet or to cast undue blame
  on someone else, that his chapters decidedly lack color and movement
  as compared with much of his previous writing.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 444. D. 16, ’06. 2270w.

  “Taken as a whole the book is far too diffuse; a single volume would
  have been enough and, possibly, too much.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 480w.

  “It may as well be said explicitly that these memoirs are a
  disappointment. The fact is that Mr. Rossetti has in various memoirs
  and introductions given out all his wheat and that only the chaff is
  left for this garnering.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 890w.

  “Delightfully written.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 90w.


=Rothschild, Alonzo.= Lincoln, master of men. **$3. Houghton.

  Mastery over different types of men as well as over self serves as the
  keynote to this eight-chapter biography. “‘A Samson of the backwoods’
  gives an account of Lincoln’s early struggles and triumphs; ‘Love,
  war, and politics,’ carries him to his leadership of the Whig party in
  Illinois; ‘Giants, big and little’ narrates his rivalry with Douglas
  from their young manhood to the day of Lincoln’s great triumph when
  Douglas held his hat through the inauguration ceremonies; ‘The power
  behind the throne’ is of course Seward, and ‘An indispensable man’ is
  Chase; while ‘The curbing of Stanton’ conveys an altogether wrong
  impression of Lincoln’s relations with his great war minister; ‘How
  the pathfinder lost the trail’ tells the story of Fremont and his
  lamentable failure as general and politician; ‘The young Napoleon’ is
  General McClellan.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 976. Jl. ’06. 70w.

  “This method of writing biography is exposed to peculiar hazards. Mr.
  Rothschild has not escaped these pitfalls, though his portraiture of
  Lincoln is fairly successful.” Allen Johnson.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 166. O. ’06. 940w.

  “The story is well and forcibly told and the style is admirably
  terse.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 130w.

  “The author tells his story with zest and force. It abounds with
  well-chosen anecdotes, and with the interesting personal items that
  give life to biography. The bibliography and citations of authorities
  are indeed fuller and better than any other that we know.” Charles H.
  Cooper.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 254. Ap. 16, ’06. 1180w.

  “All the details have been studied, and have been handled with skill
  and judgment; and the result is a picture that both charms and
  convinces.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1105. My. 10, ’06. 550w.

  “It is scholarly, without being pedantic; is on the contrary,
  intensely readable, being liberally punctuated with anecdote. It is
  sane, it is stimulating. Above all, it makes for keener appreciation
  of the immensity of Lincoln’s task and of the greatness of his
  achievement.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 760w.

    + + =Nation.= 83: 102. Ag. 2, ’06. 1060w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 340w.

  “I believe that Mr. Rothschild’s book is the best of all for the
  Lincoln student to begin with, to keep to hand during his course, and
  to rely on as help in reviewing at the end. The faults are but few.
  The greatest is the disrespect shown Douglas, one of the ablest men of
  his day.” John C. Reed.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 460. Jl. 21, ’06. 2720w.

  “He is open to criticism in his delineation of the men whose policies
  and purposes at times crossed with Lincoln.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 623. Jl. 14, ’06. 1390w.

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 508. Ap. 21, ’06. 750w.

  “Mr. Alonzo Rothschild premises an acquaintance with American
  political history which is beyond the equipment of the ordinary
  English reader; he is unduly redundant. But he has a definite theme
  and he keeps to it.”

  + + – =Spec.= 97: 130. Jl. 28, ’06. 1870w.


=Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-.= Trail of the dragon, and other stories. $1.25.
Benziger.

  Twenty and more short stories by such writers as Marion Ames Taggart,
  Anna T. Sadlier, Jerome Harte and others.


Round the world: a series of interesting illustrated articles on a great
variety of subjects. 85c. Benziger.

  The following subjects are treated in an interestingly informing
  manner: Climbing the Alps, The great wall of China, Nature study and
  photography, The making of a newspaper, Rookwood pottery, The magic
  kettle, Some wonderful birds, Ostriches, Skis and ski racing, The
  marvel of the New World, Triumphal arches, and Venders in different
  lands.


=Routh, James Edward, jr.= Fall of Tollan. $1. Badger, R: G.

  “The author of ‘The fall of Tollan’ displays considerable aptitude in
  his wielding of blank verse, and a fair degree of the ability to
  ‘visualize’ the scene.” Edith M. Thomas.

      + =Critic.= 48: 184. F. ’06. 210w.


=Rowe, James W.= Hand-book on the newly-born. *75c. J. W. Rowe. (For
sale by U. P. James, 127 W. 7th st., Cincinnati.)

  A book for young physicians and nurses.


=Rowe, Stuart Henry.= Physical nature of the child, and how to study it.
*90c. Macmillan.

  The fifth edition of a useful book on “child study.” The author
  acquaints a child’s sponsors with everything they should know for the
  best possible development of the child. “The treatise is based upon
  the principle that activity is the cause of growth, that individuals
  vary enormously in their capacity for different kinds of mental and
  physical action, and that physical conditions affect fundamentally
  that power of action in most various ways in different children.
  Therefore, the teacher, and the parent as well, should know and pay
  constant attention to the physical condition of their children.”
  (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The revised edition ... is justified by its serviceableness to
  teachers in general.”

      + =Bookm.= 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 190w.

  “We heartily agree with Superintendent Maxwell’s praise, cited in the
  preface to the second edition, and wish that every teacher and parent
  might read the book.” Edward O. Sisson.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 89. Ag. 16, ’06. 460w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 200w.

  “Is an admirable guide in this line of work both for teachers and
  parents.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 130w.


=Rowell, George Presbury.= Forty years an advertising agent, 1865–1905.
Printers’ ink pub.

  “This is a most engaging volume—this breezy gossipy story of the life
  and observations of an advertising man.... You will find mentioned
  among Mr. Rowell’s acquaintances most of the names that you have ever
  seen associated with pills, lotions, hair restorers, and panaceas
  generally. Mr. Rowell speaks quite familiarly of these great men and
  supplies much curious inside information—all in the friendliest
  spirit. His anecdotes are not, however, confined to patent medicine
  people; he tells stories of famous newspaper publishers all over the
  country, beginning with Boston of forty years ago and ending with New
  York of last year; he reveals a number of prison-house secrets and
  supplies gossip about many statesmen and men of affairs.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ind.= 60: 402. F. 15, ’06. 60w.

  “Truth is, Mr. Rowell is the Horace Walpole of the world of ‘business’
  during the past four decades.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 50. Ja. 27, ’06. 1120w.

  “The book is a mine of anecdotes of publishers, authors, advertisers,
  and advertising agents, written in a breezy, chatty style.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.

  “Even to the ordinary reader, with only a remote interest in
  advertising and its problems, Mr. Rowell’s book will hold a lasting
  charm.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 560w.


=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= In the shadow. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “This is a study, rather powerful and chiefly depressing, of a ‘pure
  bred African,’ a native of Hayti, who goes to England to be educated.”
  (N. Y. Times.) He “has a certain social standing there, and dreams of
  becoming a revolutionary hero, and of making a great nation of Hayti.
  Under the pressure of a series of frightful incidents he ‘reverts to
  type’ and becomes a semi-savage with pathetic helplessness and
  alternating moods of brutal ferocity and shrinking cowardice.”
  (Outlook.) The author’s evident theory that any one of these primitive
  races can not have the qualities necessary to a leader is worked out
  to a logical conclusion in the story.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A study of the real negro, and a wonderfully powerful and convincing
  study it is.”

      + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 758. Je 23. 190w.

  Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 414. Je. ’06. 860w.

  “We simply refuse to admit that the magnificent specimen of cultivated
  manhood who appears in the opening chapters can be one and the same
  person with the cowering wretch who makes his exit from the stage at
  the close of the book.” Wm. M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 240w.

  “On the whole, we may say that if Mr. Rowland’s story is of the
  story-with-a-moral sort, its characters are by no means therefore
  puppets.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 450w.

  “There is a great deal that is unpleasant about the tale, and,
  although it is told with vividness, one doubts whether such a
  psycho-physiological analysis is really desirable.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 100w.

  “The story as a whole impresses the reader with a sense of futility.”

      – =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 140w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 762. Je. ’06. 50w.

  “This is a remarkable novel in every way. It possess unusual grip and
  vital human interest. Written in terse, nervous language it is the
  work of a man who has made an intimate study of psychology.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 305. S. 8, ’06. 270w.

  “For all these artistic blemishes, the book shows originality and
  power; its interest heightens as the narrative advances, and the
  terrible scenes in Hayti and the cypress swamp, gruesome as they are,
  yet lift the romance from the level of melodrama to that of real
  tragedy.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 988. Je. 23, ’06. 1230w.


=Rowland, Henry Cottrell.= Mountain of fears. †$1.50. Barnes.

  “In this particular volume Mr. Rowland has revealed himself as one of
  the few writers who can tell a tale ‘just so’ when he wants to do so.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 492. Ja. ’06. 690w.

  “Is an unusual book, albeit morbid, as tales of the uncanny need must
  be.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 744. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.

  “There is plenty of go to the stories, which afford a pleasant couple
  of hours’ entertainment.”

      + =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 110w.

  “Remind one very strongly of the work of Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells
  ... though they fall perceptibly short of the very close approach to
  technical perfection of both those writers.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 620w.


=Rowntree, B. Seebohm.= Betting and gambling: a national evil. *$1.60.
Macmillan.

  “There is probably no more useful work on the whole subject of betting
  and gambling than the present volume.” W. R. Sorley.

    + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 380. Ap. ’06. 1190w.


=Rowntree, Joseph, and Sherwell, Arthur.= Taxation of the liquor trade,
v. 1. *$3.25. Macmillan.

  “The present volume is concerned with public-houses, hotels,
  restaurants, theaters, railway bars, and clubs as they are managed in
  Great Britain. It also includes two chapters on the subject of license
  taxation in the United States, giving the varied experiences of such
  states as Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. The chief purpose
  of the writers in this volume is to show the inadequacy of the
  existing scale of taxation in Great Britain.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        + Ind. 61: 159. Jl. 19, ’06. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Though written with a distinct purpose and to support a precise
  programme, it is a careful study of a highly complex question, a well
  stored armoury for the friends of temperance, and also a careful aid
  to the fiscal reformer.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 262. Jl. 27, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Our authors are concerned chiefly with the fiscal aspects of the
  license problem, and it is from this point of view that their
  performance must be judged. Tested by such a criterion, they have done
  their work well and they have left few loopholes for the shafts of the
  severest critic.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 312. O. 11, ’06. 980w. (Review of v. 1.)

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Timely and valuable volume.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 498. Mr. 31, ’06. 1730w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Rowson, Susanna Haswell.= Charlotte Temple: a tale of truth; with an
historical and biographical introd. by Francis W. Halsey; reprinted from
the first Am. ed., 1794. $1.25. Funk.

        =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 60w.

  “Mr. Halsey has given his edition a very thorough equipment of
  historical and bibliographical matter.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 52. Ja. 16, ’06. 170w.

        =Ind.= 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 70w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 40w.


=Rumbold, Sir Horace.= Final recollections of a diplomatist. $5.
Longmans.

  The fourth volume of Sir Horace Rumbold’s reminiscences covers the
  period from 1885 to his retirement from diplomatic service in 1900.
  During these years he was sent to three courts—to Athens, The Hague,
  and Vienna.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 69: 1194. N. 18, ’05. 880w.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 40w.

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 540. O. 21. 700w.

  “It is characterized by the same lightness of touch as its
  predecessors, and also, perhaps by the same preference for matters of
  superficial and personal interest over the graver side of public
  affairs.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 465. D. 29, ’05. 2130w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 98. F. 1, ’06. 150w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 19. Ja. 13, ’06. 300w.

  “The reader’s one regret is apt to be that the man who had the chance
  to see so much saw so little.”

      – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 100w.

  “Garrulous Sir Horace Rumbold is in the sense that he repeats a fact
  simply because it is a fact, and he happens to remember it, without
  ever stopping to consider whether it is an interesting fact.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 100: 561. O. 25, ’05. 810w.

  “The merits of this book, if viewed not only as the story of a long
  diplomatic life, but as literature, are visible in every chapter.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 900. D. 2, ’05. 2010w.


=Runkle, Bertha.= Truth about Tolna. †$1.50. Century.

  Tolna, the golden-throated tenor, who is not what he seems to be,
  gives to this novel of modern New York society a real individuality.
  The whole action occupies but seven days. There are many people more
  or less rich and more or less socially ambitious involved in the plot,
  but they are merely vivacious adjuncts to the story of Tolna and his
  love for Honor, the cold beauty who was his boyhood’s playmate, and or
  Denys Alden, the man who, having lost his own voice, rejoices in the
  triumphs of his protégé, living in his success until he even renounces
  to him Marjorie, the girl he loves, only to find that her heart is
  his, but not his to renounce.

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  “There is a degree of clever originality about Bertha Runkle’s new
  book. ‘The truth about Tolna,’ of which her previous venture in
  fiction, ‘The helmet of Navarre,’ gave scant promise.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 285. My. ’06. 380w.

  “This frothy story is moderately entertaining, but is not to be taken
  seriously from any point of view.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 367. Je. 1, ’06. 200w.

      – =Ind.= 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 200w.

  “Miss Runkle has conceived a very original plot, and shows much skill
  both in tangling and untangling its threads.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 158. Mr. 17, ’06. 410w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

  “There are a dash and vigor about the handling of this novel of modern
  New York life that will carry it perhaps beyond its real merits.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 100w.

  “It can hardly be counted a successful piece of fiction.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 60w.

  “From the ‘Helmet of Navarre’ to ‘The truth about Tolna’ is a long
  leap, but Miss Runkle has taken it with no signs of effort.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 270w.

      – =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 130w.


=Ruskin, John.= Works; edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn.
37v. ea. $9. Longmans.

  The thirty-seven volumes which make up this library edition contain
  the complete written life-work of Ruskin, illustrated with woodcuts,
  plates, and facsimile manuscripts. “The introductions ... are
  consecutive chapters of what will always remain a far more
  authoritative biography of Ruskin than any that exists. The reprints
  of the published books and lectures contain the best possible text,
  with annotations as careful and minute as if the editors were dealing
  with a Greek classic; they give us a remark on every various reading,
  hundreds of cross references, and many references also to many
  passages in other writers who have been influenced by them or
  controverted them. Moreover ... a great number of the lectures and
  letters are here published for the first time.” (Lond. Times.)

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  “The editors have striven with the most praiseworthy diligence to make
  their edition complete and definitive. They have done a great work.”

  + + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 137. Ap. 20, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 1–22.)

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 709. O. 21, ’05. 480w. (Review of v. 8.)

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 235. Ap. 7, ’06. 820w. (Review of v. 20.)


=Russell, George William Erskine.= Social silhouettes. **$3. Dutton.

  “An essay in ‘character’ writing, the author passing in review most of
  the types that a clubman and Londoner meets with in the narrow
  confines of his life—the eldest son, the journalist, the Bishop, the
  don, the carpet-bagger, the invalid, the buck, and so forth.” (Lond.
  Times.) “They catch those fleeting aspects of things which, once let
  slip, are recovered with the utmost difficulty; and they establish
  suggestive standards of comparison between the present and a
  comparatively recent past. Mr. Russell knows Dickens, Thackeray, and
  Disraeli by heart, nor has he neglected that most faithful of writers
  Anthony Trollope.” (Ath.)

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  “‘Social silhouettes,’ it is not unfair to remark, are a little
  lacking in balance. Still, without attaining omniscience, Mr. Russell
  has succeeded in hitting off the polite and professional world in
  nearly every instance, and his stories are so cleverly handled that he
  avoids wounding the feelings even of the most susceptible.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 440. O. 13. 800w.

  “We lay the book aside with the conviction that Mr. Russell has not
  observed enough, has not lived enough, for this kind of work. He has
  met many men and heard many stories, but he lacks alike the seeing eye
  and the searching phrase. Also the sense of the moment for he seems to
  have stood still for many years.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 500w.

  “The political portraits are drawn with a peculiarly expert hand.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 330w.

  “The various short papers on English types are full of refreshing and
  enlivening touches.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 813. D. 1, ’06. 1170w.


=Russell, T. Baron.= Hundred years hence; the expectations of an
optimist. *$1.50. McClurg.

  The mechanical, scientific and ethical progress which the author
  predicts for the next hundred years promises to our descendants a
  world of “almost unthinkable perfection.” No war, no coal, no
  washer-women; all unelevating domestic labor will be eliminated;
  dress, heat, travel, the air we breathe, the water, we drink, will be
  perfected; and man, enlightened and developed, will live in a net-work
  of invention so complicated that life itself will seem a very simple
  thing.

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  “Even regarded as the baseless fabric of a vision, the book has a
  certain fascination; but its forecasts are not without a foundation of
  scientific probability.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 283. N. 1, ’06. 330w.

  “So far from being in advance of his age in his ideas, he has not
  caught up with it. He has an open and unprejudiced mind and makes many
  interesting suggestions.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 940. O. 18, ’06. 300w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 653. O. 5, ’06. 280w.

  “Far from astonishing us by a bold flight into the regions of
  scientific impossibilities, which he seems to fear, he leaves us lost
  in amazement at the feebleness of his imagination.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27. ’06. 150w.


=Russell, W. Clark.= Yarn of Old Harbour town. *$1.50. Jacobs.

  Harbor life, and life on the high seas one hundred years ago is
  vividly pictured in this story of Lucy Acton who was kidnapped by her
  lover and feigned madness for her own protection. The search made for
  her by her father in his “Aurora,” the appearance of Admiral Nelson,
  the rescue of Lucy, all making stirring reading, but after all is
  done, instead of bringing her abductor to justice Lucy nurses him thru
  an illness, forgets, forgives, and marries him.

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  “Although the plot and construction of the tale leave little to be
  desired yet there is much superficial description, and many trifling
  details are here introduced.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 240w.

  “As a love story the book is not very successful, but as a picture of
  sea and harbor life a hundred years ago it cannot fail to interest its
  readers.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 571. O. 14, ’05. 160w.


=Rutherford, Ernest.= Radio-activity. 2d ed. with much additional
matter. *$4. Macmillan.

  “The fact that the second edition is almost a new work, although the
  first edition was everywhere hailed as most remarkable, simply
  evidences the wonderful advance of the science in which Professor
  Rutherford is himself so large and active a factor.” (Nation.) “It is
  not a popular work. It is not easy reading to the layman: it is not
  intended for him. It has a spaciousness of active scientific thought
  which reaches far into the unknown. Authentic, it is rich in
  suggestions to the investigator, be he chemist, physicist, engineer,
  or physiologist.” (Engin. N.)

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  “It seems likely, therefore, that for some years to come successive
  editions of Professor Rutherford’s work will remain the best source of
  information for the reader in whom may be assumed a certain modicum of
  technical information.”

    + + =Atlan.= 98: 418. S. ’06. 40w.

  “No words are wasted. The terse diction of the masterpiece gives it a
  literary charm that carries the competent reader on almost
  precipitously, yet with discriminating caution.” Charles Baskerville.

    + + =Engin. N.= 55: 77. Ja. 18. ’06. 1290w.

  “For the student. Professor Rutherford’s book is of the greatest
  value.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 457. Ag. 23, ’06. 410w.

  “Is the most complete and authoritative account of the recent
  remarkable discoveries in this field by one who has made many of
  them.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 20w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 61. Ja. 18, ’06. 1240w.

  “We must once more congratulate Prof. Rutherford on the admirable
  manner in which he has brought his book up to date.” R. J. Strutt.

    + + =Nature.= 73: 289. Ja. 25, ’06. 1100w.

  “The new treatise gives evidence of the same skilful presentation and
  arrangement as the old.” C. Barus.

    + + =Science=, n.s. 23: 262. F. 16, ’06. 240w.


=Ryan, Coletta.= Songs in a sun garden. **$1. Turner, H. B.

  In Miss Ryan’s poems dreams seem so possible of realization that one
  credits her with having found a demonstrable principle of life. Head,
  heart and imagination are all active. “She is a young woman of strong
  emotion, a child of the imagination, and if no conventional or
  reactionary power curbs or holds in check her higher and finer
  impulses, she will do much fine and vital work.” (Arena.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is much imagination displayed in some of the lines—something
  all too rare in present day verse. Many of the poems are also rich in
  rhythmic and musical qualities that tend to sing the lines into the
  mind of the reader.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 556. My. ’06. 1040w.

  “‘A lover’s song’ is one of the few things afforded by this volume
  that are reasonably acceptable.” Wm. M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 209. O. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “They are in the main, bright and sweet, with individuality in their
  tenderness and with a buoyant spirit of trust and good-will.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 180w.


=Ryan, John Augustine.= Living wage: its ethical and economic aspects.
*$1. Macmillan.

  The work of a Roman Catholic priest and teacher in St. Paul’s
  seminary. “It is perhaps the first attempt in the English language to
  elaborate what may be called a Roman Catholic system of political
  economy.... Professor Ryan combines in this work economic and ethical
  arguments with those derived from authority, and while Professor Ely
  admits [in the introduction] that members of other religious bodies,
  both Christian and Jewish, may reject this particular system of wages
  because it is assumed to rest on the approved teachings of the Roman
  Catholic church, he bespeaks for it an examination of the question:
  Does or does not this doctrine of wages rest upon broad Christian,
  religious, and ethical foundations?” (R. of Rs.)

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  “The credit due to him for the conception of his task is doubled by
  the manner in which he has executed it. Thoroughly acquainted with all
  authorities on political economy, economics and ethics, he has done
  his work in scientific fashion.”

  + + + =Cath. World.= 83: 688. Ag. ’06. 1560w.

  “Mr. Ryan’s economics are stronger than his ethics.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 517. Ag. 30, ’06. 550w.

  “As an alternative to socialism, as an antidote to anarchism. as a
  stimulator of thought the book seems to us well described in Dr. Ely’s
  words—‘a meritorious performance.’” Edward A. Bradford.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 317. My. 19, ’06. 2290w.

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 91. S. 8, ’06. 560w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 210w.

  “Many modern writers have dealt with the subject from the same point
  of view. Few of them have had the courage of their opinions to the
  same extent as Professor Ryan.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 233. Ag. 18, ’06. 2260w.


=Ryan, Marah Ellis (Martin) (Mrs. S. E. Ryan).= For the soul of Rafael:
a romance of old California. †$1.50. McClurg.

  The heights of San Jacinto stand guard over the valley which furnishes
  the picturesque setting of this tale. The ruined dome of an old
  mission gleams among the clustered adobes of the Mexicans which are
  “like children creeping close to the feet of the one mother: and
  beyond that the illimitable ranges of mesa and valley.” The characters
  are all the fine, aristocratic Spanish type, looking upon Americans as
  “godless invaders.” Dramatic intensity marks each development in a
  story of strong passions and a splendid renunciation.

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  “A picturesque and romantic story, which stands out vividly against
  the careful and realistic brushwork of the background.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 52. S. ’06. 320w.

  “Mrs. Ryan’s new novel has so confused a way of introducing its
  characters and setting forth their relationships that we are midway in
  the volume before we have fairly straightened them out. Aside from
  this defect of constructive technique, we may say that the work is one
  of vivid dramatic quality and appealing romantic charm.” Wm. M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 210w.

  “A somewhat crudely told melodrama.”

      – =Ind.= 60: 1374. Je. 7, ’06. 200w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 307. My. 12, ’06. 200w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26. ’06. 200w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

  “A dramatic story of California.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 110w.


                                   S


=Sabatier, Paul.= Disestablishment in France; with preface by the
translator Robert Dell, and the French-English text of the Separation
law, with notes. *$1.25. Scribner.

  This work “is partly an examination of the deep-seated causes (as
  distinguished from the accidental circumstances) which led to the
  denunciation of the Concordat, and partly an attempt to forecast the
  religious consequences of that extreme anti-clerical measure. In his
  treatment of the first half of his subject ... the author seems to us
  both lucid and just.... The second half of his volume is of a more
  speculative character. He fancies that he foresees ‘the advent of a
  new Catholicism’ and ‘the rising of new sap in the old religious
  trunk.’”—Lond. Times.

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        =Acad.= 71: 56. Jl. 21, ’06. 1820w.

  “Not an important contribution to the literature of the ecclesiastical
  controversy in France. The tone of the author is as polemical as the
  style of the translator is journalistic.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 512. Ap. 28. 1180w.

  “The translation of the pamphlet is well done by Mr. Robert Dell, who
  also contributes an interesting explanatory preface.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 146. Ap. 27, ’06. 740w.

  “Its chief defect, for those who are not among the admirers of the
  writer’s earliest work is, as might be anticipated, its complete
  failure to attain an historical point of view.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 140w.

  Reviewed by Walter Littlefield.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 596. S. 8, ’06. 1350w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 813. Ag. 4. ’06. 320w.


=Sabin, Edwin Legrand.= When you were a boy. †$1.50. Baker.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 130w.


Saddle and song; a collection of verses made at Warrenton, Va., during
the winter of 1904–1905. **$1.50. Lippincott.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.


=Sadlier, Anna Theresa.= Mystery of Hornby hall. 85c. Benziger.

  A book for young people which contains the chivalric unearthing of a
  mystery guarded by a human tigress and one involving the happiness of
  a long wronged child.


=Sage, William.= District attorney. †$1.50 Little.

  A son who dares to array his intellect, his honor and his ideals
  against his father, a trust magnate with an iron hand, fights a
  creditable battle for political, financial and domestic liberty.
  Impersonal right is his might even tho it make useless the tools
  without which his father is helpless. It is an interesting character
  study backed by sound principle.

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  “Not since Robert Herrick’s ‘The common lot’ has there appeared a
  finer study of present-day American life than ‘The district
  attorney.’” Amy C. Rich.

    + + =Arena.= 36: 570. N. ’06. 390w.

  “A book that not only shows careful workmanship, but is apt to set the
  reader thinking rather seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 52. S. ’06. 460w.

        =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 120w.

  “We are inclined to think that the note of didacticism is at times a
  little too effusively sounded: but to the book as a whole sincere
  praise may be accorded.” Wm. M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 330w.

        =Ind.= 61: 214. Jl. 26, ’06. 70w.

  “Barring a touch of ‘preciousness,’ a proneness to euphuistic
  smartness not quite foreign to more sincere artists, the style of Mr.
  Sage would lend itself well enough to building up a story that might
  touch the reader as a page out of life. But instead of this, it has
  been employed to provide verisimilitude for a conventionally
  sensational tale about conventionally unreal people.”

    – + =Nation.= 83: 39. Jl. 12, ’06. 340w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

  “The author tells his story in a straightforward, manly fashion. His
  book deserves a wide reading.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.


=St. John, J. Allen.= Face in the pool. **$1.50. McClurg.

      + =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 50w.


=Saint Maur, Kate V.= Self-supporting home. **$1.75. Macmillan.

  An interesting book which records an experiment made by an ambitious,
  energetic woman. From city flat life she transplants her family to the
  country, and shows how she makes a farm of twelve acres pay for itself
  and provide comfortably for all needs. She gives the stages in her
  farm development, with specific directions for each point gained, so
  that the book is of value to every amateur farmer and gardener.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 80w.

  “She writes with that tempered enthusiasm that is apt to be
  convincing; and although she takes her subject seriously, she allows
  herself occasional touches of humor.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 380w.

  “Full of sound sense and practical advice.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 350w.

  “The style of the author is simple and unaffected.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 460w.

  “The book is no theoretical treatise or dream, but the earnest work of
  a woman of charming personality, which she modestly strives to
  conceal, who in sharing the fruits of her success with a public that
  has need of the information given, does it a greater service than a
  score of learned writers on social and political economy.” Mabel
  Osgood Wright.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ’05. 800w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

      + =North American.= 183: 121. Jl. ’06. 240w.

  “It has particular value for the beginner in that the author was a
  city woman who had to learn by experience, so that she knows how to
  help others to avoid the mistakes which she made.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 160w.

  “The author convinces us that she is intelligently at home in her
  environment, and that what she says is the result of discrimination
  and practical sense.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 93. Ja. 20, ’06. 140w.

  “A simple, straightforward, delightfully written account.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.

  “There is much instruction to be found in the book.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 229. F. 10, ’06. 140w.


=Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin.= Portraits of the eighteenth century,
historic and literary; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley, with a critical
introd. by Edmond Scherer. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.

  Miss Wormeley has not only translated but edited these Sainte-Beuve
  essays in a manner to insure their popularity. There are portraits of
  such historic and literary personages as the Duchess du Maine, Le
  Sage, Montesquieu, Voltaire, the Earl of Chesterfield, Louis XV, Marie
  Antoinette, Frederic the Great, Necker, Mme. de Lambert, Grimm,
  Rousseau, Goethe, Prevost, Beaumarchais, Adrienne Lecouvreur and
  others.

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  “It would certainly be impossible to mistake them for anything but
  translations, and translations of a rather literal order.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 223. F. 24. 250w.

      + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ’05. 60w.

        =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 130w.

        =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 90w.

  “For delicacy, good taste, profundity of research, and brilliancy of
  finish, his work remains unique, and well deserves the tribute of
  adequate translation and sumptuous publication now being rendered it.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 280w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 100w.

  “For the most part accurately rendered, and disposed in such fashion
  as to convey a general impression of the interesting pre-Revolutionary
  epoch.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 110w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ’05. 220w.

  “The translation by Katharine P. Wormeley is all that could be asked
  in sympathy, exactness and choice of phrase.”

    + + =Reader.= 7: 449. Mr. ’06. 510w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 130w.

      – =Sat. R.= 102: 554. N. 3, ’06. 180w.

    + + =Spec.= 96: 948. Je. 16, ’06. 2240w.


=Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman.= History of English prosody, from
the twelfth century to the present day. v. 1, From the origins to
Spenser. *$2.50. Macmillan.

  The first of a three volume work whose aim is to examine “through at
  least 700 years of verse what the prosodic characteristics of English
  have actually been, and what goodness or badness of poetry has
  accompanied the expression of these characteristics.” Mr. Saintsbury’s
  examination is based upon facts which he presents chronologically,
  showing the simultaneous development of language and versification. He
  says “In this book we do not rope-dance, but keep to the solid paths,
  and where the paths are not solid we do not care to walk.”

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  “When the three volumes of which the work is to consist are published,
  a blank in the history of our literature will have been filled. Few
  people more competent than Professor Saintsbury could have been found
  for the task.”

  + + + =Acad.= 70: 522. Je. 2, ’06. 1290w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “One of the main qualities of Prof. Saintsbury’s book is what may be
  called its practicalness. The main value of the book is that it is a
  firm denial and, as it seems to us, complete disproof, of ‘the error
  that the prosody of English is a fixed syllabic prosody.’”

    + + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 629. My. 26. 2910w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “What saves him from pedantry is his fund of humor, of a peculiarly
  literary quality, which is so closely allied, as all humor is, with
  common sense.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 394. Ag. 16, ’06. 580w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “There are many passages in Professor Saintsbury’s book which only
  experts will be able to understand. He calls it a history, and he has
  tried to make it one; but no one ever had a style less suited to the
  telling of a plain story. Yet, anyone interested in the subject will
  make a great mistake if he refuses to read the book because of the way
  in which it is written; for it has one merit great enough to atone for
  a thousand minor faults.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 229. Je. 29, ’06. 2710w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The most extraordinary thing about this volume is that,
  unintentionally as it would appear, the author has produced the one
  English book now existing which is likely to be of real use to those
  who wish to perfect themselves in the formal side of verse
  composition.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 189. Ag. 30, ’06. 1560w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “He writes in a breezy, somewhat pugnacious, frequently erratic style,
  ... and he manages to make even the dryer linguistic parts of his
  subject interesting.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Freshness of style and illustration makes It much more delightful
  than most technical works.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Needless to say, the great erudition we have come to expect from all
  Professor Saintsbury’s work is apparent on every page.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Saintsbury, George=, ed. Minor poets of the Caroline period. 2v. v. 1,
*$3.40. Oxford.

  “The volume possesses so many points of interest that it is easy to
  forget the portentous mediocrity which is really its dominant
  feature.”

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 115. Ja. 27, ’06. 1780w.


=Sakolski, A. M.= Finances of American trades unions. 75c. Johns Hopkins
press.

  Under the divisions, Revenue, Expenditure, and Administration, this
  volume in the “Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and
  political science,” gives the results of much careful investigation of
  the financial phase of the leading American, national and
  international trade unions.


=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Evolution the master key. *$2. Harper.

  Instead of reducing “the many and ponderous volumes of the synthetic
  philosophy to brief and popular form,” the author attempts to justify
  his conviction “that the philosophy of universal and ordered change is
  far more easily demonstratable to-day than ever before,” and he
  proceeds with his demonstration “in the light of human knowledge in
  the first lustrum of the twentieth century.” His discussion falls into
  seven parts: General, Inorganic evolution, Organic evolution,
  Suborganic evolution, Evolution and optimism, Dissolution, and
  Evolution and the religion of the future.

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  “The work it is true exhibits certain defects perhaps unavoidable in
  so comprehensive a scheme. Some of the chapters are too brief to do
  anything like justice to the vast topics of which they treat.”

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 304. Mr. 31, ’06. 860w.

      + =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 417. Mr. 24, ’06. 350w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 519. Ap. 7, ’06. 1090w.

  “The grand range and sweep of his reasoning is remarkable. He deals,
  and generally very ably though very briefly, with most of the
  profoundest problems of science and philosophy.” F. W. H.

    + + =Nature.= 74: 122. Je. 7, ’06. 750w.

  “Dr. Saleeby has mastered his subject and knows what he wants to
  explain. He has a style lucid, incisive, exact, and boldly individual,
  and, considering his scientific enthusiasm, a sense of humor
  remarkably sane.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 193. Mr. 31, ’06. 1160w.

  “Beyond his exposition of his great master, ‘an immortal,’ it does not
  appear that Dr. Saleeby has contributed anything of importance upon
  the subject of evolution.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 617. Mr. 17, ’06. 240w.

  “Latest masterpiece of philosophy. Such recognition [of predecessors]
  does not grate, but rather makes an agreeable impression—and this,
  together with the use of the highest scientific ability and the purest
  English, makes this work invaluable in every way.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 274. Mr. 3, ’06. 790w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 130w.


=Salter, Emma Gurney.= Franciscan legends in Italian art: pictures in
Italian churches and galleries. *$1.50. Dutton.

  “A very valuable manual.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 335. Mr. 17. 350w.

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 847. Mr. ’06. 210w.

  “Pictures of the saint began to be made as early as the thirteenth
  century, and are usually to be found in rather out-of-the-way places,
  such as Greccio, Subiaco, Pescia, etc. Not the least valuable portions
  of Miss Salter’s book are the few pages of ‘Practical hints’ for the
  traveler, showing him how to reach these places.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 199. Mr. 16, ’06. 250w.

  “The author does not suffer from the modern disease—the fussiness of
  expert knowledge; and the little book disarms criticism because it is
  so unpretending.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 150w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.

  “An entirely sound, useful, practical, much-needed work, which it
  would be difficult adequately to praise, and impossible almost to
  overestimate.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 100: 849. D. 30, ’05. 1010w.


=Salter, William.= Iowa: the first free state in the Louisiana purchase.
**$1.20. McClurg.

  “The little book seems quite free from errors.” E. E. Sparks.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 442. Ja. ’06. 510w.


=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Perfume of Eros; a Fifth avenue incident.
†$1.25. Wessels.

  “The book’s superficial smartnesses fail to conceal its lack of
  serious intention.”

    – + =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 30w.


=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Vanity Square. †$1.25. Lippincott.

  This “story of Fifth avenue life” written in the author’s clever vein
  is the unpleasant account of a man satiated with all the joys that
  wealth can buy, who has lost active interest in all things including
  his charming wife and child. A woman of rare beauty comes into his
  home to nurse his little girl, and then developes a most heinous plot
  in which this beautiful viper tries to murder the wife by means of a
  subtle poison, so that she may win the husband and his wealth. In the
  excitement of this discovery and the events which follow, in their
  selfish joy at their re-union and their re-found happiness, they allow
  her to go unchallenged, and discover too late that she has made
  another woman and another home her prey.

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  “Mr. Saltus has a strange taste in adjectives, and invents words that
  are new to our dictionaries.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 220w.

  “Is a smart and interesting story; no better, ethically, perhaps than
  the ordinary ‘society novel’ but immeasurably better than most of that
  kind in its literary graces.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 365. Je. 9, ’06. 860w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.


=Sanborn, Katherine Abbott (Kate Sanborn).= Old time wall papers. $5.
Literary collector press, Greenwich, Conn.

  An account of the pictorial papers of our forefathers’ walls, which
  includes, also, a study of the historical development of wall-paper
  making and decoration. Her treatment covers the following subjects:
  From mud walls and canvas tents to decorative papers, Progress and
  improvement in the art, Earliest wall papers in America, Wall papers
  in historic homes, Notes from here and there, and Revival and
  restoration of old wall papers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Should make a strong appeal to collectors of antiques as well as
  those interested in primitive house decoration.”

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 177. O. ’06. 330w.

  “Miss Sanborn has had a most interesting subject in old time wall
  papers and she has treated it in a delightful manner.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 140w.

  “Her book is likely to become a standard, and people who care for
  antiques will wish to own it.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 350w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 740w.


=Sanborn, Mary Farley.= Lynette and the congressman. †$1.50. Little.

  “Just a love story—and a particularly nice one.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 190w.


=Sanday, Rev. William.= Criticism of the fourth Gospel. **$1.75.
Scribner.

  Eight lectures on the Morse foundation delivered in the Union
  seminary, New York, in October and November, 1904. Stress is laid upon
  the internal argument for the authenticity of the fourth Gospel.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The present volume bears the familiar marks that are characteristic
  of all Canon Sanday’s work: learning, clearness, fairness to
  opponents, judiciousness in judgment, conservatism.” Ernest D. Burton.

  + + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 115. Ja. ’06. 840w.

  Reviewed by James Lindsay.

  + + + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 372. Ap. ’06. 630w.

  Reviewed by James Drummond.

        =Hibbert J.= 4: 442. Ja. ’06. 1880w.

  “It seems a little strange that one so openminded as Professor Sanday
  should be unable to distinguish between intentional fraud and innocent
  pseudonymity, yet it is this inability which holds him to the
  traditional opinion on the question under discussion.”

    + – =Ind.= 59: 987. O. 26, ’05. 720w.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ’05. 40w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 314. S. 29, ’05. 1690w.

        =Spec.= 96: 306, F. 24, ’06. 160w.


=Sanday, Rev. William.= Outlines of the life of Christ **$1.25.
Scribner.

  “The work is done with all the author’s painstaking care, scholarly
  balance and fairness of mind; a mind ever open to new light, but
  instinctively leaning to conservative positions.” W. Jones-Davies.

    + + =Hibbert J.= 4: 933. Jl. ’06. 1260w.


=Sandys, Edwyn.= Sporting sketches. **$1.75. Macmillan.

      + =Ind.= 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 50w.

  “As a sample of the better class of sporting literature Mr. Sandys’s
  work would be difficult to beat.” R. L.

    + + =Nature.= 73: 149. D. 14, ’05. 390w.


=Sandys, John Edwin.= Harvard lectures on the revival of learning.
**$1.50. Macmillan.

  “As a book they are pleasing but slight, though there is enough that
  is new and interesting to give the reader confidence in the future.”
  P. S. A.

      + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 200. Ja. ’06. 340w.


=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Fairest girlhood. **$1.50.
Revell.

  With a heart full of affection for them, Mrs. Sangster has written
  once more a book for girls, for all sorts and conditions of girls, and
  it contains helpful little talks upon; The new Penelope, The
  old-fashioned schoolgirl, A liberal education, Health and beauty, The
  dreamy girl, Our restless girls, Love’s dawn, Home-keeping hearts,
  Heroines, Days of illness, The motherless girl, Friends and comrades,
  Christian service, and kindred subjects.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Sangster is a modern woman, and therefore has a strong sympathy
  for the modern girl and a real understanding of her needs and
  aspirations as well as of her possible limitations.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “While it is throughout sane and practical, every one of its two dozen
  short essays is full of the spirit of that aspiration toward ideal
  femininity which was always the dominating characteristic of Mrs.
  Sangster’s literary work.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 90w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 80w.

  “It deals with almost every phase of the life of girls, and is full of
  helpful suggestions.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 120w.


=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Radiant motherhood. **$1.
Bobbs.

  “The book as a whole is rich in matter of vital interest and worth to
  home-builders.”

  + + – =Arena.= 35: 106. Ja. ’06. 310w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 808. N. 25, ’05. 130w.


=Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson).= Story Bible. **$2. Moffat.

  A group of sixty-two stories, forty-eight of which are from the Old
  Testament, and fourteen, from the New. They are intended for children
  as an introduction to the Bible itself.

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  “Like all of Mrs. Sangster’s writings, this book for children is
  pervaded with the beautiful and gentle spirit of her personality. To
  the more modern students of the Bible the book may seem inadequate.
  The author has revealed no unusual insight in finding the central
  theme of the stories told. Also from the point of view of present
  educational thought the book is faulty.” Sophia Lyon Fahs.

    + – =Bib. World.= 28: 349. N. ’06. 300w.

        =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ’05. 80w.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ’05. 30w.


=Sankey, Ira David.= Sankey’s story of the gospel hymns and of sacred
songs and solos. *75c. S. S. times co.

  The life story of Mr. Sankey followed by the words and music of four
  of his most popular hymns forms the first part of the little volume
  while the larger portion “is devoted to brief narratives of the
  circumstances occasioning the compositions and the incidents connected
  with the use of the very many of the ‘Gospel hymns’ so effective in
  Mr. Sankey’s ‘singing the Gospel’ which Mr. Moody preached.”
  (Outlook.)

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      + =Bib. World.= 27: 480. Je. ’06. 20w.

  “The book is of interest.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 250w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 140w.

  “The book is packed full of human interest.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 150w.


=Santayana, George.= Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress.
5v. ea. **$1.25. Scribner.

  “Those who seek an abode for an abundant and varied life will find in
  his five volumes plans and elevations, together with many admirable
  suggestions for beautiful features or details very suitable for such a
  necessarily palatial residence as a developed modern mind requires.”
  T. Sturge Moore.

    + + =Acad.= 69: 1313. D. 16, ’05. 650w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

  “One cannot take leave of Professor Santayana without grateful
  recognition of the excellencies of his style and marvelous lucidity
  and untechnical character of his language.”

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 161. Ja. ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 128. Ag. 4. 1230w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “The volumes on Art and Society are excellent. But his discussion of
  Religion calls to mind the theory that no heretic has ever been
  condemned for heresy.” George Hodges.

  + + – =Atlan.= 97: 416. Mr. ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

  “Few readers will turn from its pages without consciousness of some
  mental renovation, without a whetting of some blunted perception.” H.
  B. Alexander.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 527. Ja. ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

        =Current Literature.= 40: 411. Ap. ’06. 1450w.

  Reviewed by A. K. Rogers.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 87. F. 1, ’06. 2330w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

  “For the combination of fertility, sanity, and keenness of insight in
  the criticism of life and human ideals, with a high degree of literary
  charm, it would be difficult to point its equal in modern
  philosophical literature.”

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 301. My. 1, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

  Reviewed by F. C. S. Schiller.

  + + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 462. Ja. ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “He has well earned, therefore, the sustained interest which his
  readers continue to take in his ideas and in his style from first to
  last. And he has succeeded also in conveying a distinct impression of
  his individual soul which cannot but charm and instruct even those who
  differ widely from his views and dissent from the philosophic
  solutions which he favors.” F. C. S. Schiller.

    + + =Hibbert J.= 4: 936. Jl. ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 3–5.)

  + + + =Ind.= 61: 334. Ag. 9, ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

  “Brilliantly written and stimulating exposition of his philosophy of
  life.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

  “It was to be expected that Professor Santayana’s volume on art would
  be authoritative; and in the main this expectation is not
  disappointed.” A. W. Moore.

  + + – =J. Philos.= 3: 211. Ap. 12, ’06. 6300w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  “Despite the discordant note of finalism, it still remains that
  nowhere has the essentially _vital_ character of reason been more
  clearly, forcefully and gracefully stated than in these volumes.
  Moreover, the distinctive thing in Professor Santayana’s important
  contribution is that this character of reason has been exhibited, not
  in formal and dialectic fashion, but by scholarly appeal to the
  various continual ‘fields’ of experience.” A. W. Moore.

  + + – =J. Philos.= 3: 469. Ag. 16, ’06. 1060w. (Review of v. 5.)

        =Lit. D.= 32: 362. Mr. 10, 06. 950w.

  “Its philosophy may be admirable, but it is unintelligible to one not
  a trained metaphysician, and its style seems constantly on the verge
  of a lucidity which as constantly proves elusive.”

    + – =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “His work remains of high interest as a human document, and abounds in
  memorable sayings and incitements to quotations.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 81. Ja. 25, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “If it fails wholly to please us it must be because we are too weak to
  care for the truth, or too lazy to follow it. One can hardly fancy a
  work on natural science more clear or more logical.” Bliss Carman.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 45. Ja. 27, ’06. 3870w.

  “The fundamental misconceptions that have been noticed in the former
  volumes stand out in this. Professor Santayana’s skeptical criticism
  of scientific method and progress has the advantage of a charming
  literary style.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “It is a work nobly conceived and adequately executed.” John Dewey.

  + + – =Science=, n.s. 23: 223. F. 9, ’06. 1290w. (Review of v. 1 and
          2.)

    + – =Yale R.= 15: 338. N. ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 5.)


=Sargent, Dudley Allen.= Physical education. *$1.50. Ginn.

  Believing that the training of the body should be placed upon the same
  educational basis as the training of the intellect, Dr. Sargent has
  published these papers as pioneer efforts toward the realization of
  his ideals. The earlier physical condition of the American people is
  described, and the urgent necessity for some form of physical training
  is shown, then follow chapters which contain “the principle theories
  which the author has employed in evolving a comprehensive system of
  physical training.” The table of contents includes; Physical education
  in colleges, The individual system of physical training, Athletes in
  secondary schools, Military drill in the public schools, and Physical
  training in the school and college curriculum.


=Satchell, William.= Toll of the bush. $1.50. Macmillan.

  “Owes its undeniable charm partly to the skill with which the author
  has utilised an unfamiliar and impressive background, and partly to
  qualities of sympathy and humour together with breadth and freshness
  of view.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 380w.


=Saunders, Margaret Baillie-.=Saints in society. †$1.50. Putnam.

  The author’s first work accepted by Mr. Fisher Unwin for his “First
  novel library.” “A poor young couple become suddenly rich and
  experience all the debilitating effects of great wealth and a high
  social position in consequence. The husband forsakes the noble ideas
  of his younger days and finally dies unhappily. The widow founds a
  baby farm, where she lives quietly until it is decent for her to
  receive the lover whom she acquired, but held virtuously at bay,
  during her husband’s lifetime.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Her story is interesting, and it is written with a kind of rough
  power, but it does not come within a thousand miles of being
  literature, while considered as a picture of modern English life it
  appears to us to be frankly farcical.”

    – + =Acad.= 69: 1105. O. 21, ’05. 550w.

  “Mrs. Baillie-Saunders’s style is much the best thing about her novel.
  It is picturesque and clear, and has vivacity.”

      – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 642. N. 11. 320w.

  “The author may be a little arbitrary—but the book interests and half
  convinces.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 510. Je. ’06. 330w.

  “Was intended to be a good book.... But it is simply another case of
  people being led into temptation instead of out of it.” Mrs. L. H.
  Harris.

      – =Ind.= 60: 1043. My. 3, ’06. 280w.

  “A well conceived, but far too cursorily executed book.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 4: 350. O. 20, ’05. 450w.

  “Here we have one more thesis novel, but despite the numbers of such
  this bears itself with a distinction quite its own.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 226. Ap. 7, ’06. 380w.

  “The author writes with superficial smartness, but fails to impress
  her readers with the reality of her convictions or the artistic
  command of her material.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 755. Je. ’06. 300w.

  “Her work is an odd mixture of cleverness and absurdity, of
  improbability and realism, or knowledge and ignorance.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 100: 725. D. 2, ’05. 160w.

  “It is to be hoped that if Mrs. Baillie-Saunders continues to write
  she will acquire her experience at first hand, and will take rather
  more pains in the construction of her story.”

      – =Spec.= 96: 63. Ja. 13, ’06. 240w.


=Sauter, Edwin.= Faithless favorite, a mixed tragedy. Edwin Sauter, 1331
N. 7th St., St. Louis.

  A play founded on old Saxon chronicles in which such historical
  personages as King Edgar, Athelstane, Athelwold, Elfrida and Dunstan
  figure. “It contains a deal of frank language and some bitterness.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

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        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 70w.


=Savage, Charles Woodcock.= Lady in waiting; being extracts from the
diary of Julie de Chesnil, sometime lady in waiting to her majesty Queen
Marie Antoinette. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “The romance of a little French countess in the court of Marie
  Antoinette.... Escaping ‘paying the debt’ that all her family paid
  with their lives, the lady fled to America, where she won the
  republican court at Washington as she had the aristocratic court of
  France. We are gratified to know that her sweetness and beauty were
  rewarded by happy love and a home in her own country at
  last.”—Outlook.

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  “Much familiar historical material is worked into the plot, but the
  style is good.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 70w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 322. My. 19, ’06. 480w.

  “Is interesting, though not novel either in plot or style.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 90w.


=Savage, Minot Judson.= America to England, and other poems. **$1.35.
Putnam.

  “There are some notably good poems in the new volume.”

    + + =Reader.= 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 260w.


=Savage, Minot Judson.= Life’s dark problems; or, Is this a good world?
**$1.35 Putnam.

  “A distinct and powerful spiritual impulse is inevitable to the
  Christian who will read these luminous pages.” Edward Braislin.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 571. Jl. ’06. 230w.

  “The title of his book and the subjects considered suggest help and
  comfort to the sorrowful and perplexed: but if that be the author’s
  purpose, he has marred his work by slashing doctrinal controversy.”

    + – =Ind.= 59: 1541. D. 28. ’05. 190w.


=Scarritt, Winthrop Eugene.= Three men in a motor car. **$1.25. Dutton.

  Mr. Scarritt, a former president of the Automobile club of America,
  tells the story of a tour which three enthusiastic automobilists made
  first thru England, thence to Paris, next to Lucerne by way of Basle,
  Switzerland, to Geneva, and back to Paris thru Aix-les-Bains. The
  illustrations show roads that an American only dreams of—the
  too-good-to-be-true variety.

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  “The intrinsic value of the book lies in the specific information that
  he gives to other automobilists as to how to ‘do’ Europe in a motor
  car.” H. E. Coblentz.

      + =Dial.= 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 320w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 60w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 60w.

  “Will be most thoroughly appreciated and enjoyed by traveled
  Americans.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 90w.


=Schafer, Joseph.= History of the Pacific northwest. **$1.25. Macmillan.

  “Except for this neglect of the national point of view, Professor
  Schafer’s book could scarcely be improved.” F. H. Hodder.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 949. Jl. ’06. 480w.

  “The author’s tone and treatment are admirable, and we can highly
  commend this most lucid history of the Pacific North-West.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 260w.


=Schauffler, Robert Haven.= Where speech ends. $1.50. Moffat.

  In this music makers’ romance “all the persons concerned are members
  of the great Herr Wolfgang’s symphony orchestra.... Franz, who is
  introduced as a boy violinist, sick with desire to be a real boy
  instead of a musical prodigy, grows up to be a very noble and serious
  sort of a genius. The other boy, who had the passion for the flute,
  also grows up, to play Jonathan to Franz’s David. And there is a girl.
  The girl plays the harp and writes poems, and she is very lovely and
  very good.... The other leading characters are a first violin, who is
  a villain, and the conductor, the famous Herr Wolfgang. The remainder
  of the orchestra is cast for comic parts.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Nor can it honestly be said that Mr. Schauffler has given us a very
  satisfactory analysis of the musical temperament.”

      – =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 120w.

  “The story is essentially one of incidents, loosely strung together,
  charming in their freshness, and intimate in their revelation of the
  musician’s everyday life. It makes reading of an altogether wholesome
  and delightful sort.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 242. O. 6, ’06. 480w.

  “It has an unhackneyed theme ... worked out in a convincing, if
  unskilful, way, and it tells an exceedingly pretty love story.”

    – + =Lit. D.= 33: 138. Ag. 4, ’06. 100w.

  “There is no story except in a mechanical sense. The author is like
  his own young flutist—more absorbed than inspired.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 358. Je. 2, ’06. 430w.

  “A book not to be read very critically; its shortcomings are too
  obvious.”

      – =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.


=Scherer, James Augustine Brown.= Holy Grail. **$1.25. Lippincott.

  “The Holy Grail” is the “binding theme that unites this sheaf of
  essays and addresses.” The first bears the title subject; the two
  following sketch the work of Henry Timrod and Sidney Lanier
  respectively, than whom “no men since the days of Galahad and
  Percivale have more utterly lost themselves in the knightly quest;”
  and the last three essays are “The crusaders,” “Liberty and law” and
  “The century in literature.”

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 354. Je. 2, ’06. 530w.

        =Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 110w.


=Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio.= Astronomy in the Old Testament.
*$1.15. Oxford.

  A scientific treatment of the scattered astronomical data of the Old
  Testament by the director of the Brere observatory in Milan. “The
  introduction discusses Israel’s learned men and its so-called
  scientific knowledge; and its general view of the physical world as
  seen in the book of Job. The firmament, the earth, and the abysses are
  sketched in a figure, which seems to represent as nearly as can be
  done, the Hebrew idea of the world. Indeed, it greatly aids the reader
  in understanding many hitherto obscure passages regarding the abyss,
  the depths of sheol, etc. With a master’s skill he treats stars and
  constellations—dependent, however, in many places on the results of
  Hebrew scholars for his word-meanings. The days, months, and the year
  of the Jewish calendar are particularly instructive after his
  discussion. While he recognizes some value in the Babylonian
  astronomical data, he is distinctly conservative in his use of them.”
  (Am. J. Theol.)

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  “We are disappointed to find that the Clarendon press should allow a
  book of such intrinsic value to leave its presses without an index of
  subjects and scripture texts. Such omission discounts its value in
  these times.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.

    + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 326. Ap. ’06. 210w.

  “It is impossible to read this interesting little work without
  admiring the wealth of learning with which the author has discussed
  astronomical and chronological allusions in the Old Testament; and.
  for the reasons given above, the English edition will be of value even
  to those who have read the Italian.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 650. N. 11. 260w.

  “Has been turned into very good English. The book with all its
  discursiveness or rather by reason of it, is quite entertaining.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 246. Mr. 22, ’06. 1160w.

  “All is most interestingly expressed, and the archæological and
  historical references are most valuable.”

  + + – =Nature.= 74: 410. Ag. 23, ’06. 410w.

  “Dr. Schiaparelli’s little book has been excellently translated, and
  is likely to be accepted as the final authority on questions relating
  to Hebrew astronomy.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 470w.


=Schillings, C. G.= Flashlights in the jungle; tr. by F: Whyte from the
Germ. with co-operation of the author. **$3.80. Doubleday.

Same; with title With flashlight and rifle; photographing by flashlight
at night the wild animal world of equatorial Africa; tr. and abridged
from the Germ. by Henry Zick. **$2. Harper.

  A naturalist’s reproduction of the intimate life of animals “which no
  human eye had ever before witnessed.” “The lion, elephant, giraffe,
  rhinoceros, hippopotamus, zebra, and hyena, monkeys, antelope,
  jackals, leopards, and many kinds of birds are the subjects. All of
  them Mr. Schillings has hunted, photographed, studied, and killed,
  often at the greatest risk.” (Outlook.)

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      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 476. Ap. 21. 460w.

  “His pluck, endurance, sincerity and enthusiasm are as real as his
  pictures.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 350w.

  “It is probably no exaggeration to say that this is the most
  remarkable book of wild animal photography that has ever been printed,
  but there our praise is inclined to stop. We can commend the laborious
  efforts of Mr. Schillings in gathering his elaborate scientific data,
  but we can hardly praise his narrative or descriptive skill.” H. E.
  Coblentz.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 232. Ap. 1, ’06. 780w.

  “The translation [by F: Whyte] is a good one and appears to follow the
  text closely. It is a portrait gallery of wild life for Africa, such
  as is Wallihan’s ‘Camera shots at big game’ for the Rocky mountains.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 221. Ja. 25, ’06. 720w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 16w.

  “The book ... is not a unified whole so much as a series of detached
  monographs in which a great deal too much is taken for granted. The
  work has obviously suffered in translation.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 760w.

  “His observations of their habits, full of careful insight as they
  are, add a large number of substantial stones to the cairn of human
  knowledge.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 36. F. 2, ’06. 520w.

  “The finest series of reproduction of photographs from life of the
  various animals encountered which have ever been produced.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 1660w.

  “Neither he nor his translator, Frederick Whyte, excels in narrative
  or descriptive skill. The work ... is packed with information and
  suggestion.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 31. Ja. 20, ’06. 1300w.

  “The volume contains what is probably the most remarkable series of
  photographs ever made of wild animals in their native haunts.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 717. N. 25, ’05. 80w.

  “Aside from his photographs, Herr Schillings’s book is a valuable
  account of exploration and of hunting big game; it is a sturdy
  narrative, the dramatic value of which one does not have to be a
  hunter to appreciate.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 602. N. 4, ’05. 140w.

  “The translation seems to be well done, and the text is extremely
  interesting from end to end.” Francis H. Herrick.

    + + =Science=, n.s. 23: 540. Ap. 6, ’06. 2480w.

  “His book is a real contribution to our knowledge of wild beasts.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 343. Mr. 3, ’06. 900w.


=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Gudran, tr. from the German by George P. Upton.
*60c. McClurg.

  Uniform with the other volumes of the “Life stories for young people”
  series, this old German epic, which traces its origin to the
  thirteenth century, is put into a simple prose form which brings the
  romance of Gudran the courageous maiden of long ago, within the reach
  of the less venturesome little maids of today.


=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Nibelungs, tr. from the German by George P. Upton.
*60c. McClurg.

  The translator has used the old form of English expression in this
  version of the Nibelungen Lied which gives it a quaintness in keeping
  with the story of Siedfried, Kriemhild, Brunhild, Hagen and the rest.
  The story has been slightly softened and some parts have been omitted
  to make it conform in both size and style to the other volumes of the
  “Life stories for young people” series.


=Schmidt, Nathaniel.= Prophet of Nazareth. **$2.50. Macmillan.

  “It is Professor Schmidt’s aim in these chapters to show how the
  creeds pictured Christ, how the mind of the modern world has moved
  away from these dogmatic positions, that there was no Old Testament
  anticipation of the appearance of such a person as Jesus of Nazareth,
  that the term ‘Son of Man’ was not a Messianic title, that Jesus never
  claimed to be the Messiah ... that his life as it can be reconstructed
  was noble and simple, that his teaching was characterized by marvelous
  insight into ethical and religious conditions and equally marvelous
  ability to point to a sure remedy for many individual and social ills,
  that ... the influence of Jesus has been the mightiest force for good
  during all these centuries, that in our present problems with all
  their variety and perplexity we need the leadership of Jesus.”—Int. J.
  Ethics.

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  “Scholars may say that Schmidt leaves his proper subject in order to
  deliver a sermon on modern life. But many a one, on whom lies heavy
  the weight of the problems of the present age, will be grateful to him
  for his burning words, and will feel that not for nothing has the
  author sat so long at the feet of the prophet of Nazareth and heard
  His word.” R. T. Herford.

    + – =Hibbert J.= 5: 221. O. ’06. 2020w.

  “No American scholar has made a greater contribution to the
  understanding of the creative days of the Christian religion.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 110w.

  “Broad and accurate as the scholarship is in the main, and much as one
  admires the mastery which it displays, of many and varied fields of
  learning, it nevertheless goes astray at the most crucial point, the
  analysis and exegesis of the Synoptic Gospels.” George A. Barton.

    + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 110. O. ’06. 5400w.

    + – =Spec.= 97: 87. Jl. 21, ’06. 2020w.


=Schnabel, Clark.= Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v.
*$6.50. Macmillan.

  “It is the best book of its kind, and that is the best that can be
  said of it.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 11. Ja. 4, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The translation, as well as the original, bears the impress of
  authority and direct knowledge.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 500. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “As a whole, the book is reliable. The material is sufficiently
  comprehensive to give a thorough review of present metallurgical
  practices and the history of their development from early times.”
  Joseph Struthers.

    + + =Science=, n.s. 23: 66. Ja. 12, ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Schoonmaker, Edwin Davies.= Saxons: a drama of Christianity in the
North. $1.50. Hammersmark.

  “‘The Saxons’ is one of the best reading dramas that has appeared in
  years. The thought is elevated and it is presented with the dignity
  that such a theme requires.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 555. My. ’06. 580w.


=Schouler, James.= Americans of 1776. **$2. Dodd.

  “‘An original study of life and manners, social, industrial, and
  political, for the revolutionary period.’ It comprises in substance
  occasional lectures given at Johns Hopkins university during the years
  1901–1905.”—Am. Hist. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 746. Ap. ’06. 40w.

  “The author of a standard history of the United States has here
  supplemented his larger canvases with what one might be tempted to
  call literary picture postals of colonial scenes.” Woodbridge Riley.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 627. Ag. ’06. 1260w.

  “Other writers have in recent times attempted with varying success to
  give us glimpses of the environment of our forefathers,—their homes,
  their furniture, and their customs; but no one has approached the task
  with the scholarly experience of Mr. Schouler.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 299. My. 1, ’06. 500w.

  “Not deterred by the ‘dignity of history,’ the author has seized the
  straws floating upon the currents of colonial life and arranged them
  in an entertaining way.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 221. Jl. 26, ’06. 450w.

  “A most entertaining and distinctly valuable volume. Hardly a detail
  escapes his eager scrutiny.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 770. My. 19, ’06. 720w.

  “The author, indeed, makes no claim to originality of treatment, and
  if there is from first to last no observations of a profound or
  illuminating character, we have observed few misleading or erroneous
  statements.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 347. Ap. 26. ’06. 340w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 110w.

  “A novel monograph which should find a place in the working library of
  every student of American history and a wide circulation among the
  educated public generally.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 904. Ag. 16, ’06. 1040w.


=Schuen, Rev. Joseph.= Outlines of sermons for young men and young
women; ed. by Rev. Edmund J. Werth. *$2. Benziger.

  “Building materials,” “simple sketches,” “outlines,” are the author’s
  words for a series of chapters which he hopes will help the preacher
  to build finished addresses for young men and women in Roman Catholic
  leagues and sodalities. The young man’s aim, and amusements, the path
  of iniquity, drunkenness, impurity, The Christian young woman’s crown,
  the virtue of modesty, wolves in sheep’s clothing and kindred subjects
  are treated.


=Schultz, Hermann.= Outlines of Christian apologetics for use in
lectures: tr. from 2d enl. ed. by Alfred Bull Nichols. **$1.75.
Macmillan.

        =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 372. Ap. ’06. 280w.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 696. Je. 9. 640w.


=Schupp, Ottokar.= William of Orange, tr. from the German by George P.
Upton. *60c. McClurg.

  This volume in the “Life stories for young people” series, furnishes
  an elevating study for youth in the life of William the Silent and the
  noble part he played in the history of the Netherlands. The whole
  story of cruelty and bloodshed is given in a such way that the moral
  is not lost.


=Schuyler, Livingston Rowe.= Liberty of the press in American colonies
before the revolutionary war; with particular reference to conditions in
the royal colony of New York. **$1. Whittaker.

  “The very first amendment adopted for the Constitution of the United
  States was that which forbids congress making any law abridging the
  freedom of speech or of the press. What existed in this country before
  that time in regard to the freedom of the press is told in a most
  interesting and curious way in this monograph. The several chapters
  take up the question as it existed in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and
  the Southern colonies, while the conclusions reached in the final
  chapter show that at the close of the period under discussion there
  was really no liberty of the press as we now understand the
  term.”—Outlook.

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  “Authorities in print have mainly been consulted; dates are lacking in
  places where they ought to appear, and where they could have been
  given with a little further research; and the index is inadequate.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 520w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.


=Schuyler, William.= Under Pontius Pilate. †$1.50. Funk.

  With a setting true to historical fact, and in the spirit of reverence
  the author has traced the important events of the closing years of
  Jesus’ mission. The story is in the form of letters written by a
  nephew of Pontius Pilate to a friend in Athens. There are near-by
  views of the disciples, of Mary Magdalene, of people whom Jesus
  healed, of the Roman officials and of the mob. The book has the
  atmosphere of dramatic intensity thruout.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Aside from the intrinsic value of the narrative ... the interest of
  the book lies in its unusual point of view and in the vraisemblance
  which the author has contrived to impart to a contemporary account of
  the momentous epoch.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 300w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 120w.


=Schwartz, Julia Augusta.= Elinor’s college career. †$1.50. Little.

  The girl who came to college for fun, the one who was sent, the
  daughter of wealth who came for the sake of atmosphere, and the
  “shabby girl” whom the other three call a genius are roommates and
  chums during their four years at college—presumably Vassar. Their
  frolics and study make anything but tame pastime for the young reader
  bent upon wholesome entertainment.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

  “There is very little of the story element in the book, but the author
  is skillful and vivid in her portrayal of student life and of the
  characters of the young women, and the young girls who are looking
  forward to a college career will find the book very readable.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 760. O. 27, ’06. 100w.


=Scollard, Clinton.= Odes and elegies. *$1.35. G. W. Browning, Clinton,
N. Y.

  “His rhythms are raised above mediocrity only by their almost unvaried
  pomp. His style is in keeping; it is lacking in precision as much as
  in restraint.”

      – =Acad.= 70: 59. Ja. 20, ’06. 480w.


=Scott, Duncan Campbell.= New world lyrics and ballads. 60c. Morang.

  “Mr. Scott has taken imaginative possession of the cool, pinegrown,
  history-haunted Canadian country, and has sung of it in spare athletic
  verse. His poetic background is not of the broadest, his ‘criticism of
  life’ not perhaps of the deepest, but he rarely fails to give his
  reader that delicious shock of surprise of strange and vivid beauty
  that is the final test of Poetry as distinguished from
  poetry.”—Nation.

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  “Includes several pieces in somewhat ruder measures than are
  acceptable to a sensitive ear, but contains also a few poems as good
  as any that the author has previously published.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 370w.

  “Are pieces of a keen poetic tang.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 80w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 100w.


=Scott, Eva.= King in exile: the wanderings of Charles II. from June,
1646 to July, 1654. *$3.50. Dutton.

  “A thoroughly workmanlike piece of writing.” V.

  + + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 828. O. ’06. 150w.


=Scott, John Reed.= Colonel of the Red huzzars. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  The mythical kingdom of Valeria becomes very real to the reader who
  follows the fortunes of the young American army officer who becomes a
  grand duke and a suitor for the hand of his new found cousin, the
  beautiful princess royal. The story is full of love and intrigue, of
  court life, masques and duels and one meets a king, a villain, an
  adventuress, a dashing prince, a very human princess and many other
  people both brave and clever in the course of the well devised plot.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While the book is not without exaggeration and incongruity it at
  least keeps above the level of the ‘opera bouffe.’” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

    – + =Bookm.= 24: 51. S. ’06. 510w.

  “The story is a capital one of its kind.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 310w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 240w.

  “Those with a taste for love, sword, and mystery in liberal mixture
  will find this volume a pleasant toothful.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.


=Scott, Robert H.= Voyage of the Discovery. 2v. **$10. Scribner.

  “Captain Scott’s account of the voyage of the ‘Discovery’ is the most
  important narrative of adventure and investigation in the Antarctic
  regions that has been produced in the last half century.” Albert White
  Vorse.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 292. My. ’06. 1780w.

  “Despite blemishes, this story of effort will long endure as a
  standard of high endeavor and heroic accomplishment.” General A. W.
  Greely.

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 33. Ja. 4, ’06. 2590w.

  “An intensely interesting story of the adventures of his party.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 140. Ja. 27, ’06. 1110w.

  “The narrative of Captain Scott easily takes rank among the foremost
  books of travel and discovery which a half-century has brought out,
  and it will be read with the same pleasure that both old and young
  like to associate with the reading of Livingstone and Kane.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 13. Ja. 4, ’06. 1710w.

  “Is a most valuable contribution to the knowledge of what will
  probably always be one of the most interesting parts of the Antarctic
  continent. It is written in a charmingly easy and fluent style; the
  narrative is modest and frank: and the story is always pleasant
  reading.” J. W. Gregory.

    + + =Nature.= 73: 297. Ja. 25, ’06. 2610w.

  “Probably the most complete account of the antarctic regions ever
  published in English.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 125. Ja. ’06. 100w.


=Scott, Sir Walter.= Complete poetical works; with introd. by Charles
Eliot Norton. $1.25. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” this pocket edition of Scott
  contains besides the complete text full editorial helps.


=Seaman, Louis Livingston.= Real triumph of Japan; conquest of the
silent foe. **$1.50. Appleton.

  “Major Seaman expatiates further in this volume upon the same theme
  exploited by him in his former account of his experiences with the
  Japanese army—the success of the Japanese officials in preventing and
  curing disease. The reasons for this remarkable record are the simple,
  non-irritating food of the Japanese soldier, the obedience to orders
  of the surgeons invariably displayed, and the thorough preparation and
  constant vigilance of those in charge of the health of the army. Major
  Seaman considers this a greater victory than that won on the field of
  battle, and makes an earnest plea for similar measures in the American
  army.”—Critic.

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    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 703. Je. 9. 360w.

  “The book is deserving of more careful consideration than ‘From Tokio
  through Manchuria with the Japanese,’ as it enlarges upon the reasons
  for the statements made in that readable volume.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 140w.

  “The American patriot, the soldier in the ranks and his relative at
  home, as well as the book-critic, can gladly commend this well-written
  work and be thankful for it. It is a trumpet-blast of prophecy.”
  William Elliot Griffis.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 1130w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 132. Mr. 3, ’06. 650w.

  “Is perhaps a rather more seasoned and mature judgment than the other
  books.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 150w.

  “Dr. Seaman’s book is worth reading from end to end.”

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1017. Je. 30, ’06. 330w.


=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Chateau of Montplaisir: 4 full-page il. by
Gordon Grant. †$1.25. Appleton.

  A poor Frenchman, Louis Victor de Latour inherits with no income the
  dilapidated Chateau of Montplaisir. He is the object of interest to
  one Victor Louis de Latour, a soap-boiler who offers 300,000 francs
  for the privilege of sharing the glory of the name and placing the
  family crest on his carriage. Among the gay group who are responsible
  for a series of surprising situations is “the antique Comtesse de
  Beauregard, with a predilection for youthful habiliments and
  abhorrence for piety in men.” (N. Y. Times.)

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  “This trivial tale is quite unworthy of the author of ‘Children of
  destiny.’”

      – =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 80w.

  “It is sparkling with humor and is full of amusing situations.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 190w.

  “Pure merriment, absurd combinations, delicious impertinence, sparkle
  throughout these pages.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 90w.


=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= Loves of the Lady Arabella. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  A midshipman upon one of his English majesty’s ships of the line who
  takes part in a successful engagement with the French and thereby wins
  promotion, tells the story of the beautiful Lady Arabella, ward of his
  uncle Sir Philip Hawkshaw, whom he at first loves and then comes to
  despise. A joy to the eye, Lady Arabella is a menace to the morals. A
  lover of cards and a trifler with men, she throws her heart at the
  feet of a man who will not have it, and all but swears away the life
  of an impetuous youth whose love she has spurned and who tried to
  elope with her, then later, to spite them both, she marries the head
  of their house and thru her first-born succeeds in cutting them both
  off from a fortune. Other characters, however, share the honors with
  Arabella and there is a truly true love story which is not hers.


=Seawell, Molly Elliot.= The victory. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “The scenes of the story are laid at the time of the Civil war. The
  adopted daughter of a Virginia family is married to a son of the
  house, who goes over to the union lines. She is very young and does
  not know what real love is, although her husband adores her. While he
  is away fighting, a French family moves into the neighborhood, and
  their son and the girl learn to love each other. Both, however,
  respect her marriage vows, and neither tells the other of the
  attachment. The girl’s husband is killed in battle.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While there is nothing particularly original in theme or style, the
  story is well told and the characters are lifelike and interesting.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 160w.

  “There is no fault to find with the real ‘atmosphere’ that Mrs.
  Seawell succeeds in diffusing through her story or in the pictures
  which she draws, one after another ... but the love story of the book
  strikes us as of a very inferior and unattractive quality.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 650w.

  “The book is full of humorous touches.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “Makes a strong appeal to the lover of a good tale.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 160w.


Secret life: being the book of a heretic. **$1.50. Lane.

  “In every life, says the author of this volume, there is some secret
  garden where one ‘unbinds the girdle of conventions and breathes to a
  sympathetic listener opinions one would repudiate on the house tops.’
  Lacking a proper sympathetic soul a diary might serve. Upon this
  theory the book is constructed. It is in the form of a diary, and
  actually consists of a number of short essays on a number of subjects
  such as The modern woman and marriage, The ideal husband, Amateur
  saints, The fourth dimension, The beauty of cruelty, Are American
  parents selfish? The pleasures of pessimism, The value of a soul
  etc.”—N. Y. Times.

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  “Ostensibly, it is a diary in which a married woman, of middle age,
  moving in a cultivated circle of American society, sets down the wild,
  original, heretical ideas which she has elaborated during her travels
  in Europe. Actually, it is a story of the spiritual adventures of a
  commonplace mind of a chameleon nature vagrant among unrealised worlds
  of thought.”

      – =Acad.= 71: 394. O. 20, ’06. 1020w.

  “However much we may differ from her expressions of opinion, their
  frankness and sincerity combined with the author’s genuine culture and
  love for literature and art in all forms make them worth reading.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 140w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.

  Reviewed by Elizabeth Banks.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 1630w.

  “The excellent style, quaint humor, and shrewd philosophy certainly
  deserve to have their author known.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 50w.


=Sedgwick, Anne Douglas.= Shadow of life. †$1.50. Century.

  If indeed it is in the shadow of things that this story pursues its
  way, it is such a shadow as Ruskin attributes to disappointment, the
  Titian twilight in which one sees the “real color of things with
  deeper truth than in the most dazzling sunshine.” Gavin and Eppie are
  two lonely children, hungering for happiness, who during a brief
  summer in a Scottish country home exchange their weird confidences.
  During sixteen years, Gavin is absent, then returns to find Eppie a
  splendid young woman of such strength, sweetness and daring that she
  seemed a “Flying victory” done by Velasquez. The romance that is
  quickened to the point of vows is blighted by temperamental
  differences. Gavin forces Eppie who loved life and battle to see that
  he would suffocate her, that he was the negation of everything that
  she believed in. The tragedy is one of helplessness.

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  “The book is an achievement, and an achievement on a high and unusual
  plane.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 310w.

  “Even more compelling in its hold over the imagination of the reader
  and in its searching analysis of the hidden springs of human action
  than her previous work.” Amy C. Rich.

      + =Arena.= 36: 106. Jl. ’06. 200w.

  “Withal, the thing has been done really well.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 417. Ap. 7, 260w.

  “Has written ‘an impossible love-story’ with immense skill, delicacy
  and grace.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 464. My. ’06. 550w.

  “The story is interesting, the scenery is charming, and the author
  leads her characters thru it according to her despair, a despair which
  she spreads over the reader’s mind with astonishing wisdom of words.”
  Mrs. L. H. Harris.

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1041. My. 3, ’06. 650w.

  “The author has employed a seductive, pseudo-mystical manner of
  expression and made a deliberate effort to destroy every reason for
  the hopes and affections which fill life with interest.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

  “Mrs. Sedgwick works on a high plane, and many who care little for the
  metaphysics of the book will value it for its graces of style and
  grasp of character.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 104. Mr. 23, ’06. 420w.

  “It is a book of great power and significance. The author’s grasp of
  her material and her instinct for what is vital have kept her
  characters thoroughly alive—even Gavin, in spite of himself—but the
  novel would have gained in every way had not the drama been so often
  obscured under the study of a soul.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 1490w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + – =North American.= 182: 929. Je. ’06. 220w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 757. Mr. 31, ’06. 460w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 390w.

  “Is unreal and unconvincing”

      – =Spec.= 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 280w.


=Sedgwick, Henry Dwight, jr.= Short history of Italy. **$2. Houghton.

  A short history of Italy which covers a wide range of years—from 476
  to the end of the nineteenth century. It “makes no pretense to
  original investigation,” but aims to give a bird’s-eye view of Italian
  history as a whole.

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  “Mere differences of view as to relative emphasis will keep no
  fair-minded person from doing full justice to the author’s grasp, his
  sober judgment, and his charm of manner.” Ferdinand Schwill.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 877. Jl. ’06. 740w.

  “He shows good judgment in selecting the points of greatest interest,
  and putting the emphasis there.” J. W. Moncrief.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 348. Ap. ’06. 260w.

  “Mr. Sedgwick has done an exceedingly difficult thing better than it
  was ever done—in English, at least—before, and about as well, one may
  venture to affirm, as it ever can be done.”

  + + + =Atlan.= 97: 554. Ap. ’06. 490w.

  “For the reading public rather than the scholarly world, the volume
  combines brevity, conciseness and a grasp of essentials with accuracy
  of fact and a pleasing narrative style.”

  + + – =Bookm.= 22: 645. F. ’06. 240w.

  “It is hard to determine for what class of readers this book was
  written.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 80w.

  “It is not childish enough for children, it does not show sufficient
  research to give it value to the student, and is far too casual in its
  descriptions of many events ... to be useful to persons of little
  knowledge, but much desire to learn history.”

      – =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 70w.

  “He has a good sense of proportion, and good ideas of historical
  perspective; he writes in a vivid style, and possesses a keen sense of
  humor which contributes not a little to the entertaining quality of
  his book.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 140w.

  “Nevertheless, after making all necessary deductions, we conclude by
  recommending the book to the public for which it was written. It has
  no competitors in English.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 166. Ja. 18, ’06. 820w.

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 20w.

  “It is a mine of condensed information, imparted brilliantly and
  trenchantly, and abounds in philosophic generalizations which at once
  visualize and explain.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 380w.

  “Mr. Sedgwick has little to fear from the abstract of Sismond’s
  ‘Italian republics’ (1832). good but antiquated, or from the Rev.
  William Hunt’s ‘History of Italy’ (1875), a dry textbook.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 391. My. 10, ’06. 740w.

  “It is a lively and interesting narrative that he has written.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 794. N. 25, ’05. 780w.

  “The present volume has suffered from the necessity of
  over-condensation.”

    + – =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ’05. 130w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 90w.

    + – =Spec.= 96: 589. Ap. 14, ’06. 110w.


=Seeley, Levi.= Elementary pedagogy. *$1.25. Hinds.

  “The main purpose of the school is to furnish instruction,” says Dr.
  Seeley, and he gives valuable information and advice to young teachers
  along the lines of elementary processes.

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  “Adds one more to the list of educational works, already too numerous,
  which are chiefly compendiums of the ideas of others with a modicum of
  the writer’s own thought. In plan of organisation and continuity of
  development, the book is distinctly weak.”

  – – + =Bookm.= 24: 296. N. ’06. 160w.

  “Dr. Seeley’s ideas are always sane and practical, and no one need
  hesitate to follow him, always of course with intelligent choice and
  adaptation.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 90. Ag. 16, ’06. 470w.

  “Dr. Seeley writes for young teachers what every parent may read with
  profit. It is a well-digested manual of practical wisdom, well
  assorted and packed.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 180w.


=Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson.= Principles of economics; with special
reference to American conditions. *$2.25. Longmans.

  Professor Seligman’s work is divided into four parts: Introduction;
  Elements of economic life; Structure and process of economic life;
  Conclusion.

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  “The author, like Adam Smith, possesses a cosmopolitan mind which
  enables him in many cases to present more than one view and
  explanation of the same matter. This cosmopolitan spirit which runs
  through the work will commend it to a larger circle of readers. The
  book deserves and will no doubt receive a wide circulation as a
  supplementary college text.” Enoch Marvin Banks.

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 256. Ja. ’06. 1220w.

  “The generic adverse criticism to be passed on the book is that the
  author has not succeeded in dominating the almost perplexing variety
  and richness of the material on which he has drawn.” Winthrop More
  Daniels.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 850. Je. ’06. 690w.

  “So great are the solid merits of the new book, however, that there
  can be no doubt of its ultimate success and wide adoption. Professor
  Seligman’s clearness and conciseness of style has enabled him to
  handle his great store of materials with conspicuous success.” R. C.
  V.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 531. Ja. ’06. 530w.

  “After all this litigiousness of disposition on the part of the
  reviewer—this overzeal in the discovery of material for dispute—it is
  equally a pleasure and a duty to express hearty commendation and
  cordial appreciation of this new treatise in its quiet, scholarly,
  effortless dignity and grace of style, its surpassing felicity of
  statement, its clarity and effectiveness of exposition, and, above
  all, its winning catholicity of temper and sympathy.” H. J. Davenport.

  + + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 143. Mr. ’06. 13420w.

  “With all its merits, therefore, professor Seligman’s ‘Principles’
  has, upon its theoretical side, serious shortcomings. As a book of
  reference it should prove highly valuable—more so, in fact, than any
  other recent work.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 1210w.

  “His style is remarkably clear, easy, logical, and candid.” Edward
  Cary.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 1. Ja. 6, ’06. 1040w.

  “We commend this volume heartily to any thoughtful layman who desires
  to get from a responsible authority some grounding in the essential
  principles of industrial laws.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 274. F. 3, ’06. 300w.

  “There are passages in Professor Seligman’s book where either the
  reasoning is at fault or else the exposition so brief that it is
  impossible to make out just what the reasoning is. Sometimes, too,
  there is positive carelessness. The book is an encyclopedic plan, and,
  as a textbook, suffers from covering so much ground.” Frank W:
  Taussig.

    + – =Quarterly Journal of Economics.= 20: 622. Ag. ’06. 4100w.

  “This book is interesting both as a restatement of economic theory,
  and particularly as an exposition of actual conditions in this
  country.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 90w.

  “A thorough, well-balanced treatment of the subject which he handles.”
  G. W. Flux.

  + + – =Yale R.= 15: 93. My. ’06. 840w.


=Selincourt, Basil de.= Giotto. *$2. Scribner.

  “Surveys the painter’s works with thoroughgoing system, and it is
  rational in criticism.” Royal Cortissoz.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 280. F. ’06. 70w.

  “His arguments are not always the soundest, nor is his criticism as
  discriminating as it might be. Moreover, his treatment of the whole
  subject lacks thoroughness. Should prove of much value to beginners in
  the study of art, and may serve them better than would many a more
  scientific but less enthusiastic work.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 158. Mr. 1, ’06. 400w.


=Selkirk, Emily.= Stigma. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.

  A Southern girl teaching in Arkansas and the Southern principal of the
  school appear on the stage of this drama as champions of the negro
  race. One of the chief actors is a mulatto girl whose “stigma” of
  blood makes life unbearable, so she ends it. “Equal educational and
  political advantages for black and white are urged, and from the text
  furnished in ‘a crimson-backed novel by a Baptist preacher’ the
  unequal standards obtaining in the South and all over the country are
  strongly arraigned. There is unquestioned truth in the representation,
  and it may be well to meet an appeal to public opinion in fiction by
  fiction.” (Outlook.)

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        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 290w.

  “The story is extremely painful, and as a story is simple almost to
  baldness.”

      – =Outlook.= 83: 287. Je. 2, ’06. 100w.

  “Miss Selkirk states one side of the question but ignores the other.”

      – =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 90w.


=Selous, Edmund.= Bird watcher in the Shetlands. **$3.50. Dutton.

  A journal of observations minutely kept and presented with all their
  whimsical digressions in an unclassified state. The “watcher” from his
  “tiny sentry-box on a Shetland cliff” is alert but “many of the items
  jotted down in the first part of the book are really big errors. But
  he has thought fit to leave these mistakes, because they will prove a
  help rather than a hindrance to the student, in whose mind the correct
  observation will remain.” (N. Y. Times.)

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  “There is a distinct development, in the present volume, of Mr.
  Selous’s characteristic manner, as displayed in his two former books
  on the same subject. But this time the observations are less copious,
  though not less thorough, and the digressions more plentiful and
  luxuriant.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 113. F. 3, ’06. 840w.

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 611. My. 19. 430w.

  “The only real fault of the book—unless account is taken of some
  obvious inaccuracies of style—lies in the illustrations, which are
  taken from drawings altogether too much ‘made up,’ instead of from
  photographs, as any American is bound to think they should have been.”

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 470w.

  “It deserves its place alongside with the investigations and
  vaticinations of Thoreau. In fact, it is one of the best books of its
  class that we have happened upon these many months.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 399. Ag. 16, ’06. 600w.

  “Altogether, the book commends itself for unusual suggestiveness and
  interest.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 310w.

  “He discourses, with digressions, delightfully upon his experiences.”

  + + – =Nature.= 73: 414. Mr. 1, ’06. 730w.

  “You read his notes as he writes them, and begin presently to catch
  his enthusiasm, and sharing in imagination his physical point of view
  to share his mental attitude also—in part, at least.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 720w.

  “With this somewhat whimsical humor the book abounds—but more
  substantial and certainly of great value to the student are the
  detailed records of observations, both birds and seals having been
  minutely and most patiently studied.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 300w.

  “A sadly disappointing book.”

      – =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 270w.


=Semple, Rev. H. C.= Anglican ordinations; theology of Rome and of
Canterbury in a nutshell. 35c. Benziger.

  A little book which addresses Catholics directly.

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  “A short, clear, temperately written essay from which anybody, in an
  hour, may get up the facts and arguments of the case.”

      + =Cath. World.= 84: 399. D. ’06. 180w.


=Serao, Mathilde.= In the country of Jesus; tr. from the Italian by
Richard Davey. **$2. Dutton.

  “As the translator says in his brief note, Signora Serao writes from
  the point of view of a very orthodox and fervent Catholic, who
  unhesitatingly accepts not only the Gospels, but also the ancient
  traditions of her church. She sails along the Nile, goes through
  Cairo, sees the Pyramids, and goes on to Syria. She then takes in
  Jerusalem, visiting all the places of interest, Galilee, and other
  places visited by Christ or connected with his life and works.”—N. Y.
  Times.

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  “The evident enthusiasm of the writer enlivens the whole story.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 90w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1226. My. 24, ’06. 200w.

  “It is not quite perfect. There are florid passages which we regret,
  chiefly, perhaps, because the translator has not exercised a wise
  discretion. There are also slight mistakes.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 454. D. 22, ’05. 1750w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ’05. 260w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 190w.

  “Mr. Davey’s translation is admirable for Anglo-Saxon readers, for he
  admits that in his work he has lopped off certain extravagant
  expressions. Extravagant or not, Mathilde Serao is seldom
  uninteresting.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 100w.

  “There is much in this book to charm the reader. But it is impossible
  not to be struck by her curious ignorance of what one would suppose
  every visitor to the Holy Land would be sure to know.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 64. Ja. 13, ’06. 390w.


=Sergeant, Philip Walsingham.= Burlesque Napoleon: being the story of
the life and the kingship of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. *$3. Brentano’s.

  “An account of the flashy Jerome Bonaparte in court and camp and at
  home. It is one of many books on members of the Bonaparte family
  published of late years which are chiefly read with interest for the
  sidelights that they may throw on Napoleon, and a good specimen of its
  class.”—Sat. R.

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  “The book adds nothing to the sum of our knowledge of the period.”

    + – =Acad.= 69: 1183. N. 11, ’05. 310w.

  “The narrative is well put together, and the style is not without
  merit, though occasionally it is disfigured by slipshod expressions.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 740w.

  “There is no lack of incident ... but it is poorly and thinly written,
  and throughout the author seems to be in an attitude of apology for
  having written it at all.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 62. F. 23, ’06. 330w.

  “His literary powers are not sufficient to impart freshness or
  interest to such a personage.”

      – =Nation.= 82: 428. My. 24, ’06. 60w.

  “It cannot be said that Mr. Sergeant is a lively raconteur.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 337. My. 26, ’06. 1450w.

        =Sat. R.= 101: 117. Ja. 27, ’06. 120w.


=Seton, Ernest Thompson.= Animal heroes: being the histories of a cat, a
dog, pigeon, a lynx, two wolves and a reindeer. $2. Scribner.

  Reviewed by George Gladden.

        =Bookm.= 23: 90. Mr. ’06. 450w.

  “Except for the reindeer story, Mr. Seton has made certain advances
  here even over his first work. He shows greater variety of treatment,
  more flexibility of style, and less strain.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 122. F. ’06. 140w.

  “Read with a mind closed to doubt, however, they are hugely
  entertaining and no better book could be asked for an evening’s
  diversion.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 90w.

  “His methods are not sensational, his literary art is excellent, his
  knowledge is wide.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 53. Ja. 18, ’06. 230w.

  “Alike to young and old the book may be heartily commended as an
  excellent example of the best style of animal biography.”

    + + =Nature.= 74: 295. Jl. 26, ’06. 200w.

        =Spec.= 97: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 1770w.


=Severy, Melvin Linwood.= Mystery of June 13th. †$1.50. Dodd.

  “Admirers of Sir Conan Doyle will find this detective story replete
  with the inductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes, while missing the
  highest artistic finish of their favorite.”

    + – =Ind.= 59: 1543. D. 28, ’05. 280w.


=Sewell, Cornelius V. V.= Common-sense gardens. **$2. Grafton press.

  A veritable spur to people who neglect the garden possibilities of
  their bit of earth. “Two points in this excellent and amply
  illustrated book are worthy of special notice,—the author’s praises of
  box, and his pictures of enclosed gardens.” (Dial.) “The instructive
  volume is illustrated by good reproductions of photographs, and
  decorated in excellent taste at the beginnings of the chapters.”
  (Nation.)

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  Reviewed by Sara Andrew Shafer.

      + =Dial.= 40: 360. Je. 1, ’06. 280w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 435. My. 24, ’06. 1020w.

  “The hints are such as may be followed, as a rule, by people of
  ordinary means, and it is to the credit of the work that it always
  prefers the sensible and practical thing to that which is a fad of the
  day or which leans toward ostentation.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 120w.


=Shadwell, Arthur.= Industrial efficiency: a comparative study of
industrial life in England, Germany and America. 2 v. *$7. Longmans.

  Dr. Shadwell’s investigations are the result “of laborious inquiries
  to which the authors of comparisons between the industrial conditions
  of different countries rarely condescend—inquiries conducted in
  England, Germany and the United States, and with ‘the help of hundreds
  of people, from the British ambassadors in Berlin and Washington to
  ordinary workmen,’ inquiries not merely in books and documents, but in
  many factories and workshops.... Rarely do chief conclusions emerge in
  such distinctness and due proportion from a crowd of individual facts.
  Some of the chapters ... are models of economical investigation.”

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  “The style is excellent for its subject: even lucid, simple, carrying
  the reader insensibly forward through nearly a thousand pages without
  any sense of fatigue.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 660. Je. 2. 1450w.

  “Two volumes of clear, interesting, forcible writing that are worthy
  to stand on our shelves alongside the classical works of Bryce and De
  Tocqueville.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 751. S. 27, ’06. 1180w.

  “To have written an original book upon a somewhat trite subject; to
  have set in a new light many facts which have been treated recently by
  a score of writers, some of them of no mean ability; to have made a
  narrative of dry facts readable as well as instructive, is a
  considerable achievement. It is not too much to say that Dr. Shadwell
  has accomplished all this.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 69. Mr. 2, ’06. 1750w.

  “A shrewd observer of men and affairs, who has cared more to gather
  facts than to spin theories about them.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 84. Jl. 26, ’06. 840w.

  “These volumes discuss [the topics] instructively and with scientific
  love of truth and lack of prejudice. The author is no faddist or
  theorist.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 272. Ap. 28, ’06. 2270w.

  “Throughout, these chapters are full of acute criticism and while it
  is a personal view which is put forward it is a view based not only on
  reading and travel but on countless interviews with all sorts and
  conditions of men.” Henry W. Macrosty.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 550. S. ’06. 1360w.

    + + =Spec.= 97: 493. O. 6, ’06. 1610w.


=Shakespeare, William.= Hamlet, ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A.
Clarke. **75c; limp. lea. **$1. Crowell.

  “The editors are exceptionally well fitted for their work. Indeed, we
  doubt whether there are in America two persons better fitted for the
  task. Far and away the best popular set of Shakespeare that has
  appeared in America.”

  + + + =Arena.= 35: 446. Ap. ’06. 340w.


=Shakespeare, William.= Poems and Pericles: being reproductions in
facsimile of the original editions; with introds. and bibliographies by
Sidney Lee. 5v. *$30. Oxford.

  This work supplements the Clarendon press edition of the facsimile
  reproduction of the Shakespeare first folio, and contains besides,
  “Pericles” the four volumes of poems, “Venus and Adonis,” “Lucrece,”
  the “Sonnets,” and “The passionate pilgrim.” A great wealth of
  critical and historical matter is provided for each volume.

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  “We have met with few books more thoroughly satisfactory than this
  Shakespeare facsimile. The book, as it stands, is a treasure that
  ought to be in every library.”

  + + + =Acad.= 69: 1282. D. 9, ’05. 1470w.

  + + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 838. D. 16. 2040w.

  “The five introductions transcend in interest even Mr. Lee’s
  introduction of 1902.”

  + + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 437. D. 15, ’05. 2050W.

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 264. Mr. 29, ’06. 3020w.

  “The Introductions and Bibliographies ... leave little or nothing to
  be desired. All that unwearied industry and research can acquire he
  has made his own.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 80. Ja. 20, ’06. 1290w.

        =Spec.= 96: 29. Ja. 6, ’06. 140w.


=Shakespeare, William.= Tragedie of King Lear; ed. by Charlotte Porter
and Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.

  “For the general reader who is interested in the history of the texts,
  it is a cheap and satisfactory substitute for the costly facsimiles of
  the Folio of 1623.”

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      + =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 100w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 70w.


=Shakespeare, William.= Twelfe night, edited by Charlotte Porter and
Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.

  The famous first folio text of 1623 with its original Shakespearean
  spelling and punctuation is here reproduced in handy form and at a
  popular price, with notes which indicate the editorial changes of
  three centuries, an introduction, glossary, lists of variorum
  readings, and selected criticism.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ind.= 61: 700. S. 20, ’06. 130w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 530w.

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 1007. Ag. 25, ’06. 80w.


=Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.= Man and the earth. **$1.50. Duffield.

  “He has written an interesting little book, which will repay reading.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 240w.

  + + + =Engin. N.= 55: 315. Mr. 15, ’06. 240w.

  “It would be difficult to match this little book with another so
  simple, so strong, so informed with material knowledge and so inspired
  with loving reverence for our common mother, the young old Earth.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1283. My. 31, ’06, 500w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 285. Ap. 5, ’06. 1670w.

  “Written by an eminent geologist who has command of a fascinating
  English style.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 100w.


=Shaler, Mrs. Sophia Penn Page.= Masters of fate; the power of the will.
**$1.50. Duffield.

  Self-mastery over various kinds of disadvantages of life is the
  keynote of Mrs. Shaler’s study. In it are recorded “the achievements
  of noted persons who, under the stress of grave difficulties, have
  shown skill in marshalling their physical and spiritual forces to play
  the part of men.”

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  “Mrs. Shaler’s book should give chronic invalids renewed courage, and
  should help them to resist the disheartening down-pull of bodily
  weakness and decay.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 270w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 70w.

  “A heroic spirit pulsates thru this book. It is an inspiring story, or
  rather a series of such stories, briefly told, and told for a
  purpose.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 286. S. 29, ’06. 200w.

  “Mrs. Shaler has chosen her examples happily. The book breathes
  precisely that spirit of high endeavor that is most bracing, and its
  admonition is for the sound as well as the feeble, for if the sorely
  hampered can do these works, what ought not to be done by the whole?”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 317. D. ’06. 220w.


=Shand, Alexander Innes.= Days of the past: a medley of memories. **$3.
Dutton.

  “Not a mere bookman, but also a general amateur of life—a sportsman, a
  gastronomer, even a taker of ‘fliers,’ or, as he calls them,
  ‘flutters,’ on the stock exchange.” (N. Y. Times.) Mr. Shand records
  with a sure and steady touch the interesting phases of sixty-five
  years of memories. “Mr. Shand’s recollections of old Edinburg and the
  almost forgotten ecclesiastical Scotland in which Guthrie and Tulloch
  played their not unimportant parts shows him at his best. Next to
  these are his portraits of hosts of men of letters and journalists
  whom he has come across in his time, such as Blackwood, Delane,
  Laurence Oliphant, Laurence Lockhart, Kinglake, Hayward, and even Mr.
  George Meredith.” (Spec.)

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  “Mr. Shand’s memories, however, might with advantage have been less of
  a ‘medley.’ His tendency to hop from topic to topic produces a blurred
  impression, and he is provokingly chary of dates.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 644. N. 11. 460w.

  “Written in vivacious and free-and-easy style not unmixed with slang.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 80w.

  “The author writes in a rapid, readable style and draws on an ample
  store of personal experience in many lands, although his adventures
  never approach the thrilling, or even the extraordinary.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 330w.

  “Is not merely an amusing book, but also something far more valuable.
  It is an account unconscious, perhaps, but none the worse for that, of
  the philosophy of a happy life.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 328. O. 6, ’05. 920w.

  “Mr. Shand’s peculiar weakness is gastronomic. He delights to record
  his various experiences in eating and drinking. On the other hand, his
  chapters on the changes in London and on Old Edinburgh, and his
  literary recollections, are both interesting and valuable.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 230w.

  “If he knows how to write, how can he help writing a delightful book
  out of his reminiscences of such an enjoying and enjoyed life? At any
  rate, Mr. Shand has not been able to help writing such a book.”
  Montgomery Schuyler.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 101. F. 17, ’06. 1160w.

  “The book is discursive and agreeable rather than important.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 60w.

  “This is one of the most delightful books of the reminiscences’ order
  that has been published for a long time.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ’05. 540w.


=Sharp, Evelyn.= Micky. $1.50. Macmillan.

  An entertaining story of a sturdy little English boy and his brother
  who are left at home with their father and the servants while their
  mother is absent in Australia. “The book is designed to inculcate
  manners and morals in the young, and if it accomplishes this end there
  is little doubt that it will be worth while.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has both an excellent grasp of the childish mind, and a
  capital way of putting on paper its humors, limitations, and
  sincerity.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 50w.

  “Reminds us of that clever and charming story, ‘Helen’s babies.’”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 448. D. 15, ’05. 70w.

  “An engaging little story, with an improbable plot, but very probable
  characters.”

      + =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ’05. 110w.

  “Is designed for older as well as young readers. The result is that it
  is hardly likely to absolutely hold the attention of either.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 915. D. 23, ’05. 180w.

  “It seems, however, more likely to interest older people who like to
  read about children than the children themselves.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ’05. 30w.

  “Miss Evelyn Sharp’s picture of a sensitive, imaginative child is most
  delicately and tenderly drawn.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ’05. 40w.


=Sharpless, Isaac.= Quakerism and politics: essays. $1.25. Ferris.

  In his collection of essays and addresses, President Sharpless of
  Haverford college treats chiefly the political conditions of
  Pennsylvania, past and present, and the part played by members of the
  Society of Friends in the state politics.

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  “There are a few instances of careless proofreading in this volume.”
  Herman V. Ames.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 148. O. ’06. 570w.

        =Ind.= 61: 220. Jl. 26, ’06. 270w.

  “A book which in general gives wholesome and needful counsel to
  Pennsylvania Quakerism as to its political duties and
  responsibilities.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 224. Mr. 15, ’06. 300w.

  “Written from the Quaker point of view, they are valuable to
  non-Quakers as an exposition of the principles underlying Quaker
  conduct, and to Quakers as a stimulus to definite action in the
  direction of insuring political reforms.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 250w.


=Shattuck, George Burbank=, ed. Bahama islands. **$10. Macmillan.

  “It is the most complete and authoritative work that has ever been
  published on these islands.”

  + + + =Ind.= 60: 875. Ap. 12, ’06. 220w.


=Shaw, George Bernard.= Dramatic opinions and essays; containing as well
A word on the Dramatic opinions and essays of G. Bernard Shaw, by James
Huneker. 2v. **$2.50. Brentano’s.

  Selections collected from the dramatic criticisms of Bernard Shaw
  during 1895–1898 when he sat with the “critical mighty and filled his
  eyes and ears with bad, mad, and mediocre plays.” So says Mr. James
  Huneker in his prefatory “Word.” Also, “Here is a plethora of riches.
  Remember, too, that when Shaw wrote the criticisms in this volume he
  was virginal to fame. It is his best work, the very best of the man.
  It contains his most buoyant prose, the quintessence of Shaw. His
  valedictory is incomparable. He found that after taking laughing gas
  he had many sub-conscious selves. He describes them.”

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  “The drama in America is about ten years behind that of England, and
  we are passing thru a transition period similar to that when these
  ‘Opinions’ were written, so they are especially pertinent.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 470w.

  “Contains a large amount of entertaining matter. It is doubtful,
  however, whether the collection will prove beneficial to his
  reputation.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 490. D. 6, ’06. 460w.

  “A more or less patent examination of these essays has convinced at
  least one reader that they show flippancy, verbosity, unbounded
  egotism, and that they fail to rise above the pretentious mediocrity.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 898. D. 22, ’06. 290w.


=Shaw, George Bernard.= Irrational knot. $1.50. Brentano’s.

  “In brief, it is the raw, inexperienced venture of an immensely witty
  person, formless in a way, full of pith, full of promise.” Mary Moss.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 56. Ja. ’06. 440w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 120w.

  Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.

      – =Ind.= 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 120w.

  “He leaves us just where he finds us, as far as any serious discussion
  of the question goes. The display of pyrotechnics in the story is not
  bad, though of course these be but pale and ineffectual fires beside
  the author’s later work.”

      + =Reader.= 7: 452. Mr. ’06. 560w.

  “Its cleverness is beyond question; so too is the frigidity of its
  characterisation. We can cordially recommend the first twenty-five out
  of the four hundred odd pages which the book contains.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 270w.


=Shaw, George Bernard.= Plays: pleasant and unpleasant. 2v. **$2.50.
Brentano’s.

  The first of the two volumes contains the “unpleasant plays,”
  “Widowers’ houses,” “The philanderer,” and “Mrs. Warren’s profession.”
  They are so called because “their dramatic power is used to force the
  spectator to face unpleasant facts,” and in “dealing with economics
  social and moral relations, Shaw has delivered the most direct blow
  yet levelled by the stage against the cowardice of social compromise.”
  The “pleasant plays” are “Arms and the man,” “Candida,” “The man of
  destiny,” and “You never can tell.” They “deal less with the crime of
  society and more with its romantic follies.”

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        =Ind.= 61: 396. Ag. 16, ’06. 210w.

  “Mr. Shaw is not only entertaining in his plays, as are some other
  men, but he is also immensely entertaining in his prefaces.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 130w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 767. Je. ’06. 80w.


=Shaw, George Bernard.= Three plays for Puritans; being the third volume
of his collected plays. **$1.25. Brentano’s.

  A reprint of the 1900 edition of the three plays, The devil’s
  disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound’s conversion.
  The volume contains the author’s characteristic preface to the 1900
  edition and a note—the only new matter included in the issue—in which
  the following statement appears: “Now that the turmoil has abated, the
  platformer, ever ready to seize upon the public’s passing whim, has
  told all he does not know about Shaw, the dust settled, one gets a
  clear perspective, and finds him standing pretty firmly after all.”


=Shaw, Judson Wade.= Uncle Sam and his children. **$1.20. Barnes.

  “In prosecuting the work of his organization Mr. Shaw found everywhere
  a demand for a book that should not simply outline the machinery of
  the government, but should emphasize its special advantages and the
  duty of citizens in the use of their privileges. He has accordingly,
  embodied in the present volume an account of the struggles through
  which the founders of the country passed, a statement of the
  principles that actuated them, an outline of our territory and its
  resources, and some discussion of the perils that threaten us and how
  to meet and escape them.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Bookm.= 22: 536. Ja. ’06. 110w.

      + =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ’05. 40w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 408. Je. 17, ’05. 170w.

  “His book is a sort of elementary manual of American
  good-citizenship.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 32: 638. N. ’05. 150w.


=Shaw, L. H. De Visme.= Wild-fowl; with chapters on Shooting the duck
and the goose, by W. H. Pope; Cookery by Alex. Innes Shand. $1.75.
Longmans.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 395. Mr. 31. 570w.


=Sheedy, Rev. Morgan M.= Briefs for our times. *$1. Whittaker.

  Some three dozen brief but strong pleas for Christian living under
  such headings as: The value of self control, The duty of service,
  Socialism true and false, Money mad, Choosing a life work, Begin at
  home, The gospel of wealth, The gospel of pain, “The house of mirth.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Sheedy seems to be a fearless, straightforward preacher, with a
  turn for the moral and practical, and with ability to couch his
  thought in vigorous English.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 140w.


=Sheldon, Anna R.= Pistoja [a guide book]. *$1.25. Brentano’s.

  A “few pages of collated facts” gleaned from a variety of sources
  which throw light on “one of the most interesting cities in Tuscany,
  because of its charming situation, its long and varied history, its
  people—a hardy, vivacious, and well-favored race; as the birthplace of
  many illustrious men, patriots, jurists, and churchmen, scholars,
  poets, and artists, and finally, because of its valuable monuments of
  art.”

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  “If only a few more pages were devoted to the history of the town—half
  a dozen written in the proper spirit would suffice—this little volume
  would be as welcome in the study as it undoubtedly will be in the
  pocket of the tourist.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 263. Mr. 29, ’06. 490w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 260w.

  “Supplies the lack of a convenient guide-book in English, handsomely
  illustrated. It was a happy thought and is well worked out.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 40w.


=Sheldon, Walter Lorenzo.= Divine comedy of Dante: four lectures. 50c.
S. Burns Weston, 1415 Locust St., Phil.

  Four lectures “intended especially for those who have never read the
  poem but would like to know something about it.”

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        =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.

  “The class of people for whom it is written may read it with both
  interest and profit.”

      + =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ’05. 120w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 70w.


=Shelley, Henry C.= Literary by-paths in old England; il. **$3. Little.

  It is over the English footpaths that the reader is invited to journey
  in meditative mood with eye and ear eager for sights and sounds
  unfamiliar to the more frequented highway. The haunts of Spenser, Sir
  Philip Sidney, William Penn, Burns, Keats, Carlyle are all visited,
  also the birthplace of Gray’s “Elegy” and Goldsmith’s “Deserted
  Village.” The volume is generously illustrated with reprints from
  photographs.

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  “The novelty of the work does not consist so much in new discoveries,
  for there are none of consequence, as in presenting his subjects in a
  light not usual.” Wallace Rice.

      + =Dial.= 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “Mr. Shelley’s book is sympathetically written and gives evidence of
  individual research.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 70w.

  “The author has not failed to make researches that were worth while,
  and he has an agreeable style.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

  “Is a thoroughly readable book.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 413. N. 15, ’06. 230w.

  “The book should revive in many minds a longing to reread the English
  classics in the light thus shed in picture and text on some
  personalities which still inspire the finer things in letters.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 410w.

  “Rarely does one come upon so charming a literary sketch-book as
  this.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 150w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 140w.


=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= Poems; with introduction and notes by Edward
Dowden. $1.25. Crowell.

  A valuable feature of this “Shelley” which appears uniform with the
  “Thin paper poets” is the comprehensive sketch of the poet’s life by
  Edward Dowden.


=Shelley, Percy Bysshe.= With Shelley in Italy, ed. by Anna Benneson
McMahan. **$1.40. McClurg.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 557. Ap. ’06. 320w.

    + + =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 50w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 67. F. 3, ’06. 320w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 140w.


=Shelton, Louise.= Seasons in a flower garden: a handbook of instruction
and information for the amateur. **$1. Scribner.

  A manual arranged as a calendar “giving detailed instructions as to
  what to plant in each month of the open season, with many useful hints
  of a miscellaneous character.” (R. of Rs.)

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  “The directions are clearly worded, well grouped, and reasonable. For
  a small garden and a young gardener, the book will render the real
  service for which it was written.” Sara Andrew Shafer.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 360. Je. 1, ’06. 70w.

  “A very practical manual for the amateur.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 40w.

  “The book supplements, but cannot replace, the formal garden
  handbooks.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 846. Je. 7, ’06. 160w.

  “She does not realize that the brevity of her descriptions may be
  confusing and not carry to the novice the very idea that she is
  seeking to implant.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 500w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + + =North American.= 183: 121. Jl. ’06. 70w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 120w.


=Sherard, Robert Harborough.= Life of Oscar Wilde. $4.50. Kennerley.

  “The life-story of the brilliant but erratic genius, Oscar Wilde,
  whose sun of promise rose so bright and had so dire a setting, is
  presented to us in a handsome and dignified volume.... Although the
  book is confessedly an apology or defense, and promises at the outset
  to refute many calumnies and to effect noteworthy results in clearing
  from the foul aspersions of malignity a name still dear to hundreds of
  faithful disciples, yet there is fortunately, a wise avoidance of
  unsavory details regarding the events that clouded Wilde’s closing
  years and led to his tragic end.... The volume ... is supplied with a
  good index; while the bibliography, showing a surprising number of
  titles in prose and verse, with translations into French, German,
  Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, and Polish, gives a new sense of
  the brilliancy of Wilde’s talents as a writer, mingled with regret and
  pity for his downfall as a man.”—Dial.

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  “One cannot deny that it is interesting, even though parts of it be
  painful.” Richard W. Kemp.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 365. D. ’06. 1860w.

  “Mr. Sherard’s account of this strange and broken life is full and
  interesting, although it suffers from the extravagant tone of eulogy
  and admiration which colors it throughout. It is to be taken as we
  have said, at the outset, as a defense and an apology; and taken thus,
  it well repays perusal.”

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 156. S. 16, ’06. 2960w.

  “This author has had access to abundant material, and writing with a
  full appreciation of the limitations of Wilde’s genius he has produced
  what may be called the most intimate biography that has yet appeared.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 240w.

  “Mr. Sherard’s tones are not quite clear; his moral philosophy is not
  quite robust and direct enough for the terrible problem of human
  responsibility and error with which he has to deal.”

  + – – =Nation.= 83: 124. Ag. 9, ’06. 1000w.

  “Little excuse for its existence. As for Mr. Sherard he certainly
  possesses qualities we like to see in a biographer. He can draw
  distinctions and take note of both sides of his subject. He writes
  fluently and well. But he has chosen a hopeless, pitiful subject.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 545. S. 8, ’06. 820w.


=Sherard, Robert Harborough.= Twenty years in Paris; being some
recollections of a literary life; 2nd ed. il. *$4. Jacobs.

  Interesting are the different ranges at which Mr. Sherard, an
  Englishman in Paris, views a group of men prominent in French affairs.
  Motives of friendship, of admiration for statemanship and for literary
  genius operate in his reminiscences. Zola, Renan, Daudet, de Lesseps,
  Guy de Maupassant, Madame Adam, Victor Hugo, and Jules Verne are among
  the notables who figure in Mr. Sherard’s recollections.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume is full of good anecdotes which strike us as new.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 795. D. 9. 970w.

  “The whole narrative moves so briskly, the dialogue is carried on by
  so many and so interesting actors, the stage is so crowded, and the
  scenes succeed one another so quickly, that it would be unhandsome to
  feel otherwise than friendly toward the purveyor of so much varied
  entertainment.” Percy F. Bicknell.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 316. N. 16, ’06. 1640w.


=Sherman, Frank Dempster.= Southern flight [poems by] Frank Dempster
Sherman and Clinton Scollard. *$1.25. G. W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.

  A volume of verse containing fifty-odd pieces with Southern themes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 120w.

  “A small volume of tender and graceful lyrics.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 200w.

  “Contains no piece quite at the highest level of either of its
  authors. There is somewhat too much sweet in it, but it is full of
  melody and pretty imagery.”

    + – =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 120w.

  “They are perilously slight in subject and treatment. Though the
  verses in ‘A Southern flight’ are metrically simple they demand more
  careful pruning than they have received.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 7. Ja. 6, ’06. 440w.


=Sherman, Waldo Henry.= Civics: studies in American citizenship. *90c.
Macmillan.

        =Ind.= 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 60w.

  “On the whole, the book would prove an unreliable text in the hands of
  students. It should be of some value to teachers by reason of the
  suggestions in the second part in regard to the method of study and
  the teaching of civics.” A. R. Hatton.

    – + =School R.= 14: 466. Je. ’06. 220w.

  “It is to be regretted that this new book on civil government was not
  written in a better style with more literary form and flavor, as to
  the average reader it is bound to be dull.” George L. Fox.

    + – =Yale R.= 14: 426. F. ’06. 370w.


=Sherring, Charles A.= Western Tibet and the British border land. *$6.
Longmans.

  Mr. Sherring’s book has grown out of a political mission for the
  Indian government upon which he was sent for the purpose of looking up
  this country and estimating its resources and commercial
  possibilities. “Unlike the many volumes dealing with Tibet and Lhassa
  that have been appearing the past two or three years, since the
  British expedition reached and entered the ‘heaven’ of Hindus and
  Buddhists, the present one treats popularly of the ‘holy lore’ most
  sacred to Tibetans, the legends and myths of Western Tibet, and the
  customs and manners of the people. The author writes from personal
  experience and study.” (N. Y. Times.) Numerous illustrations add to
  the interest of the book.

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      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 542. N. 3. 1890w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 220w.

  “The qualification of the author for his task is a long and close
  acquaintance with the tribes of British India upon the Tibetan
  borderland; but he labours under the double disadvantage of having no
  previous knowledge of Tibet, save that derived from books, and no
  acquaintance with the language. Moreover, Mr. Sherring is apt to be
  led astray by his own learning.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 690w.


=Sherwood, Margaret Pollock.= Coming of the tide. †$1.50. Houghton.

  Miss Sherwood “tells the story of a summer on the Maine coast whither
  the heroine, a Southern girl, goes to forget a great sorrow. The plot,
  which is very simple, involves a study in heredity. The hero, a dreamy
  philosopher, is morbidly conscious of his inheritance of ancestral
  traits and ancestral quarrels. But the girl from Virginia makes him
  feel the joy of living, and understand the song of the tides.”—Dial.

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  “There is, however, enough merit in the book to justify the belief
  that the author may write a much better novel when she has acquired
  more restraint.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 72. Ja. 20. 150w.

  “The charm of the book lies largely in Miss Sherwood’s delicate humor,
  delightful fancy, and carefully finished, but never coldly classic,
  style.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.

  “It is not quite so taking as her earlier romances probably because
  there is an intrusion of real things; and it is a little overloaded
  with description; but it is done with ... delicacy and refinement.”

    + – =Outlook.= 81: 709. N. 25, ’05. 140w.

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 110w.


=Shirazi, J. K. M.= Life of Omar Al-Khayyámi. **$1.50. McClurg.

  “Mr. Shirazi has made an interesting book out of a subject that at
  first sight seems to have been done to death.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 79. F. 10, ’06. 810w.

  “The biography is interestingly written, and is at variance in some
  minor points of western interpretation of the conditions under which
  Omar wrote. It cannot be regarded as a contribution of permanent value
  to the literature on this subject, but it is profitable reading.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 325. F. 10, ’06. 230w.


=Shorter, Clement King.= Charlotte Brontë and her sisters. **$1.
Scribner.

      + =Ind.= 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 170w.

  “It is disappointing to read a Brontë life that, however accurate and
  complete, is of cyclopediac aloofness and reserve.”

    + – =Reader.= 7: 564. Ap. ’06. 360w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 80w.

  “Altogether, Mr. Shorter has produced such an excellently concise
  handbook of “Brontëism” that it is hardly possible to conceive of a
  better taking its place in popular favour.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 443. S. 29, ’06. 310w.


=Shorter, Dora Sigerson (Mrs. Clement King Shorter).= Story and song of
Black Roderick. †$1. Harper.

  The Black Earl Roderick for policy’s sake weds the Little Bride, and
  she dies because of her failure to win his love. Such is the burden of
  the first part of a quaint story told in verse and prose in whose
  second part the Little Bride’s soul, by self-sacrifice, saves that of
  Roderick.

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  “The whole story is mediaeval in tone, very daintily told, and full of
  tender grace.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 70w.

  “A specimen of that somewhat difficult style of narrative, not
  altogether satisfactory.”

      – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 577. My. 11. 310w.

  “It is inspired by recollection and study, not by genuine faith and
  feeling; and whether we are right or wrong as to the model which Mrs.
  Shorter had in mind, the praise of her story must be limited to the
  praise of the clever imitation.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 202. Je. 1, ’06. 360w.

  “It is like her former books, and like most books of poetry, tenuous.”
  Percy Vincent Donovan.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 832. D. 1, ’06. 2340w.


=Shroy, John L.= Be a good boy; good bye. J: L. Shroy, 1738 Diamond st.,
Phil. [Lippincott.]

  A book of poems dedicated to “Mother” whose charge, “Be a good boy;
  good-bye” has been the author’s motto thru life. The poems are mostly
  reminiscent with such themes as Fourth of July, the country circus,
  apple-blossom time, sugared bread and running barefoot.


=Shuckburgh, Evelyn Shirley.= Greece from the coming of the Hellenes to
A. D. 14. **$1.35. Putnam.

  The first of the two volumes on Grecian history which Dr. Shuckburgh
  has been asked to contribute to the “Story of the nations” series. “In
  accordance with better ideas of relative importance, the emphasis is
  thrown upon political, intellectual, and artistic development rather
  than the vicissitudes of military operations.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 729. Ap. ’06. 50w.

  “A work of some literary merit, but one pregnant with mischief through
  restating old misconceptions in graceful language. And yet there is an
  urgent need for somebody ... to animate a scholarly summary of recent
  work with the breath of a genial personality.” W. S. Ferguson.

    + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 870. Jl. ’06. 1020w.

  “The author’s learning is successfully devoted to enabling the reader
  to obtain a firm grasp of the events narrated rather than to
  perplexing him with discussion.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 220w.

  “The narrative is well written and in this respect is superior to
  several of the recent volumes of this series.”

      + =Bookm.= 23: 456. Je. ’06. 200w.

  “The remarkable feature of the book is its comprehensive brevity.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 180w.

  “While no more scholarly than Bury or Bristol, is more readable. There
  are several other minor slips which detract from the pleasant
  impression made by the book as a whole.”

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 330w.

  “The sketch of the history of Greek literature seems inaptly tacked on
  at the end of the book of which it is the least satisfactory part.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 400w.

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 918. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 240. Mr. 22, ’06. 100w.

  “The narrative reads easily, and has the merits of a consecutive and
  well-proportioned story.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.

  “Dr. Shuckburgh’s volume was needed to supplement Professor Harrison’s
  ‘Greece’ in the ‘Story of the nations’ series, because the latter
  volume covered so much ground that not any of it could be covered
  thoroughly.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 638. My. 19, ’06. 150w.

  “The book deserves a welcome on its own merits. It is an able and
  scholarly production, and provides us with a very interesting sketch
  of one of the most important periods of the world’s history.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 337. Mr. 17, ’06. 900w.


=Sichel, Edith.= Catherine de’ Medici and the French reformation. *$3.
Dutton.

  “The gifted writer ... presents, here, the results of much research in
  out-of-the-way paths, and much plodding through old memoirs, documents
  and books, which have received but little recognition from the
  historians who have aimed at a comprehensive narrative of the times.
  She has made good use of her materials.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 82: 846. Mr. ’06. 380w.

  “A book which will give great pleasure to a wide circle of readers.”
  E. Armstrong.

    + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 375. Ap. ’06. 1350w.


=Sichel, Edith Helen.= Life and letters of Alfred Ainger. *$3.50.
Dutton.

  The chief interest of this work is derived from the correspondence of
  Canon Ainger with such men as Horace Smith, Du Maurier, Edmund Gosse,
  Sidney Lee, Swinburne and others. There are chapters on the different
  periods of his life, his literary work, his work as lecturer,
  preacher, critic, his canonical duties, his humor, and his friendships
  in literature.

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  “A charming biography of one of the few wits of our time.”

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 469. My. 19, ’06. 1670w.

  “Miss Sichel has done her work well on the whole; in dealing with the
  correspondence, however she has not always shown discretion. The
  volume is furnished with a four-page ‘Index;’ from which the more
  important topics and names appear to have been carefully excluded.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 325. S. 22. 1760w.

  “Miss Sichel has given a vivid delineation of a winsome personality.
  In evident sympathy with her subject, she writes in a way to enlist
  the reader’s sympathy also.” Percy F. Bicknell.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 83. Ag. 16, ’06. 1280w.

  Reviewed by Henry C. Beeching.

  + + + =Living Age.= 250: 242. Jl. 28, ’06. 2730w.

  “Miss Sichel has armed herself with so many documents, she has printed
  such masses of correspondence, and quotations, and confirmatory
  opinions, as almost to obscure the image she would evoke before us.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 178. My. 18, ’06. 2000w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 151. Ag. 16, ’06. 450w.

  “She might, too, have left a clearer-cut impression by more rigid
  exercise of her editorial prerogatives in the matter of the
  correspondence, not all of which seems worthy of preservation. Taken
  as a whole, her volume is not an unworthy memorial.” H. Addington
  Bruce.

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 835. D. 1, ’06. 2810w.

    + + =Spec.= 97: 332. S. 8, ’06. 370w.


=Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Mrs. Arthur
Sidgwick).= Henry Sidgwick—a memoir. *$4. Macmillan.

  “Henry Sidgwick represented the most modern type of University
  teacher, the type which is closely in touch with all sides of national
  life and exercises an influence far beyond the lecture-room. He was a
  distinguished professor, a successful administrator, a writer of good
  books, but above all things he was a personality from whom radiated a
  subtle attraction which many felt and few could wholly describe.... It
  is almost impossible to reproduce for those who did not know him the
  charm of his character and the peculiar distinction of his mind. His
  books do not show it, and the tributes of friends are mere evidence
  for what cannot be glibly summarized. On the whole, the editors of
  this Memoir seem to have chosen the wisest path, and made their books
  a series of extracts from his letters and journals, connected with the
  bare minimum of narrative.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a long and baffling life of an extremely interesting man. The
  impression produced by the whole [is] one of commonplace.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 198. Mr. 3, ’06. 1370w.

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 383. Mr. 31. 2860w.

  Reviewed by Wm. Everett.

    + + =Atlan.= 98: 93. Jl. ’06. 2330w.

  “Is of deep interest and value both to those who had the great
  privilege of knowing him, and to others. It is perhaps not too much to
  say that the book does not contain a page, or even a paragraph which
  is not interesting.” E. E. C. Jones.

    + + =Hibbert J.= 5: 208. O. ’06. 2360w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 78. Mr. 9, ’06. 2020w.

  “Many of [the letters] are not greatly above the level of ordinary
  epistolary communications, and may disclose little of what was
  actually going on in their author’s life.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 471. Je. 7, ’06. 2130w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 188. Mr. 24, ’06. 320w.

  Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 332. O. 6, ’06. 2200w.

  “Our only complaint is that in the earlier chapters there are too many
  quotations so scrappy as to have little value, and too many examples
  of what is a common stage of development in young men at college.
  Throughout the book also there is a little too much University
  politics. But, taken as a whole, the book is one of high value, and
  absorbing interest.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 459. My. 24, ’06. 1930w.


=Sidgwick, Cecily (Ullman) (Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick).= Professor’s legacy.
†$1.50. Holt.

  “It is better than most of its kind, in being rather carefully done,
  the characters being drawn with a care that makes them seem real.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 150w.

  “An agreeable composition of nicely-adjusted parts.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “A very German story.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 458. F. 22, ’06. 260w.

      + =Spec.= 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 350w.


=Sidgwick, Henry.= Miscellaneous essays and addresses. *$3.25.
Macmillan.

  Reviewed by E. A. Taylor.

    + + =Philos. R.= 15: 91. Ja. ’06. 480w.

  “In fact so admirable is the form of these ‘Essays and addresses’ that
  it is scarcely too much to say that they merited republication as
  models of style quite apart from the undoubted timeliness of nearly
  every one of the discussions which they contain.” Henry R. Seager.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 720. D. ’06. 970w.


=Sidgwick, Henry.= Philosophy of Kant, and other philosophical lectures
and essays. *$3.25. Macmillan.

        =Acad.= 70: 202. Mr. 3, ’06. 850w.

  “The lectures on Kant, Green and Spencer contain an unusually clear
  account of the most striking metaphysical doctrines of these
  philosophers.” G. E. Moore.

    + + =Hibbert, J.= 4: 686. Ap. ’06. 2460w.

  “He appears to be too apt to emphasize apparent contradictions,
  without considering how far the changes in expression are due to the
  development of the writer’s thought. Notwithstanding this defect,
  however, there can be no doubt that the criticisms are extremely
  valuable.” J. S. Mackenzie.

  + + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 261. Ja. ’06. 270w.

  “Personally, I should, I think, be inclined to regard the lectures
  which deal with the ‘analytic’ as the best, and those which discuss
  the ‘antinomies’ as the weakest part of the course.” A. E. Taylor.

    + + =Philos. R.= 15: 214. Mr. ’06. 470w.

  “From beginning to end his attitude is critical and destructive.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 848. D. 30, ’05. 990w.


=Sienkiewicz, Henryk.= On the field of glory: a historical novel of the
time of King John Sobieski; tr. from the Polish original by Jeremiah
Curtin. †$1.50. Little.

  The scenes of Mr. Sienkiewicz’s latest story are laid in Poland during
  the reign of King John Sobieski, just before the Turkish invasion in
  1682 to 1683. It concerns the romance of Panna Anulka and Pan Yotsek,
  an impecunious scion of a noble house. The guardian of the heroine, a
  strong-headed Polish nobleman determines to marry his ward, but dies
  on the eve of their betrothal. The fibre of the story is woven amid
  brawls and duels, lawlessness, riot and drunkenness: yet on the plane
  of this early barbarity are expressed fine notions of honor, loyalty
  and patriotism which are elements in Poland’s spiritual harvest.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Amy C. Rich.

        =Arena.= 35: 558. My. ’06. 290w.

  “The translation lacks ease, and must be called indifferent.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 240w.

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 263. My. ’06. 150w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 240w.

  “Although the story has this background of patriotic expectancy, it is
  in reality a story of private interest, a love-story of freshness and
  charm, a story of strange manners and exciting adventures.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 153. Mr. 1, ’06. 190w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 250w.

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 590w.

  “Whoever has read and liked Sienkiewicz’s trilogy of historical
  romance is advised to read ‘On the field of glory.’ There is the
  family likeness of authorship. The translation is made with Mr.
  Curtin’s accustomed brilliancy, flecked by an occasional blur.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 600w.

  “M. Sienkiewicz, unlike some lesser writers, does not find his great
  powers trammeled by the telling of a thoroughly pure, healthful tale.”
  M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 94. F. 17, ’06. 580w.

  “Mr. Jeremiah Curtin has translated the book with his usual
  faithfulness and sympathy with the author’s genius.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 170w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 30w.

  “The action is rapid and the pictures veracious.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 220w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 130w.

  “We cannot altogether concur in the eulogy of this historical novel
  offered in the ‘Publisher’s preface.’ The translation runs easily.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 102: 274. S. 1, ’06. 200w.

  “The book is full of adventures related with all the author’s
  picturesqueness of detail and vigour of outline; but the plot has no
  very great coherence, and the story cannot be called very pleasant
  reading.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 336. S. 8, ’06. 20w.


=Silberrad, Una Lucy.= Curayl. †$1.50. Doubleday.

  “Beatrice Curayl has married Sir William Goyte for his money and her
  father’s convenience. She longs to break the bargain between herself
  and her despised and despicable husband, but is restrained by the
  advice of a stranger, Anthony Luttrell, who reminds her that ‘it is
  not gentlemanly for either party to cry off.’ Then comes the epidemic,
  and Sir William’s refusal to help the tenants drives Beatrice to offer
  her personal assistance to the little band of volunteers who are
  fighting the fever. She finds Luttrell in command, adored and obeyed
  by all.... The developments of the finer side of Beatrice’s nature,
  from the moment she realises that sordid motives alone prompted her to
  marry Sir William to the end of her purgation show that Miss Silberrad
  is capable of doing strong and skillful work, as wholesome as it is
  clever.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Here, as in former novels, the author gives us pleasant proof of her
  duality as a storyteller; but construction is not one of her strong
  points.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 287. Mr. 24, ’06. 310w.

  “This cannot, in the common acceptation of the term, be called a ‘good
  story,’ because it has not the requirements—plentiful incident and
  growing excitement.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 388. Mr. 31. 180w.

  Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 417. Je. ’06. 450w.

  “The worst fault lies in the excess of brutality—as far as artistic
  effect is concerned—with which the unspeakable Sir William Goyt and
  the equally detestable Delmar are endowed.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 100w.

  “Were the character drawing more subtle we should not so much resent
  the book’s stuffiness but it is for the most part superficial and
  conventional.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 5: 93. Mr. 16, ’06. 240w.

  “Is a very good little novel of the minor order, and throughout holds
  the interest.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 320w.

  “‘Curayl’ the reader is inclined to believe, is a very superior novel,
  but one which requires the most careful and thoughtful reading to be
  appreciated fully.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 294. My. 5, ’06. 400w.

  “An ill-constructed plot.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 433. Ap. 7, ’06. 110w.

  “The story is successful in as far as it engages the attention of the
  reader, though, perhaps, a doubt may be permitted as to whether it is
  quite up to the literary standard which Miss Silberrad has set for
  herself in her previous work.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 230w.


=Sill, Edward Rowland.= Poetical works. $1.50. Houghton.

  This complete edition of Mr. Sill’s poems, chronologically arranged,
  makes its appearance in the “Household series” of standard English and
  American poets.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 100w.

  “An edition of Edward Rowland Sill’s poems in a single inexpensive
  volume has long been a desideratum. There may be some question about
  the additions, for in case of a minor poet the half is commonly better
  than the whole; there certainly can be no intelligent question about
  the illustrations which were far better omitted.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 328. O. 18, ’06. 370w.

  “In his desire to give us much of the as yet unpublished work the
  editor has doubtless had in mind an edition for the student rather
  than the lover of Sill. This is perhaps a mistake, for Sill will have
  many lovers, but few students. His brief introductory note is a model
  of sane criticism, written with becoming sympathy and regard.”
  Christian Gauss.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 820. D. 1, ’06. 2070w.


=Sill, Louise Morgan.= In sun or shade. **$1.50. Harper.

  The thought of infinite and invincible energy gives character to Mrs.
  Sill’s poetry, whether it be the buoyancy of responsibility, the faith
  of hero worship, the lessons of bird and flower, or the perfection of
  love in its great limitless reaches. Whether in “sun or shade” she
  urges mankind to live, to act.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is not a morally unwholesome line in her whole work. The book,
  therefore, is one which the author may well feel proud of having
  produced and the reader thankful to possess.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 266. My. ’06. 730w.

  “We are indebted to her for much that is lovely, tender, and
  charming,—and, often, for a wise note of womanly wisdom.” Edith M.
  Thomas.

      + =Critic.= 49: 218. S. ’06. 240w.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

        =Dial.= 41: 67. Ag. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “Although there is much in her book that is rather dull, occasionally
  ... she strikes a fairly searching chord.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.

  “Few have written anything very much better in serious poetry than
  Louise Morgan Sill, and the poems are well arranged.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 736. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 40w.


=Simpson, Evelyn Blantyre.= Robert Louis Stevenson. *75c. Luce, J: W.

  “A ten minute life of the novelist,” the second volume in the “Spirit
  of the age series.” The illustrations are four portraits of Stevenson,
  including the one painted by Count Nerli in Samoa.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 20w.

  “There is little new in Miss Simpson’s book.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 343. My. 26, ’06. 210w.


=Simpson, Frederick Moore.= History of architectural development. 3v.
*$4. Longmans.

  “Professor Simpson’s book ... is the first of three volumes destined
  to treat of all the historic styles from Egyptian to the Renaissance,
  and they are intended to form part of a new series of books on
  architecture.... He deals exclusively with the great historic styles,
  wisely leaving aside the mazes of Hindoo, Chinese, and other exotic
  art. His work is an excellent example of the modern method of
  regarding architectural history as a continuous whole.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Having studied all the authorities and weighed all the evidence, he
  gives a well-reasoned and balanced opinion on each disputed point. The
  book is therefore pre-eminently a safe guide for the beginner.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 220. Ag. 25. 930w. (Review of v. 1.)

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 373. F. ’06. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “For the most part we have sound criticism, forcibly set forth. Slips
  are rare.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 159. My. 4, ’06. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “For reasonably mature beginners, who intend to make a serious study
  of architecture, we know of no work which seems so well fitted to give
  them a general view of the development of the subject without undue
  time being spent on the aesthetical phases which can readily be
  supplied by teachers or more fanciful books.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 83. F. 10, ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “His writing is lucid and concise.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 150. Ja. 27, ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Simpson, W. J.= Treatise on plague. *$5. Macmillan.

  “He has not the pen of a vigorous and interesting writer, but, on the
  whole, he has performed the task with judgment and skill; and his book
  may be taken as a compendious statement of all that is known or
  reasonably surmised about plague up to the present time.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 660w.


=Sinclair, May.= Audrey Craven. †$1.50. Holt.

  “The story of the moral havoc wrought in the lives of men by a woman
  without a heart.... An early novel in a new edition.” (Lit. D.)
  “Audrey herself is a distinct creation, dominating the story even more
  than is the wont of heroines. Beside her, her lovers are shadowy....
  Having yielded her heart in rapid succession to the child of nature,
  to the painter, to the writer, to the austere divine, she ends as the
  wife of the dullard.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author is not without the defects of her qualities; and while
  these do not seriously mar the beauty of her work as a whole, they are
  not unapparent to critical admirers of an author whose novels may be
  said to make waste paper of most of the fiction of a season.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 200w.

  “While remarkable in quality, is immature. The interest of the story
  never flags, but it has its thin places. The writer’s powers are well
  in evidence, but not yet held firmly in hand.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 543. S. 1, ’06. 580w.

  “While ‘Audrey Craven’ is not well rounded out and lacks breadth of
  treatment and firm grasp on the reader’s attention, it shows very
  clearly the intelligent quality and the subtle knowledge of character
  that are applied in ‘The divine fire’ to a more complex play of motive
  and action, and to a far more striking situation.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 120w.

  “Lacks dramatic power and real human interest.”

    + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 130w.


=Sinclair, May.= Divine fire. $1.50. Holt.

        =Edinburgh R.= 203: 72. Ja. ’06. 610w.

        =Living Age.= 248: 730. Mr. 24, ’06. 610w. (Reprinted from
          Edinburgh R.)


=Sinclair, May.= Superseded. $1.25. Holt.

  Little Miss Quincey, the pathetic old-maid teacher of mathematics, who
  has withered away under her daily drudgery and has never known youth
  or life, is the real heroine of this sad little story altho the
  personality of Rhoda, beautiful and brilliant, overshadows and
  eclipses her, and altho happiness, love and her beloved Mr. Cautley
  all pass her by. For “Nature has made up for any little extra outlay
  in one direction by cruel pinching in another.... Nature had indulged
  in Rhoda Vivian and she was making Miss Quincey pay.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is one of the books which ought not to be missed.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 53. S. ’06. 290w.

      + =Critic.= 49: 207. S. ’06. 230w.

  “There are real pathos in the book and considerable underlying humor.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4. ’06. 190w.

  “She may be trusted at all events to be at once penetrating and
  human.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 372. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.

  “As a character study and in point of workmanship it is quite on a
  level, however with ‘Divine fire,’ although it has neither the range,
  substance, nor imaginative power of that story. A pathetic little tale
  told with the most delicate feeling.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 250w.


=Sinclair, May.= Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson.). $1.50. Dodge, B.
W.

  “There is novelty in the conception of Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson, as
  strangely assorted a pair as ever foregathered between the covers of a
  novel.... Nevill Tyson ... is a man of plebeian birth and cosmopolitan
  education, a sentimental brute with a veneer of cleverness and
  polish.... Thrust by accident into the position of an English country
  gentleman, he commits the fatal error of marrying a pretty girl who is
  universally regarded as a fool.... She loves her husband with a
  devotion so complete as to blind him and others to its true nature.
  For him she sacrifices first her child and finally her life. His
  return for her devotion is to desert her, to accuse her of infidelity,
  and to leave her again to die heart-broken while he finds a hero’s
  death in Africa.”—Bookm.

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  “It is a clever, original, distinctive first novel.” Edward Clark
  Marsh.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 535. Jl. ’06. 900w.

  “The sketch makes a vivid impression upon the reader’s mind, despite
  its faults.”

    – + =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 80w.

  “The story, powerful as it is, is too ‘unpleasant’ to commend itself
  to the wider reading public.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 302. My. 12, ’06. 600w.


=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Jungle. †$1.50. Doubleday.

  Chicago in its worst industrial phases is the scene of Mr. Sinclair’s
  story. His hero is a sturdy Lithuanian who, with a little colony of
  fellow countrymen, including the frail Ona whom he would wed, settles
  in the Packingtown district. It is first as a wage-earner—the victim
  of foremen’s immoral practices and of real estate sharks’
  trickery—that Jurgis Rudkus struggles; worsted in his battle, and
  yielding to exhaustion and hopelessness, he becomes a tramp, a common
  thief, a highwayman, a beggar. Temporary respite comes with the
  protection offered by a corrupt political machine whose bosses secure
  him work. He looked out on “a world in which nothing counted but
  brutal might, an order devised by those who possessed it for the
  subjugation of those who did not.” Finally the “saving grace” of
  socialism is balm for his industrial grievances, and here the author
  expatiates upon the salutary virtues of socialism.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is one of the strongest and most powerful voices of protest against a
  great wrong that has appeared in America.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 651. Je. ’06. 5780w.

  “It is a book that holds the attention by its vividness, earnestness,
  and simplicity.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 446. Ap. 14. 240w.

  “It is impossible to withhold admiration of Mr. Sinclair’s enthusiasm;
  and yet many socialists will regret his mistaken advocacy of their
  cause. His reasoning is so false, his disregard of human nature so
  naive, his statement of facts so biased, his conclusions so perverted,
  that the effect can be only to disgust many honest, sensible folk with
  the very terms he uses so glibly.” Edward Clark Marsh.

    – + =Bookm.= 23: 195. Ap. ’06. 990w.

      – =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 110w.

  “Mr. Sinclair’s horrors are not typical, and his indecencies of speech
  are not tolerable in any book that has claims to consideration as
  literature. In all the essential qualities of good fiction this book
  is conspicuously lacking.” Wm. M. Payne.

    – – =Dial.= 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 510w.

  “Tho overdrawn from a literary standpoint and almost surely
  exaggerated as to facts, is a powerful and harrowing narrative. ‘The
  jungle’ may do some harm; also it will surely do much good.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 740. Mr. 24, ’06. 1070w.

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1158. N. 15, ’06. 120w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 679. My. 5, ’06. 2030w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 120w.

        =Lond. Times.= 5: 201. Je. 1, ’06. 820w.

  “We are afraid Mr. Sinclair has not been divinely appointed to be a
  deliverer of Labor lying prostrate. Somehow, in his tones the ear
  continuously catches the false note. He has been at pains to ‘get up’
  his facts thoroughly, and his realism is often striking. But he seems
  to write not from the heart but from the head.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 128. Mr. 3, ’06. 3020w.

  “Upton Sinclair’s style is probably the best expression of Zolaesque
  that we have in English fiction.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + – =North American.= 182: 925. Je. ’06. 230w.

  “Mr. Sinclair’s indictment of the employing classes would have been
  more convincing if it were less hysterical.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 758. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.

  “Mr. Sinclair’s bias ... has led him to indiscretions of the head
  rather than of the heart.”

      – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 476. Ap. 14, ’06. 870w.

  “When a story reveals so much of artistic penetration and power as
  does ‘The jungle’ one keenly regrets what seems like unfairness in
  point of view. The very brutality of the book is likely to cause it to
  be talked about.”

    + – =Reader.= 7: 564. Ap. ’06. 200w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 759. Je. ’06. 700w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 661. My. 26, ’06. 330w.

  “We are inclined to believe that more enlightenment is to be gained
  from ‘The jungle’ than from Mr. Lawson’s ‘Frenzied finance.’”

      + =Spec.= 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 950w.


=Sinclair, William A.= Aftermath of slavery: a study of the condition
and environment of the American negro; with an introd. by T: Wentworth
Higginson. **$1.50. Small.

  “The over-zealous critic might point out many faults in the work. It
  is not well-digested, there are some overstatements, and much padding
  in the way of poetry and quotations from easily-accessible sources.
  And yet the book is of great value. It is alive. It is throbbing.” W.
  E. Burghardt Du Bois.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 294. My. 1, ’06. 520w.

  “To the student of social problems the book is of great value, not as
  a repository of facts, for the facts in it are badly warped, but
  simply as a ‘human document.’ As voicing the sentiments, then, of the
  class of influential negro radicals that book has a distinct value.”
  Walter L. Fleming.

    – + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 344. Je. ’06. 540w.


=Singer, Hans W.= Dante Gabriel Rossetti. *$1. Scribner.

  The life and art of Rossetti receive enthusiastic treatment in this
  volume which also contains an account of Pre-Raphaelitism and a list
  of Rossetti’s principal works in both public and private collections.
  Reproductions of a dozen of his best pictures are given with a
  portrait of the artist-poet.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The sketch, in the main, contains several interesting observations
  and some facts, but little that is new. It merely attempts to
  popularize knowledge.” Wm. T. Brewster.

    + – =Forum.= 38: 104. Jl. ’06. 330w.

  “In Dr. Hans Singer he has at last found a sympathetic German critic.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 182. D. ’05. 70w.

        =Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 230w.

  “The little book is distinctly below the standard of the series.”

      – =Nation.= 82: 468. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.

        =Sat. R.= 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 200w.


=Singer, Hans W.= James McNeill Whistler. *$1. Scribner.

  “This volume in the “Langham series of art monographs” treats of the
  absence of reverence in the American painter’s disputes with Ruskin,
  Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Eden, and others; his ‘Gentle art of making
  enemies,’ his ‘art,’ his principal paintings, etchings, lithographs,
  etc.; Whistler’s Thames, Venice, and Dutch sets; his hostility to
  critics and theory of criticism; ‘Ten o’clock,’ and Whistler’s theory
  of art. Mr. Singer shows the artist’s ‘unpleasant traits’ in order to
  enable the reader to better understand Whistler’s work as a painter of
  pictures.... The half-tone illustrations are sixteen in number and
  present the most familiar of Whistler’s paintings and sketches.” (N.
  Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is rather an inconsequent little book, for which not a great deal of
  praise is to be said.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 159. F. 22, ’06. 290w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 148. Mr. 10, ’06. 280w.


=Singleton, Esther=, comp. Holland as seen and described by famous
writers. **$1.60. Dodd.

  Miss Singleton’s “Holland” is a book of extracts compiled upon the
  plan of her books on London, Paris, etc.—excerpts being taken from
  prominent writers’ works. The book is divided into six parts, as
  follows: The country and race, History, Descriptions, Manners and
  customs, Painting and statistics.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It gives us expert description and criticism.... is therefore an
  admirable supplement to all the guide-books.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 130w.

        =Dial.= 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 40w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 70w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 100w.


=Skae, Hilda T.= Life of Mary, Queen of Scots. *$1.25. Lippincott.

  “So many and so elaborately controversial have been most of the
  numerous works recently published upon Mary Stuart, that it is hardly
  possible not to welcome as a relief a little volume like this, which
  takes a very great deal—including Mary’s essential goodness—for
  granted, and tells the familiar old story in the spirit and language
  of romance.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 40w.

      – =Dial.= 40: 266. Ap. 16, ’06. 190w.

  “A narrative bringing out into strong relief the sentimental and
  pathetic features is what she provides.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 633. S. 30, ’05. 390w.

  “She has constructed a pleasant readable book which even Mariolaters
  may find useful for reference purposes.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 697. N. 4, ’05. 200w.


=Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton.= Sicilian marriage. †$1.50. Pott.

  “Mr. Sladen says: ‘To make my story exciting I have crowded it with
  melodramatic events which really only come like angels’ visits.’ This
  quotation is an adequate description of ‘A Sicilian marriage’ and a
  characteristic example of Mr. Sladen’s style. His book is a fair
  specimen of the guide-book novel, which sandwiches history with
  love-scenes, and art-criticism with adventure.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The characters are like the incidents, stereotyped and familiar.”

      – =Acad.= 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 260w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 300w.

  “A love story of much interest.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

  “Mr. Sladen evidently knows a great deal about Sicily, but has not a
  very fortunate manner of imparting his information.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w.

  “The story proper is not interesting, and the descriptions of the
  antiquities of Sicily would be really much more readable without the
  personages who move, rather stiffly, among the temples and museums.”

      – =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 130w.


=Slater, John Herbert.= How to collect books. $2. Macmillan.

  “This volume will be found to contain a feast of good things for every
  book collector.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 100w.

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 30w.


=Slater, John Rothwell.= Sources of Tyndale’s version of the Pentateuch.
*50c. Univ. of Chicago press.

  A monograph which discusses the circumstances under which Tyndale
  gained his knowledge of Hebrew, the sources he used in his version of
  the Pentateuch and to what extent his work was original, and the
  influence his version exerted upon later translations and upon English
  literature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Dial.= 11: 169. S. 16, ’06. 80w.


=Slattery, Margaret.= Talks with the training class; with introd. by
Patterson Du Bois. 60c. Pilgrim press.

  These talks designed for the teacher-training department in the
  Sunday-school are based upon the study of what the great teachers of
  the ages have given us, upon personal influence in actual teaching,
  and upon careful observation of the work for others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It contains nothing novel in interpretation, or even in statement,
  but is brief, concise, and suggestive.”

      + =Bookm.= 24: 74. S. ’06. 50w.

  “The best manual for a training class we have seen.”

  + + + =Ind.= 61: 936. O. 18, ’06. 190w.

  “The best modern psychology is brought to bear on religious
  instruction, with as much thoroness, coupled with good sense, as
  characterizes the best text-books on pedagogy.”

    – – =Ind.= 61: 1167. N. 15, ’06. 80w.


=Slocum, Stephen Elmer and Hancock, Edward Lee.= Text-book on the
strength of materials. *$2. Ginn.

  Both the theoretical and experimental phases of the subject are here
  presented making the work elementary enough for the use of students of
  a junior grade in technical and engineering schools.


=Slosson, Margaret.= How ferns grow. **$3. Holt.

  Following a chapter in the “Development of the fern leaf” the author
  treats of eighteen individual fern species, and devotes a double-page
  illustration to each. The papers deal chiefly with the subject of
  cell-growth and kindred phenomena. “They scarcely touch upon the
  development of the form and venation of the leaf in each species, and
  in its individual aspects only, without reference to its relation to
  such development in other fern species.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We may confidently recommend the book to fern students.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 306. S. 15. 480w.

  “The book is more of a contribution than its elaborate form would
  suggest.” J. M. C.

    + + =Bot. Gaz.= 42: 496. D. ’06. 160w.

  “Miss Slosson has conscientiously followed her subject, and some of
  her discoveries no doubt throw light upon the phytology of the group.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 168. S. 16, ’06. 230w.

  “While valuable particularly to technical botanists, the work will be
  helpful to others.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 290w.

  “It is to be regretted that through no fault of her own the
  nomenclature is open to criticism, but aside from the matter of names,
  the book can be heartily recommended.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 86. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w.

  “This volume does not come within the popular scope but should have a
  place on the shelves of the botanist’s working library.” Mabel Osgood
  Wright.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 320w.


=Small, Albion Woodbury.= General sociology: an exposition of the main
development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer. *$4.
Univ. of Chicago press.

  “He has no system of his own to project, and therefore does not assail
  the work of other men with a devastating criticism. The book may be
  recommended to all who are not afraid to trust their today’s thinking
  as against their yesterday’s thought.” Edward Alsworth Ross.

    + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 382. Ap. ’06. 860w.

  “Viewed by individual sections or chapters, the volume contains much
  of great value, particularly to the advanced student. Viewed as the
  whole, the volume is less satisfactory. It will be of little service
  to the beginner, for the style is involved and at times confusing.”
  Carl Kelsey.

    + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 444. Mr. ’06. 750w.

  “The dejected feeling that Prof. Small’s book produces is mainly
  because of one’s inability to convince one’s self that the author
  believes that, there is any real truth or importance in this wordy
  farrago.” Winthrop More Daniels.

      – =Atlan.= 97: 852. Je. ’06. 1040w.

  “As a book on general sociology this is a valuable contribution to the
  literature on the subject. While the interpretation of human
  experience is sufficiently emphasized, sufficient stress is not laid
  upon the evolution of human society as a means of arriving at a
  correct estimate of the present structure and activities.” Frank W.
  Blackmar.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 146. Mr. 1, ’06. 1960w.

  “His volume is rather for the student, perhaps we might say the
  advanced student, than for the interested but not especially prepared
  thinker on sociological problems.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 273. F. 3, ’06. 420w.

  Reviewed by Edward Alsworth Ross.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 140. Mr. ’06. 980w.


=Smet, Pierre-Jean de.= Life, letters and travels of Father Pierre-Jean
de Smet, S. J.; ed. by Hiram Martin Chittenden and Alfred Talbot
Richardson. $15. Harper, F. P.

  “The new matter alone is nearly equal in volume to everything
  heretofore published. [Major Chittenden’s] research work has been
  thoro and fruitful.”

  + + + =Ind.= 60: 513. Mr. 1. ’06. 590w.


=Smiles, Samuel.= Autobiography. *$4. Dutton.

  “This last word from one whose writings have had a world-wide
  influence contains the features that gained instant popularity for its
  predecessors and invested them with such weight—the homely and sound
  philosophy, the appreciation of the possibilities of human nature, the
  unfailing sympathy for all seeking to better their condition by honest
  means, and the thorough readability.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Judiciously edited.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 420w.

      + =Ind.= 40: 931. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.

  “He tells it very well, with a practised pen guided by a sane
  and balanced judgment. It is an excellent autobiography,
  characteristically vigorous, cheerful, encouraging and
  wholesome.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 28. Ja. 26, ’06. 1270w.

  “His autobiography is a decidedly dull book. As an account of the man
  Smiles, except in this matter of vanity, the book is quite valueless.”

      – =Nation.= 82: 83. Ja. 25, ’06. 410w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 772. N. 11, ’05. 250w.

  “His autobiography is, in fine, a delightful and significant human
  document.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 938. D. 16, ’05. 330w.

        =Sat. R.= 100: 551. O. 28, ’05. 1360w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 386. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w.


=Smith, Alexander.= Introduction to general inorganic chemistry. *$2.25.
Century.

  The work of one who understands the psychology of teaching. The first
  four chapters deal in an introductory manner with the general
  characteristics of chemical phenomena. The remainder of the text
  treats elements and their compounds. “These chapters deal largely with
  the simpler physical properties of matter and include a brief and
  clear exposition of the utility of scientific method; following
  closely are the usual methods of determining equivalents, use of
  symbols and various simple calculations.”—Bookm.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has certainly earned the gratitude of all teachers of chemistry in
  the clear and masterly manner in which he has presented his subject.”

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 568. Jl. ’06. 580w.

    + + =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 180w.

  “The book is doubtless the very best of its kind and will be found to
  be particularly strong on explanations in connection with the
  hypothesis of ions.” W. O. Walker.

    + + =School R.= 14: 612. O. ’06. 650w.

  “Is certainly a good book for good students, and as such is to be
  heartily welcomed.” H. L. Wells.

    + + =Science=, n. s. 24: 398. S. 28, ’06. 230w.


=Smith, Anna Harris=, ed. Longfellow calendar. **50c. Crowell.

  A quotation from Longfellow for every day of the year.


=Smith, Charlotte Curtis.= Girls of Pineridge. †$1.50. Little.

  All about an active band of girls, fast friends and loyal. Their
  flower hunts, patch-work parties, cooking bees, etc. show what child
  energy wholesomely directed can accomplish.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The parrot ... that dovetails his remarks into the conversation so
  that they are perfectly relevant spoils an otherwise natural story of
  four wholesome little girls who are fond of nature and appreciate life
  in the woods.”

    – + =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 60w.


=Smith, Rev. David.= Days of His flesh: the earthly life of Our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. **$2.50. Armstrong.

  “This book is intended to do for this generation what Farrar’s ‘Life
  of Christ’ did for the generation preceding.”

      + =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.

  “It is clear, well-written, and not too much burdened by learned
  digression.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1086. D. 23, ’05. 320w.


=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Tides of Barnegat. †$1.50. Harper.

  A strange commingling of irresponsibility and duty operates in Mr.
  Smith’s new story with its artistic and dramatic touches. The loyal,
  fine-spirited Jane Cobden gives up her doctor and with him her hope of
  happiness to guard her will o’ the wisp sister’s sin and to mother the
  child born out of wedlock. The sacrifice becomes a thing of splendid
  heroism, and furnishes the motif of a story which reflects in its
  characters the sturdy traits of shore folk, and in its out-of-door
  atmosphere the freshness and varying moods of the sea.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A painstaking study of feminine character.”

        =Ath.= 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 130w.

  “The story is very readable, the descriptions of the life of fifty
  years ago in the little New Jersey town being full of charm.” Mary K.
  Ford.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 55. S. ’06. 970w.

  “Strikes a deeper note and is altogether of more serious quality than
  most of his productions.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 140w.

  “Mr. Smith is nothing if not emphatic in delineating the characters of
  his new story; indeed so emphatic is he that readers quite lose the
  pleasure of discovering for themselves what the book people stand for.
  The author’s best work is in suggesting the atmosphere of the
  narrative.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 882. O. 11, ’06. 590w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 300w.

  “His craftmanship, perhaps, is even better shown in this work than in
  most of his other novels.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

  “The story goes wider and deeper than any of its predecessors; if with
  less perfection of construction than the short stories, it is the most
  ripe of the novels.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 350w.

  “Mr. Hopkinson Smith has never done better work than in his
  delineation of Lucy’s character. The master’s hand is to be discerned
  in every stroke.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 507. Ag. 18, ’06. 1520w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 300w.

  “Is unpleasant from beginning to end.”

      – =Putnam’s.= 1: 109. O. ’06. 290w.


=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.

  “It is an entertaining collection, and has been put together in a
  creditable manner.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 270w.

  “Mr. Hopkinson Smith is as good a storyteller as ever, and as loyal an
  adherent of the old school that told a story for the story’s sake.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 90w.

    + + =Ind.= 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 170w.

  “Whether in jocund or in serious mood, the recital is always dramatic,
  always brought home with a touch of tenderness and comprehension It is
  the quality of brotherliness in the book that makes its greatest
  charm; the stories are not hewn out of the brain, but caught out of
  the heart.”

  + + + =Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 410w.

  “A highly creditable piece of work, a book for an hour’s light
  reading, with a day’s extent of deeper meanings and shades for those
  who care to seek for them.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 300w.

  “These winter’s tales ... make a very comfortable sort of book for a
  meditative hour.”

    + + =Reader.= 7: 567. Ap. ’06. 420w.


=Smith, Frank Berkeley.= In London town. **$1.50. Funk.

  “A passing glance in the crowd—the impressions which might have been
  gained by any traveller who crossed the Channel, hired a hansom at
  Charing Cross, and lost himself in the throng.” Mr. Smith’s
  observations are of the impressionistic order, and they flash from his
  pen and brush in gay procession; a peep into the hotels, theatres and
  music halls, Piccadilly by night and day—in truth all phases of life
  in the great British maelstrom make up the rapidly flitting panoramic
  view.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Just as breathless, sparkling, superficial, and amusing as his
  Parisian sketches.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 200w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 130w.

  “A book notable for sprightliness.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

  “The total effect of the book is flashy and un-English.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 220w.

  “We cannot say that his book on London quite equals his Paris books
  either in smartness or in verity.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 627. O. 6, ’06. 560w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 140w.


=Smith, Frederick Edwin, and Sibley, N. W.= International law as
interpreted during the Russo-Japanese war. *$5. Boston bk.

  “It is not well written; it is padded with irrelevant matter, and it
  is everywhere wordy. On the other hand, the authors follow Prof.
  Holland, a good guide, display research, and when they strike out a
  line for themselves occasionally carry the reader with them.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 329. S. 9. 890w.

  “Can hardly be regarded as a work of authority, as it is hastily and
  loosely written.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 352. Ap. 26, ’06. 720w.

  “Here, as elsewhere, Messrs. Smith and Sibley, while not always
  freeing themselves from the innate bias of national allegiance, show a
  thorough acquaintance with their subject and the ability to treat it
  in a more than usually interesting way.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 81: 1080. D. 30, ’05. 1090w.


=Smith, Gertrude.= Beautiful story of Doris and Julie. **$1.30. Harper.

  Very young folks are told in this story all about Doris and Julie who
  lived in the tiny red house, how their father lost his money and had
  to go away from them to earn more and how Miss Alice, who lived in the
  big house next door, took them home with her to be her little girls
  and made their lives one beautiful fairy-story.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is quite as pretty and delightful as its title indicates, and as are
  the previous stories of this author of children’s books.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 50w.

  “Is written in the author’s best style, a style that is the perfection
  of story telling for little folks of from five to ten.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 768. D. ’06. 40w.


=Smith, Goldwin.= In quest of light. **$1. Macmillan.

  Mr. Smith has gathered together in this volume his past few years’
  contributions to the New York Sun on religious and philosophical
  subjects. He “discusses frankly what remains of our traditional belief
  and how much science has taken from us—to return it to us, he
  believes, in another form.” (R. of Rs.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Cath. World.= 84: 105. O. ’06. 400w.

      + =Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 70w.

  “In spite of its brevity and informality, the work is weighty.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 85. Ag. 16, ’06. 60w.

        =Nation.= 82: 494. Je. 14, ’06. 1480w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 264. Je. 2, ’06. 700w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 633. My. 1, ’06. 630w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 60w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 898. Je. 9, ’06. 1940w.

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 130w.


=Smith, Goldwin.= Irish history and the Irish question. **$1.50.
McClure.

  “An attempt to trace the general course of the history as it leads up
  to the present situation.” He gives an account of the relations from
  the earliest times, politically and historically of England and
  Ireland, and suggests means for bettering Ireland’s present-day
  conditions.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 466. Ja. ’06. 30w.

  “As a sketch of Irish history this book is, on the whole, excellent.
  It will find a natural and worthy place on the shelf by the side of
  the author’s ‘United States’ and ‘United Kingdom;’ its general
  characteristics are much the same as those of the two earlier books,
  but it ought to be more serviceable because there is less that is good
  in brief compass on Ireland than on England or the United States.”
  Sidney B. Fay.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 117. O. ’06. 1120w.

        =Ath.= 1906, 1: 48. Ja. 13. 150w.

  “The theme offers exceptional opportunities to Goldwin Smith, and in
  his brilliantly-written essay he does it full justice.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 360w.

        =Dial.= 40: 330. My. 16, ’06. 480w.

  “Unjust he may at times be, unjust alike to the Englishman and the
  Irishman, but if only for his summing up, his little treatise must be
  accounted a notable contribution to the literature on the Irish
  question.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 760w.

  “The defects of Mr. Goldwin Smith’s new work as a serious historical
  study or as a thorough-going political analysis of the Irish question
  lie on the surface. There is no index; there are practically no
  quotations from or references to authorities, ancient or modern. The
  concluding chapter ... is not his own, but from the pen of an Irish
  barrister. It is enough to say of it that it would not be out of place
  in the columns of the most extreme and partisan of Nationalist
  newspapers.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 454. D. 22, ’05. 1310w.

  “Professor Smith’s account is concise to a degree that is actually
  misleading. Excessive compression may account for his very positive
  statements of facts not clearly known. The story is throughout
  strongly tinged with Mr. Smith’s own views, which are markedly
  anti-Irish and anti-Catholic.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 163. F. 22, ’06. 1320w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 905. D. 16, ’05. 420w.

  “Dr. Goldwin Smith has given us what is probably the most brilliant
  exposition of the Irish question in all its phases which has ever been
  written.”

  + + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’08. 90w.

      + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1014. Je. 30. ’06. 400w.


=Smith. Hannah Whitall (Mrs. Robert Pearsall Smith).= Living in the
sunshine. **$1. Revell.

  Mrs. Smith would be a message bearer to people who “carry their
  religion as a man carries a headache. He does not want to get rid of
  his head, but at the same time it is very uncomfortable to have it.”
  And her message is one that shows “what grounds there are in the
  religion of the Lord Jesus Christ for that deep and lasting peace and
  comfort of soul which nothing earthly can disturb, and which is
  declared to be the position of those who embrace it.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is an excellent book so far as it goes.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 93. My. 12, ’06. 160w.


=Smith, Lewis Worthington.= In the furrow. Baker-Trisler co., 420 Walnut
st., Des Moines, la.

  A score of musical verses upon a score of subjects such as: Gypsying,
  Southern stars, Italy, New England, Summer, The Japanese, The white
  czar, The violin.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Altogether, this little book seems to be worth while.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 350w.


=Smith, Marion Couthouy.= Electric spirit, and other poems. $1.25.
Badger, R. G.

  There is something truly pleasing in these verses which sing of the
  conventional subjects of minor poetry; love, and life in the abstract.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is altogether a refreshing promise and performance in the
  little volume.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 774. N. 24, ’06. 440w.


=Smith, Richard.= Tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk,
Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769. **$5. Scribner.

  “The purpose of the tour, Francis W. Halsey tells the reader in his
  historical introduction to the work, was to make a survey of that
  tract of land now known as the Otega patent, in which Smith and some
  others were interested. The journey was made in company with Richard
  Wells of Philadelphia and several surveyors.” (N. Y. Times.) “He gives
  a careful account of what he saw and learned on the route, including
  much of Indian life, and the narrative is of great interest as a
  contribution to the geography and history of the time. Mr. Halsey’s
  introduction of sixty pages is a concise account of the pioneers of
  the four rivers, with maps, views, and other illustrations.”
  (Putnam’s.)

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 574. S. 15, ’06. 430w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 190w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 100w.


=Smith, Ruel Perley.= Rival campers afloat; or, The prize yacht Viking.
$1.50. Page.

  A continuation of the adventures of “The rival campers,” of the prize
  yacht Viking. Henry Burns and his companions have an exciting round of
  sea sport and adventure which terminates in the theft of their
  “Viking” and its recapture after an anxious chase.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 735. N. 10, ’06. 90w.


=Smith, Sydney Armitage-.= John of Gaunt, king of Castile and Leon, duke
of Aquitaine and Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester,
seneschal of England. *$4.50. Scribner.

  Reviewed by Benjamin Terry.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 645. Ap. ’06. 1710w.


=Smith, Vincent A.= Early history of India. *$4.75. Oxford.

  “Those who are the most intimately connected with these studies will
  be the first to congratulate him on the success with which he has
  accomplished a task of no ordinary difficulty, and the most ready to
  excuse such shortcomings as are inevitable in the work of a pioneer.”
  E. J. Rapson.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 136. Ja. ’06. 590w.


=Smith, William Benjamin.= Color line. **$1.50. McClure.

  “To sum up: I would say that the book is all right as a plea for the
  continuance of the social separation between the races in the South,
  and would recommend those to read it who think there is no ground for
  maintaining a social and moral quarantine against the negro even where
  he exists in large numbers; but as an argument of the unimprovability
  of the negro race, the ultimate futility of negro education, and the
  early or remote extinction of the negro element in our population, it
  is weak, built upon fallacious reasoning, and unsound scientific
  theories.” Charles A. Ellwood.

    + – =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 570. Ja. ’06. 1790w.

  “To indicate the gaps in the author’s argument—for, strangely, this
  impassioned appeal is addressed to the reason—would be a long task.”

      – =Outlook.= 83: 87. My. 12, ’06. 430w.


=Smyth, H. Warington.= Mast and sail in Europe and Asia. **$6. Dutton.

  An authoritative book about boats “and while ‘Mast and sail’ is the
  title, scantling and planking, model and lines, come in for a good
  share of description and discussion.” (Nation.) “It is refreshing to
  come across a book like this, breathing throughout an intimate
  knowledge of sailing-ships and sailors, displaying insight into, and
  sympathy with, the nature of the men who follow the sea on the coasts
  of many countries, and showing in every page powers of quick
  observation and ready understanding of all that makes for the
  efficiency of sailing craft.” (Nature.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Comprehensive and delightful book, over which all yachtsmen will
  linger, comparing and contrasting.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 146. Ap. 27, ’66. 1170w.

  “‘Mast and sail’ will repay the study of the boat sailor and yacht
  designer; it gives a broader view of the art and craft than more
  technical works, and yet is accurate and instructive to the
  initiated.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 393. My. 10, ’06. 480w.

  “A book which is a perfect treasury of information on the subject
  treated, is well arranged, brightly written, and beautifully
  illustrated.” W. H. White.

  + + + =Nature.= 73: 536. Ap. 5, ’06. 1030w.

  “In its way is thoroughly notable, that is too technical perhaps to
  appeal to the general reader, but which carries for the follower of
  the sea, especially to the devotee of the sail, a burden of interest
  unsurpassed.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 304. My. 12, ’06. 1520w.

  “This is the most charming book of its kind we have seen.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 30Ow.

      + =Spec.= 96: 718. My. 5, ’06. 360w.


=Smythe, William Ellsworth.= Conquest of arid America. **$1.50.
Macmillan.

  The text of the first edition has been revised and a section added
  outlining the progress made during the five years since the book
  appeared. There is a four-part treatment: In the first the author
  discusses colonization and irrigation in a general way; in the second,
  some of the earlier irrigation ventures; in the third, the several
  arid and semi-arid states which remain to a greater or less extent
  undeveloped, and in the fourth, the genesis and evolution of the
  movement which has led to the intervention of the United States
  government in the task of reclaiming the desert parts of our country.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is eminently readable, both in content, style and physical
  makeup.”

    + + =Engin. N.= 55: 316. Mr. 15, ’06. 290w.

  “Mr. Smythe writes as an enthusiastic Westerner, but supports his
  extremely optimistic declarations by an abundance of statistics, so
  handled, however, as to make his narrative easy reading from first to
  last.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 259. F. 17, ’06. 100w.

    + – =Nation.= 82: 453. My. 31, ’06. 1740w.

  “As it stands, his book is invaluable to all who would make themselves
  fully acquainted with the internal territorial expansion of the past
  few years.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 280w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 510. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 110w.


=Smythe, William Ellsworth.= Constructive democracy: the economics of a
square deal. **$1.50. Macmillan.

  “No adequate notion of its many excellent qualities can be given in
  this brief space. It is enough to say that its style, vivified by a
  peculiar aptness of illustration, is attractive, and that it reveals a
  clear understanding of the problems with which it deals.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 280w.


=Snaith, John Collis.= Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.

  Northcote is a starving young advocate whose very conviction of the
  justice of power summons to him a genie in the shape of a solicitor
  who briefs him in a sensational murder case. The guilt of the woman
  whom he defends is beyond question but his hypnotic oratory secures
  her acquittal, when follows a reactionary period in which the sense of
  debasement at having sacrificed right to personal ambition makes him
  an easy prey to the woman’s wiles. He kills her in self defense, and
  sets fire to his garret to cover the deed. His composed confession is
  passed by for a “gruesome pleasantry,” and the reader is confident
  that this panoplied hero will sooner see the judge’s bench than the
  prison cell.

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  “It has no art—no architecture, we may say. But it has some striking
  scenes, is studded with admirable points of observation, and gives
  great hope of what might come from the author’s mind if he cared to
  exert it.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 480. My. 19, ’06. 420w.

  “Compared to ‘Broke of Covenden,’ ‘Henry Northcote’ is more of a piece
  in general execution, more uniform, more confined to one violent minor
  key.” Charlotte Caxton.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 272. N. ’06. 1600w.

  “The book is Henry Northcote, and in so far as it bodies forth that
  strange modern mind, so strong and so weak, so pitiful and so
  arrogant, it is a very considerable and fine thing.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 170. My. 11, ’06. 660w.

  “However reluctantly one must yield to such a book the admiration due
  to a thing of crude force.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 418. N. 15, ’06. 680w.

  “A grim and gruesome tale, to be read to the finish if one once
  begins, because of its grip and its strangeness; always, however, with
  a shuddering protest.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 320w.

  “It will furnish a number of first-class thrills, though it cannot be
  ranked with the author’s earlier book.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

  “Has all the faults and none of the merits of its predecessor.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 40w.


=Snell, Frederick John.= Age of transition, 1400–1580. 2v. *$1.
Macmillan.

  The last volume in the “Handbooks of English literature” covers the
  period from Chaucer to Spenser: the first volume dealing with the
  poets; the second, with the dramatists and prose-writers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We find nothing—or very little—to quarrel with in Mr. Snell’s
  judgment, and the young students for whom the book is intended can
  take no harm from accepting his opinions.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1271. D. 2, ’05. 260w.

  “From Mr. Snell’s careful accounts of books and writers one may
  correct many errors in the more enlivening work of less minutely exact
  historians.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 722. N. 25. 310w.

  “A clear, reliable record of the details by one who has taken pains to
  study them first hand and has brought them into fair order for the
  reader or student desirous of orientating himself with respect to what
  is perhaps the least known epoch of our literature.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 170w.

  “In this as in his former work he shows himself, in nearly all
  instances, thoroughly abreast of the most recent research, and has
  managed to prevent the dullness of the period from communicating
  itself to his treatment of it. On the whole, however, Mr. Snell’s ‘Age
  of transition’ is a reliable handbook, and may be recommended as a
  guide for the period that it treats.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 20. Ja. 4, ’06. 740w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. 28. ’05. 260w.

  “Mr. Snell does his work carefully. His comment is not always
  fortunate.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 468. Ap. 14, ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Mr. Snell has done a piece of work which, useful, and indeed
  indispensable, as it is, has no great attractions for either author or
  reader.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30. ’05. 350w.


=Snyder, Harry.= Dairy chemistry. *$1. Macmillan.

  “It is a text-book of dairying, but there is no rule-of-thumb; an
  appeal is made to reason; processes are advocated because found by
  experiment to be sound; the impression left on the student’s mind is,
  ‘This is the best to-day; there may be a better to-morrow.’”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There are unfortunately, a few misprints and inaccuracies, together
  with curious repetitions of the same statements, suggesting that the
  book has been edited from lecture notes compiled in card-catalogue
  form.”

  + + – =Nature.= 74: 243. Jl. ’06. 540w.

  Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 180w.


Sociological papers, by Francis Galton and others. *$3.60. Macmillan.

  “It is to be regretted that a book which in so many respects is
  praiseworthy should suffer for an unnecessary lack of coherence in the
  arrangement of its contents and from careless proof-reading.” R. F.
  Hoxie.

    + – =Philos. R.= 15: 668. N. ’06. 590w.

  Review by Michael S. Davis, jr.

      + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 143. Mr. ’06. 940w.


=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis
Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.

  “Among these papers are to be found one by Mr. Francis Galton on
  ‘Restrictions in marriage,’ a subject which evidently excited a great
  amount of interest, the contributions to the discussion, verbal and
  written, being far more numerous than we find anywhere else; ‘The
  school in some of its relations to social organisation and to national
  life,’ by Professor M. E. Sadler; and ‘The influence of magic on
  social relationships,’ by Dr. E. Westermarck, a most remarkable
  collection of facts on one aspect of primitive and savage life.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 426. N. 06. 280w.

        =Ind.= 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)

  Reviewed by H. Stanley Jevons.

        =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 131. O. ’06. 1850w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Though hardly equal in interest to its precursor, the present volume
  contains some valuable contributions to sociology.” F. W. H.

      + =Nature.= 74: 29. My. 10, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The contributors to this volume cannot indeed be charged with
  narrowmindedness; but in some rather ponderous pages there are
  syntheses which appear to prove nothing, and world-wide
  generalisations which attempt to prove too much. Dr. Galton, at any
  rate, is always practical.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 210. Ag. 18, ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 2.)

        =Spec.= 96: 837. My. 26, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Soden, Hermann, baron von.= History of the early Christian literature:
the writings of the New Testament; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson; ed. by
Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$1.50. Putnam.

  “As one follows his pages he finds himself tracing the growth of a
  spiritual life of great interest and power, and his attention is held
  to the character and worth of that life rather than to technical
  questions concerning the literature in which it is embodied.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is much in von Soden’s book that is stimulating and suggestive,
  but oftentimes it is difficult to recognize the reasonableness or
  advantage of his hypotheses.” Warren J. Moulton.

    + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 720. O. ’06. 910w.

  “Written with sympathy and insight and in most attractive style.”

      + =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 120w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 70w.

  “Has eminent and substantial merits. It is free, and at the same time
  well balanced. It is lucid, and sufficiently untechnical to be helpful
  to the average Bible student.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 324. F. 10, ’06. 150w.


=Sollas, William Johnson.= Age of the earth, and other geological
studies. *$3. Dutton.

  A series of ten essays and addresses by the Professor of geology at
  Oxford. “In sufficiently popular form they present the latest
  hypotheses, researches and conclusions of the science on points of
  primary importance, together with some of secondary interest.”
  (Outlook.)

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  “The Professor discourses pleasantly and well, writing with command of
  much scientific learning, yet always readably, sometimes with
  brilliancy of diction, and occasionally with a touch of humor. Even
  the most abstruse subject fails to make him altogether dull.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 473. O. 7. 1220w.

      + =Dial.= 40: 300. My. 1, ’06. 390w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 529. Je. 28, ’06. 250w.

  “The book is entirely readable, and will serve to bring workers in all
  manner of fields the views of one who holds that nothing terrestrial
  is foreign to the subject of geology.”

      + =Nature.= 73: 513. Mr. 29, ’06. 1060w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 519. Mr. 3, ’06. 150w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 40w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 424. Mr. 17, ’06. 1130w.


=Somerset, Lady Isabella Caroline (Somers-Cocks).= Under the arch.
†$1.50. Doubleday.

  “There is plenty of incident in this story. There are farewells at
  Waterloo to soldiers bound for South Africa, there is a battle with
  the Boers, there are passages in fashionable drawing-rooms where
  titled ladies, lovely as the dawn, prattle of husbands and lovers at
  the front.... Lady Henry’s personages pass through harrowing
  experiences, but we read and are not harrowed.... Only in the slums,
  strange to say do we breathe an air that is not exhausted. Lady
  Henry’s little ragamuffins speak and act naturally: it is to be
  regretted that they do not occupy a larger portion of her
  canvas.”—Sat. R.

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      + =Critic.= 48: 510. Je. ’06. 350w.

  “An absorbing narrative, throbbing with the life of to-day.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 219. Ap. 7, ’06. 630w.

  “Lady Henry Somerset has a keener eye for situations than for
  character. It is all desperately artificial and conventional.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 529. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.

  “It is carefully and cleverly written, and the character-drawing is
  also well done.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 330w.


=Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore.= Francis Hopkinson, the first American
poet-composer, and James Lyon, patriot, preacher, psalmodist: two
studies in early American music. *$5. O. G: T. Sonneck, Lib. of
Congress, Wash., D. C.

  “A very important contribution to the history of American music and
  will undoubtedly have much influence on future works on this topic.”
  Louis C. Elson.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 419. Ja. ’06. 550w.


=Soto, Hernando or Fernando de.= Narratives of the career of Hernando de
Soto in the conquest of Florida; ed. by E. G. Bourne. **$2. Barnes.

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 180w.

  “It comes nearer than any previously published book to furnishing a
  complete collection of ‘sources’ for the first great expedition into
  the Southern United States.” E. H.

    + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 825. O. ’05. 690w.


=Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster.= Spalding year book; comp. by Minnie
R. Cowan. **75c. McClurg.

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 849. Mr. ’06. 60w.


=Spargo, John.= Bitter cry of the children. **$1.50. Macmillan.

  “A plain, unvarnished statement of the manner of life of the children
  of the poor, and of the results of such living on their health and
  their morals, and a carefully planned series of remedial
  suggestions.... Mr. Spargo’s book is in five sections, dealing,
  respectively, with the poor baby, the school child, the working child,
  remedies, and the transplanting to the country of tenement children.
  The first of these is entitled ‘The blighting of the babies,’ a study
  of the very little children of the poor.... Mr. Spargo’s chapter on
  ‘The school child’ is practically a continuation of his first chapter;
  it discusses the subject of starvation among the school children....
  Chapter III of the book deals with ‘The working child.’ It is probably
  the most awful in the book.... The mill children, the glass factory
  boys, the mine boys, are studied.... Mr. Spargo’s remedies are many.
  As regards the babies, they include State or Federal supervision of
  infant food manufacture; meals for school children, medical inspection
  of schools, a minimum standard for working children established by
  Federal law.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “School teachers need this book, social workers, librarians, pastors,
  editors, all who want to understand the problem of poverty or
  education. It is not only readable, it contains illustrations and
  facts that are matters of record, absolutely proved.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 196. Jl. ’06. 720w.

  “Far inferior to the ‘Long day.’” Winthrop. More Daniels.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 842. Je. ’06. 270w.

  “Rather painfully interesting study.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 180w.

  Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.

      + =Dial.= 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 200w.

  “No one fit to be called human can read it without the stirring of
  pulses that have never stirred before.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 868. Ap. 12, ’06. 1080w.

  “Mr. Spargo’s book ought to be epoch-making; it ought to mark the
  turning of the tide in the treatment of children. We can think of no
  one who, of full age, would not be benefited by reading the book.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 127. Mr. 3, ’06. 1400w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 805. Ap. 7, ’06. 340w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 271. Mr. 3. ’06. 1090w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 160w.


=Spargo, John.= Socialism; a summary and interpretation of socialist
principles. **$1.25. Macmillan.

  “A summary and interpretation of Socialist principles.... Mr. Spargo
  offers no apology for the faith that is in him, but attempts merely to
  state in popular language what socialism really means and what it does
  not mean. In short the man in the street will find in this little
  volume an up-to-date exposition of the socialism that is alive in the
  world to-day.”—R. of Rs.

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  “Until now there has not been any one book from which the inquirer
  could get any clear idea of the subject as a whole. This want Mr.
  Spargo has well supplied. His book is enjoyable as well as
  instructive, being comparatively free from the peculiar terminology
  which makes many Socialistic works unpalatable to the average reader,
  yet not sacrificing accuracy to popularity of expression.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 693. S. 20, ’06. 540w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 160w.

  “The historical survey is both fragmentary and slight.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 76. Jl. 26, ’06. 320w.

  Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 628. O. 6, ’06. 2150w.

  “Mr. Spargo’s book is less critical and more constructive than most
  treatises on socialism. It is a useful but a temporary contribution to
  current discussion.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 92. S. 8, ’06. 540w.

  “Written frankly from the point of view of a convinced socialist.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 90w.


=Spearman, Frank Hamilton.= Whispering Smith. †$1.50. Scribner.

  A railroad wreck forms the beginning of this story of adventure in the
  northwest, and also the beginning of a feud between Sinclair, foreman
  of the bridges, and McCloud, division superintendent. Sinclair,
  dismissed from his position, joins a band of outlaws who rob and
  pillage the railroad until Whispering Smith with his posse of men,
  after many wild and desperate encounters, finally captures them. It is
  essentially a story of action, but there is also a double love
  interest.

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  “The characters are railroad men and cattle-ranchers, and the action
  rapid and adventurous in a way that holds the attention from start to
  finish.” Mary K. Ford.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 160. O. ’06. 1040w.

  “It is extremely well done. It is even to be suspected that there is
  much to be learned from the book.”

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 568. S. 15, ’06. 880w.

  “It is full of action and not without originality.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 20w.

  “We all have a sneaking fondness for gunplay and bad men in our
  reading-matter, but we cannot always procure them with the approval of
  our literary consciences. Mr. Spearman’s new novel, ‘Whispering
  Smith.’ is going to be a great success because it satisfies both
  consciences and tastes in this matter.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 224. N. ’06. 260w.


=Spears, John Randolph.= David G. Farragut. **$1.25. Jacobs.

  “In its entirety, the biography of four hundred pages may be classed
  among the best books of its kind.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.


=Spelling, Thomas Carl.= Bossism and monopoly. **$1.50. Appleton.

  From the training of ultra-conservatism Mr. Spelling emerges with a
  “conviction of the need of the radical reforms which he advocates in
  his book. It is a sorry tale of graft, fraud, and oppression by big
  business, co-operating with political bosses, which he relates. He has
  looked over the whole ground and has found chicanery and robbery
  wherever this unholy alliance has been made. In the face of
  conditions, the seeming apathy of the people not unnaturally affects
  him with wonder. But he sees signs of a revolt and he expects remedial
  action. Municipal, State and Government ownership are the indicated
  remedies.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Tho desultory and disjointed in parts, it is well worth the serious
  consideration of all citizens interested in the welfare of their
  country.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 687. Mr. 22, ’06. 240w.

  “A book quite well worth reading, but not at all easy reading.” Edward
  Cary.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 61. F. 3, ’06. 870w.


=Spender, R. E. S.= Display: a tale of newspaper life. †$1.50. Lane.

  “Mr. Spender imagines an editor at a loss for a sensation, arranging
  that his special correspondent should discover in the heart of Africa
  a survival or imitation of More’s ‘Utopia.’ An expedition of learned
  men is sent off to investigate, and their experiences seem to be
  suggested by the recent adventures of the British association in
  Africa.” (Sat. R.) “In point of fact the adventures do not amount to
  much. The author is merely spending his high spirits on the way in
  satire, criticism, and conversational sallies. He is evidently young
  and interested in life and thought—points very much in his favor.”
  (Ath.)

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    + – =Acad.= 69: 1230. N. 25, ’05. 250w.

  “On the whole his book is enlivening, but a trifle too elaborate.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 190w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 210w.

    + – =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 5. D. 9, ’05. 360w.


=Spenser, Edmund.= Faery queen: first book rewritten in simple language
by Calvin Dill Wilson; decorated by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. $1. McClurg.

  A handsomely decorated book in the series of “Old tales retold for
  young readers.”

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  “Mr. Wilson has performed the task creditably and has kept the spirit
  of the poem.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 70w.


=Spenser, Edmund.= Una and the red cross knight and other tales from
Spenser’s Faerie queene, by N. G. Royde-Smith; 50 il. and col. front, by
F. H. Robinson. $2.50. Dutton.

  The story of Spenser’s poem told in prose with occasional
  interspersions of the verses.

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  “Well written, and illustrated in an imaginative style that will
  interest old and young readers equally.”

      + =Dial.= 39: 450. D. 16, ’05. 50w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 894. D. 16, ’05. 290w.

  “A commendable and on the whole fairly successful attempt to retell
  some of the more spirited incidents in Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’ for
  children’s reading.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 70w.


=Spielmann, Marion Henry, and Layard, George Somes.= Kate Greenaway.
*$6.50. Putnam.

  “These facts are presented by the authors of the monograph clearly,
  sympathetically, and with just sufficient detail to impart the
  requisite vitality, and this is further enhanced by the fact that Mr.
  Spielmann’s share of the work is the tribute of a personal
  friendship.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 23. Ja. 6. 1270w.

  Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 277. F. ’06. 430w.

  “On the whole Miss Greenaway’s present biographers have dealt
  tactfully with the vast mass of material placed at their disposal.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 28: 275. My. ’06. 220w.

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 119. Ja. 27, ’06. 960w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 15. Ja. 4, ’06. 2080w.

  “This is a sympathetic biography.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 390w.


=Spiers, R. Phene.= Architecture east and west. *$4.50. Scribner.

  “There are too many slips of the pen allowed to pass.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 71. Mr. 2, ’06. 820w.


=Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott (Mrs. Richard S. Spofford).= Old
Washington. †$1.50. Little.

  Washington in the days following the close of the civil war furnishes
  the setting for five delightful stories. They are “A Thanksgiving
  breakfast,” “A guardian angel,” “In a conspiracy,” “A little old
  woman,” and “The colonel’s Christmas.” The variations from the
  lavender-and-old-lace atmosphere to that of the stuffy hall-room
  sheltering impecunious gentle-folk, and that of the splendid reception
  halls, and even the senate chamber itself, suggest the characters
  which include Southern women, loyal mammies, struggling department
  clerks and politicians.

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  “Five stories, good as such, but better as pictures of life and
  society at the capital as it was after the Civil war, forty or more
  years ago.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 70w.

  “As usual, the author draws too much upon the tears of her
  imagination; but she has done the best she could with the kind of
  material she selects.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.

    + – =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 60w.

  “There is a dewdrop quality about Harriet Prescott Spofford’s style
  that gives it a gentle sparkle and makes the reading of one of her
  stories pleasant diversion indeed.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 380w.

  “Humor, tenderness, and an intimate acquaintance with the time
  characterize these tales.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 60w.

  “Mrs. Spofford has caught and fixed this fragrant, rose-leaf odor as
  surely as have F. Hopkinson Smith or Thomas Nelson Page.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 542. Ap. 28, ’06. 190w.


=Sprague, John Francis.= Sebastian Ralé. $1. Heintzmann press, Boston.

  A monograph on the environment, work and character of Father Ralé who
  devoted thirty years of his life to a little band of Indians on the
  banks of the Kennebec and who was slain in an attack upon his mission.

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        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 749. Ap. ’06. 80w.

  “We may sincerely congratulate Mr. Sprague, from the literary point of
  view, on having produced a monograph which is an excellent piece of
  historical work. We congratulate him still more warmly on the
  possession of the broadminded spirit, and the courage to manifest it.”

  + + + =Cath. World.= 84: 112. O. ’06. 490w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 130w.


=Spurgeon, Rev. Charles Haddon.= Spurgeon’s illustrative anecdotes;
arranged under subjects and topics by Rev. Louis Albert Banks. **$1.20.
Funk.

  For the benefit of preachers and teachers who have need of anecdotes
  with which to illustrate their sermons and religious talks the
  compiler has selected and classified some 500 of the stories which
  Spurgeon used so successfully. Their arrangement under such headings
  as Affliction, Ambition, Blessings, Christ, Conscience, Conversion,
  Duty, Faith, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Hope, Joy etc., etc. render them
  easy of access.

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  “The work is admirably classified and arranged so that any special
  subject can be readily found.”

      + =Arena.= 36: 334. S. ’06. 80w.

  “No doubt ministers of religion will find good use for the ammunition
  under each head, which has already been proved and found not wanting
  by the man from whose writings Dr. Banks has culled his material.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 230w.


=Spyri, Johanna.= Moni the goat boy, and other stories tr. from the
German by Edith F. Kunz. *40c. Ginn.

  There is a delightful simplicity about the three little stories which
  make up this volume; they breathe the love of children, of animals,
  and of mountain air. Moni, the goat boy, was happy when his conscience
  was wholly clear, he tended his goats, and sang to them, and did not
  want to become an egg boy because eggs could not love you or come when
  you called. Without a friend, tells of how stupid Rudi ceased to be
  stupid when friendship came to him, and The little runaway, is the
  story of the marvelous reformation of a saucy little boy.


=Squire, Charles.= Mythology of the British islands: an introduction to
Celtic myth, legend, poetry, and romance. *$3.50 Scribner.

  “It is well written and lucid, and leaves us with a clear idea of the
  scope of Celtic mythology. It is true that the author is inclined to
  assume too much, to treat as fact what the scholars he is following
  have merely conjectured.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 9. Ja. 6. 1010w.

  “It aims in short, to impart some such knowledge of Celtic mythology
  as most persons of cultivation are supposed to possess of the
  mythology of Greece and Rome, and so far as the substance of the
  ancient tales is concerned it accomplishes this purpose
  satisfactorily.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 184. Ag. 30, ’06. 430w.


=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Fra Angelico; with memoir by Edgcumbe Staley, and 64
full-page reproductions of his works in half-tone. $1.25. Warne.

  A “Newnes art library” volume. “In five brief chapters Mr. Staley
  depicts as many phases and periods in the development of an altogether
  lovable artist—the son of the Mugello, the novice of Cortona, the monk
  of Fiesole, the theologian of Florence and the saint of Rome.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

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  “Both the text and the illustrations are of such an excellent duality
  that the volume should have a firmly established place on the shelves
  of the student desiring a general view of the period.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 70w.

  “A valuable addition to the ‘Newnes art library.’”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 313. My. 12, ’06. 200w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 331. Je. 9, ’06. 50w.


=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Guilds of Florence. **$5. McClurg.

  The author says of this work “The cumulated energies of the
  Florentines had their focus in the corporate life of the
  trade-associations, and in no other community was the guild-system so
  thoroughly developed as it was in Florence. A complete and connected
  history of the guild has never been compiled. The present work is put
  forth, perhaps rather tentatively than exhaustively, to supply the
  omissions.” Beginning with chapters on Florentine commerce and
  industry, and, General history of the guilds, the guilds themselves
  are taken up under the sub-divisions of, The seven greater guilds, The
  five intermediate guilds, and The nine minor guilds, after which the
  life and work in the markets, the religion of the guilds, their
  patronage and their charity, are fully discussed. A bibliography,
  chronology, and index are provided and the volume is profusely
  illustrated after miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and Florentine
  woodcuts.

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  “It is with real regret that we find a work of so much intrinsic worth
  defaced by the inclusion of so much which is unnecessary and
  irritating to read.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 155. Ag. 18, ’06. 1520w.

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 201. O. ’06. 40w.

  “It is the commonplace book of an industrious worker. The history of
  the Florentine guilds has yet to be written.”

      – =Ath.= 1906. 2: 555. N. 3. 1450w.

  “In it one finds, conveniently, the answer to so many questions that
  arise through a morning’s wanderings in narrow and alluring byways.
  Even its dry statistics of revenues and taxes help you to repeople the
  dead centuries by the sense of activity and enterprise which the mere
  figures convey.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 371. D. ’06. 1420w.

  “In treating of the minor corporations such as those of inn-keepers,
  saddlers, bakers, etc., this indefatigable author enters into the very
  life of the people, so that his book is not only to a great extent a
  history of art, of literature, of science, and of commerce, but of
  social manners and customs.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 91. N. ’06. 500w.

  “When he is bestowing information, which he does both copiously and
  clearly, his style is concise and business like, and he says well what
  he has to say. But when he is afraid of being dull—which real
  information never is—he is by no means so happy.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 294. Ag. 31. ’06. 2010w.

  “From the preface to the bibliography the book is crammed with
  mistakes.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 537. D. 20, ’06. 630w.

  “A remarkably complete, scholarly, and copiously illustrated history.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 220w.

  “Mr. Staley’s book is not precisely one to read through. It is a
  valuable work of reference, where every one who loves Florence and her
  history may find her medieval life reproduced from many sources
  difficult of access to the ordinary reader. The book would be worth
  having for its pictures alone.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 367. S. 15, ’06. 1680w.


=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Raphael; with a short biographical sketch of Raphael
Santi or Sanzio; with a list of principal works. $1.25. Warne.

  “We could spare some of Mr. Staley’s rather sophomoric
  characterizations of the great painter.”

      – =Outlook.= 83: 331. Je. 9. ’06. 280w.


=Stamey, De Kellar.= Junction of laughter and tears. $1.25. Badger, R:
G.

  Half a hundred little poems which the author has dedicated to his wife
  and babe, and which picture the home and its interests in both
  sunshine and shadow.


=Stamey, De Keller.= Land of Schuyli Jing. $1.25. Broadway pub.

  Fourscore little stories and poems which treat daintily of love, home,
  children, patriotism, religion, death, nature and other things.


=Standing, Percy Cross.= Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. *$1.50. Cassell.

  This biography has been written under the sanction and practical
  co-operation of Alma-Tadema himself, a fact which establishes his
  career in an authoritative light. The sketch of his life emphasises
  the very tendencies that step by step produced the artist. The forces
  from within and without and the intrinsic idealism into which they
  have resolved themselves make a unity well worth careful analysis and
  study. The illustrations aim to show the gradual development of the
  power of expression, several of which have not been reproduced before.

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  “He has not succeeded in conveying any real idea of the personality of
  Sir Lawrence, or of the characteristics of his style.”

    – + =Int. Studio.= 26: 88. Mr. ’06. 80w.

  “Is especially valuable as being the story which the artist himself
  would have the world know.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 229. Ap. 7, ’06. 1020w.

        =Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21. ’06. 60w.


=Standish, Winn.= Captain Jack Lorimer; il. $1.50. Page.

  Jack Lorimer who has become well known thru the pages of the Boston
  Sunday Herald now makes his bow as the hero of a lively football story
  published in book form. He is captain of the Melville high school
  eleven and his pluck, hard work and fair dealing win the day for him
  against the deep treachery that a

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  “Told with much go and spirit. The book is intended for boys midway of
  their teens and a little older.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 90w.


=Stanley, Caroline Abbot (Mrs. Elisha Stanley).= Modern Madonna. †$1.50.
Century.

  Upon the law in force until recent years in the District of Columbia,
  which gave to the father, power to will away the custody of his unborn
  child hinges the story of a cruelly wronged young wife. Margaret,
  after the tragic death of her husband who has proved faithless, finds
  that she must give her all, her baby Philip, into the hands of her
  husband’s brother, who has become alienated from her. But after a
  brave fight, in which her character develops in strength and
  tenderness, she wins both her boy and his uncle, and sees the cruel
  law repealed.

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  “An interesting and readable novel.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 672. O. 13, ’06. 330w.

  “A tragical and melodramatic story of real power although without much
  literary grace.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 110w.


=Stanwood, Edward.= James Gillespie Blaine. **$1.25. Houghton.

  “Mr Stanwood was perhaps better equipped for the work than any other
  writer in the country He excels ... in the kind of fairness that
  consists in treating respectfully the men and views one opposes.”
  William Garrott Brown.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 701. Ap. ’06. 1160w.

  “Even if Mr. Stanwood’s friendliness toward his theme carries him
  occasionally near to the limits of special pleading, he has in the
  large performed his task with marked success and skill.” M. A. De
  Wolfe Howe.

  + + – =Atlan.= 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 420w.

  “He has written a very admirable condensed account of Mr. Blaine, and
  one which will be read with keen interest for its impartiality,
  insight and instructiveness.” H. T. P.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 513. Ja. ’06. 1570w.

      + =Dial.= 40: 49. Ja. 16, ’06. 540w.

  “Altho Mr. Stanwood has not the skill of a truly great biographer, yet
  the very logic of the events themselves, plainly and simply told,
  furnishes a stirring narrative.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 515. Mr. 1, ’06. 380w.

  “The reader feels that the author is rather an apologist than a
  biographer, and even that he has not done full justice to Mr. Blaine’s
  astuteness as a politician. Certainly the appeal is rather to those
  whose interests are not primarily economic.” J. C.

      – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 459. Jl. ’06. 170w.

  “We are forced to say that this book can hardly fail to harm the
  general series to which it belongs.”

    – + =Nation.= 82: 141. F. 15, ’06. 2620w.


=Starr, Louis.= Hygiene of the nursery. $1. Blakiston.

  The seventh edition of a manual which includes the general regimen and
  feeding of infants and children, massage, and the domestic management
  of the ordinary emergencies of early life.


=Stauffer, David McNeely.= Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.

  The change that has been made in the practice of tunneling by the
  introduction of high explosives, by the use of machine drills, by
  special appliances for handling the debris or protecting the roof of
  the tunnel and by the employment of electric power and light has made
  the present hand-book a necessity. The work is illustrated by examples
  taken from actual recent work in the United States and in foreign
  countries.

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  “The author of this book is to be congratulated both upon having
  produced what will prove to be a useful book of reference for
  engineers engaged in the arduous work of tunnelling, and also upon the
  fair and impartial manner in which he writes.”

    + + =Nature.= 74: 409. Ag. 23, ’06. 1420w.


=Stead, Alfred.= Great Japan; a study of national efficiency. **$2.50.
Lane.

  “The author possesses a pleasing style at once direct and lucid. The
  work is entitled to rank among the best books of the character that
  have appeared. It is a standard work worthy of a place in the
  libraries of all thoughtful people.”

  + + + =Arena.= 35: 285. Mr. ’06. 3950w.

  “Viewed as a manual of plausible and often valuable information, the
  book is a welcome addition to the library on Japan: but to take Mr.
  Stead’s statements on their face value is to accept a fabric of
  delusion.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 496. Je. 14, ’06. 1210w.

    + – =Westminster R.= 164: 609. D. ’05. 1110w.


=Stealey, O. O.= Twenty years in the press gallery. $5. O. O. Stealey,
1421 G St., Washington, D. C.

  A concise history of important legislation from the 48th to the 58th
  congress; the part played by the leading men of that period and the
  interesting and impressive incidents; impressions of official and
  political life in Washington. There is an introduction contributed by
  Mr. Henry Watterson in which he alludes to the seamy side of a
  Washington correspondent’s experiences and to the side that makes the
  life endurable.

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        =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 211. O. ’06. 80w.

  “He has a sunny, gossipy, conversational way of writing that leaves no
  wounds. And it is evident that he suppresses the unkind things he
  might say. The chief defect of the book is the suppression of the
  author’s personality. He tells too little of what he himself has seen
  and known of public men.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 433. Jl. 7, ’06. 1060w.


=Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie Webster.= Book of mortals: being a record of
the good deeds and good qualities of what humanity is pleased to call
the lower animals. $3. Macmillan.

  “Reproductions of great paintings of animals have been published in
  attractive typographical form with a story written around them.” (R.
  of Rs.) “The book is divided into three parts—‘What our fellow-mortals
  are,’ ‘What animals have done for man,’ and ‘What our fellow-mortals
  are doing.’ In the first part the author shows the similarity of the
  ways of the ‘beasts that perish’ and those of mortals; Part 2, is
  given over to a few animal legends and tales of animal symbolism which
  have been interwoven with the history of the human race, while the
  third division concerns itself with the ways in which, day by day,
  hour by hour, they (our ‘fellow mortals’) make the life of each of us
  pleasurable, profitable—nay, more! possible.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author’s is a hopelessly sentimental view, but she is very much
  in earnest, and pleads her case with eloquence and with the address of
  an advocate.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 263. Mr. 3. 440w.

  “There are both humor and kindliness in the writing of this book.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 274. F. 17, ’06. 170w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 70w.

  “Perhaps the secret of the unsatisfactory and somewhat mystifying
  effect of the work is due to the fact that she writes not like one but
  as two distinct persons.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 696. Je. 2, ’06. 1130w.


=Steffens, Joseph Lincoln.= Struggle for self-government: being an
attempt to trace American political corruption to its sources in six
states of the United States, with a dedication to the czar. **$1.20.
McClure.

  In this volume the author of “The shame of the cities,” “describes the
  government in six of our states in the direction of a return to the
  political cleanliness of former times. It is the general movement
  against bossism, of which the elections of 1905 gave many cheering
  indications. Mr. Steffens’ account of what has been accomplished in
  Ohio, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Missouri is full of
  encouragement to friends of popular government in other states.” (R.
  of Rs.)

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  “It is unfortunate, however, that Mr. Steffens, with so commendable a
  purpose, should adopt in his writing a tone of arrogance and a
  disinclination to restraint in his use of the picturesque. It is
  difficult at times to overlook this fault, and to keep in mind that
  the author’s object is truth rather than sensationalism.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.

  “If there is any serious fault to be found with this book it is a
  fault of style rather than of substance.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 19. Jl. 5, ’06. 600w.

  “A specimen of workmanlike journalism rather than literature. Its
  value is of the moment, for there is no trace of the learning and
  insight which distinguish and give permanent worth to treatises like
  Bryce’s or De Tocqueville’s.” Edward A. Bradford.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 487. Ag. 4, ’06. 850w.

  “We wish Mr. Steffens’s words were as sound and persuasive as they are
  courageous.”

    – + =Outlook.= 83: 287. Je. 2, ’06. 460w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 190w.


=Steindorff, Georg.= Religion of the ancient Egyptians. **$1.50. Putnam.

  “The booklet gives about as good a picture of a complicated and wide
  subject as could be given in such limited space, and some further
  minor criticisms would not alter this judgment.” W. Max. Müller.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 868. Jl. ’06. 890w.

  “It would be impossible to gain anything like a clear idea of the
  individual Egyptian deities from Steindorff’s book, which is, perhaps
  necessarily, sketchy and some what superficial.” L. H. Gray.

    – + =Bookm.= 22: 359. D. ’05. 370w.

  “As to the value of what Professor Steindorff has given us, there can
  be but one judgment. It is interesting in manner, and constructed on
  the best plan of advanced scholarship.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 82: 120. Ap. ’06. 380w.

  “Prof. Steindorff’s lectures are comparatively comprehensive of all
  the light we have on Egyptian religion, set forth in popular and
  readable but distinctly scholarly terms.” Ira Maurice Pike.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 17. Jl. 1, ’06. 320w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 30w.

  “The most reliable, readable, and sane treatment of the religion of
  Egypt which has appeared.”

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 290w.


=Steiner, Edward A.= On the trail of the immigrant. **$1.50. Revell.

  Humanity and individual responsibility pulsate thru the pages of Mr.
  Steiner’s earnest statement of the immigrant problem. The work is
  offered as the result of careful study the author having been a
  steerage passenger himself, first out of necessity, and later, for the
  sake of a close range inquiry. He says that a new gigantic race is
  being born between the Atlantic and the Pacific, a race whose
  immigrant element is primitive, uncultured, untutored, with all the
  virtues and vices in the making. “They are the best material with
  which to build a nation materially; they are good stock to be used in
  replenishing physical depletion: and capable of taking on the highest
  intellectual and spiritual culture.” Yet he admits that they are a
  serious problem.

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  “Dr. Steiner is a capital story-teller also, and enlivens his chapters
  with anecdote and incident. The book cannot fail to afford excellent
  material for the use of students of immigrant problems.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 270w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 754. D. ’06. 90w.


=Step, Edward.= Wild flowers month by month. 2v. *$4.50. Warne.

  “Mr. Step has a deep knowledge of British plants, and this work is
  full of interesting and instructive details as to how, when and where
  they grow.... The author has not attempted (and wisely we think in a
  book of this description which is intended for the general reader
  rather than the botanist) anything like a full enumeration of the
  flora of the British Isles.... We find that mention is made of some
  five hundred different plants only.... The book deals chiefly with
  plants whose flowers are conspicuous, as distinct from those with
  inconspicuous blossoms.... One of the most interesting classes, and
  the most fully described, is that of the British orchids.” (Acad.) The
  volumes are profusely illustrated from photographs.

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  “While we have nothing but praise for the accurate and interesting
  descriptions and entertaining particulars of the plants mentioned it
  is impossible to say the same of the illustrations.”

    + – =Acad.= 69: 1196. N. 18, ’05. 1010w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The traveler, as well as the botanist, will welcome [it.]”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, 06. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “A book which contains much rather commonplace descriptive writing,
  with a slightly professorial style and rather strained humorous
  sallies.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 471. S. 30, ’05. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Stephen, Leslie.= Hobbes. **75c. Macmillan.

      + =Dial.= 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 330w.


=Stephens, Robert Neilson.= Flight of Georgiana. †$1.50. Page.

  “A spirited and fairly-well written romantic love-story.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 111. Ja. ’06. 200w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 111. Ja. 11. ’06. 350w.

      + =Reader.= 7: 229. Ja. ’06. 210w.


=Stephens, Thomas=, ed. Child and religion. *$1.50. Putnam.

  Reviewed by Robert R. Rusk.

      + =Hibbert J.= 4: 455. Ja. ’06. 1860w.

  “Offers much attractive and suggestive material.” M. Mackenzie.

      + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 254. Ja. ’06. 640w.


=Stephenson, Henry Thew.= Shakespeare’s London. **$2. Holt.

  “Few volumes will do so much to supply the student of Shakespeare with
  what is necessary for visualizing not only the background of the life
  of the poet, but also the background present to the minds of him and
  his audience in many of his plays.” William Allen Neilson.

  + + – =Atlan.= 97: 702. My. ’06. 520w.

  “We could wish that Professor Stephenson’s book might commend itself
  as certainly to the lover of good letters as to the lover of history.
  Its style is hardly worthy of its theme.” Charles H. A. Wager.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 89. F. 1, ’06. 1330w.

  “The curious matter is its own and best excuse for being, and the
  rarity of the forty odd illustrations adds, also, to the book’s
  value.”

      + =Reader.= 6: 719. N. ’05. 330w.


=Sterling, Sara Hawks.= Shakespeare’s sweetheart. †$2. Jacobs.

  “The author has very much idealized the characters of both Shakespeare
  and Anne Hathaway, but she has succeeded in writing a most delightful
  tale.” Amy C. Rich.

      + =Arena.= 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 130w.

  “The tale has been told in a quaint, old-fashioned atmosphere that
  cannot but be pleasing.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 80w.

  “In many respects the story is a pleasing bit of fancy and can not but
  win the reader.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w.

  “The story is told in quaint literary style, and the author has fairly
  succeeded in doing what she set out to do—in suggesting the rhythm of
  Shakespeare’s own poetry.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 60w.


=Sterrett, James Macbride.= Freedom of authority: essays in apologetics.
**$2. Macmillan.

  “The author of these essays in apologetics is an impassioned pleader
  for religious conformity. Professor Sterrett is in greater sympathy
  with Loisy than with Protestant thinkers.” Nathaniel Schmidt.

      + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 373. Ap. ’06. 1770w.

  “If the book offers the technical philosopher little material and few
  view-points that are new, yet here much that is not new receives
  virile, suggestive, stimulating treatment. Its logic is robust, but to
  a comprehensive survey it does not always appear discriminating and
  convincing.” E. L. Norton.

    – – =J. Philos.= 3: 239. Ap. 26, ’06. 2160w.

  “It is not very well put together and sometimes declamation is offered
  as a substitute for patient criticism. There is a good deal of mere
  repetition. In my opinion, he propounds a much truer and sounder
  philosophical standpoint for the interpretation of Christianity than
  one finds in those whom he criticises.” J. A. Leighton.

  + + – =Philos. R.= 15: 338. My. ’06. 590w.


=Stevens, George Barker.= Christian doctrine of salvation. **$2.50.
Scribner.

  “The aim of this work is ‘to present a biblical, historical, and
  constructive discussion of the doctrine of salvation.’ It is therefore
  in the field of systematic theology, but approaches its problems
  distinctly from the historical side, through biblical theology,
  distinguishing between the different conceptions held by different
  biblical writers, and between the temporary and the permanent in their
  thought.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There are several points in the book which, did space permit, might
  furnish matter for criticism. But these do not seriously affect the
  main argument.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 9. Jl. 7, ’06. 1210w.

  “This magnificent piece of work is entitled to a hearty reception, for
  it not only abounds in rich and suggestive ideas, but it is also full
  of religious inspiration.” George Cross.

  + + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 747. O. ’06. 2390w.

  “Prof. Stevens’s work is a notable addition to our modern theological
  literature. It is marked by lucidity in its historical presentations
  and acuteness in its criticisms; and there is evidence of the author’s
  acquaintance with recent books on his subject.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 696. Je. 9. 660w.

        =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 60w.

  “The book is seen to be one of the best from Professor Stevens’s
  hand.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1167. N. 15, ’06. 70w.

  “That volume is not suffused with feeling. It is without sentiment.
  The problem of suffering culminating in the suffering of Jesus Christ
  is discussed as a purely intellectual problem. In this, to our
  thinking, is the chief defect of the volume.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 41. Ja. 6, ’06. 810w.


=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Affairs of state: being an account of
certain surprising adventures which befell an American family in the
land of windmills; il. by F. Vaux Wilson. †$1.50. Holt.

  A Wall street capitalist and two daughters are established in a
  poorly patronized hotel at a Dutch watering place. The inaction
  of the sojourn palls upon the father and he assumes the
  proprietorship of the place for one month. His American business
  methods result in large patronage and among the guests are
  diplomats who are bent upon settling the question of succession
  to the duchy of Schloshold-Markheim. Love, intrigue and
  misunderstanding produce a continuation of dramatic situations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The easy indifference of the early style and story may have been part
  of the author’s plan. Whether it was or not, it contributes in no
  small measure to the sudden surprise and delight of the big chapter at
  the end.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 727. N. 3, ’06. 440w.

  “Fails to hold the interest or stimulate the curiosity.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 10w.


=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Girl with the blue sailor. [+]1.50. Dodd.

  “A young newspaper man, going upon his first real vacation since he
  left college, gets involved with an old college chum and the college
  chum’s bride upon their honeymoon, and entangled also with an
  interesting family consisting of a pompous papa, and affected mamma,
  and four charming unmarried daughters. All of them are guests at the
  same mountain tavern. The girl in the blue sailor also comes there....
  First are jests Inspired by the presence of the bride and groom, then
  matchmaking plots, picnics, boating expeditions, sparkling
  conversations with rather frequent quotations from Browning. In the
  very midst of it the young newspaper man gets sent to South Africa,
  where he makes an immense name as a war correspondent. After several
  years he comes back after his reward.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      – =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 100w.

  “A very college boyish and amateurish love story.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 361. Je. 2, ’06. 220w.

  “Slight but rather pretty summer romance.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 60w.


=Stevenson, Burton E., and Elizabeth B.=, comps. Days and deeds; a book
of verse for children’s reading and speaking. **$1. Baker.

  Significant poetry relating to American holidays and to great
  Americans has been grouped in this volume for use in schools and in
  the family. To this have been added a short anthology of the seasons,
  and eight lyrics that every child should know, including “The
  chambered nautilus,” Kipling’s “L’envoi,” “Abou Ben Adhem,” etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This should prove a very useful book for schools.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 110w.

        =Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 30w.


=Stevenson, Mrs. Margaret Isabella (Balfour).= Letters from Samoa,
1891–1895, ed. and arranged by Marie Clothilde Balfour. *$2. Scribner.

  “The second and last instalment of these letters written by the mother
  of Stevenson during her journeys to Samoa and her life in his
  household there up to her return home after his death. All lovers of
  the man will be interested in them from their connection with the last
  years of his life, and no less for their personal charm and wit
  combined with sterling commonsense. They show that mother and son were
  in many respects alike—in their patience and fortitude in suffering as
  well as in their intellectual qualities and tastes.”—Critic.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This last batch of letters is always interesting, although Vailima
  was but a little world and life there much of a muchness day after
  day. Nor is anything described in these letters that is new to us.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 426. My. 5, ’06. 790w.

  “Had the letters contained anything noteworthy, either for its own
  sake, or as illustrative of Stevenson’s character or genius, they
  would have been welcome.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 419. Ap. 7. 340w.

      + =Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 90w.

  “Though the motive in publishing the book may have been the desire to
  preserve some record of Mrs. Stevenson, it is quite certain that the
  only motive in reading it will be the desire to press still further if
  that is possible into the intimacies of her son’s life.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 103. Mr. 23, ’06. 650w.

  “No more delightful book about Stevenson has been published since his
  death, and it is a moral tonic as well.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 371. S. 15, ’06. 300w.


=Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour.= Child’s garden of verses. $2.50.
Scribner.

  “Stevenson’s delicate cameos of childhood have found a most apt
  interpreter who has a style of her own with a curious charm.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 798. D. 9. 90w.

  “One of the most attractive forms in which this most delightful book
  about children has appeared.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 40w.


=Stickney, (Joseph) Trumbull.= Poems. *$1.50. Houghton.

  A posthumous volume of verse which includes “all of Stickney’s work
  that is for any reason valuable.” There are six groups as follows:
  Dramatic verses, Fragments of a drama on the life of Emperor Julian,
  Later lyrics, A dramatic scene, Juvenilia, and Fragments.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Promise rather than fulfillment is a mark of this work as a whole.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 370w.

  “The book is edited with a wealth of piety and a rather conspicuous
  poverty of taste. Had he lived and been able to attain to a mastery of
  form and of syntax, he would undoubtedly have been a poet to reckon
  with.”

      – =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 250w.

  “We owe to the excellent judgment of his editors, no doubt that
  nothing commonplace or unworthy has crept into this posthumous book of
  his verse.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 420w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.


=Stiefel, H. C.= Slices from a long loaf; logbook of an eventful voyage
by five Pittsburg tourists down the beautiful Allegheny river, from Oil
City to Pittsburg. $1.25. Bissell block pub.

  “A minimum of information about some of the industries of the
  Pittsburg district is here combined with the story of a boating trip
  and with a retelling of some other stories, classical and otherwise.
  The author explains his title by saying that the book like a loaf, may
  be sliced into at either end or the middle, as fancy chooses.”—Engin.
  N.

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        =Engin. N.= 54: 645. D. 14, ’05. 60w.


=Stimson, Frederic Jesup (J. S. of Dale, pseud.).= In cure of her soul.
†$1.50. Appleton.

  The complications created by a host of characters and a tangle of
  events make for this novel a much-involved plot in which the hero who
  married in haste, realizes his mistake, finds the woman whom he can
  love “as a star,” but renounces her and turns from the giddy world to
  sincere endeavor in the field of law and politics. The wife,
  meanwhile, develops from a selfish petulant girl who loves the
  admiration of other men and the ways of a flashy vulgar social set,
  into a wife and mother worthy of the husband to whom she is re-united
  on the eve of his greatest political victory. The whole is an argument
  against divorce.

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      – =Bookm.= 23: 639. Ag. ’06. 510w.

  “With certain marked faults of style and some looseness of
  construction, Mr. Stimson’s new novel is none the less one of the few
  genuinely valuable contributions to fiction of the year. Would that
  its like were more common.”

  + + – =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 360w.

  “In failing to work out this problem psychologically, the author has
  missed a great opportunity, and to a certain extent disappointed us in
  the expectations which might reasonably be based upon the title he has
  chosen for his work.” Wm. M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16. ’06. 480w.

  “Whether or not Mr. Stimson wrote his latest book keeping pace with a
  serial, it has faults which a serial form imposes. The lessons of the
  book are mainly noble ones developed with much generous interpretation
  of motive, much poetic breadth of vision.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 59. Jl. 19, ’06. 490w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

  “Excision and compression would have added greatly to the value of a
  striking book.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 720w.

  “It lacks a certain vitality which makes some stories popular, a
  certain brilliancy of touch or definiteness of characterization which
  carries other stories to great audiences; but it is a clean, clear,
  strong piece of work.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 801. Je. 30, ’06. 320w.


=Stodola, Aurel.= Steam turbines; with an appendix on gas turbines and
the future of heat engines. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.

    + + =Nature.= 75: 50. N. 15, ’06. 100w.


=Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent.= Miss Billy. †$1.50.
Lothrop.

  “The story is pleasant and cheering, and it contains a lesson that we
  all need.”

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 122. Ap. ’06. 150w.


=Stoker, Bram (Abraham).= Reminiscences of Sir Henry Irving. *$7.50.
Macmillan.

  Mr. Stoker, for many years Mr. Irving’s business manager, writes from
  first-hand information. “Of Irving, as a man and manager—a personality
  potent, intellectual, indomitable, ambitious, honorable, tender,
  imperious, picturesque, and fascinating—he gives a most at-

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Here, at last, the man lives for us in the pages of his friend; here,
  at last, we catch the sense of his greatness, which makes all the
  gossip and chatter seem dustier and dryer than before. Three things in
  the book are of importance: the account of Sir Henry’s views on his
  art; the financial history of his management and his attitude towards
  the contemporary dramatist.”

  + + – =Acad.= 71: 369. O. 13, ’06. 1090w.

  “Mr. Stoker has failed to endow his sketch with life. The outline is
  conventional where it is not vague, and the filling in shows a decided
  want of the sense of proportion.”

      – =Blackwood’s M.= 180: 613. N. ’06. 4360w.

  “This tribute of love and admiration which his sorrowful lieutenant
  lays upon his tomb is not the least of his honours.” I. Ranken Towse.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 367. D. ’06. 1120w.

        =Current Literature.= 41: 659. D. ’06. 880w.

  “His candid Reminiscences have opened the actor’s life and character
  to the public. The wit, the wisdom, the anecdote, the talk by famous
  men and about them, the strangeness and vivacity of many of the
  incidents and eminence of many of the characters, combine to render
  the work fascinating and instructive.” Ingram A. Pyle.

  + + + =Dial.= 41: 276. N. 1, ’06. 1540w.

  “The book may often enough provoke a good-humoured smile, but it is of
  first rate interest for the light it throws on one who was, in his
  line, a great man, and none the less welcome because it incidentally
  records the entirely honourable career of that man’s faithful friend.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 353. O. 19, ’06. 1310w.

  “‘For my own part the work which I have undertaken in this book is to
  show future minds something of Henry Irving as he was to me.’ So says
  Bram Stoker, in his preface to these two bulky volumes of personal
  reminiscences, and no one, after reading them, can deny that to this
  extent at least he has fully and ably accomplished his purpose.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 334. O. 18, ’06. 1820w.

  “It is not a biography at all, but it presents such a picture of Henry
  Irving from the beginning of his career to his last performance, as
  has not been hitherto accessible. As a gossip Mr. Stoker is always
  amiable.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 674. O. 13. ’06. 1890w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. ’06. 130w.

  “Other shortcomings there are in these volumes besides the failure to
  make known to us the real Irving—Irving the man as distinguished from
  Irving the actor. But, after all is said, this is a book to be
  grateful for, a book that will be of deep interest to gentlemen of
  ‘the profession,’ and an important contribution to the history of the
  English stage.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 713. N. 24, ’06. 860w.

  “Within the limitations laid down for himself by the author, however,
  the work is brimful of interest as a contribution not only to the
  history of the technical advance of the stage during half a century,
  but to that of its social rise as well.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 382. D. ’06. 320w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 757. D. ’06. 280w.


=Stone, Gertrude Lincoln, and Fickett, Mary Grace.= Days and deeds of a
hundred years ago. *35c. Heath.

  Under the headings: Two heroes of a “Far old year” (1780), From
  Massachusetts to Ohio (1787), The inauguration of Washington (1789),
  The story of the cotton gin (1793), The Parkers’ moving and settling
  (1798), The success of Robert Fulton (1807), A canal journey (1826),
  Kindling a fire (1828), A railroad story (1830), The electric
  telegraph (1844), are told stories of a hundred years ago which will
  make those days seem real to the children of today.


=Stoner, Burton.= Squeaks and squawks from far-away forests: a sequel to
Jim Crow tales; il. by C: Livingston Bull. $1. Saalfield.

  All about the first, second and third floor dwellers in White oak
  castle—which, unshorn of its romance, is a plain old oak tree. The
  animals and birds that tenant it furnish bits of wisdom and
  entertainment for juveniles.


=Strang, Herbert.= Brown of Moukden: a story of the Russo-Japanese war;
il. by W. Rainey. †$1.50. Putnam.

  Mr. Strang’s story is “an exciting narrative reciting the adventures
  of an English youth—Jack Brown—the son of a British merchant doing
  business in Moukden at the outbreak of the recent war between Russia
  and Japan.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Herbert Strang may be congratulated on another first-rate book.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 720. N. 25. 100w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 80w.

  “The fault of the story is that it is too long, and, to tell the
  truth, is sometimes tedious. Yet there is more good matter in it than
  in most of the kind.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 385. N. 10, ’05. 150w.

  “A good story for boys.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 510w.

  “An admirable piece of work.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 761. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.

  “Is certainly a success.”

      + =Spec.= 95: sup. 791. N. 18, ’05. 810w.


=Strasburger, Eduard.= Rambles on the Riviera; tr. from the German by O.
and B. Comerford Casey. *$5. Scribner.

  While in the main it is the botanist who studies his flowers for the
  reader’s benefit, yet in more than plants does he use his powers of
  observation. Descriptions of people, their surroundings, and the
  changes that the seasons make in both are to be found in the book, as
  well as intimate knowledge of the local flora. The illustrations
  reproduce almost every plant presented in the text.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One’s interest in his luxuriously printed and illustrated book is
  primarily scientific.” Wallace Rice.

      + =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

  “As a writer, he is a true impressionist, making some times a single
  line or a touch of color tell a long story. This record then, is an
  attractive, as well as sound guide-book.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 471. N. 29, ’06. 740w.

  “This luxurious—one might truly say luxuriant—book is pre-eminently
  the work of a scientific mind which would remove itself as far as
  possible from reposeless, useless, pleasure-seeking modern life and
  find rest and acquire knowledge in a contemplation of nature.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 670w.

  “Does for the Riviera something of the service that Mr. Thomas’s
  [‘Heart of England’] does for England.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 170w.

  “Dr. Strasburger suggests a pursuit which would give novel zest to the
  walks of the dilettante sojourner.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 711. D. 8, ’06. 910w.


=Streamer, Col. D., pseud. (Harry Graham).= More misrepresentative men.
**$1. Fox.

      + =Critic.= 48: 384. Ap. ’06. 230w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 344. F. 8. ’06. 70w.


=Streatfeild, Richard A.= Modern music and musicians. $2.75. Macmillan.

  In this volume the author has made studies of most of the greater
  composers from the time of Palestrina to the present day, attempting
  to trace the growth of the idea of a poetic basis in music.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Our author—somewhat impulsive, and ... not always charitable—may now
  and again irritate us, but there is more to be learnt from him than
  from one who follows custom, and therefore displays little or no
  individuality.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 702. D. 1. 850w.

  “On the whole, his criticisms are temperate and judicial, albeit at
  times the bias of an English point of view is discoverable. His style,
  though not polished, is especially easy, flowing and serviceable.”
  Lewis M. Isaacs.

    – – =Bookm.= 24: 271. N. ’06. 840w.

  “The whole volume seems to want a great deal of revision. It shows
  much reading and some research, it is well presented, with good
  illustrations and a good index, but it deals too lightly with a set of
  problems which, after all, are the most difficult in all musical
  criticism.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 5: 359. O. 26, ’06. 800w.

  “There is a good deal that is insular in Mr. Streatfeild.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 399. N. 8, ’06. 660w.

  “It is unfortunate that theories and prepossessions have taken so firm
  a hold of a writer who presents himself so authoritatively to the
  musical public as Mr. Streatfeild.” Richard Aldrich.

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 930w.

        =Putnam’s.= 1: 382. D. ’06. 200w.

  “It Is a volume which may well be entitled to occupy an honoured place
  on the shelf of the book-lover, and which will make its appeal, as the
  reflection of a cultivated and catholic mind, far beyond the limited
  circle of English musicians.” Harold E. Gorst.

    + + =Sat. R.= 102: 392. S. 29, ’06. 1680w.


=Street, George Edward.= Mount Desert: a history; ed. by S: A. Eliot;
with a memorial introd. by Wilbert L. Anderson. **$2.50. Houghton.

  “The whole history is simply and interestingly told.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 210w.

  “It is of specific value as a local history, but it includes much that
  is beyond the range of its title.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 352. Ap. 26, ’06. 520w.


=Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott.= Wire tappers. †$1.50. Little.

  A story of greed end craft and a goodly amount of implied electrical
  information. Two people, an electrical inventor, and an English girl,
  by force of unusual circumstances play in a game of chance side by
  side under the direction of a bookmaker ogre who attempts by
  wiretapping to beat a pool-room in New York City. “Yet there is in it
  a plot, or the suggestion of a plot, that might have served Ibsen. In
  its earlier chapters it develops a posture of events on which a
  ‘psychological’ novelist or dramatist could have builded a powerful
  work.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a whole this novel is one of the most original, interesting and
  suggestive romances of the year.”

    + + =Arena.= 36: 217. Ag. ’06. 790w.

  “Quite as clever in its way as Mr. Hornung’s ‘Raffles’ stories.”

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 642. Ag. ’06. 420w.

  “The story is exciting, but the morale is unqualifiedly bad.”

    – + =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 80w.

  “Although this story is about as immoral in its tendencies as any that
  we have ever read the crimes which it deals with are so ingeniously
  contrived as to prove remarkably interesting.” Wm. M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 280w.

  “The book is at once action and life, virile and alluring. It grips,
  and remains a pleasant memory.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 983. Je. 30, ’06. 690w.

  “We care much less for the characterization than for the incidents and
  the felicitous handling that gives them the semblance of reality.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 308. My. 12, ’06. 620w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.

  “Ingenious story.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16. ’06. 90w.


=Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne).= Girl from home: a story of Honolulu.
†$1.50. McClure.

  “Mrs. Strong’s story is of the slightest, but it leaves you with a
  cheerful sense of having lately picnicked in some pleasant spot where
  a perpetual sun shone with pure benevolence.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 49. Ja. ’06. 60w.


=Strong, Josiah.= Social progress: a year book and encyclopedia of
economic, industrial, social and religious statistics, 1906. **$1.
Baker.

  “Social progress” for this present year directly aids the Department
  of international social information of the American institute of
  social service in its aim to create an exchange of thought and
  knowledge between the workers and students in all departments of
  social activity around the world. It takes its place in statistical
  value with the statesman’s year book, the census abstract, and the
  metropolitan almanacs.


=Stuart, Charles Duff.= Casa Grande. †$1.50. Holt.

  Casa Grande is the California ranch house of a young Southerner who,
  in the early fifties, was forced into a serious struggle to make good
  his title to an unconfirmed Mexican grant in the Sonoma valley. The
  eviction of the squatters, who would neither sell their improvements
  nor buy his land, brings him in contact with Belle, a spirited young
  girl of true frontier type, adored by the sheriff, her family and
  dogs. In the course of the events which follow, Belle is mellowed into
  a truly womanly woman and, laying aside gunpowder and an explosive
  temper becomes the mistress of Casa Grande.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Stuart goes quietly to work to draw a romantic environment and
  succeeds in placing in it a number of people who, like volcanoes
  smolder without exploding until the right time comes.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 320w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 629. N. 10, ’06. 110w.


=Stubbs, Charles William.= Christ of English poetry: being the Hulsean
lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge, 1904–5. **$2.
Dutton.

  Dr. Stubbs calls four poets representing four periods in English
  history to witness to the personality of Christ. They are Cynewulf,
  Langland, Shakespeare and Browning. Some of the poems of each man are
  analyzed and there have been added full explanatory notes to each
  lecture.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The Christianity of these lectures is a little too vague and
  indefinite to be either historically true or practically valuable.
  This is not to deny that the argument of the lecturer is often clever,
  and that contact with a spirit so tolerant, so hopeful, so
  appreciative of the best in English life, is refreshing and
  delightful.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1058. N. 1, ’06. 290w.

  “They exhibit the preacher’s inevitable limitations. The most serious
  of these is the determination to force an edifying conclusion out of
  matter which in fact refuses to provide one. Many interesting things
  are said and quoted, both in the lectures and in the notes: but the
  book as a whole must be admitted to be a disappointment.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 5: 102. Mr. 23, ’06. 840w.

  “It is a keen intellectual pleasure to read these scholarly and most
  graceful discourses, stimulating as they are to our own thought.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 320w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 449. Mr. 24, ’06. 1640w.


=Stubbs, Rev. Charles William.= Story of Cambridge; il. by Herbert
Railton. $2. Macmillan.

  The Dean of Ely’s work belongs to the “Mediaeval town series” and
  tells the reader “what Cambridge was in the past, how it grew
  materially and spiritually, and what it is now.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 544. My. 5. 70w.

  “The book is somewhat dry reading, rather a book of reference.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 754. S. 27. ’06. 110w.

  “This little book is a handy guide to the university town.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 288. Ap. 5, ’06. 450w.

  “His style is not attractive; but everything he knows about town and
  university is placed at your service, you may help yourself.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 75. F. 3, ’06. 600w.

  “Dean Stubbs knows his Cambridge at first hand, and, what is as
  important, knows also how to write.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 110w.

  “The Dean has made a lively and picturesque volume out of his
  superabundant materials.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 136. F. 3, ’06. 1400w.

  “This volume ... is in every way attractive.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 986. D. 9, ’05. 220w.


=Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William, bishop of Oxford.= Lectures on early English
history; ed. by Arthur Hassall. *$4. Longmans.

  “The first half of the volume is, in some measure, a commentary upon
  the author’s ‘Select charters.’ ... The second half of the book is a
  series of lectures on an entirely different topic—a study of medieval
  constitutions in the light of nationality and religion. In these pages
  Bishop Stubbs is less restrained than in his treatment of the details
  of the English constitution, and they reveal, not, indeed, the humour
  of the companion volume, but some of the speaker’s fundamental
  positions and convictions.”—Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We may be grateful for the publication of Bishop Stubbs’s ‘Lectures
  on early English history’ ... for biographical reasons, if for no
  other, for the light they throw on the author’s methods of work. For
  those who can separate what is obsolete from what is still of value,
  they are worth much more than this.”

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 933. Jl. ’06. 290w.

  “Their work was done in the hour of their delivery; they can never
  have been meant for publication, for Stubbs knew how fast and far
  knowledge had posted since they were written.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 384. Mr. 31. 1200w.

  “Mr. Hassall has taken his editorial duties much too lightly.” James
  Tait.

    + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 763. O. ’06. 790w.

  “Students of early English history will find in these pages much that
  is useful and suggestive, and they will leave them with greater
  admiration than ever for the learning and the wisdom of the great
  Bishop of Oxford.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 99. Mr. 23, ’06. 670w.

  “Some of the discourses published by Mr. Hassall would hardly have
  left Stubbs’s own hand for the press in their present unrevised
  condition, but, as revealing his more spontaneous habits of thought,
  it is well to have them in their present form.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 532. Je. 29, ’06. 210w.

  “It is doubtful whether he intended these lectures to be published;
  and he would have been the first to admit that some parts of them
  required further elaboration before their argument could be regarded
  as complete.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 697. Je. 2, ’06. 880w.

  “Here for the first time he has placed in his hands full, and for the
  most part satisfactory, explanations and the technical terms used in
  the laws and charters of the Norman kings, and what is really a full
  commentary upon the texts of the ‘Select charters.’”

  + + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1219. N. ’06. 210w.


Studies in philosophy and psychology: a commemorative volume by former
students of Charles Edward Garman. *$2.50. Houghton.

  A volume presented to Professor Charles Edward Garman on the 20th of
  June, 1906, in commemoration of his twenty-five years of service as
  teacher in philosophy in Amherst college. There are thirteen papers on
  philosophical subjects, nine of whose contributors are professors in
  American colleges and universities, one a professor in a theological
  seminary; two are college instructors; and one is head of the South
  End house, Boston.

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  “The present volume will serve as a permanent and worthy memorial of
  this service, upon which the outside world may be permitted to
  congratulate all concerned.” James Rowland Angell and A. W. Moore.

    + + =J. Philos.= 3: 631. N. 8, ’06. 6200w.

  “The ‘Outlook’ congratulates him on this well-deserved monument which
  they have reared to his memory.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 864. Ag. 11, ’06. 420w.


=Sturgis, Howard Overing.= All that was possible. †$1.50. Putnam.

  A series of letters written by a woman who had sold her birthright for
  a mess of pottage. “The Earl of Medmenham was Sybil Croft’s first
  serious indiscretion; and when he took her from the stage and agreed
  to be responsible for her expenses, she justified herself by the
  belief that she really loved him. But when the Earl married, she
  realised that she was not in the least broken-hearted, philosophically
  accepted the modest settlement he offered her, and betook herself to a
  remote corner of Wales.” (Bookm.) Here Robert Henshaw finds her; “they
  fall in love,—she, uplifted by him, honourably; he, dragged down by
  her, dishonourably.” (Pub. Opin.).

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 70: 590. Je. 23, ’06. 1020w.

  “The subtle understanding of mood and temperament stamps this book as
  a finer piece of art than many a more pretentious volume.” Frederic
  Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 189. Ap. ’06. 470w.

  “The book is extremely interesting, although much shorter and slighter
  in construction than that brilliant study of London life, Belchamber.”
  M. K. Ford.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 432. My. ’06. 750w.

  “It is the most normally written, least emotional book of the season;
  and it may be a good one, but, if so, goodness may be regained, like
  the health by a change of scene, diet and climate.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.

    – + =Ind.= 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 320w.

  “The letters are brilliantly written.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 162. Mr. 17, ’06. 600w.

  “The man, Robert Henshaw, is wooden and unconvincing—the woman behind
  the letters is strange, but very true.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 411. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.

  “A successful psychologic study.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 190w.

        =Spec.= 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.


=Sturgis, Howard Overing.= Belchamber. †$1.50. Putnam.

  “Belongs among those books which are good enough not only to read, but
  to discuss.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 56. Ja. ’06. 190w.


=Sturgis, Russell.= Appreciation of pictures. **$1.50. Baker.

  “Judging the book strictly on the standards thus set up by its author
  it is found to be of very uneven merit. We should like it better if
  the author had taken more pains with his verbal style, which is,
  barring the occasional technical jargon, a very ordinary journalese.”

    – + =Ind.= 60: 574. Mr. 8, ’06. 290w.

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 83. Ja. 20, ’06. 960w.

  “Mr. Sturgis strongly resembles Mr. Hamerton in the perverted
  diligence with which he forces the most unsuitable pairs of artists to
  work in harness under the same category for his own nefarious
  book-making ends.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 528. Ap. 28, ’06. 320w.

  “This is, on the whole, a wise and sensible book, full of wide-minded
  appreciation of art.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 101. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.


=Sturgis, Russell.= Study of the artist’s way of working in various
handicrafts and arts of design. 2v. **$15. Dodd.

  Reviewed by John La Farge.

    + + =Architectural Record.= 19: 199. Mr. ’06. 4870w.

  “The subjects are multitudinous, indeed, which Mr. Sturgis treats, and
  it seems invidious almost to claim a superiority of handling of one
  over the other.” Frank Fowler.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 106. Mr. ’06. 860w.

  “It is a form of notebook, but also of encyclopaedia, and one more
  offshoot of a habit of life constantly curious in everything connected
  with art.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 121. F. 8, ’06. 2790w.


=Sturt, Henry.= Idola theatri: a criticism of Oxford thought and
thinkers from the standpoint of a personal idealism. *$3.25. Macmillan.

  “Under this Baconian title an Oxford scholar, Mr. Henry Sturt, rips up
  some current philosophic fallacies. Recent British philosophy (and
  American also) has been carried captive, as he views it, by a German
  invasion inculcating a one-sided idealism, in which the conative
  factor of thought is overshadowed by the speculative.... The general
  charge is that the ‘idols’ deceive by substituting a static for the
  dynamic conception of reality, with resulting damage to various
  interests, chiefly those of ethics, politics, and religion.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Sturt is sincere, and his way independent: but the structure of
  the book is slight; and in closing it we are haunted by the suspicion
  that its author has failed to master the doctrines he attacks.”

    + – =Acad.= 71: 106. Ag. 4, ’06. 2070w.

  “Unfortunately, this is written from a very narrow outlook. It is
  history to suit a special interest. The attempt is made to convict
  Idealism of three great crimes—called Intellectualism, Absolutism, and
  Subjectivism.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 95. Jl. 25. 1230w.

  “The work lacks systematic thoroughness; the criticisms are often
  haphazard, and the positive views adopted are so various that the
  reconciliation and substantiation of them all prescribes a somewhat
  difficult task to that yet unwritten new system of philosophy to which
  the author looks for a complete proof of his ‘master principle.’” J.
  W. Scott.

      – =Hibbert J.= 5: 212. O. ’06. 2220w.

  “But altho the book is far from effective as a whole, the criticisms
  it contains of certain points in Green’s metaphysics and in Mr.
  Bradley’s doctrine of the Absolute are perfectly sound, and the
  protest on behalf of the importance of activity or conative experience
  may be accepted as substantially true.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 5: 321. S. 21, ’06. 1340w.

  “Mr. Sturt’s work is worthy of all commendation. And in condensing so
  much and such crabbed material into so interesting a form he has
  achieved a considerable feat. His book deserves to be read, and
  doubtless will be.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 85. Jl. 26, ’06. 1460w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 670w.

  “Mr. Sturt is keen, vigorous and clear.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 310w.

  “The main purpose of the book is critical, and ... we are prepared to
  admit that Mr. Sturt is, on the whole a ‘very respectable person’ in
  that field. Constructively the book is weak, and the weakness is a
  serious blemish.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 266. Ag. 25, ’06. 1730w.


=Sudermann, Hermann.= Undying past; tr. by Beatrice Marshall. †$1.50.
Lane.

  “The scene of the story is East Prussia ... and the setting is
  agricultural. Two landed proprietors have grown up from childhood with
  the love of David and Jonathan.... Leo, having been detected in an
  intrigue with the wife of a nobleman of the neighborhood, is
  challenged by the injured husband to a duel, slays his opponent, is
  sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and, after his release, goes to
  South America, for a period of years. Ulrich, in the meanwhile,
  knowing nothing of his friend’s guilty relations with the widow of the
  slain, offers himself to her in marriage and is accepted. They have
  been united for some time, when Leo returns to his home, and at this
  point the story opens.... Leo is all the time conscious of the dark
  shadow of guilt that separates him from Ulrich. The latter, wholly
  unsuspecting, seeks to reknit the old relations, yet must defer to the
  stubborn fact that his wife had been made a widow by the deed of his
  friend.... Her old passion for her husband’s friend is revived upon
  his return, and ... the substance of the book is the struggle between
  these two characters-her struggle to bring him back into the old
  sinful relation, his to banish her from his thought, and purify his
  soul by repentance and expiation.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It cannot be said altogether that Miss Marshall has attained a very
  high standard. But at least it may be said that she has given us a
  readable and fairly literary rendering of the original.”

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 576. Je. 16, ’06. 520w.

  “This is a gloomy but powerful psychologic study which also gives a
  fine realistic picture of life on the great landed estates of
  Prussia.” Amy C. Rich.

      + =Arena.= 36: 571. N. ’06. 290w.

  “If from the artistic point of view it is hardly equal to some of the
  author’s other novels that appeared before it, it is none the less a
  fine and forcible romance, and contains some of his best writing.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 729. Je. 16. 480w.

  “The pages and chapters which are devoted to a portrayal of local
  customs and modes of thought, careful and vivid though they are, tend
  to obscure the real issue of the story rather than to elucidate it.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 117. O. ’06. 530w.

  “[This] English version is carelessly made.” Wm. M. Payne.

      – =Dial.= 41: 113. S. 1. ’06. 650w.

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 217. Je. 15, ’06. 600w.

  “That which is eminently unsatisfactory besides the title, however ...
  is the absence of any biographical introduction.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.

  “A powerful drama of humanity.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 494. Ag. 11, ’06. 1120w.

  “There is a profound depression over the whole book, though the
  literary art which presents it is, as usual with Sudermann, full of
  force and of fine restraint.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 173. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.


=Suess, Eduard.= Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha
B. C. Sollas under the direction of W. J. Sollas. 5v. per v. *$8.35.
Oxford.

  A work complete in five volumes. Volume one is divided into two parts.
  “The first consists of five chapters, in which are discussed the
  movements of the outer crust of the earth, diluvial, seismic,
  dislocatory and volcanic. In the second part the mountain systems of
  the world are examined in very varying detail, but sufficiently to
  bring out the main trend lines.” (Ath.) “The main purpose of [the
  second] volume is the statement of the evidence for Suess’s contention
  that continents are never uplifted in mass, and that the occurrence of
  raised shore lines and horizontal sheets of marine rocks is due to the
  lowering of sea level, and not to the raising of the land.” (Nature.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + + =Nation.= 83: 12. Jl. 5. ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)

    + + =Nature.= 74: 629. O. 25. ’06. 1690w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Sutcliffe, Halliwell.= Benedick in Arcady. †$1.50. Dutton.

  Really the sequel to “A bachelor in Arcady,” the book reveals a rather
  prosaic coloring. “The scene is the same, but it has lost some of its
  colour and breeziness. Cathy is not less fascinating as wife than as
  maid: the Wanderer is as courtly and buoyant as ever; but the
  Bachelor, by turning Benedick, has become a different being. His touch
  with nature is less intimate. Instead of the delightful notes on
  gardens, fields, animals, and birds in the earlier book, we have
  attractively written essays on such subjects as the Stuarts,
  superstition, the yeomanry, and old age.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In fact, the book is an idyll, and much better written than such
  idylls are wont to be.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 530. Je. 2, ’06. 340w.

  “Is disappointing only because its predecessor was much better.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 97. Jl. 28. 150w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 192. My. 25, ’06. 280w.

  “The wanderers with Mr. Sutcliffe into his Arcady will be rewarded for
  their stroll, and will come upon many a bye-the-bye bit, well worth
  tucking into their memories.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 480. Jl. 28, ’06. 440w.

  “Though hardly the equal of its predecessor, ‘A bachelor in Arcady,’
  there are to be found both grace and charm in these chapters, which
  occupy a middle ground between the story and the essay.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 60w.


=Sutphen, William Gilbert van Tassel.= Doomsman. †$1.50. Harper.

  New York in the year 2015 A. D. forms the setting for a story of love
  and adventure in which the hero is supposed to rediscover the use of
  firearms and electricity, the knowledge of which has been lost in a
  great catastrophe which wiped out our modern civilization ninety years
  earlier. But for the gaunt and partially destroyed skyscrapers and
  other remains of our own day the tale, with all its primitive human
  nature, might well be one of the far past and not of the future.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In places the book is almost grotesque enough to be humourous; but if
  the author meant it for humour, he disguised his purpose too well. As
  it stands it is simply tedious and unprofitable.”

      – =Bookm.= 23: 643. Ag. ’06. 360w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 419. Je. 30, ’06. 1240w.


=Suttner, Bertha, baroness von.= “Ground arms:” “Die waffen nieder;” a
romance of European war, tr. from the German by Alice Asbury Abbott.
†$1.25. McClurg.

—Same. With title “Lay down your arms: the autobiography of Martha Von
Tilling: authorized tr. by T. Holmes.” 75c. Longmans.

  This book, which won the Nobel peace prize for 1905, is a powerful
  plea for universal disarmament. It is the autobiography of an Austrian
  countess born with true martial spirit, her only grief that she cannot
  win laurels on the field of battle. At seventeen she marries a dashing
  young lieutenant and one short year later, clasping her fatherless son
  to her heart she awakens to the real horrors of war. Her hatred of war
  and warfare is justified by the story of the thirty years that follow.
  She draws pictures of agony, disease and mutilation as seen in 1864,
  1866, and again when she lost the love of her mature years at Paris,
  and she shows between these periods such happy years of peace that the
  reader shudders with her at the contrast.

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  “Regarded merely as a novel, the book has fine qualities—the reader’s
  interest never flags, and the realism is so vigorous that one who does
  not know the facts will continually feel inclined to suspect that the
  autobiography is fictitious only as far as the names of the personages
  are concerned.”

    + + =Cath. World.= 82: 841. Mr. ’06. 1320w.

  “This version ... is both idiomatic and exact.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 161. Mr. 1, ’06. 50w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1492. Je. 21. ’06. 150w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 170w.

  “Constructively it shows no literary genius, and its war pictures fall
  far short of those in Tolstoy’s ‘War and peace.’”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 299. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.

  “The supreme grace of simplicity has been given her, and an exquisite
  tenderness whereby she holds the heart of her reader in the hollow of
  her hand.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 1350w.

  “The story is thoroughly German, in remarkable good English.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 398. Je. 16, ’06. 250w.

  “The story itself is of keen interest, but the argument is stronger
  than the story.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 110w.

  “The greatest philanthropical novel of this generation.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 761. Je. ’06. 170w.


=Suyematsu, K., baron.= Risen sun. **$3. Dutton.

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 322. O. 6, ’05. 920w.

  “Why, in the days of ‘The risen sun,’ when concealment of facts is no
  longer possible, should so frank a scholar, refined gentleman, true
  patriot, and man of the world as Baron Suyematsu is, and with so noble
  a recorded service, seek to imitate the uncanny fashion of his
  old-time literary brethren?”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 288. Ap. 5, ’06. 1070w.


=Swayne, Christine Siebeneck (Mrs. Noah F. Swayne).= Visionary and other
poems. $1.25. Badger, R. G.

  Three score little verses which sing much of love and something of
  nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 150w.


=Sweetser, Kate Dickinson.= Boys and girls from George Eliot; pictures
by George Alfred Williams. †$2. Fox.

  Really a happy thought contribution to child literature. Aside from
  the pleasure and value of the stories to young readers it is hoped
  that interest will extend to the books from which these pictures of
  child life are taken. The little people who are introduced are Tom and
  Maggie Tulliver, Eppie, Tottie Poyser, the Garths, Little Lizzie,
  Jacob Cohen, Tina, “The little black-eyed monkey,” Job Tudge and Harry
  Transome.

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  “We question the advisability of such a volume, however; it gives a
  wrong impression of George Eliot, and adds a somber tone that will
  come later in life.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 1410. D. 13, ’06. 100w.

  “In these drawings Mr. Williams shows a mounting command and
  simplification.”

    + – =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 56. D. ’06. 140w.

  “The work is very well done.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 150w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 763. D. ’06. 230w.


=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Love’s crosscurrents. $1.50. Harper.

  “For all its slightness, the book leaves an impression. You have a far
  clearer vision of every person than of the elaborately explained Lady
  Kitty, in ‘William Ashe.’” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 58. Ja. ’06. 420w.


=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Poems: selected and edited by Arthur
Beatty. 35c. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.” The poems have been
  carefully selected and annotated, and the volume is supplied with a
  prefatory note and an introduction, the latter briefly sketching
  Swinburne’s life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 50w.

  “Is worth having, for it contains some of the finest poems of the
  century and is mercifully free from some of the more luxuriant
  passages of the great poet.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 60w.


=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Selected lyrical poems. $1.50. Harper.

  Swinburne’s first published volume, Poems and ballads, is included in
  this edition together with many later poems that are best
  representative of the poet’s genius.


=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Tragedies. Collected lib. ed. 5 v. *$10.
Harper.

  A five volume edition of Swinburne’s “Tragedies” which with the
  six-volume edition of his “Poems” makes available in collected form
  the “entire poetical product of the greatest of living poets.” (Dial.)
  Volume 1 contains “The Queen mother” and “Rosamund;” Volume 2 contains
  “Chastelard,” and the first two acts of “Bothwell,” the remaining
  three acts of which constitute Volume 3; Volume 4 includes the drama
  “Mary Stuart” and essays on her life and character; and Volume 5
  contains “Locrine,” “The sisters,” “Marino Faliero,” and “Rosamund,
  queen of the Lombards.”

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    + + =Dial.= 40: 330. My. 16, ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 208. Je. 30, ’05. 1660w. (Review of v. 1.)

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 33. F. 2, ’06. 1760w. (Review of v. 2–4.)

    + + =Nation.= 82: 382. My. 10, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

  Reviewed by George S. Hellman.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 320. My. 19, ’06. 2950w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

      + =Outlook.= 83: 483. Je. 23, ’06. 110w. (Review of v. 1–5)

    + + =Sat. R.= 100: 54. Jl. 8, ’05. 1050w. (Review of v. 1.)

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 238. F. 24, ’06. 1660w. (Review of v. 2–4.)


=Symonds, E. M. (George Paston, pseud.).= B. R. Haydon and his friends.
**$3. Dutton.

  “George Paston has admirably illustrated a fascinating subject.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 873. D. 23. 830w.

  Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 274. F. ’06. 440w.

  “Is, for all its sorrow and tragedy, brightened by the record of many
  joyous days and hours, and is altogether a fascinating biography.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 92. Ag. 16, ’06. 350w.


=Symons, Arthur.= Spiritual adventures. **$2.50. Dutton.

  “These stories, each of which deals with a separate personality, are
  studies of decadence. They explore the relation between life and art.”
  (Ath.) In each of the eight studies the author “is intent on
  reproducing a distinct temperamental type, or, to put it in another
  way, in each case he has isolated a temperament and assigned it to a
  person.” (Outlook.) “‘Esther Kahn’ is perhaps the most wholesome of
  these haunting stories, having a definite culmination in the creation
  of the artist through suffering. But on the whole, ‘The death of Peter
  Waydelin’ is the achievement of the book, in the tragedy and realistic
  horror of its setting.” (Critic.)

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  “They are all, as one would expect, stories of the better sort, not
  depending upon incident, but expounding some emotional situation. For
  the work of an author not accustomed to express himself in this
  medium, they are surprisingly well told, though they present some of
  the technical defects which the essayist who sets himself to write
  stories is seldom able to avoid.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1148. N. 4, ’05. 1330w.

        =Ath.= 1906, 1: 161. F. 10. 1790w.

  “It is Mr. Symons’s simple and forceful style, with its delicate
  psychic touches, combined with his really great gift for the vital
  story, which disarms our criticism of his philosophy.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 380w.

  “His very cleverness and facility make it more to be regretted that he
  has wasted his time in portraiture, brilliant but without
  significance, of subjects that are hardly worthy of such distinction.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 201. Mr. 16, ’06. 380w.

  “Evocations, these tales, if tales you can call them, will prove
  attractive for some to whom English fiction has become too material,
  too much a thing of bricks and mortar.” James Huneker.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 680w.

  “No matter how impersonal the reader tries to be, he will probably
  close this book with a sense of depression.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 250w.

  “The work of a literary artist with an extraordinarily engaging and
  subtly morbid personality, they sometimes fascinate and sometimes
  disgust but always awaken interest and rivet attention.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 365. Mr. 24. ’06. 1310w.


=Syrett, Netta.= Day’s journey. †$1.25. McClurg.

  The “day’s journey” of a novelist and his wife from a state of
  infatuation to one of quiet affection carries them thru many stages.
  The young writer tires of a quiet country life and seeks emotional
  inspiration and sympathy from a frowsy artist of Greek robes and
  sandals who poses as a true Bohemian. He neglects his wife and to
  cover his latest “friendship” thrusts upon her the society of an old
  lover. This old lover inspires her to self assertion and she develops
  into a woman of character and talent who wins literary honors for
  herself, and turns from an admiring social world to find her husband
  once more at her feet.

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    + – =Acad.= 68: 639. Je. 17, ’05. 360w.

  “Miss Syrett has a charming style and a dramatic faculty for keeping
  what Besant called the ‘flat times’ of her characters out of the
  reader’s knowledge. Her limitations, so far at least as the present
  novel is concerned, are chiefly those of environment.”

    + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 201. Ag. 12. 310w.

  “The whole story is told in a crisp style which never drags and which
  is always charming.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 242. O. 16, ’06. 230w.

  “The story is written with considerable sense of humor and charm of
  manner.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 617. O. 6. ’06. 470w.

  “Netta Syrett wields a clever pen and shows much wit in her society
  sketches.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 629. N. 10, ’06. 190w.

  “The book is fairly written.”

    + – =Spec.= 95: 157. Jl. 29, ’06. 220w.


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=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Daddy’s daughters. †$1.50. Holt.

  Daddy’s daughters are four in number,—Rosamund, sweetly even-tempered;
  Gaynor, quick as a flash of steel, but big-hearted and loyal; Sibyl,
  fretful and petulant of disposition, and Austiss, sunny, cheerful and
  loving. Daddy himself is a dreamer, a student, a poet, an
  ultra-refined and lovable man. The story records the lively doings in
  the family with the household ballast reposing in Mary Frances, the
  housekeeper.

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  “A pleasant story.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 1412. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

  “Is quite as pleasing a book for girls as its suggestive title
  indicates.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 120w.


=Taggart, Marion Ames.= One afternoon, and other stories. $1.25.
Benziger.

  Twenty-one short stories, each of which gives sure, strong touches of
  real life—its romances, its strifes and its triumphs.


=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Pussy-cat town; il. in colors by Rebecca Chase.
$1. Page.

  A tale for young people. It gives a brisk account of a band of cats
  that built the city of Purrington in the river Meuse, a place where
  all poor, abused cats could come and live happily all their nine
  lives.

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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.


=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Six girls and Bob: a story of patty-pans and
green fields; il. †$1.50. Wilde.

  A mother, six girls, and a son make up the spirited group that lived
  first in patty-pans—so they called their New York flat because the
  rooms resembled the cups of a patty-pan—and later in the country. The
  children are the lively wholesome sort and reflect health and
  happiness well tempered with bits of wisdom.

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        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 90w.


=Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe.= Balzac: a critical study tr. with an
appreciation of Taine by Lorenzo O’Rourke. *$1. Funk.

  The excellent appreciation of Taine by Lorenzo O’Rourke which occupies
  the first part of this volume adds much to the reader’s appreciation
  of Taine’s critical study of Balzac which follows. The great critic
  treats of the great novelist as both man and artist, giving his life
  and character, estimating his genius, discussing his style, his world,
  his character and his philosophy until he and his work stand forth as
  tho re-created.

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  “The translator of this minor work of the great French critic has done
  his original into, easy, flowing English, which retains the clearness
  of the French. Mr. O’Rourke has placed his meritorious piece of
  criticism at a great disadvantage by putting it into such close
  juxtaposition with Taine’s estimate of Balzac.”

    + – =Cath. World.= 83: 838. S. ’06. 580w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 970. Je. 30, ’06. 700w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.

  “Taine’s study of Balzac combines biography and criticism, and the
  translation seems excellent.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 462. Jl. 21, ’06. 160w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 130w.


=Talbot, Rt. Rev. Ethelbert.= My people of the plains. **$1.75. Harper.

  Let no one think that because the book is written by an Episcopal
  bishop it is an account of ceremonies and sermons. It is a human not
  an ecclesiastical document and the pictures it gives of pioneer life
  in Wyoming and Idaho, among cattlemen, gamblers, adventurers, Indians
  and army men are full of life and interest. The personal element is
  modestly subordinated and we think we can understand why the bishop
  was everywhere welcomed—even so cordially as by the old Indian with
  his limited cow-boy English. “Me damned glad to see you, heap-sleeve
  bishop.”

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  “It is not amiss to call this one of the most cheerful books of the
  year. In a sense, it is the best of Christmas stories. The book is a
  lesson in simplicity. It is more vital than any essay on the art of
  living.”

    + + =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 1716. D. 1, ’06. 1210w.

  “The literary style is effective and the book adds a new chapter to
  the history of American missions.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33; 814. D. 1, ’06. 330w.

  “The reader will lay this book down with the feeling that he has
  listened to a pleasant and instructive talk from a genuine man.”
  Cameron Mann.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.

  “An excellently written little volume.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 60w.


Talks with the little ones about the Apostles’ creed. 60c. Benziger.

  The articles of the Apostles’ creed are taken up separately here and
  simplified to serve as instruction for Catholic little people.


=Tallentyre, S. G., pseud. (E. V. Hall).= Life of Voltaire. 2v. **$3.50.
Putnam.

  A third and illustrated edition of this life of Voltaire, the man of
  strong and varied emotions. “His life was a long conflict ... but when
  in old age he had become the acknowledged leader of European thought
  ... he was born with a genius for friendship; he was a man of heart
  and of feeling.... He took a low, some might say true, view of human
  nature, but he constantly sought to relieve miseries of humanity....
  The attack upon oppression was the true work of his life. In this he
  was absolutely sincere. He told lie after lie, but he never descended
  to that most insiduous form of falsehood under which a man forsakes
  his own convictions.... He never deserted the cause to which he was
  devoted.” (Nation.)

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        =Nation.= 83: 80. Jl. 26, ’06. 2110w.

  “The book lacks perspective and proportion. The author’s painting is
  the reverse of the impressionist.... But it does not lack material
  carefully collected. It does not lack clearness, precision, a rational
  judgment, and occasional brilliance in expression. It may prove to be,
  we are not sure but that it will, the best life of Voltaire, in the
  English language for the student, just because of its amplitude of
  detail.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 81: 1086. D. 30, ’05. 140w.


=Tapp, Sidney C.= The struggle. †$1.50. Wessels. (Am. Bapt.,
Southeastern distributing agts.)

  An arraignment of trusts. The author makes use of a quadruple romance
  to furnish characters and setting for his exposure of the evils of
  organized wealth. He drawls a living picture of the inside of Wall
  street and the great gambling institutions of the country which are
  overthrowing and destroying our civilization.

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        =R. of Rs.= 33: 760. Je. ’06. 70w.


=Tappan, Eva March.= Short history of England’s literature. *85c.
Houghton.

        =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 60w.

  “To write a short history of a vast subject in the form of animated
  story is so difficult a task that its successful achievement is
  specially commendable. Miss Tappan has done this skillfully, singling
  out the things most worth knowing, and showing them in a succession of
  flashlights that stay in the memory.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 44. My. 3, ’06. 200w.


=Tarbell, Mrs. Martha (Treat).= Tarbell’s teachers’ guide to the
international Sunday school lessons for 1906. $1.25. Bobbs.

  In this large and comprehensive volume Dr. Tarbell presents something
  more than a mere guide; she gives the Bible texts of the lesson,
  explains their words and phrases, quotes suggestive thoughts from
  helpful writers, explains phases of Oriental life, and adds valuable
  suggestions for teaching the lessons under which are included: Three
  lesson thoughts with illustrations; Sentence sermons; The Bible its
  own interpreter: The lesson summary; Subjects for Bible class
  discussion; and Work to be assigned. The lesson course forms an
  outline of the life of Christ, gives the purpose and authorship of the
  gospels and the geography of Palestine. The volume is illustrated with
  maps, diagrams and pictures.

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  “For orthodox Sunday-school teachers and workers we know of no work of
  equal value.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 445. Ap. ’06. 190w.

  “It will not replace Peloubet or the ‘Sunday school times,’ for it is
  antiquated and uncritical but its numerous quotations will often be
  suggestive and convenient.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 40w.

  “Ranks with the best of its class. It would be difficult to excel it
  in the line which passes over all critical problems to illustrate and
  apply to pupils of all ages the teaching of the text as it stands.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 277. F. 3, ’06. 110w.


=Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.= Beautiful lady. †$1.25. McClure.

  “Delightful in name as well as in nature.”

    + + =Reader.= 6: 722. N. ’05. 220w.


=Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.= Conquest of Canaan. †$1.50. Harper.

    + – =Ath.= 1905. 2: 829. D. 16. 240w.

  “Is one of the best of popular novels, a book that even the person of
  superior mind can read with secret joy, and that more ordinary and
  honest mortals can devour with open and avowed delight.” Edward Clark
  Marsh.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 517. Ja. ’06. 1240w.

  “The chief beauty of Mr. Tarkington’s novel is its intense sincerity.
  Its value as a historical document is not inconsiderable and there are
  parts, at least, of the story whose artistic excellence is solid and
  indisputable.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 390w.

  “Is a thoroughly readable book.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 100w.

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31. ’06. 490w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + – =North American.= 182: 926. Je. ’06. 160w.

  “Nothing that Mr. Tarkington has written so clearly shows his gain in
  power as ‘The conquest of Canaan.’ Is a beautiful story, and it has
  the distinction too, in this day of clamorous and ill-judged titles,
  of possessing one that is exceptionally simple, strong and fitting.”

    + + =Reader.= 7: 224. Ja. ’06. 610w.


=Taylor, Bert Leston.= Charlatans. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  A young neophyte of the provinces is one day visited by Enlightenment,
  more substantially known as Mrs. Maybury, who discovers in the country
  maid great musical genius. This story tells of the planning and
  sacrifices on the part of the farmer parents to send their Hope to the
  city for instruction, of her kindly reception there, many friends, and
  hard work. There is a fresher atmosphere with the Bohemian setting and
  a more spiritual sympathy for fellow mortals, than tales of the
  artist’s world usually possess.

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  “This is a bright, entertaining novel that will appeal to the general
  reader as a pleasing story of present-day life.”

      + =Arena.= 36: 683. D. ’06. 420w.

  “Any one who is familiar with the manners and habits of a certain
  class of musicians will realize how excellent is Mr. Taylor’s
  portrayal of this phase of life in a large city. The book, therefore,
  is veracious, and it is both satirical and amusing.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 250w.

  “For the blasé reader of novels it is genuinely refreshing.”

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 70w.


=Taylor, C. Bryson.= Nicanor, teller of tales. †$1.50. McClurg.

  Great Britain under Roman rule furnishes the setting for this romance.
  Nicanor inherits from Melchior, his grandfather, so great a gift of
  telling tales that he casts a veritable spell over his hearers. Among
  those who learn of his fame is Veria. a Roman lard’s daughter, who
  forgets that Nicanor is a slave and yields to his enchantment. Then
  there is the love of Eldris, one of Nicanor’s own class. The spirit of
  the period as expressed in the sharp inequalities of the noble and the
  slave class is drawn with many a passionate, dramatic touch.

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  “The author deserves credit for conceiving out of the dry pages of
  half-written history and out of the dust of traditions a character so
  consistent with both.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 521. Ag. 30, ’06. 280w.

  “The author ... can cast a spell with his words that seems to be of
  something more than the mere story.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 328. My. 19, ’06. 120w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.

  “A pure romance, in well sustained style.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 100w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 90w.


=Taylor, Henry Charles.= Introduction to the study of agricultural
economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.

  “This volume is scientific in its substance, although for the most
  part popular in style.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

      + =Dial.= 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 110w.

  “In addition to the theoretical discussions, the book contains a few
  tables of prices, of tenancy, and other data which add to its
  convenience as a text book.” William Hill.

    + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 184. Mr. ’06. 390w.

  “The book contains many statistical details relating to the United
  States that are not readily accessible to the general reader.” E. H.
  G.

    + + =Nature.= 74: 193. Je. 28, ’06. 950w.

  “The book is certainly full of suggestions, and will doubtless serve
  well enough its purpose of introducing American students to the
  further study of agriculture. There is too little information in the
  book about existing conditions, and too little explanation of those
  conditions.” G. S. C.

    + – =Yale R.= 15: 312. N. ’06. 690w.


=Taylor, Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-.= Molière: a biography; with an
introd. by Thomas Frederick Crane. *$3. Duffield.

  A life of Molière for English readers “both scholarly and popular in
  which the man stands out in the midst of his managerial and literary
  labours.” It depicts Molière, the man, the actor and the dramatist
  with the political, social and literary background of Louis the
  Fourteenth’s time. The author’s intention has been to interpret
  Molière’s life by his plays and his plays by his life rather than to
  write an exhaustive criticism of his dramatic works.

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  “It is not simply a biography of Molière, but as complete a
  presentation as is needed by the general public of the history, the
  sources and the contents of his masterpieces.” Adolphe Cohn.

  + + – =Bookm.= 24: 355. D. ’06. 2190w.

  “This book most certainly comes nearer to absolute accuracy than many
  volumes of the kind: and hostile criticism of the book will be aimed
  less at the matter which it contains than at the style, the form and
  way in which it is presented.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 1346. D. 6, ’06. 880w.

  “This new biography shows the careful student’s attention to details.
  More emphasis might have been placed upon the mechanism of Molière’s
  theater, which was the germ of a national home for French drama. There
  might likewise have been a deeper consideration of the special genre
  of play which Molière created. But despite all this, the volume, which
  is sumptuous in form, deserves special consideration.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 280w.

  “Is a volume of some real note in Molière literature.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8. ’06. 110w.

  “Slips are comparatively few in this book. The extracts from the plays
  are judiciously chosen and felicitously, translated.”

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 516. D. 13, ’06. 980w.

  “It is disfigured by the back-number orthography, which is still used
  by most British printers, although denounced by most British scholars.
  Mr. Chatfield-Taylor has set an example to all who deal with foreign
  authors. He has not assumed in his readers any knowledge of French:
  therefore, whenever he is moved to quote he has turned the French
  verse into English.” Brander Matthews.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 792. D. ’06. 610w.

  “It is from a failure in sympathy and insight that the book suffers
  most grievously—from a seeming incapacity to sound the tragic depths
  in the nature of the great comic master.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 714. N. 24, ’06. 430w.

  “A serious piece of work from the pen of a student who has spared
  neither time, nor trouble, nor care to produce the picture of a man of
  genius in his proper historical and social setting, and its reflection
  in and influence upon his life and his work.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 220w.

  “A conscientious, thorough piece of biography.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 100w.


=Taylor, Ida A.= Life of Queen Henrietta Maria; with 32 il. and 2
photogravure fronts, 2d. ed. **$7.50. Dutton.

  “The object of these volumes is to present to us, not a period of
  history, but a living personality, to whom for the nonce the whole
  period is a skillfully sketched background, subordinated but true to
  nature. Not an unnecessary figure or point of view is introduced. We
  are intended to see the face, and hear the voice, and mark the
  thoughts, the woes and joys, of that Queen of England who called
  herself ‘La Reine Malheureuse,’ and it can truly be said that when the
  book is at last laid aside, a new Henrietta Maria is recorded in the
  mind—a queen intensely human, intensely living and wonderfully
  lovable.” (Spec.)

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  “The last word to the author must be one of sincere congratulation.”

    + + =Acad.= 70: 377. Ap. 21, ’06. 1260w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 100w.

  “The book is brightly and pleasantly written.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 326. O. 6, ’05. 1780w.

  “We must call this work a much more finished and interesting
  performance than the same writer’s ‘Revolutionary types.’”

      + =Nation.= 82: 491. Je. 14, ’06. 560w.

  “The author of these volumes has told his story well and
  sympathetically; but he has not proved that it was really worth
  telling.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.

  “There is about the work a certain freshness of interest due in part
  to the facility with which the Royalist point of view is apprehended.
  The narrative is, as has been said, unnecessarily extended; it is also
  discursive, and otherwise bears marks of an unaccustomed hand, and it
  is animated by an exaggerated sentimentalism which affects almost
  every personage discussed.”

    – + =Outlook.= 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 330w.

  “Whether Miss Taylor altogether satisfies the critical reader in this
  or that deduction, the fact remains that she has achieved an artistic
  triumph,—her canvas is alive. A complete sense of proportion is
  preserved throughout.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 98. Ja. 20, ’06. 2020w.


=Taylor, Marie Hansen (Mrs. Bayard Taylor).= On two continents. **$2.75.
Doubleday.

  “If the volume does not take its place with biographies of commanding
  importance, at least it will do its part in preserving the memory of a
  significant name and personality.” M. A. de Wolfe Howe.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 112. Ja. ’06. 240w.

  “The volume brings much that is new, and what was previously known has
  been well retold. There is, in general, a wise discrimination as to
  content.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 100. F. 1, ’06. 1120w.


=Taylor, Mary Imlay.= Impersonator. †$1.50. Little.

  An art student in Paris is invited by her aunt to make a three weeks
  visit in Washington. For certain reasons she sends a friend to
  impersonate her. The one chosen is really too sincere and honest to
  enjoy the rôle, but when once launched upon it, the fear of being
  discovered is subordinate to the joy of social popularity. Among the
  characters portrayed are the businesslike tho unrefined aunt, a young
  congressman and a trust magnate who both declare their love for Mary,
  a prying social secretary who makes mountains of scandal out of
  molehills of evidence, and a French ambassador who averts a painful
  crisis by claiming the heroine as his daughter and giving her rightful
  title of countess.

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  “Readers who still hold to the old-time standards of honor in fiction
  as well as in real life, and who reject the modern American dictum
  that success is the main thing, no matter how it is won, may find it a
  bit disconcerting to be expected to admire and sympathize with a
  heroine who wins through by means that are not in the least debatable.
  Otherwise they may find ‘The impersonator’ a moderately entertaining
  story, written with vivacity and occasional mild humor.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 430w.

  “A superfluous story of Washington society.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 40w.


=Taylor, Talbot Jones.= Talbot J. Taylor collection: furniture, wood
carving, and other branches of the decorative arts. **$6. Putnam.

  “This handsome volume, which contains 187 splendid illustrations, is
  designed to reveal to the world the decorative treasures hidden in Mr.
  Taylor’s house, Cedarhurst, Long Island. Talbot house, of which a
  photograph is given, is built in Elizabethan style, and is by no means
  pretentious, but its contents are invaluable. It would seem as if its
  owner had made a hobby of buying, not so much for the purposes of use
  as for ‘a collection.’... The house is especially rich in old carved
  woods, and in German and French furniture.”—Ath.

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  “This book will, therefore, be mainly of interest to collectors, who
  are not always the same as connoisseurs.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 308. S. 15. 120w.

    + + =Ind.= 61: 819. O. 4, ’06. 440w.

        =Nation.= 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 180w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 474. Jl. 28, ’06. 750w.

        =Spec.= 97: 136. Jl. 28, ’06. 80w.


=Taylor, W. Purves.= Practical cement testing. *$3. Clark, M. C.

  A book for the expert or the novice which will increase the accuracy
  and simplify the routine of testing work. “With the exception of the
  chapter on ‘Classification and statistics’ and the one on ‘Cement
  manufacture,’ comprising together barely 30 pages, the entire book is
  devoted to the discussion and description of methods of cement
  testing. The tests considered are those employed in ordinary routine
  work to determine whether a particular shipment of cement is of a
  quality sufficiently good for construction work.” (Engin. N.)

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  “A unique book, which promises to be of great value to cement testers
  and to all others interested in seeing that cement conforms with the
  best standards of the day.”

    + + =Engin. N.= 55: 79. Ja. 18, 06. 1020w.


=Tchaikovsky, Modeste Il’ich.= Life and letters of Peter Il’ich
Tchaikovsky; ed. from the Russian with an introd. by Rosa Newmarch. *$5.
Lane.

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 905. D. 30. 770w.

  Reviewed by Joseph Sohn.

      + =Forum.= 37: 527. Ap. ’06. 180w.

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1489. Je. 21, ’06. 660w.

  “A book of more absorbing human as well as artistic interest has
  seldom been written.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 351. Ap. 26, ’06. 900w.

  “Mrs. Newmarch has retained quite enough to give a complete view of
  Tschaikovsky’s life and activities, even his intimate relations.”
  Richard Aldrich.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 190. Mr. 31, ’06. 820w.

  “The great Russian’s musical work is so full of the sincerely
  emotional and human elements of his character that the story of his
  life and selections from his letters make reading almost as attractive
  as that of a novel.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 140w.


=Temple, Most Rev. Frederick (Archbishop of Canterbury).= Memoirs of
Archbishop Temple by seven friends; ed. by E. G. Sandford. *$9.
Macmillan.

  The life story of a man who “seemed cast in a heroic mould, more than
  life-size,—colossal ... good and simple, of uncommon force of mind,
  and power of acquiring knowledge.” (Spec.) The sketch is in seven
  parts, commented upon in the preface as follows: “Its different
  divisions are clearly marked and defined; the mental characteristic of
  the man was breadth, and the fact that different types of mind are
  represented in the writers may help to preserve this feature of
  breadth in the general portrait. The subject of it was many-sided, and
  a mistake would be made if the view presented were contracted....
  These memoirs accordingly regard his life as far as possible under its
  more public aspects; they are not a biography, but records of a
  career.”

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  “The seven contributors as well as the editor, have been perhaps too
  industrious. They have, no doubt, given the salient features of
  Archbishop Temple’s life but they have also added many that are
  insignificant, and the two large volumes would, if they had been
  boiled down into one, have presented a biography more likely to
  endure.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 157. F. 17, ’06. 1150w.

  “Unless compounded expressly for clerical consumption, the book lacks
  proportion.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 351. Mr. 24. 2940w.

  Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

        =Atlan.= 98: 281. Ag. ’06. 740w.

    + – =Edinburgh R.= 203: 429. Ap ’06. 11010w.

  “Remembering the difficult conditions under which these volumes have
  been prepared, I think that the editor and his helpers are to be
  congratulated upon their success in having subordinated the individual
  portions of the work into such just proportion that the personal
  force, characteristic energy, and life-story of Archbishop Temple are
  felt to constitute the real interest of these volumes.” W. B. Ripon.

    + + =Hibbert J.= 4: 912. Jl. ’06. 4660w.

        =Ind.= 60: 1222. My. 24, ’06. 710w.

  “In spite of its length, ill-proportion, and abundance of repetition,
  the book is quite readable, and is to be commended as a contribution
  of no small importance to the ecclesiastical history of the England of
  the past half-century.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.

  “In respect of the fulness of its public detail this memoir may take
  its place beside those of Tait, who was Temple’s tutor, and of Benson,
  his colleague and friend.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 57. F. 23, ’06. 2540w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 351. Ap. 26, ’06. 850w.

  “On the whole Is well done.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 500w.

  “More serious is the inability of the writers to secure that
  detachment of vision necessary to a correct estimate of their
  subject.”

    – + =Outlook.= 82: 806. Ap. 7, ’06. 440w.

  “We could wish that someone had been found able to weld into one whole
  the mass of material collected in these two volumes, with a critical
  tact to know what to omit, and with skill in grouping and arranging
  material. As it is, there is much repetition. But the critical reader
  may find advantages in compensation. There is a unity in the volumes.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 302. Mr. 10, ’06. 1910w.

  “This life is a record of work and business. It is so many chapters in
  English educational and ecclesiastical history. Viewed as such, it is
  admirably done by experts whose judgment is most valuable, and who
  express it excellently.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 382. Mr. 10, ’06. 2040w.


=Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st baron.= In memoriam; annotated by the
author. **$1. Macmillan.

  A little volume whose green covers recall “those which of yore made so
  many Christmastides or New Year’s days memorable.” It is an important
  edition because it contains Tennyson’s own notes on the poem: “notes,”
  says the present Lord Tennyson, “left by my father partly in his own
  hand-writing, and partly dictated to me.”

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  “The interest, after all, of the commentary, is, partly, that we see,
  so to speak, the dust and chips of the workshop, and partly, too, that
  we discover the thought which underlies the poems to be really neither
  abstruse or recondite at all.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 110. F. 3, ’06. 850w.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 48. Ja. 13. 420w.

  “I note a few misprints on the commentary.” W. J. Rolfe.

  + + – =Critic.= 48: 453. My. ’06. 1910w.

  “A very precious little book.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 120w.

    + + =Ind.= 60: 802. Ap. 5, ’06. 600w.

  “Their great value is that we feel that we have been in contact with a
  great mind, of which the force lay not in intellectual grasp so much
  as interpretative insight, a mind which worked not by logical
  processes, but rather in a visible substance of beauty.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 453. D. 22, ’05. 1810w.

  “A rather unsatisfactory piece of book-making.”

      – =Nation.= 82: 179. Mr. 1, ’06. 480w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 310w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 166. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.

  “The notes themselves are not always of importance, but frequently
  they do throw light on the meaning and association of particular
  lines.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 100w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 40w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 370. Mr. 24, ’06. 330w.

  “But what is before all valuable is to read rightly the message of the
  poem as a whole.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 21. Ja. 6, ’06. 560w.


=Tennyson, Hallam, 2d baron.= Alfred Lord Tennyson: a memoir by his son,
new ed. **$4. Macmillan.

  “This one-volume edition is of convenient size and attractive
  make-up.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 60w.


=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= History of Henry Esmond: ed. by Hamilton
Byron Moore. 60c. Ginn.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 104. Mr. ’06. 40w.

  “Unusually helpful notes.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 20w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 60w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 926. D. 30, ’05. 130w.

        =School R.= 14: 233. Mr. ’05. 12w.


=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Letters to an American family; with an
introd. by Lucy D. Baxter and original drawings by Thackeray. **$1.50.
Century.

  “The charm of the contents of this book, giving as it does such an
  unusual insight into the attractive personality of Thackeray, together
  with the successful make-up, combine to make a volume that is to be
  doubly valued.”

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 646. F. ’06. 110w.


That reminds me: a collection of tales worth telling. **75c. Jacobs.

      + =Arena.= 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 120w.


=Thayer, William Roscoe.= Short history of Venice. **$1.50. Macmillan.

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 223. F. 24. 1090w.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 555. Ap. ’06. 780w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 50w.

  “Is a pleasantly written and quite adequate epitome.” H. F. B.

    + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 196. Ja. ’06. 390w.


=Thomas, Carl Clapp.= Steam turbines. $3.50. Wiley.

  “A thoroly scientific as well as practical treatment of steam turbines
  which is designed as a text-book for technical colleges.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a text-book it is quite satisfactory. The only other book in the
  English language with which it could be compared is that of Dr.
  Stodola. The reviewer is of the opinion that Professor Thomas’ book
  will fill a want that has been felt by a great many technical
  educators.” Storm Bull.

  + + – =Engin. N.= 55: 427. Ap. 12, ’06. 1170w.


=Thomas, Edward.= Wales: painted by Robert Fowler; described by E.
Thomas. *$6. Macmillan.

    + – =Int. Studio.= 27: 182. D. ’05. 290w.


=Thompson, Charles Willis.= Party leaders of the time; character studies
of public men at Washington, Senate portraits, House etchings, snapshots
at executive officers and diplomats, and flashlights in the country at
large. **$1.75. Dillingham.

  The excellent photographs of over thirty of the public men sketched in
  this volume add much to this popular account of those figures
  prominent in the Senate and the House, at “the other end of the
  avenue,” and “out in the field.” The author has aimed to make clear
  the personalities of our public men, “to make visible human beings and
  not mere names out of them,” and he has done this by means of a wealth
  of anecdote and a newspaper correspondent’s observant eye and ready
  pen.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 100w.

  “His studies are liberally punctuated with anecdote and afford lively
  as well as instructive reading.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 140w.

  “Now that they are hung in a gallery together, the complete
  effectiveness of each single picture destroys more or less the total
  effect, and gives an impression of exaggeration. Everybody is painted
  large, and each much of the same bigness.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 174. Mr. 24, ’06. 1880w.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7. ’06. 360w.


=Thompson, Holland.= From the cotton field to the cotton mill: a study
of the industrial transition in North Carolina. **$1.50. Macmillan.

  “Mr. Thompson’s study goes back to colonial days in North Carolina. He
  carries it down to as recent a date as March, 1906; and not a phase of
  the social and industrial development of the state has escaped his
  careful attention. Besides the study of the cotton industry there are
  informing chapters dealing with present day social and religious
  conditions in North Carolina; and much more than local interest
  attaches to Mr. Thompson’s admirable presentation of all these
  conditions.”—Ind.

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  “From many points of view the work was well worth doing, and it has
  been well done. The spirit that characterizes Mr. Thompson’s book is
  that of the trained investigator.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 215. Jl. 26, 06. 970w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 330w.


=Thompson, John.= Hither and thither: a collection of comments on books
and bookish matters. Jacobs.

  The librarian of the Free library of Philadelphia has made various
  summaries and comments upon many of the volumes, rare and curious,
  which he has examined from time to time. The results of his
  observations are presented in a series of chapters which include “The
  ten lost tribes,” “Early chronicles,” “British essayists,” “A polyglot
  psalter,” “Sevres porcelain,” “Palestrina’s music,” “Alexandre Dumas,”
  etc.

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  “Writes entertainingly and instructively on matters chiefly of
  antiquarian interest.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 390w.


=Thompson, Osmund Rhodes Howard, and Rauch, William H.= History of the
“Bucktails,” Kane rifle regiment of the Pennsylvania reserves, 42nd of
the line: published by H. W. Rauch, historian, for the regimental
association; with a dedicatory note by the Hon. E: A. Irvin. $2. William
H. Rauch, 2141 N. Park av., Phil.

  A volume which “contains the muster rolls of the regiment and a full
  account of the organization of the Bucktails from the excellent
  material furnished by the mountaineers of Northern Pennsylvania.”—N.
  Y. Times.

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  “Unhappily its authors were plainly inexperienced both in the art of
  bookmaking and of writing history. Hence, it does not add much to the
  growing collection of valuable regimental histories.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 307. O. 11, ’06. 480w.

  “Not a very satisfactory volume altogether, the ‘History of the
  Bucktails’ ... contains, nevertheless, some material which will be of
  use to the future historian of the civil war and much that is
  interesting to the friends, kinsfolk, and descendants of the men who
  made up a celebrated body of Pennsylvania troops.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 620. O. 6, ’06. 640w.


=Thompson, Robert John=, comp. Proofs of life after death. **$1.50.
Turner, H. B.

  The opinions of eminent thinkers on the subject of life after death
  are grouped about such headings as science, psychical research,
  philosophy and spiritualism. The book contains many arguments from a
  scientific standpoint that will interest all who wish evidence other
  than theological.


=Thomson, John Arthur.= Herbert Spencer. *$1. Dutton.

  “This biography is useful for two reasons: it presents a concise but
  luminous account of the human side of the great philosopher, and it
  gives the reader an idea of the position of the scientific world today
  in regard to the views which Spencer formulated or championed. The
  biographical portion proper consumes a comparatively small space—fewer
  than one hundred pages—the remainder of the volume being occupied with
  exposition and discussion of Spencer’s work, with special reference to
  his ‘Principles of biology’ and his attitude to the evolution idea
  generally.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Prof. Thomson’s criticism is always clear and suggestive, and his
  book is stimulating.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 800. Je. 30. 630w.

  “All is so well presented, and is so significant in relation to the
  thought of our day, that one is tempted to class the book among the
  comparatively small number of those which ‘everybody’ should read.” T.
  D. A. Cockerell.

    + + =Dial.= 51: 104. S. 16, ’06. 830w.

  “The subject could not have fallen into better hands than those of
  Prof. Thomson, who writes clearly, argues cogently, and never fails to
  leave his reader interested and informed.”

    + + =Nature.= 74: 533. S. 27, ’06. 430w.

  “He writes sympathetically yet critically in his judgment both of the
  man and his results.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 366. Je. 9. ’06. 1270w.

  “Some of his passages are difficult reading indeed.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 210w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 50w.


=Thomson, William Hanna.= Brain and personality; or, The physical
relations of the brain to the mind. **$1.20. Dodd.

  “The object of this book is to acquaint the general reader with the
  remarkable discoveries of modern physiological science of the specific
  relations of certain areas on the surface of the brain to special
  mental functions. One of the first results of these discoveries is to
  impart an entirely new aspect to the important subject of Education.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This work on ‘Brain and personality’ ought to be of interest to every
  person who possesses either of those entities. Aiming to acquaint the
  general reader with the remarkable discoveries of modern physiological
  science, it is eminently clear and readable. Confusions and
  inconsistencies in ontology do not invalidate the author’s
  contributions to physiology, for, like the brain itself, while one
  part may be useless in solving problems, the other half is
  indispensable.” I. Woodbridge Riley.

  + + – =Bookm.= 24: 373. D. ’06. 1600w.

  “Volumes like the present, that fail of this through fundamental lack
  of fitness, do not aid the cause which they espouse with good faith
  and earnest intention.”

      – =Dial.= 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 270w.

  “His book treats the subject in a purely scientific manner, but it is
  written in a peculiarly lucid style, and can be easily understood
  without expert knowledge by the thoughtful layman.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 909. D. 15, ’06. 730w.


=Thoreau, Henry David.= Excursions: with biographical sketch by Ralph
Waldo Emerson. 35c. Crowell.

  One of the season’s additions to the “Handy volume classics.”


=Thoreau, Henry David.= Friendship. **50c. Crowell.

  This essay, originally a part of “A week on the Concord and Merrimack
  rivers” is Thoreau’s estimate of what he called “the secret of the
  universe.”


=Thoreau, Henry David.= Maine woods; with an introd. by Annie Russell
Marble. 35c. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Handy volume classic” series.


=Thorndike, Edward L.= Elements of psychology. *$1.50. A. G. Seiler, N.
Y.

  “Of the elementary books on psychology which have appeared in recent
  years, this volume by Professor Thorndike seems, to the present
  reviewer, to be one of the most useful and interesting. Its
  arrangement and distribution of the subject matter; its adequate and
  lucid exposition and its well formulated definitions make it useful;
  while its wealth of examples drawn from common life makes it
  interesting.”

  + + + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 292. S. 15, ’06. 760w.

  “It not only ensures to the student a clear grasp of the science as a
  theoretical whole, but is well calculated to make it vital and real to
  him, and helpful in the understanding and conduct of his own practical
  life.” Edmund B. Delabarre.

    + + =Science=, n. s. 23: 260. F. 16, ’06. 1070w.


=Thorndike, Edward L.= Principles of teaching. *$1.25. A. G. Seiler, New
York.

  The author says, “The aim of this book is to make the study of
  teaching scientific and practical—scientific in the sense of dealing
  with verifiable facts rather than attractive opinions, practical in
  the sense of giving knowledge and power that will make a difference in
  the actual work of teaching.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The most striking qualities of the work are richness of content and
  balance and sanity of treatment. On the whole we do not know any
  single book more to be recommended for giving young teachers a
  scientific conception of their work.” Edward O. Sisson.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 90. Ag. 16, ’06. 770w.

  “The book does clearly what it, in the main, sets out to do—to couple
  up closely psychological theory with the theory of practice. It is a
  valuable addition to educational literature.” W. S. J.

    + + =El. School T.= 6: 440. Ap. ’06. 420w.

  “It is a good book for normal school classes, and its numerous and apt
  questions and exercises will be found provocative of profitable
  discussion in teachers’ meetings and institutes.”

      + =Ind.= 01: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.

  “Gives the same evidence of vigor, virility, and originality that
  characterizes all his other writings.” Frederick E. Bolton.

    + + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 366. N. 15, ’06. 570w.

  “In spite of these possible weaknesses, this book must be regarded as
  one of the very best of its kind.” J. L. Meriam.

  + + – =School R.= 14: 765. D. ’06. 790w.


=Thorndike, Lynn.= Place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe.
*75c. Macmillan.

  A monograph in the historical series of Columbia university. “The
  noteworthy point in the resume is that magic among the educated was
  always associated with science, and is related to it as the guesses of
  the child to the positive knowledge of the man.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has dipped for himself into the ancient writers, has gathered much
  curious information, and has set it forth with gusto and with
  considerable sprightliness of style; but his study, though
  intelligent, is sadly lacking in thoroughness and yet more so in
  closeness of thought and precision of diction. Of magic itself his
  conception is confused in the extreme.”

    – + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 707. Ap. ’06. 200w.

  “An interesting monograph.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 30w.

  Reviewed by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 37. Ja. 20, ’06. 1360w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 231. Ja. 27, ’06. 130w.


Thread of gold, by the author of “The house of quiet.” *$3. Dutton.

  “We should deal with life in a generous and high-hearted mood.... Nor
  must we aim at mere tranquility ... our peace must be heartened by
  eagerness, our zest calmed by serenity.” Such is the burden of this
  anonymous author’s book. The essays treat such subjects as prayer, the
  pleasure of work, the beetle, the hare, the artist, Westminster Abbey,
  the Apocalypse, the statue and music.

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  “In what superficially appears a volume of fugitive essays on the most
  desultory and often trifling themes, we have really the revelation, by
  significant flash-lights, of a high-minded nature solitarily and often
  doubtfully feeling its way towards truth and right.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 224. F. 24. 1250w.

  “Its fault is a complacent fluency. But no inquiring mind could fail
  to find something vital and suggestive in its pages.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 31. Ja. 26, ’06. 290w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 904. D. 16, ’05. 240w.

  “For the most part, the book is the sincere, spontaneous talk of a man
  of culture who has observed and felt keenly, and who expresses himself
  in simple, limpid, captivating style.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 161. Mr. 17, ’06. 710w.

  “Is indeed a beautiful book, one that will give the reader a
  realization of the joy of life. It is a succession of exquisite
  sketches presented by an artist gifted with the elusive literary touch
  and a delicate instinct for the beautiful.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 260w.


365 tasty dishes: a tasty dish for every day in the year. *40c. Jacobs.

  The full gamut of the simple menu is run in these 365 dishes which
  follow the season’s changes beginning with prune snowballs for New
  Year’s day, providing rhubarb fool for April 1st, raspberry foam for
  the Fourth of July, and plum pudding croquettes for Christmas.


=Thruston, Lucy Meacham.= Called to the field. †$1.50. Little.

  A story which looks out upon the Civil war from a Southern home
  corner. The heroine is a newly wed Virginia girl who, with the
  exception of a risky visit to the enemies’ camp, instead of dipping
  into the daring undertakings of most war story heroines stays at the
  home helm, where in spite of Northern foraging bands, skirmishes at
  her very door, a wounded husband to nurse back to life, she suffers
  duty, citizenship and sacrifice to argue their case against the menace
  and terror of battle.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 70w.

  “Is really a fine piece of work.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 120w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 223. Ap. 7, ’06. 350w.

  “But for tropical zones of language and landscape. ‘Called to the
  field’ is a well-made book—all the more historically correct, perhaps,
  for those very exaggerations.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 210w.

  “The charm of it lies in its perfect naturalness, and there also is
  the secret of its intensity.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 120w.

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 711. Je. 9, ’06. 80w.


=Thurso, John Wolf.= Modern turbine practice and water-power plants.
*$4. Van Nostrand.

  “The whole book is thoroughly up to date in its information, the facts
  and data are well marshalled, and it should be consulted by every
  engineer who may be called upon to deal with the problem of the
  utilisation of water-power.”

    + + =Nature.= 75: 52. N. 15, ’06. 960w.


=Thurston, E. Temple.= Apple of Eden. †$1.50. Dodd.

  “No English novel by a new writer, for serious, restrained ability,
  bears comparison with ‘The apple of Eden.’” Mary Moss.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 57. Ja. ’06. 260w.


=Thurston, Ernest Temple.= Traffic, the story of a faithful woman.
†$1.50. Dillingham.

  In his arraignment of society in general and certain phases of human
  nature in particular, the author takes his reader over the ground of
  an old question—the Roman Catholic denial of divorce. “The
  noble-hearted Irish girl of the story is most cruelly confronted with
  the fact that unless she would lose what is to her the only hope of
  heaven, she may not put away finally and by divorce her drunken,
  brutal, and bestial husband, and in plain fact may hold more hope of
  final salvation in a life of sin than in a marriage of the truest
  affection following a divorce.” (Outlook.)

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      – =Acad.= 70: 334. Ap. 7, ’06. 470w.

  “The writing is vigorous, and the exposition courageous, and the book
  is better in parts than as a whole.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 294. Mr. 10. 330w.

  “A forceful, pathetic, but most unpleasant book.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

    – + =Bookm.= 24: 387. D. ’06. 350w.

  “Mr. Thurston does not suggest the possession of the imaginative
  sympathy or even the ordinary knowledge of life that would warrant him
  in attempting so tremendous a task as this. He writes easily, but
  there is not in all these 450 pages any indications of vision, any
  profound sense of human nature. The book is smooth and superficial,
  and, shorn of its coarseness, conventional in every line.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 5: 84. Mr. 9, ’06. 820w.

  “Mr. Thurston more than accomplishes his object of rousing the
  sympathy and indignation of the reader. His characters also are both
  lifelike and interesting. But the incessant painfulness of the
  situation is continuously distressing, so that the book is anything
  but a restful novel, while the plain speaking in describing coarse
  viciousness exceeds good taste and sound literary judgment.”

    – + =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 9, ’06. 240w.

  “The story is written in the spirit of rancour, and of obstinate
  prejudice, and is therefore useless as a protest against the imagined
  wrongs which have inflamed its author’s spirit.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.

  “It is seldom one meets with a book so wholly disagreeable as this
  novel.”

      – =Spec.= 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 140w.


=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Gambler. †$1.50. Harper.

  “The author throws herself too ardently into the thick of the fight to
  judge the relative importance of scenes and incidents. But the story
  is told with warm sympathy and with much insight into motive and
  character.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 181. F. 24, ’06. 620w.

  “It interests us as showing, we fancy, a zeal for the portrayal of
  character which the writer’s last success did not display.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 259. Mr. 3. 320w.

  “If ‘The gambler’, which is a better book than ‘The masquerader’,
  shall prove to be less popular, we shall personally ascribe the fact
  to the very unfortunate illustrations that misrepresent the text.” R.
  W. Kemp.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 361. D. ’05. 2390w.

  “It falls short of the standard which ‘The circle’ and ‘The
  masquerader’ have established for their author. ‘The gambler’ is a
  work that interests you, but it does not vastly enhance Mrs.
  Thurston’s fame.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 690w.

  “The characters are conventional through and through, in body, heart
  and soul. The style of the book is diffuse, inexact, inelegant. The
  writer has no very clear idea of what is her plot.”

    – + =Lond. Times.= 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 500w.

  “The strongest situations and the best character-drawing are to be
  found in the early part of the book.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 304. F. 24, ’06. 880w.


=Thwaites, Reuben Gold=, ed. Early western travels, 1748–1846; a series
of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary
volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic
conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early
American settlement. 31v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.

  An editorial preface; Wyeth’s Oregon; or A short history of a long
  journey from the Atlantic ocean to the region of the Pacific, by land;
  and Townsend’s narrative of a journey across the Rocky mountains to
  the Columbia river; form the contents of volume 21 of this interesting
  series.

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        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 747. Ap. ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 22–24.)

  “The style in translation is singularly clear and simple. No small
  portion of the narrative is of historical value. The editing appears
  to have been done with exceptional fullness and care, the notes are
  abundant and supplement the text with information of a scientific and
  historical character. Few volumes of travels have received such
  careful attention from the editor. The amount of information thus
  given on places and persons that are incidentally mentioned by the
  author is very large.”

  + + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 179. O. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 22–24.)

  “The introduction and notes of the editor add much to the interest of
  the reprint, as throughout the series.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 21.)

  “In spite of rare slips ... the notes themselves are among the most
  valuable of the contributions to American historical scholarship
  presented by this excellent series.” Frederick J. Turner.

  + + + =Dial.= 41: 6. Jl. 1, ’06. 2960w. (Review of v. 5–20.)

  “Not merely useful to the historian, but filled with tales of such
  strange and thrilling adventures as to hold the attention of the
  veriest schoolboy.”

  + + + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 8–23.)

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 53. Ja. 18, ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 19 and 20.)

        =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 21.)

  + + + =Nation.= 83: 438. N. 22, ’06. 400w. (Review of v. 22–27.)

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 15. Ja. 13, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 19.)

  + + + =Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 18.)


=Thwing, Rev. Charles Franklin.= History of higher education in America.
**$3. Appleton.

  “The story of the oldest and the newest foundations, the picture of
  the environing conditions in former and in later times, and of the
  advancing development, is given with many an enlivening touch of
  biographical notice and historical incident. Religious and
  ecclesiastical influences come into view together with the patriotic,
  scholarly, and scientific. The financial side of the history is not
  omitted, nor is the architectural. Of course the libraries and the
  graduate and professional schools have their appropriate chapters, and
  so do undergraduate affairs, including the Greek-letter societies and
  athletics. All this, however, is no mere chronicle: the lessons it
  yields are interwoven with it.”—Outlook.

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  “The book is conceived and executed in a large and generous spirit,
  combines accuracy and interest in an unusual degree, and is a notable
  addition to the literature of our educational history.” Edward O.
  Sisson.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 321. N. 16, ’06. 2080w.

  + + – =Nation.= 83: 419. N. 15, ’06. 830w.

  “Instructive and entertaining volume.” Charles Elliott Fitch.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 720. N. 3, ’06. 2330w.

  “What others have given either in outline or in fragments is here
  given in detail and completeness. No work on American history is more
  worth reading.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 230w.


=Thwing, Eugene.= Man from Red Keg. †$1.50. Dodd.

  “In the ‘Man from Red Keg’ we are given the raw material for a great
  novel. Much of the dialog is badly written and deals in the baldest
  commonplaces, showing that ruthless revision and condensation would
  have strengthened the book, but we do get the atmosphere of the
  Michigan woods, of a country town, and of live men with vital
  interests.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 342. F. 8, ’06. 210w.


=Tilghman, Emily (Ursula Tannenforst, pseud.).= Thistles of Mount Cedar:
a story of school-life for girls. †$1.25. Winston.

  “The story is not marked by any special strength and impresses us as
  being stilted and artificial in treatment. The moral atmosphere,
  however, is excellent.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 111. Ja. ’06 100w.


=Tilton, Dwight, pseud. (George Tilton Richardson, and Wilder Dwight
Quint).= Golden grayhound. †$1.50. Lothrop.

  “The improbability of a man in his senses, but without a cent in his
  pocket following a pretty face seen ‘in a snow-storm outside
  Tiffany’s’ even to the jaws of the Golden greyhound, which turns out
  to be not a dog but an ocean liner, is followed up in its turn by
  other improbabilities of varied and amusing as well as amazing sort.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

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      – =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 130w.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 175. Mr. 24, ’06. 170w.

  “A very human story of hearts and fortunes.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

  “Is a particularly silly example of its silly class.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.


=Tilton, Theodore.= Fading of the mayflower, a poem of the present time;
drawings by W. J. Enright: decorations by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. $1.50.
Marquis.

  “A rhythmic lamentation over the decay of the ideals of the early New
  Englanders and the rise of the passion for money-getting. The book,
  however, closes with a temperately optimistic prophecy of a better day
  to come.”—World To-Day.

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  “The homiletic value of the sonnets is considerable and they embody
  much quaint information and homely wisdom, but they almost never
  appeal to us as poetry.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 67. Ag. 1, ’06. 270w.

  “He tells again, in flowing verses that are easily read, the old
  Colonial tales, and his poem is full of apt historical allusion and
  pertinent moral reflections. It is quite worthy of its fine setting.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.

        =World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 60w.


=Titchener, Edward Bradford.= Experimental psychology: a manual of
laboratory practice, v. 2. pt. 1, *$1.40; pt. 2, *$2.50. Macmillan.

  This second volume of Professor Titchener’s work is a manual of
  “Quantitative experiments” as was its predecessor of “Qualitative.” It
  comprises two parts, an instructor’s manual and a student’s manual.
  The student’s manual contains chapters “on Preliminary experiments,
  comprising experiments in tone and pressure discrimination, leading up
  to demonstrations of Weber’s Law; on the Metric methods—historical
  notes accompanying the experiments; on the Reaction experiment, the
  Psychology of time and the range of Quantitative psychology. The
  Instructor’s manual contains, in addition, appendices giving
  examination questions, bibliographies and a list of important
  instruments for psychophysical research with prices and names of
  makers.” (Bookm.)

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  “Lucid, methodical and business-like in the extreme.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 582. My. 11. 360w.

        =Bookm.= 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 80w.

  “It is safe to say that Professor Titchener’s ‘Experimental
  psychology’ is much the most important general work on the subject yet
  published by an English writer.” H. B. Alexander.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 641. F. ’06. 760w.

  “Professor Titchener’s is the most complete guide to quantitative work
  in psychology that we have in English, and will be indispensable as a
  reference book in laboratories where the course as a whole cannot be
  followed.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 180w.

    + + =Nation.= 83: 98. Ag. 2, ’06. 100w.

  “Professor Titchener may congratulate himself not only on having
  completed a long and arduous labor, but also upon having produced a
  veritable bible for his experimental colleagues.” Edmund C. Sanford.

  + + + =Phys. R.= 15: 424. Jl. ’06. 1080w.

  “The work amply deserves to be adopted, for firstly, it is
  specifically planned to afford just that discipline that American
  psychology to-day lacks, and secondly, this plan is worked out to the
  last practical detail with remarkable skill and a prodigious amount of
  care.” Edwin B. Holt.

  + + – =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 93. Mr. 15, ’06. 1830w.

  “The author has accomplished the most arduous and difficult task with
  such distinguished success as to put the coming generation of
  psychologists under lasting obligation to him.” James R. Angell.

  + + + =School R.= 14: 155. F. ’06. 350w.


=Todd, Charles Burr.= In olde Connecticut. **$1.25. Grafton press.

  “The byways of history often have a fascination denied to the
  highlands. In these interesting pages Mr. Todd discourses pleasantly
  upon various episodes in the past of an old New England commonwealth.
  He takes us to Fairfield, to Lebanon, to New London, and gives us
  glimpses of matters not often set down.... There were dinners and
  dances at Lebanon, the home of Trumbull, when the French officers were
  there, and ‘the fair Connecticut girls’ were considered attractive by
  the visitors. The volume is the first in ‘The Grafton historical
  series,’ designed, as the editor remarks, to ‘provide an effective
  background for our Americanism and a welcome perspective to
  patriotism.’”—Critic.

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  “If the succeeding volumes are as well written as Mr. Todd’s the
  object will be attained.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 150w.

  “The little book will prove of especial interest to persons connected
  by birth or kinship with Connecticut, and will also be read with
  pleasure and profit by the general public.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 260w.

  “It is all pleasing to read, but wants the importance of coherent
  narrative working toward some definite result—a book for the fireside
  and not for the historian’s shelves.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 600w.

  “Entertaining little book.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 432. Jl. 7, ’06. 660w.

  “The reader will be agreeably surprised by the amount and variety of
  information unearthed by Mr. Todd in his sojournings in Connecticut,
  much of it admittedly legendary and traditional, but all of it rich in
  human interest.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 765. Jl. 28, ’06. 230w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 70w.


=Tomlinson, Rev. Everett Titsworth.= Four boys in the Yellowstone; how
they went and what they did; il. by H. C. Edward. †$1.50. Lothrop.

  With “Four boys in the Yellowstone” Mr. Tomlinson launches his new
  series of tales about the scenic wonders and beauties of our own land.
  Four boys from as many quarters of the country who are chums at a New
  England school share the joys of a vacation trip to the Yellowstone.

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        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 639. O. 6, ’06. 100w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 110w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 60w.


=Tomlinson, Rev. Everett Titsworth.= Young rangers: a story of the
conquest of Canada; with il. by Chase Emerson. †$1.50. Wilde.

  The concluding volume in the “Colonial series,” without lessening the
  glory of the attack on the stronghold of Quebec, portrays some of the
  heroic acts of the regulars and their comrades of the provinces in the
  lesser known but equally important events that contributed to the
  final victory.

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        =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.


=Tooker, Lewis Frank.= Under rocking skies. †$1.50. Century.

  “Distinctly a readable story.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 50w.


=Torrey, Bradford.= Friends on the shelf. **$1.25. Houghton.

  The friends of the library shelf who have inspired part of these
  essays are Hazlitt, FitzGerald, Thoreau, Stevenson, Keats and Anatole
  France. Not alone of men does Mr. Torrey write for in the volume are
  such subjects treated as “Verbal magic,” “Quotability,” “The grace of
  obscurity,” “In defense of the traveler’s notebook,” and “Concerning
  the lack of an American literature.”

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  “Human personality emerging from the page of genius is the thing that
  has had most attraction for him, and is also the feature of the book
  which has the strongest appeal to the reader.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 170w.

  “A very pretty style. It is lithe and simple. Within its own limits it
  is resourceful, too, and full of variety; but its bounds are narrow.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 310w.

  “These papers contain, in fact, much sensible talk on bookish matters.
  It is, I say, sensible rather than in any way brilliant or original;
  and it is talk rather than finished literature.” H. W. Boynton.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 804. D. 1, ’06. 1150w.


=Tosi, Pier Francesco.= Observations on the florid song; or, Sentiments
on the ancient and modern singers; written in Italian; tr. into English
by Mr. Galliard. *$1.75. Scribner.

  One of the chief authorities on the singing of the older Italian
  period. Tho written in 1743 and especially valuable for historic
  interest, the foibles arraigned and the problems discussed are of
  interest to present day students.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Nation.= 83: 169. Ag. 23, ’06. 1340w.

  “This reprint, with all practical fidelity of the quaint English
  translation, offers a curious and in some ways entertaining addition
  to the library of the musical student.” Richard Aldrich.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 666. O. 13, ’06. 830w.


=Townsend, Malcolm=, comp. Handbook of United States political history
for readers and students. **$1.60. Lothrop.

  “The attempt is made to arrange chronologically, and when possible to
  tabulate all the facts and dates of American political history from
  the time of the first visit of the Norsemen (985) to the present.”
  (Ind.) “Prepared under the stimulus of the merciless questioning of
  the author’s boys, this work gives complete tables of information of
  all species. Genealogies, nicknames, autographs, lists of the writings
  of all the Presidents; accounts of their educational advantages, and
  descriptions of their inaugurations and burial places; a political
  history of the Confederate States; the province of each department of
  the general Government, are some of the contents of the volume.” (N.
  Y. Times.)

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  “It is one of the most useful reference books for teacher and student
  alike, and the amount of out-of-the-way information which it collects
  and classifies is simply amazing.”

    + + =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ’05. 60w.

  “The arrangement is excellent, and the quantity of detail assembled
  and classified is remarkable. Sufficient care has not been taken on
  the score of accuracy.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 168. Ja. 18, ’06. 450w.

  “It is by no means always correct.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 115. F. 24, ’06. 580w.

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ’05. 100w.


=Tracy, Louis.= Karl Grier: the strange story of a man with a sixth
sense. †$1.50. Clode, E. J.

  “Karl Grier has not only all the advantages physical and mental that a
  young man can desire, but he possesses the power of projecting his
  consciousness into any part of the world according to his wish.... Mr.
  Tracy’s hero ‘presented an unrecorded phase of hypertrophy of the
  brain,’ the unnatural growth being ‘permitted by the occasional
  bursting of a distended membrane.’ Of course every novel reader knows
  that such happenings would have extraordinary results. Twice his
  marvellous knowledge almost costs Karl his life; it drives one villain
  to suicide and the other to stand on his head in a large and
  fashionable restaurant. That same villain, too, subsequently makes a
  murderous attack upon Karl, which by fracturing his skull and causing
  a lesion of the middle and lower lobes of the brain renders his future
  life perfectly normal by knocking ‘the sixth sense’ out of him.”—Sat.
  R.

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  “Remarkably interesting novel.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 69. F. 3, ’06. 510w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.

  “We do not find much to please us in such stories.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 274. S. 1, ’06. 240w.


=Traubel, Horace.= With Walt Whitman in Camden: a daily record of
conversations kept by Horace Traubel. **$3. Small.

  The author, an Englishman, makes no claim to biographical
  completeness, but simply gives daily jottings on talks with Whitman
  extending over a period of four months together with many letters of
  the period. “One may hazard a prophecy that the unbeliever will be a
  convert before he closes its pages; not from any propaganda on the
  poet’s part, but from the sheer human affection which his
  companionship inspires.” (N. Y. Times.)

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      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 179. Jl. ’06. 80w.

  “In all the mass of chaff there is quite enough of true grain—of sage
  and admirable thoughts and sayings—to have made a smaller book which
  would have done the fame of Whitman a laudable service.” M. A. DeWolfe
  Howe.

    + – =Atlan.= 98: 849. D. ’06. 950w.

  “The fact that Mr. Traubel has not trusted to his memory, but took
  down Whitman’s words, hot from his lips, gives this book its great
  value and interest. It is a pity, however, that he took down so many
  ‘hot’ words.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

  + + – =Critic.= 49: 185. Ag. ’06. 1600w.

  “The whole book, unstudied and unpolished, conveys a realistic
  impression of the poet and the man, such as only a devoted Boswell is
  able to give.” Percy F. Bicknell.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 144. Mr. 1, ’06. 1540w.

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 475. Mr. 31, ’06. 1050w.

  “Though the book itself is well arranged and beautifully printed, it
  leaves the reader in a somewhat dreary wonder whether it faithfully
  records even the declining and enfeebled years of the poet.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 353. Ap. 26, ’06. 540w.

  “The book should be distinguished in importance sharply from the mass,
  not only for its charm, but as a complete self-revelation of the man
  who is likely to hold the ultimate place among our poets.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 109. F. 24, ’06. 2620w.

  “One of the most remarkable biographical volumes that have appeared in
  many years.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 350w.


=Travis, Elma Allen.= Pang-Yanger. †$1.50. McClure.

  Abijah Bead, the Pang-Yanger, who with his four-year-old Rob had been
  deserted by the woman whom he had secretly married takes his boy to
  the town where the young woman is the wife of a prominent citizen. His
  purpose is revenge, for the startling resemblance of the child to the
  mother must reveal her story and be a witness to her infidelity. This
  forms one thread of the story whose other phase pictures Abijah and an
  irresponsible tho charming Southern girl in the light of an
  ill-assorted pair.

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  “The book is a strong one, but we are fain to ask ‘Cui bono?’
  Certainly, it does not leave us the better or the happier for the
  reading; it does not invoke admiration for the truly admirable; it
  presents situations repulsive and painful, and we are glad to think
  that it fails as a presentation of life.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 926. D. 30, ’05. 580w.

  “Its technical faults are of the kind that the author, with greater
  experience, will be unlikely to repeat, and the main outlines of the
  plot are strong and interesting. The material is somewhat
  sensational.”

    – + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 100w.


=Trent, William Peterfield.= Greatness in literature, and other papers.
**$1.20. Crowell.

      + =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 200w.

  “Upon all these subjects the author has excellent things to say, and
  the manner of his discourse is both persuasive and engaging.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 280w.

  “A most thoughtful and interesting volume.” Christian Gauss.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 96. F. 17, ’06. 2160w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 60w.

  “They are transparently sincere, and more than ordinarily suggestive.”

      + =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 200w.


=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= England under the Stuarts. *$3. Putnam.

  “It is, on the whole, abreast of the times. It is, on the whole,
  accurate. It is well conceived, well written, and eminently readable,
  and is without doubt the best, if not the only, single-volume history
  of the seventeenth century.” Wilbur C. Abbott.

  + + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 378. Ja. ’06. 1930w.

  + + – =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.


=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= Poetry and philosophy of George Meredith.
*$1.50. Scribner.

  “A manifest labour of love, the work of an enthusiastic admirer, as
  appreciative criticism should be.... The volume aims at being a kind
  of guide to Meredith the poet, a Meredith manual. It studies the poems
  in all their varieties, and the poet, in all his aspects.... A good
  and helpful book, which really expounds Mr. Meredith’s strength,
  without shirking the acknowledgment that he is more trying than a poet
  should be.”—Ath.

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  “Mr. Trevelyan’s is the most detailed and elaborate study of Mr.
  Meredith’s poetry that has yet appeared. It is also mainly just and
  discriminating in temper. It is not brilliant or subtle, and its
  treatment is not always exhaustive.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 5. Jl. 7. 1910w.

  “A scholarly and sympathetic study.”

    + + =Current Literature.= 41: 641. D. ’06. 1500w.

  “This book ought to be of great service to those of Meredith’s readers
  ... who wish to grasp a view of life that seems to them at once
  impressive, sane, and extremely perplexing.” F. Melian Stawell.

    + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 128. O. ’06. 1000w.

  “Mr. Trevelyan is never the merely literary critic; he has no concern
  with fine lines considered apart from their meaning; he deals little
  with verbal niceties, with questions of rhythm and metre. He is more
  at home, he writes with more authority on the philosophy of the
  subject. His judgments of poetry have less insight and persuasion.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 200. Je. 1, ’06. 2080w.

        =Nation.= 83: 249. S. 20, ’06. 720w.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 1860w. (Reprinted from Lond.
          Times.)

  “It is a very sincere and generous tribute from a disciple to a
  teacher.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 758. Je. 16, ’06. 950w.


=Treves, Sir Frederick.= Highways and byways of Dorset. $2. Macmillan.

  “The praise of Dorset is the theme of this volume, in which Sir
  Frederick Treves tells us what most to admire in that pleasant land of
  green vales and breezy gorse-clad down, of purple heath and rocky
  coast.... In describing the highways and byways of Dorset he writes of
  places known to him from childhood ... and thus, with a facility which
  comes with knowledge, he sometimes gives us in a few lines a sketch of
  a spot which is so true that we overlook its slightness, and wish for
  no detailed description. This faculty makes ‘Highways and byways in
  Dorset’ something more than a glorified guidebook.”—Ath.

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  “The illustrations to the book are numerous, but unequal, and, on the
  whole, somewhat disappointing; some of them are trivial.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 207. Ag. 25. 2780w.

  “The author has a keen eye for picturesque anecdotes and antiquities.
  All this archaeology is borne up and carried along by an easy, flowing
  style, so it does not weigh upon the reader, and Pennell’s
  pen-sketches come just at the right time.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 755. S. 27, ’06. 100w.

  “Mr. Pennell’s sketches serve as an admirable supplement to the great
  surgeon’s interesting narrative.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 89. N. ’06. 190w.

    + + =Nation.= 83: 462. N. 29, ’06. 550w.

  “He writes gracefully with a knack of vivid phrasing, and the great
  variety of things which have appealed to him gives an ever-changing
  interest and charm to his pages.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 629. O. 6, ’06. 290w.

  “This book is ideal in its way.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 110w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 70w.

        =Sat. R.= 102: 393. S. 29, ’06. 1660w.

  “The pen of Sir Frederick Treves and the pencil of Mr. Joseph Pennell
  make a very powerful combination for dealing with such a subject, and
  the subject is one which amply repays the labour that is spent upon
  it.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 271. Ag. 25, ’06. 410w.


=Triggs, H. Inigo.= Art of garden design in Italy. **$20. Longmans.

  The planning and arrangement, the architectural features and
  accessories of the old Italian gardens of the best periods are
  described in this sumptuous volume which also contains an historical
  introduction tracing the development of garden planning and
  description and critical accounts of the principal gardens of Italy.
  Numerous plates, plans and sketches illustrate the text.

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  “This is a splendid volume which equals, if it does not surpass in
  interest the author’s former work on the gardens of England and
  Scotland.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 554. N. 3. 1740w.

        =Lond. Times.= 5: 288. Ag. 24, ’06. 670w.

  “Magnificent volume.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 520. Ag. 25, ’06. 720w.

  “In spite of its imposing appearance the book is not an interesting
  one. The descriptions, like the photographs, are commonplace and
  superficial. There is little or no illuminating criticism and no
  entering into the spirit of the artists who designed the beautiful
  gardens of Italy.”

      – =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 60w.


=Trinks, Willibald, and Housum, Chenoweth.= Shaft governors. 50c. Van
Nostrand.

  A little pocket book uniform with “The Van Nostrand science series.”
  It covers the statics of shaft governing which forms a self-contained
  part of the theory but does not claim to cover the entire ground.


=Trollope, Anthony.= Autobiography. $1.25. Dodd.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 40w.


=Trollope, Henry M.= Life of Moliere. **$3.50. Dutton.

  “It is a model of cautious erudition and sound criticism.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 338. Mr. 17. 1530w.

  “As for Mr. Trollope’s very long, very painstaking, very accurate, and
  infinitely circumstantial ‘Life of Molière,’ it should, we think, be
  given an excellent place as a book of reference and detailed
  information.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 25. Ja. 26, ’06. 2960w.

  “Relying chiefly on French authorities, this work is a full and
  elaborate compilation of facts, whether important or trivial.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 229. Mr. 15, ’06. 890w.

  “A complete and sympathetic analysis of the man and his genius.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 1086. D. 30, ’05. 410w.

  “The book is very interesting; it is a conscientious piece of work
  which was well worth doing, and it represents a considerable amount of
  careful research. It is a mine of usually correct information as to
  Molière’s life and the world he lived in.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 116. Ja. 27, ’06. 1610w.


=Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.= Augustine the man.
**$1.50. Lane.

  The scenes of this dramatic poem are laid in Carthage, Milan, Lago
  Maggiore, and Tagaste. “The struggles of the saint after conversion
  between his devotion to Christ and his love for his former mistress
  and his son is displayed with insight and sympathy.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Her blank verse is often delightful and always melodious, and she
  reaches heights of passion which affect the reader with the sense of
  yet greater powers restrained.”

      + =Acad.= 71: 189. Ag. 25, ’06. 290w.

  “While as a whole, it does not rise to the dramatic height it was
  meant to keep, is full of passages of equal intensity and beauty.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 51. Jl. ’06. 180w.

  “The four scenes make a moving story, very gracefully told in
  sensitive, sympathetic verse, and rising at times ... into dramatic
  intensity. It is a pity perhaps, that in the first scene the author
  did not keep more strictly to her subject, Augustine the man.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 248. Jl. 13, ’06. 200w.

  “The piece is written in fluent and highly flavored verse, and is not
  devoid of a good deal of Euripidean poignancy.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 90w.

  “Miss Rives has an exceedingly sure, firm touch, no hesitancy, no
  experimentation. Her work moves as if by first intent, first impulse,
  copious, colorful, forceful.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 397. Je. 16, ’06. 500w.

  “The blank verse is not the mere vehicle of the tale, but the work of
  a genuine poet.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 756. My. 12, ’06. 80w.


=Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.= Selene. **$1.20.
Harper.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

      + =North American.= 182: 754. My. ’06. 270w.


=Trowbridge, William Rutherford Hayes, jr.= Court beauties of old
Whitehall: historiettes of the restoration. *$3.75. Scribner.

  “The book takes up and gives rather full biographies of the lives of
  eight of the beautiful women who graced, and disgraced, the English
  court at the time of the Restoration. Each ‘historiette’ is
  illustrated by remarkably well made portraits, prints from famous
  pictures, of its subject, and of famous people connected with her
  career.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is no better and no worse than its fellows. There seems no reason
  why it should ever have been written. Its author displays neither
  knowledge of his period nor sympathy with the men and women, whose
  names irrelevantly decorate his page.”

      – =Acad.= 71: 468. N. 10, ’06. 1180w.

  “After a bowing acquaintance of a good many years’ standing with the
  women of the Restoration, we cannot but feel that any attempt to deal
  with them after Mr. Trowbridge’s manner would be, to ourselves, a
  thankless task, and must, with any one result in disappointment.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 507. O. 27. 1440w.

  “Will take no prominent place either for original research or for
  naughty piquancy of style.” Percy F. Bicknell.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 385. D. 1, ’06. 290w.

    + – =Nation.= 83: 462. N. 29, ’06. 1140w.

  “Mr. Trowbridge has written these chronicles very vividly and with a
  clear wide view of the backgrounding history. His style is so lacking
  in the elusive but crowning quality of distinction that sometimes it
  is almost offensive.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 763. N. 17, ’06. 480w.


=Truesdell, Ella M.= Over the bridge and other poems. $1.25. Badger, R:
G.

  A book of dainty verse that sings of love, of life, of flower and
  field, and of sunshine and showers. A fine quality of imagination
  gives color and delicacy to the volume.


=Turley, Charles.= Maitland, major and minor. †$1.50. Dutton.

  A story which “deals with the adventures of two brothers at a small
  private school, and should appeal to the class of boy readers for whom
  it is especially written. There are the usual fights, and the usual
  cases of bullying, and all the plots and counter-plots of school-life
  as lived in the private school. Mr. Turley understands boys. The book
  contains six illustrations by Mr. Gordon Browne.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 890. D. 30. 180w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 540. S. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “A rather favourable example of the school story.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 7. D. 9, ’05. 80w.

  “Mr. Turley has harked back and given us a study of life at a private
  school, of which it is enough to say that it is as true, as wholesome,
  and as entertaining as his first venture. Thoroughly delightful book.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 870. N. 25, ’05. 1500w.


=Turner, Henry Gyles.= History of the colony of Victoria from its
discovery to its absorption into the commonwealth of Australia. 2v. $7.
Longmans.

      + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 172. Mr. ’06. 230w.


=Tuttle, Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester.= Reminiscences of a missionary
bishop. **$2. Whittaker.

  Bishop Tuttle writes helpfully of his twenty years as missionary
  bishop in the Rocky mountains. His preparatory training in a New York
  parish taught him organization principles and methods and the real
  duties of pastor and rector. The main portion of the sketch deals with
  church work in the mountains and its associated hospital and school
  interests.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A candid and often naïve way has disclosed those attributes of his
  personality and conceptions of the functions of his office which have
  made him effective as bishop since 1866.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 320w.

  “It is a solid contribution to American history. These reminiscences
  abound in quotable stories: but their value is for much more than
  amusement.” Rt. Rev. Cameron Mann, D. D.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 618. O. 6, ’06. 2000w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 284. O. 13, ’06. 140w.

  “Well worth reading.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 320w.


=Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec Tweedie).= Maker of modern
Mexico: Porfirio Diaz. *$5. Lane.

  Mrs. Tweedie’s sketch furnishes an Interesting personality thru which
  to view the history of modern Mexico. President Diaz himself gave the
  author diaries, letters, told her anecdotes about himself and
  associates, related events and described battles and various incidents
  of his life. With this first-hand information, Mrs. Tweedie received
  her charge, “Write as you will, but speak good of my country.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “By leaving out a number of entirely unnecessary exhibitions of
  personal admiration for the great statesman, the work would have
  greatly gained in value and the subject himself would have stood forth
  in nobler proportions.”

  + + – =Arena.= 36: 661. D. ’06. 7770w.

  “A book which begins badly, but becomes most interesting when we reach
  the man himself.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 197. F. 17. 480w.

  “The book rises to the distinction of being the first adequate
  biography of the greatest man Mexico has produced.” Arthur Howard
  Noll.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 109. S. 1, ’06. 920w.

  “The only portions of value are the descriptions of Diaz in his home
  and of social life among certain of the prominent social families of
  Mexico city.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 881. O. 11, ’06. 590w.

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 283. S. 1, ’06. 480w.

  “Her history is not scientific but it is interesting. The faults are
  perhaps the too constant intrusion of a rather pleasant personality, a
  rather careless and a rather diffuse style. It is not a deep or an
  original reading of a remarkable man, but it is a pretty good sketch.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 112. Mr. 30, ’06. 480w.

  “It is neither a real Mexico nor a real Diaz which is set before us.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 171. Ag. 23, ’06. 880w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 456. Jl. 14, ’06. 490w.

  “This man’s work, unique of its kind, is set forth in a wonderfully
  fascinating, coherent, and authoritative manner.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 459. Jl. 21, ’06. 1680w.

  “The book is interesting reading and, like most biographies of living
  men, it is exceedingly one-sided.”

    + – =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 70w.

  “The work is full, clear and written in the authoress’ well-known
  interesting style.”

  + + – =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 170w.

  “Enthusiasm, without doubt, exudes from every page and paragraph of
  Mrs. Tweedie’s work, and had she only brought discretion to her task,
  she might have given to the public a book as solid as it undoubtedly
  is interesting.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 397. Mr. 31, ’06. 1890w.

  “Mrs. Tweedie’s book can best be described as a romantic biography.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 789. My. 19, ’06. 2100w.


=Tyler, Henry Mather.= Selections from the Greek lyric poets with a
historical introduction and explanatory notes. *$1. Ginn.

  The revised edition of this text is characterized by the audition of
  selections from Bacchylides and a few other short poems, and the
  inclusion of more illustrative and parallel references in the notes.


=Tyrrell, Rev. George.= Lex credendi; a sequel to “Lex orandi.” $1.75.
Longmans.

  “‘Lex credendi, in substance is a treatment of the Lord’s Prayer
  viewed as the rule and criterion of pure doctrine—as the living
  expression of that Christian spirit whereof faith in God and his
  kingdom, together with hope and charity, is a constituent factor.’...
  The book consists of two parts. The first is a treatise on the spirit
  of Christ.... Father Tyrrell proceeds in the second part, to a
  profound analysis of the spiritual and moral content of each petition
  of the prayer.”—Cath. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We find this volume an altogether worthy continuation of the previous
  work published with full theological censorship and ecclesiastical
  sanction.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 561. Jl. ’06. 890w.

    + – =Spec.= 97: 337. S. 8, ’06. 300w.


                                   U


=Ular, Alexander.= Russia from within. **$1.75. Holt.

  “Our author seems to have guessed rather than worked at his Russian
  history.”

      – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 45. Jl. 8. 670w.

  “This writer is always picturesque, whether he is abusive, malicious,
  hysterical, or merely lively, entertaining, and full of surprises.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 138. My. 19, ’06. 160w.


=Underhill, Evelyn.= Miracles of our lady Saint Mary, brought out of
divers tongues and set forth in English. *$2. Dutton.

  “In these pages Miss Underhill ... reintroduces to English readers a
  cycle of old sacred tales in which their ancestors took much delight.
  The Mary-legends, or ‘Miracles of our lady,’ form a group of religious
  romances, the connecting link being that the Virgin Mary supplies in
  each of them the supernatural element.... Miss Underhill has made a
  good selection, with much diligence, of some of the happiest and
  quaintest of what she terms ‘the fairy tales of mediaeval
  Catholicism.’... The incidents selected vary in character from the
  crudely sensational to the depths of mystical devotion; and they
  extend in time from the fourth to the fifteenth century.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 389. Mr. 31. 300w.

  “Possesses a literary quality very much superior to the standard that
  prevails in our popular religious literature.”

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 686. Ag. ’06. 110w.

  “Miss Underhill’s translation gives us an exquisite piece of literary
  workmanship.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 367. Je. 1, ’06. 70w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 370w.


=Underwood, Rev. J. L.= Women of the confederacy. $2. Neale.

  Here are gathered from various sources paragraphs from speeches;
  essays, and books that give just tribute to the women of the
  Confederacy, making an anthology of direct historical value. These
  excerpts appear under the following headings: Symposium of tributes to
  Confederate women, Their work, Their trials, Their pluck, Their cause,
  and Mater redivia.


=United States. Library of Congress. Division of manuscripts.= List of
the Benjamin Franklin papers in the Library of Congress. Lib. of
Congress.

  This list has been compiled by Mr. John C. Fitzpatrick under the
  direction of Worthington Chauncey Ford. “The papers here listed
  constitute those of the Franklin collection known as the ‘second
  series’ and are exclusive of the diplomatic papers, which were
  retained in the Department of State when the collection was
  transferred to the Library of Congress. The compilation is termed a
  ‘list’ rather than a ‘calendar’ because, although each piece of
  manuscript is entered, only the more important of its contents are
  noted. The list covers over two hundred pages, the items run in
  chronological order, and a full Index is provided.” (Am. Hist. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 475. Ja. ’06. 110w.

        =Ind.= 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 50w.

  + + – =Nation.= 81: 523. D. 28, ’05. 200w.


=Unwin, A. Harold.= Future forest trees. *$2.25. Wessels.

  “A good translation of an Austrian account of experiments in the
  introduction of American trees. The recorded experiments deal with
  broad-leaved and with coniferous trees belonging to east and west
  North America, planted not alone in Austria as might be supposed, but
  in Germany, Switzerland, and Great Britain as well.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This little book may be confidently recommended as supplying details
  of German practice not easily to be procured elsewhere.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 544. O. 21. 640w.

  “In spite of its lack of proportion and its marked gaps, it is likely
  to be of use in any forest library.”

      – =Nation.= 81: 360. N. 2, ’05. 100w.

  “Its thoroughly sound, practical and scientific character should
  secure it a wide circulation.”

    + + =Nature.= 73: 244. Ja. 11, ’06. 490w.

  “This book is of value and interest to all Americans who love and
  venerate the trees of their own fast-vanishing forests.” Mabel Osgood
  Wright.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 170w.


=Upson, Arthur.= City, and other poems. *$1. Macmillan.

  “Mr. Arthur Upson has achieved a most creditable piece of work in
  this, his ‘Poem-drama’ ... all which material Mr. Upson has woven most
  judiciously, with firmness and with delicacy, into his drama, the
  personages of which live, move, and have individual being, to quite an
  unusual degree. Mr. Upson has notable lines—notable both for substance
  and for manner.” Edith M. Thomas.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 271. Mr. ’06. 330w.

  “Mr. Upson seems to be rather remarkable among the younger poets for
  having retained something of the traditional moral sentiment of the
  past.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 150w.


=Upton, George Putnam.= Standard operas: their plots, their music, and
their composers; new enl. and rev. ed.; il. $1.75. McClurg.

  Numerous illustrations of the artists who have been closely associated
  with certain rôles characterize the nineteenth printing of this
  popular handling of the standard operas. Also operas that have become
  popular since the first edition appeared have been included. It is a
  book designed for the general reader rather than the musician.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In its present form, this work is far more useful and attractive than
  it ever was before and we predict for it a long lease of renewed
  popularity.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 120w.

    + + =Nation.= 83: 468. N. 29, ’06. 340w.

  “This is a book of reference without an equal in its field.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 100w.


                                   V


=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Face of clay: an interpretation. †$1.50.
Dodd.

  A spell of mystery is cast over Mr. Vachell’s new story in which a
  young English-Breton girl and a Cornish artist play the leading rôles.
  “Falsely they both play because the two troublesome strings of their
  instruments, love and ambition refuse to get into tune. The resulting
  discords seem to Tephany to be due to a certain face of clay, the
  death mask of a beautiful model her lover, Michael, has once painted,
  and she resolves to destroy it. Her hand, however is mysteriously
  stayed.... The message of the mask accomplishes itself, the avenging
  Furic finds his due, the apparition of the aukon is driven away, and
  ‘by a miracle,’ says the curé, Tephany is saved. Not until after that
  do she and Michael learn their instruments.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have read Mr. Vachell’s story with a curious sense of wandering
  through a lovely and gracious region to the accompaniment of tragic
  music.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 382. Ap. 21, ’06. 500w.

  “Mr. Vachell shows an occasional tendency to stand outside his
  puppets, as if they were not real, which is disconcerting. Altogether
  it is a noteworthy novel by one of our most promising writers.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 541. My. 5. 310w.

  “But though there are some weak passages, especially, it seems, in any
  crisis of emotion, the book is interesting not only as a study of
  curious beliefs and superstitions, but in a wider sense as a study of
  the life that is not limited to peasants.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 133. Ap. 12, ’06. 420w.

  “Is as such things now go, what would be called a very good story. It
  has dignity as well as interest.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 240w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 220w.

  “An attractive story of artist life in Brittany.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 110w.

  “As a study of the effect of remorse on a morbid temperament, the book
  is deeply interesting, and all the characters of the drama are
  skilfully handled.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 698. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.


=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= The hill: a romance of friendship. †$1.50.
Dodd.

  A public-school story “brave in daring to enter the lists of the
  school-stories, where ‘Tom Brown at Rugby’ forever wins out, and brave
  in daring to do without the usual interest of lovemaking.” (N. Y.
  Times.) The author’s boys “are cleverly conventional types, nicely
  contrasted and distinguished, his incidents familiar to all readers of
  social life. But what raises his book above the ordinary level of such
  stories and connects it with life, is the love of Harrow. The
  corporate life of the school is here, though the individual boys do
  not live ... the corporate spirit of a great school.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Vachell writes with such tact and delicacy that we do not think
  that his book will offend either Harrovians or those who love another
  school.”

      + =Acad.= 68: 495. My. 6, ’05. 290w.

  “The story itself is interesting and well told.”

      + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 619. Mr. 20. 410w.

  “It is a moving story, in no idle sense of the phrase; with its
  purity, its sanity, its true boyishness.—its true boys—well fitted to
  take the Stalky taste out of our mouths.” H. W. Boynton.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 298. My. ’06. 660w.

  “It is no exaggeration to declare that not since ‘Tom Brown’ have we
  had a school story of such vitality and significance.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 32: 918. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 250w.

  “An admirable book for boys.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 190w.

  “There are many clever touches in the book, and some scenes are
  spirited.”

      + =Sat. R.= 99: 744. Je. 3, ’05. 540w.

  “Of what goes on in school hours we hardly read anything at all; but,
  with this reserve, ‘The hill’ may be commended as a detailed as well
  as attractive record of five years at a great English public school.”

    + – =Spec.= 94: 64. Ap. 29, ’05. 940w.


=Vambery, Arminius.= Western culture in eastern lands: a comparison of
the methods adopted by England and Russia in the Middle East. *$3.50.
Dutton.

  The author, who occupies a chair in the University of Budapest, “has
  long been known as an enthusiastic admirer of England and a severe
  critic of Russia. This, his last book, is a systematic description and
  comparison of Russian and British rule in Asia, with an explanation of
  what he considers the immense superiority of the latter.... The book
  consists of three parts, entitled respectively the civilizing
  influence of Russia, the civilizing influence of England, and the
  future of Islam.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The attitude adopted in the present volume is on the whole sound,
  and, as Britons, we think just. It is not quite uniform throughout.
  There are some contradictions in passages which would be startling if
  put side by side.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 358. Mr. 24. 1160w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 214. Jl. 26, ’06. 660w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 145. Ap. 27, ’06. 1880w.

  “Could easily have been reduced to half its length and been a much
  better book. The book is disfigured by Professor Vambéry’s usual
  extraordinary Arabic, and by his quoting as ‘Koran’ all sorts of
  traditions from Muhammed which never had any connection with the
  Koran.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 12. Jl. 5, ’06. 280w.

  “It may be taken for granted that Prof. Vambéry writes entertainingly
  and with great circumspection. Prof. Vambéry cannot escape the
  condemnation of his countrymen as being a partisan of England.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 471. Jl. 28, ’06. 1100w.

  “We find it more interesting than his ‘History of Bokhara,’ or his
  ‘Travels in Central Asia,’ or even his ‘Autobiography.’”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 912. Ag. 18, ’06. 130w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “This striking book presents in vivid contrast the methods of the Slav
  and the Anglo-Saxon in Middle Asia.”

      + =Spec.= 97: sup. 469. O. 6, ’06. 760w.


=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Private war: being the truth about Gordon Traill;
his personal statement. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “In this somber tale the brave and resourceful American lover, the
  astute English friend, and the wily German fortune-hunter circle about
  a lovely American widow of an English baronet. It is but an incident
  to be expected that Nihilists, Russian torpedo destroyers, and
  brilliant naval encounters enliven the progress of the love-story. In
  spite of, or because of, several violent deaths the lovers are
  united—in the end. The awful tragedy of a young mulatto girl awakens
  the schoolmaster to action, and moved by powerful moral conviction, he
  sacrifices his chances as a political leader to his convictions. In
  this way he incurs the hatred of his political opponents, and suffers
  for his courage.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The melodrama goes with a careless swing; probability is properly
  ignored, and there is enough blood to satisfy the thirstiest.”

    – + =Acad.= 71: 311. S. 29, ’06. 90w.

  “A rattling good story of sensation and adventure.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 363. S. 29. 250w.

  “Is one of those novels that just escape the category of ‘shockers’ by
  virtue of a certain neatness of plot and a bare touch of stylistic
  virtue.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 220w.

  “Mr. Vance has an interesting story to tell, and he tells it in a most
  lively and captivating manner. The characters may be of a more or less
  conventional and stagy nature ... but in this case they are decidedly
  well drawn.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 141. My. 19, ’06. 170w.

  “Each season gives us many stories of this character both better and
  worse—and the best are but ephemeral.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 102: 492. O. 20, ’06. 210w.


=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Terence O’Rourke, gentleman adventurer. †$1.50.
Wessels.

  “People who like a series of hair’s-breadth escapes, and are not
  particular as to whether they can believe in them or not, will
  thoroughly enjoy the story, which is written with some skill, and a
  good deal of ingenuity.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 290w.


=Van Dyke, Henry.= Americanism of Washington. 50c. Harper.

  Mr. Van Dyke aims to unsay two things often said about Washington:
  first, that he was a solitary and inexplicable phenomena of greatness,
  and second, that he was not an American. He interprets in brief the
  drama which Washington enacted of the eternal conflict in the soul of
  war between self-interest in its Protean forms, and loyalty to the
  right, service to a cause, and allegiance to an ideal.


=Van Dyke, Henry.= Essays in application. **$1.50. Scribner.

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 547. N. 3. 160w.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 110w.

  “The paper among the present series which is on the whole best worth
  reading, is that upon ‘The creative ideal of education.’” H. W.
  Boynton.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 456. My. ’06. 570w.

  “A book so admirably combining entertainment and edification is not
  published every day, or every month.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 390w.

  “Every essay, however, is valuable, combining suggestions, application
  and criticism, and the volume will be given no unworthy place among
  the literature of essays as well as among the works of the author.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 168. Ja. 18, ’06. 210w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 80w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 240w.


=Van Dyke, Henry.= Fisherman’s luck, and some other uncertain things.
†$1.50. Scribner.

  “A leisurely book, and rather prolix, it is written in good English on
  the model of Lamb.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 170w.


=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Opal sea. **$1.25. Scribner.

  “Here are all the facts and fancies about the sea, accumulations of
  the ages, harmoniously blended, not set down in the cyclopaedic
  manner; the fear of the sea, and the love of it, its terror and its
  beauty, the creatures that dwell in it, and the other creatures that
  float upon it in boats; its mystery, its never failing charm.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

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  “It is not technical; it is not scientific; it is not a popular
  description; and it is not a rhapsody.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 241. S. 1. 180w.

  “You cannot read it without feeling cool and clean and invigorated as
  from a dip into the ocean itself.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 118. Ag. ’06. 330w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1371. Je. 7, ’06. 1180w.

  “Many readers of these essays will be encouraged to undertake a more
  precise study of the physical geography of the sea from formal
  treatises.”

      + =Nature.= 74: 269. Jl. 19, ’06. 70w.

  “His point of view shifts from the scientific to the poetical with no
  loss of balance. ‘The opal sea’ is, indeed, a fascinating book.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 230w.

  “Written in an unostentatious yet brilliant manner, the least to be
  said of this latest work of Professor Van Dyke’s is that it forms an
  invaluable addition to the treasures of the bookshelf.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 310w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 60w.

  “This is certainly a book to be read.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 238. Ag. 18, ’06. 280w.


=Van Dyke, Paul.= Renascence portraits. **$2. Scribner.

  “These papers belong to a delightful class of historical writing and
  illustrate the opportunities it affords to those who combine ideas
  with scholarship. The few slips we have noticed are of no great
  moment.”

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 651. Ap. ’06. 940w.

  “Interesting volume.” Edward Fuller.

      + =Critic.= 48: 213. Mr. ’06. 680w.

  “Of American historians, Professor Van Dyke has given us the most
  important contribution to the literature of the Renascence. What in
  his earlier work he did for the general reader, he has done in these
  ‘Renascence portraits’ for the student.” L. E. Robinson.

  + + + =Dial.= 41: 13. Jl. 1, ’06. 2290w.

  “In his general reflections upon the period Mr. Van Dyke is not
  particularly happy, but he has made a clever use of the letters of
  Aretino, in whom his book will help to create a living interest.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 239. Jl. 6, ’06. 900w.

  “He has read widely and well in the period. His style is pleasant if
  without distinction. Yet the book as a whole is not convincing. It
  betrays too clearly its publicistic origin.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 165. F. 22, ’06. 530w.

  “The book is picturesque and interesting.”

      + =Spec.= 97: 403. S. 22, ’06. 1720w.


=Van Millingen, Alexander.= Constantinople: painted by Warwick Goble.
*$6. Macmillan.

  “Such a subject makes exceptional demands upon both painter and
  describer, and it says much for Mr. Warwick Goble and Professor van
  Millingen that they have risen to their great occasion.... We have
  seldom seen views which were more successful in imparting the subtle
  secret of the scenery beloved by every one who has enjoyed the
  unspeakable privilege of feasting his eyes on the Bosporus and the
  Seven hills.... Prof. van Millingen ... best known as a learned and
  authoritative archaeologist ... has contrived to present a sketch of
  the history and life of the city suggestive of the imagination, not
  too crowded with facts, yet sufficiently full to embody the impression
  created by the pictures.... His account of the modern inhabitants is
  ... both sympathetic and life-like, besides being decidedly
  readable.”—Ath.

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  “The virtue of the book lies more often in suggestion and stimulation
  than in finality.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 693. Je. 9. 1860w.

  “In spite of an evidently conscientious desire on the part of the
  collaborators to do justice to the world-famous capital of the Ottoman
  Empire ... it can scarcely be claimed that the result is a complete
  success, either from the artistic or the literary point of view.”

      – =Int. Studio.= 29: 182. Ag. ’06. 270w.

  “Such care has been taken to connect the pictures and the text, that
  one scarcely knows whether the text was made to fit the pictures or
  the pictures to fit the text, but whichever it be the harmony is
  remarkable.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 104. Ag. 2, ’06. 1180w.

  “The print, the pictures, and the text vie with each other for
  commendation. Dr. van Millingen enriches the real importance of his
  descriptions by a readable and limpid style of writing, showing sane,
  individual judgment, competent study, and sympathetic interest.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 530. Je. 30, ’06. 110w.

  “The distinguished feature is the writing, the pictures are merely
  accessories, and too often not highly serviceable even in that
  capacity.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 120. Jl. 28. ’06. 320w.

  “A volume which it is a pleasure both to read and to look at. The
  pictures are all good; some are quite excellent.”

  + + – =Spec.= 96: 912. Je. 9, ’06. 290w.


=Van Norden, Charles.= Jesus: an unfinished portrait. *$1. Funk.

  Thirty-five years of study and reflection on the career of Jesus are
  summed up in these pages. It is the aim of the author to present the
  real Man from the standpoint of scientific accuracy. Following the
  introduction are the following subdivisions: The author’s point of
  view, How Jesus discovered his mission, What Jesus taught, The
  Master’s method and personality and Reflection.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 320w.


=Van Vorst, Marie.= Amanda of the mill: a novel. †$1.50. Dodd.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

        =Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 30w.


=Van Vorst, Marie.= Miss Desmond: an impression. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  It was Balzac who created the heroine of thirty, and Marie Van Vorst
  has perpetuated the creation in her present fiction study. Miss
  Desmond is of the Puritan type, and after burying thirty-two years in
  her shut-away New England garden, finds herself unexpectedly expanding
  under the influence of the new life at a Swiss resort while
  chaperoning the daughter of her handsome and much talked-of sister.
  The threads of the story begin to tangle when the increasingly radiant
  Miss Desmond becomes her sister’s rival, and yields to the enchantment
  in spite of the fact that Robert Bedford has not an unblemished
  reputation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =Acad.= 70: 40. Ja. 13, ’06. 340w.

  “Neither the plot nor the characters are strikingly original.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 42. Ja. 13. 310w

  “The development of the theme is dramatic, though at times a little
  unsure; and the characterization is uncommonly delicate and
  significant.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 250w.

  “Her ‘study’ of Miss Desmond’s transformation is accomplished
  brilliantly, with a few bold strokes.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 90w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 40w.

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 786. D. 16, ’05. 240w.

  “There are, indeed one or two faults of taste in the book, which will
  not recommend it to the fastidious reader. But the analysis of
  character is well if rather pitilessly done, and the descriptions of
  the Swiss scenery amidst which the action passes are decidedly
  attractive. The book, however, is by no means on the same level as
  ‘Amanda of the mill.’”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 64. Ja. 13, ’06. 240w.


=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sin of George Warrener. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  “The worthless wife of the virtuous poor man, who is corrupted by a
  wealthy lover and ruins her meritorious husband” (Spec.) is the
  central figure in this story which “recognizes the influence of petty,
  sordid, every-day details upon the great mass of mediocre, plodding,
  average human lives.” (Bookm.)

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  “It is a repulsive theme, and we cannot feel that anything in this
  author’s treatment justifies its revival.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 150w.

  “Is ... entitled to serious recognition, virile in its frankness, but
  very feminine in its subtle discernment.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 643. Ag. ’06. 530w.

  “The chief fault of the book is that the psychological element has so
  far dominated all the other elements of the novel that were that part
  of it to be removed there would practically be nothing else.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 210w.

  “This unflinching realism, combined with a certain forcefulness of
  presentation, impels a reluctant sort of admiration for the book,
  despite a diction that is slovenly to the point of exasperation.” Wm.
  M. Payne.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 80w.

  “This story is well conceived and ably written, but it is not
  elevating.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 820. O. 4, ’06. 370w.

  “The story, though always readable, had been almost a failure, had not
  the character of Mrs. Warrener, developed from some quality of will
  from shallow stupidity to an almost triumphant independence, held and
  mastered the interest throughout.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 249. Jl. 13, ’06. 540w.

  “The very evident literary force and skill that have gone into the
  writing of ‘The sin of George Warrener’ only make one the more
  regretful that Miss Van Vorst should use her talents in behalf of such
  a sordid, unpleasant group of beings as are there depicted.
  Incidentally it may be mentioned that Miss Van Vorst is exceedingly
  fond of split infinitives and is far from avoiding other inaccuracies
  and inelegancies of style.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 461. Jl. 21, ’06. 510w.

  “The book will neither corrupt the morals nor engage the mind of any
  reader who knows how these subjects are treated by great writers.”

      – =Sat. R.= 102: 211. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w.

  “There are many faults of construction in the book: there are many
  faults of style, for at times the writing is painfully slipshod; but
  for the working out of the conception we have nothing but praise.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 135. Jl. 28, ’06. 950w.


=Vaughan, Rev. John.= Wild flowers of Selborne, and other papers.
**$1.50. Lane.

  “A book which deserves a place beside Gilbert White’s “Natural history
  of Selborne” written over a century ago. There is in Rector Vaughan’s
  book a happy mingling of plants and people. Following a chapter on
  “The wild flowers of Selborne” is a chatty sketch of White himself;
  and then follow in succession the chapters on the use of Simples,
  Pot-herbs, Wild fruits, Wall-flowers, Poisonous plants, and so on,
  until we come to the essays on Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick, Izaak
  Walton at Droxford, and French prisoners at Portchester.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The literary charm of the book is marked, and it is altogether a work
  of distinction and value.” Sara Andrew Shafer.

      + =Dial.= 40: 359. Je. 1, ’06. 530w.

  “Whoever obtains this volume as an accession to his library of
  Whiteana may possibly be disappointed, but nevertheless will get his
  money’s worth in cheerful gossip about matters that certainly would
  have interested Gilbert White.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 415. My. 17, ’06. 880w.

  “This is in truth a delightful book, set apart and above so much of
  the rural reporting of the day, by keen observation, a clearness of
  narrative, and distinct literary quality.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 300w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 90w.

      + =Spec.= 96: 584. Ap. 14, ’06. 250w.


=Vaux, Patrick.= Shock of battle, †$1.50. Putnam.

  “A war between Great Britain and Germany, supposed to take place after
  the opening of the Panama canal, serves as an opportunity to develop
  the horrible scenes of a twentieth century conflict. Political causes
  are merely touched upon and the author confines himself to the
  presentation of the actual battles, in which even the trained and
  scientific fighters of this century fall back to a certain degree upon
  their primal instincts. This record of a naval battle bounds in
  pictures so revolting and at the same time so realistic that it brings
  home once more the terrible discrepancy between the methods of modern
  warfare and the ideals of our civilization.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He writes with animation and vividness. As a piece of imaginative
  journalism the book may rank about with Mr. Well’s prophetic flights.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 190w.

  “There is very little plot, however, and what power there is in the
  book lies in the descriptions of the fights between the battleships.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 595. S. 29, ’06. 250w.

  “The writer has produced not only a successful narrative, but a number
  of vigorous descriptions, excellent in themselves and contributing to
  the tensity of the situations.”

+ |=Outlook.= 84: 92. S. 8, ’06. 150w.


=Vay de Vaya and Luskod, Count.= Empires and emperors of Russia, China,
Korea, and Japan, notes and recollections. **$4. Dutton.

  “Count Vay de Vaya ... early in life devoted himself to the work of
  the Roman Catholic church. A study of its missions and various
  organizations has taken him into all parts of the world and his unique
  experiences are told with unusual simplicity and charm.... The main
  part of the present volume was written on the eve of the
  Russo-Japanese war, and apart from the descriptions of the
  ‘traditions, quaint customs, and picturesque features of the land’ (of
  which he has the artistic perception) Count Vay de Vaya interprets the
  more fundamental social, political, and religious conditions existing
  in the Far East, which are of special interest just at this
  period.”—Outlook.

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        =Ind.= 61: 641. S. 13, ’06. 120w.

  “Few of the author’s statements go above the level of those of the
  average hasty traveller who accepts uncritically any story which is
  interesting. Yet, despite these criticisms, the style of the author is
  easy and his text entertaining. The average reader will surely be
  delighted with these experiences of a gentleman of kindly heart who
  adds to a pleasing style the graces of a cosmopolitan traveller.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 350. O. 25, ’06. 330w.

  “He hardly provides much that is new, striking or significant. On the
  other hand he does provide much that is interesting though he is
  sometimes extraordinarily dull, and the hasty manner in which his
  notes have been thrown together leads to tedious repetitions.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 581. S. 22. ’06. 1010w.

  “Interesting and valuable studies.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 250w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 140w.

  “The merit of this book lies in the author’s faculties of observation
  and brilliant description. He is an artist by temperament.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 102: 461. O. 13, ’06. 1240w.


=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Balthasar Hubmaier. **$1.35. Putnam.

  The latest addition to the “Heroes of the reformation” series gives
  the history of Hübmaier’s life, his devotion to the Anabaptist cause,
  his doctrines, and his martyr death. The material has been gathered
  from Hübmaier’s own writings and a German life by Dr. Johann Loserth.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Vedder’s treatment in the book under review is sympathetic, but
  with conscientious regard for the facts, which are stated with
  clearness, candor, and accuracy.” Albert J. Ramaker.

      + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 746. O. ’06. 500w.

  “With its numerous illustrations the book gives an interesting picture
  of certain phases of the great protestant reformation not to be found
  elsewhere.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 267. Ap. 16, ’06. 320w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 904. D. 16, ’05. 400w.


=Venable, William Mayo.= Garbage crematories in America. $2. Wiley.

  While the main portion of Mr. Venable’s treatment has to do with the
  subject of incineration, he deals briefly with quantities of refuse to
  be handled and with systems of the collection of city wastes. “As a
  whole, Mr. Venable’s book presents some of the fundamental principles
  governing, or which should govern, garbage and refuse furnaces, and
  outlines in a useful manner the various types of American furnaces.”
  (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the sanitary phases of refuse disposal Mr. Venable is quite
  unsatisfactory. As a whole Mr. Venable’s book presents some of the
  fundamental principles governing, or which should govern, garbage and
  refuse furnaces, and outlines in a useful manner the various types of
  American furnaces.”

    + – =Engin. N.= 55: 558. My. 17, ’06. 720w.

    + + =Nature.= 74: 631. O. 25, ’06. 460w.


=Ver Beck, Frank (William Francis).= Ver Beck’s book of bears; some of
the lines were thought out by Hanna Rion, others by Hayden Carruth, the
worst ones by Frank Ver Beck, the best ones by the bear himself. †$1.50.
Lippincott.

  A “bear” book in which the spirited illustrations put a whole bear
  family, if not through Jiu Jitsu, at least thru acrobatic and
  pugilistic performances which are marvelous as to expertness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is chiefly pictorial in its appeal, for the comment in verse and
  prose is not half so telling as the illustrations which it
  accompanies.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 60w.

  “The child will be hard to please indeed who cannot find hours of
  delight in the volume.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.


=Verrall, Arthur Woolgar.= Essays on four plays of Euripides:
Andromache, Helen, Heracles, Orestes. *$2.25. Macmillan.

  “In ‘Euripides the rationalist’ Dr. Verrall dealt with his author on
  broad lines; here he takes four of his plays, veritable puzzles, and
  after showing the absurdity of the common interpretations of them,
  offers new ones of his own, based on the general view of the poet’s
  genius which he has formed. He claims to have found for these four
  plays interpretations reasonable and consistent, in place of the only
  possible alternative, the assumption that as dramas they are complete
  failures.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The notes are of the characteristic Verrallian type, brilliant and
  scholarly in the highest degree, but fantastic and unconvincing.” R.
  Y. Tyrrell.

    + – =Acad.= 69: 1283. D. 9, ’05. 1750w.

  “We must offer our congratulations to Dr. Verrall on the admirable
  clearness with which he states and analyzes the intricate plots.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 192. F. 17. 1640w.

  “By a chance, fortunate for Euripides and his readers, we have ... a
  second instalment ... of Dr. Verrall’s prose studies of the poet. That
  amounts to saying that the brightest and most ingenious exponent of
  the ‘true inwardness’ of Euripides as poet and dramatist and the most
  poetical of living translators have simultaneously helped forward a
  now winning cause—the rehabilitation of Euripides.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 63. F. 23. ’06. 1650w.

  “The new volume is written with the acuteness and scholarship, the
  excessive ingenuity, the sensational manner of the old. Dr. Verrall is
  a thorough scholar, and no one can read him without profit. It is his
  method, not his knowledge that is at fault.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 302. Ap. 12, ’06. 2060w.

  “One may not always agree with his conclusions, some of them are very
  daring, one must give them consideration for the sake of the ability,
  sincerity and enthusiasm which he displays in arriving at them.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 22, ’05. 600w.

  “[Dr. Verrall] is so ingeniously intricate in his arguments, he weaves
  into them so many curious facts and acute observations, he so
  intertwines exact details with fine-spun fancies, that to put even
  some of his conclusions simply is no easy task, while any close
  criticism of his reasoning would need not an article but a volume.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 586. Ap. 14. ’06. 1500w.


=Vesey, Arthur Henry.= Castle of lies. †$1.50. Appleton.

  A young man branded a coward because he did not risk his life to
  rescue a friend who had fallen over a precipice is the hero of a
  stormy tale rife with intrigue and hair-breadth escapes. He is led to
  believe that he may retrieve his former self respect by saving a life
  for the life lost. “The story is around the love of an American for an
  English girl. The title of the book is from the castle owned by the
  villain of the story, a countess, who, for political reasons, spirits
  away an ambassador, the brother of the heroine, and kidnaps the hero.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

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  “The whole thing is a tissue of glaring improbabilities strung
  together with no regard for sequence.”

      – =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 130w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 260w.

      – =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 70w.


=Vetch, Robert Hamilton=, ed. Life of Lt.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Andrew
Clarke; with a pref. by Sir G. S. Clarke. **$4. Dutton.

  Sir Andrew Clarke of “the shrewd eye for capable men” deserves a
  biography “if only as an example of how the servants of the empire are
  made.” “To have played a part in the early struggles of two of the
  Australasian colonies, to have undertaken engineering works on a large
  scale, to have settled complex native problems in the Straits
  settlements and to have served on the Viceroy’s Council would have
  been enough for most men; but Sir Andrew Clarke was a man of such
  unceasing activity that these achievements were but a part of his
  career, and the training which he obtained in thus serving his country
  abroad only fitted him the better for becoming at home Commandant of
  the School of military engineering and Inspector-General of
  fortifications.” (Acad.)

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      + =Acad.= 70: 60. Ja. 20, ’06. 600w.

  “The volume in which this story is told is judiciously edited.”

      + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 197. F. 17. 320w.

        =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 80w.

        =Ind.= 60: 629. Mr. 15, ’06. 400w.

      + =Lond. Times.= 4: 455. D. 22, ’05. 660w.

  “The book, which contains some interesting portraits, illustrations,
  and maps, is full of information as to persons, places, and events;
  but it is wanting in individual human interest. It is rather a record
  than a well-digested biography.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 250w.

  “The life of this civilian in the army is admirably told by Col.
  Vetch.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 3. Ja. 6, ’06. 930w.

  “A very able and judicious biographer he is. Colonel Vetch’s lucidly
  written, informing, and detailed biography deserves to be, and
  doubtless will be, considered an authority on the matter in, and the
  system by, which the British Empire was extended and consolidated in
  the nineteenth century.”

  + + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 121. Ja. 27, ’06. 430w.


=Villari, Luigi=, ed. Balkan question. *$3. Dutton.

      + =Spec.= 96: 227. F. 10. ’06. 170w.


=Vincent, Leon Henry.= American literary masters. **$2. Houghton.

  Each of the nineteen chapters in this volume treats of the life and
  works of some American author of the period 1809–1860. The writers
  considered are: Irving, Bryant, Cooper, Longfellow, Poe, Bancroft,
  Prescott, Hawthorne, Whittier, Holmes, Motley, Emerson, Thoreau,
  Taylor, Mitchell, Curtis, Lowell, Whitman and Parkman.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =Acad.= 71: 572. D. 8, ’06. 1090w.

        =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 971. Jl. ’06. 30w.

  “Mr. Vincent is clear, concise and definite, without being dry.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 80w.

  “The work is pleasing in style, and provides much
  systematically-ordered information.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 50w.

  “He writes to instruct, but has the happy inspiration of retaining all
  the graces which he displays for the fastidious.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 167. Mr. 17, ’06. 210w.

  “Among recent works of its kind we have seen none likely to be more
  useful.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 150w.

  “But he has done his work conservatively and well.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 510. Ap. 31, ’06. 110w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 498. O. 6, ’06. 150w.


=Vinogradoff, Paul.= Growth of the manor. *$2.50. Macmillan.

  “To the special student of the period.... The book is indispensable;
  while, on account of its breadth of treatment and its suggestive
  quality, it ought also to be welcomed by a far wider circle. The book
  is by no means conclusive. So little evidence is adduced in support of
  large generalizations that the author often fails to convince.”
  Frances G. Davenport.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 361. Ja. ’06. 1710w.

  “In spite of these criticisms we cannot but admire the comprehensive
  knowledge of the history of the land tenure shown in this book,
  covering, as it does, a period of over a thousand years, and dealing
  with systems so different as those of the Romans, the Celts, the
  Saxons, and the Normans. English historical students must acknowledge
  their indebtedness to Professor Vinogradoff for the labour he has
  spent on the elucidation of the ancient institutions of our country.”
  F. G. M. Beck.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 764. O. ’06. 1500w.

  Reviewed by Charles Beard.

    + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 165. Mr. ’06. 1120w.

  “A book which is, without question, the most important treatise now
  available for students and scholars who seek a knowledge of the
  subject. The style is simple and clear, and except for the arrangement
  of paragraphs, which run unbroken sometimes for three pages or more,
  no criticism can be passed on the construction of the book.” C. D.

  + + + =Yale R.= 14: 429. F. ’06. 1610w.


=Vizetelly, Francis (Frank) Horace.= Deskbook of errors in English.
*75c. Funk.

  The author’s object is to correct careless diction and to point out
  common errors and vulgarisms that have crept into our language so that
  his readers may acquire refined speech by learning what to avoid. To
  this end he has arranged those words which are most often incorrectly
  used in alphabetical order, including slang and colloquialisms, and
  has given each a concise note in explaining its use and misuse.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.

  “As an interesting, convenient, and not in the least academic desk
  manual, the book will go far to show the busy men the value of a ready
  precise use of good words in neat, unmistakable relations.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 451. Jl. 14. ’06. 400w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 210w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 60w.


=Vizetelly, Francis (Frank) Horace.= Preparation of manuscripts for the
printer. *75c. Funk.

  “This is a work that should be possessed by all persons with literary
  aspirations. It is also a treatise that will materially aid the
  practical culture of the general reader.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 105. Ja. ’06. 500w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 60w.


=Vries, Hugo de.= Species and varieties: their origin by mutation:
lectures delivered at the University of California; ed. by Daniel
Trembly MacDougal. *$5. Open ct.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 496. Je. 14, ’06. 990w.

  “Ranks with the most important on its subject which have thus far
  appeared.”

  + + + =Outlook.= 83: 45. My. 3, ’06. 490w.


=Vye, J. A.= Farm accounts: a manual for farmers and those desiring a
simple method of keeping accounts. $1.25. J. A. Vye. St. Anthony Park,
St. Paul.

  A manual prepared for the classes of the School of agriculture of the
  Minnesota university, and adapted to the needs of high schools and
  business colleges.


                                   W


=Wack, Henry Wellington.= In Thamesland being a gossiping record of
rambles thru England from the source of the Thames to the sea, with
casual studies of the English people, their histories, literary and
romantic shrines. The whole forming a complete guide to the Thames
valley. **$3. Putnam.

  Mr. Wack and a friend voyaged down the Thames “from near its obscure
  source to Kingston-upon-Thames, a short distance above London, where
  tidewater is met with. Mr. Wack has quite a faculty for accumulating
  facts, and his ‘Thamesland’ is a veritable mine of history,
  interspersed with much observation of scenery and occasionally a
  facetious remark at the expense of the natives with whom they came in
  contact. The book, which is admirably illustrated and has a good map,
  will serve as a very useful and interesting guide to those who wish to
  take a similar voyage down the historic Thames or spend the days in
  wandering among the towns on its banks.”-Ind.

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  “This volume so frequently fails in accuracy that the reader who knows
  the river must be moved to impatience.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 212. Ag. 25. 1070w.

  Reviewed by Anna Benneson McMahan.

        =Dial.= 41: 200. O. 1, ’06. 990w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 300w.

  “He writes agreeably and has been careful in collecting his
  information.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 90w.

  “The book is, in fact, one to make an Englishman shudder, and to
  depress even more the American who has been over the same ground.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 350. O. 25, ’06. 280w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 15, ’06. 100w.

  “We know of none at once so entertaining, so beautiful, and so
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      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 230w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 240w.

  “High-class guide-book.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 70w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 271. Ag. 25, ’06. 220w.


=Wack, Henry Wellington.= Story of the Congo Free State. **$3.50.
Putnam.

      – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 196. Ja. ’06. 350w.

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  supporters. Its elaborate collection of data not especially bearing on
  the ‘Congo question’ is the more immediately valuable to the student.”
  A. G. K.

    – + =Yale R.= 14: 434. F. ’06. 680w.


=Waddell, Charles Carey.= Van Suyden sapphires. † $1.50. Dodd.

  “Is decidedly one of the best stories of this class that has been put
  out in many a day.”

    + + =Reader.= 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 160w.


=Waddell, Laurence Austine.= Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of
the expedition of 1903–1905. *$3. Dutton.

  “This is a new and cheaper edition of Colonel Waddell’s account of our
  recent expedition into Tibet. In its more expensive shape it passed
  through two editions, and the present one is a marvel of cheapness.
  Not very many of the illustrations of last year are omitted in this
  year’s reprint, and the type is the same.”-Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A volume which is almost, if not quite as handsome and complete as
  the expensive first and second editions.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 487. My. 19, ’06. 290w.

  “Colonel Waddell’s book ... now appears in a cheaper edition, $3.00,
  which for most persons and libraries will be as satisfactory.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 883. O. 1, ’06. 80w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 100w.

      + =Nature.= 74: 518. S. 20, ’06. 220w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 757. N. 17, ’06. 270w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 630. N. 10, ’06. 350w.


=Waddington, Mary Alsop King.= Italian letters of a diplomat’s wife.
**$2.50. Scribner.

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  they have to do with the two latest occupants of the Quirinal, their
  queens, and their three contemporaries in the Vatican.” M. A. De Wolfe
  Howe.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 260w.


=Wade, Blanche Elizabeth.= Garden in pink. **$1.75. McClurg.

  “Is an exquisite and perfect bit of bookmaking but having said this it
  is difficult to add anything in praise of the book’s literary
  substance.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 430w.


=Wade, Blanche Elizabeth.= Stained glass lady: an idyl; with
frontispiece and other drawings by Blanche Ostertag. †$2.50. McClurg.

  Imaginative “Little boy” after “counting things” to keep awake during
  the big people’s sermon spies a beautiful young woman outlined against
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  of her surroundings.

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  “A vivid descriptive touch, a whimsical humor, and a highly
  imaginative appreciation of nature combine to produce a unique and
  decided charm, which a slight affectation of style rather increases
  than diminishes.”

      + =Dial.= 41: 394. D. ’06. 220w.

  “Such children as are blessed with imagination and a love of the
  beautiful will delight in ‘The stained glass lady.’”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 100w.


=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard).= Indian fairy tales, as told to
the children of the wigwam. $1. Wilde.

  The folk-lore of the red people as it was handed down from generation
  to generation is found in this little volume for young readers who
  cannot but feel the charm of the mythical red heroes and of the things
  of the water, the air, and the stars themselves which figure in these
  stories of: The daughter of the stars, White Feather and the six
  giants, The magic moccasins, Hiawatha, Lex, Gloaskap, Manabozho, The
  fire plume and all the others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.


=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard).= Old colony days: stories of the
first settlers and how the country grew, with il. by Sears Gallagher.
[+]75c. Wilde.

  The second volume in “Uncle Sam’s old-time stories.” Uncle Sam is the
  story-teller and follows the principal events of colonial days,
  showing with what courage, in spite of hardships and dangers, the
  settlers struggled for free homes. It is a juvenile book adapted to
  class-room needs.

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  “Would have been much more effective had the first settlers and the
  country’s growth been followed in a direct manner.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.


=Waggaman, Mary T., and others.= Juvenile round table, third series. $1.
Benziger.

  A group of interesting stories with Catholic teaching.


=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Miserere. **40c. Funk.

  A sad tale with a musical setting in which a young prima donna is the
  central spirit.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A charming little story of music and music-lovers.” Amy C. Rich.

      + =Arena.= 36: 686. D. ’06. 70w.


=Wagner, Charles.= Justice; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee.
**$1. McClure.

        =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 70w.

      + =Reader.= 7: 225. Ja. ’06. 240w.


=Wagner, Charles.= My impressions of America; tr. from the French by
Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.

  “The author of ‘The simple life’ has made a record of his personal
  experiences rather than a formal study of American institutions. His
  attitude is one of sympathy and appreciation, seldom running into
  criticism. The book is not without passages of the reflective and
  serious kind, but they are thrown in here and there as breaks in the
  narrative.”—Lit. D.

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  “From a literary point of view, it is about nil; as also from the
  point of view of the American who desires to see his country more
  clearly through the eyes of a stranger.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 190w.

        =Ind.= 61: 825. O. 4, ’06. 100w.

  “Mr. Wagner has offered to Americans a graceful and interesting
  souvenir of his recent visit.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 70w.

  “Dr. Wagner is above all a keen observer. He notices little things as
  well as those of great dimensions, and writes of them simply and
  charmingly.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 633. O. 6, ’06. 450w.

  “It is the spontaneous expression of a man who is wholly delightful as
  a companion and who writes as simply and as freely and in as friendly
  a fashion as he talks.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 250w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 50w.


=Wagner, Richard.= Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; tr. by W.
Ashton Ellis. $4. Scribner.

  “Our author dwells at too great length on Wagner’s virtues and Minna’s
  failings.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 711. Je. 9. 800w.


=Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard.= Tannhäuser; a dramatic poem freely
translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.

  A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” and “Lohengrin.” This
  parable of the redemptive power of a pure and unselfish love loses
  neither dignity nor strength in the translation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This essay alone is worth more than the price of the work to lovers
  of the greatest musical genius of the nineteenth century.”

    + + =Arena.= 36: 685. D. ’06. 190w.

  “There is a prose introduction, which is both historical and critical
  and the verse is smooth and flowing.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 724. N. 3, ’06. 90w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 377. D. ’06. 90w.


=Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert.= State rights and political parties in North
Carolina, 1776–1861. 50c. Johns Hopkins.

  A monograph setting forth the political tendencies of North
  Carolinians between the war of independence and the war of secession.


=Walcott, Earle Ashley.= Blindfolded. $1.50. Bobbs.

  San Francisco with its Chinatown and its water front, its wild life
  and its desperadoes, is the scene of this adventurous tale of two dual
  personalities. A young stranger arrives at the Golden Gate just in
  time to take up, blindfolded, the work of his murdered friend and
  double, and he is further blinded because of the strange resemblance
  which his friend’s benefactor bears to his friend’s enemy. Thru
  murders, brawls, wild scenes in the stock exchange, and strange
  adventurous missions he gropes courageously in the dark towards light,
  wealth and happiness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a mystery-romance displaying considerable ability on the part
  of the author in construction, plot and counterplot. It is fairly well
  written and is, we think, the best story of the kind that has appeared
  in recent months.”

    + + =Arena.= 36: 571. N. ’06. 350w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 80w.

  “In spite of the triteness of both fiction and machinery, it cannot be
  denied that the book holds our attention from start to finish by means
  of an interest born of suspense.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 350w.

      – =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 30w.

        =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 80w.


=Walker, Alice Morehouse.= Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a
famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.

  In this sketch of historic Hadley “truth has not been sacrificed to
  style. Painstaking effort has been made to search the town records, to
  scrutinize every historical document, and to weigh carefully famous
  traditions. The old dwellings, the highways and byways, the mountains,
  the river and the meadows, the ancient elms, heirlooms and antique
  relics have been questioned and they have broken their silence of
  centuries and told the story of by-gone days.”


=Walker, James.= Analytical theory of light. *$5. Macmillan.

  “Not a text-book of physical optics, but of the analytical theory of
  light.... It is a book to which students who desire to know how far
  the mathematical side of the wave theory has been carried, what are
  its limitations, and in what directions advances are possible will
  usefully turn.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Walker has added to the literature of the subject a book of real
  value.”

  + + – =Nature.= 73: 241. Ja. 11, ’06. 1290w.

  “Is, perhaps, the most complete treatment of the subject so far
  attempted from the standpoint of the general wave theory.” C. E. M.

  + + – =Science=, n.s. 23: 385. Mr. 9, ’06. 220w.


=Walker, Williston.= John Calvin, the organizer of reformed
Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.

  Uniform with the “Heroes of the Reformation.” The volume “lays special
  stress on Calvin’s training, spiritual development, and constructive
  work, giving secondary place to the details of his Genevan contests,
  or of his relations to the spread of the Reformation in the different
  countries to which his influence extended. Calvin, as Mr. Walker
  points out at the very beginning of his book, was of the second
  generation of reformers.” (Putnam’s.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is an excellent piece of work. While by no means light reading,
  the book is clear and straightforward, and it makes the real man
  Calvin live before us his strange life, so far-reaching in its
  influence.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 140w.

  “It contains about all that the average scholar needs to care for. It
  is free from exaggerations of either praise or blame. The bias on the
  whole is for Calvin. Will be useful to any student of history, no
  matter what others he may have on the same topic; and it is competent
  by itself to meet the requirements of most of us. It gives the
  essential facts in a straightforward, unambitious style. And it has a
  very good index.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 775. N. 24, ’06. 1120w.

  “The present biography is critical as well as sympathetic, carefully
  citing authorities, and candidly exhibiting both the lights and the
  shadows of a masterful character and career.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13. ’06. 150w.

        =Putnam’s.= 1: 383. D. ’06. 210w.

  “A well-balanced, temperate historical character sketch.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 90w.


=Wallace, Alfred Russel.= My life: a record of events and opinion. *$6.
Dodd.

  “It dwells in a somewhat too extended manner on unimportant personal
  details and facts relating to the family and friends of the author.
  This fault, however, is insignificant in comparison with the general
  excellence of the life story, which merits the widest reading.”

    + – =Arena.= 36: 202. Ag. ’06. 10,400w.

  “The narrative has very little literary charm, ingenious or other. The
  annalist’s expression is often incorrect, and invariably clumsy. He
  has no organic mode of speech, and words are but rough counters with
  him.” H. W. Boynton.

    + – =Atlan.= 98: 279. Ag. ’06. 860w.

  “Like one of his disembodied spirits, able to get outside of himself
  and write an autobiography as interesting as it is disinterested.” I.
  Woodbridge Riley.

    + + =Bookm.= 22: 626. F. ’06. 1670w.

  “The record is planned on too large a scale. The reader who knows how
  to skip will find these volumes deeply interesting.”

  + + – =Contemporary R.= 88: 899. D. ’05. 2220w.

  “In the past year which has been prolific of biographies and
  autobiographies there has been nothing more important or more
  entertaining than the autobiography of Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace.”
  Jeannette L. Gilder.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 352. Ap. ’06. 1410w.

  “There is a good deal of matter in the book which does not strike one
  as being particularly valuable or important; but on the other hand,
  the variety of subjects discussed, and the wide human interests of the
  author, cause it to appeal to a far larger circle than the usual
  biography of a man engaged in the investigation of technical matters.”
  T. D. A. Cockerell.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 11. Ja. 1, ’06. 1710w.

  “This autobiography is as self-revealing as Pepys’s or Rousseau’s.”

  + + + =Ind.= 60: 280. F. 1, ’06. 950w.

  “This is certainly a very entertaining book, highly instructive in
  several distinct ways.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 160. F. 22, ’06. 2960w.

  Reviewed by J. A. T.

  + + + =Nature.= 73: 145. D. 14, ’05. 1890w.

  Reviewed by Joseph Jacobs.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 13. Ja. 13. ’06. 1700w.

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 371. F. 17, ’06. 2140w.

  “His autobiography is a welcome and worthy record of an honourable and
  strenuous career.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 61. Ja. 13. ’06. 1500w.


=Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie.= Russia. $5. Holt.

  “The additions to the book will be of primary interest to the student
  of contemporaneous political, social, and economic conditions rather
  than to the historian.” F. G. D.

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 440. Ja. ’06. 320w.

  + + + =Outlook.= 83: 137. My. 19, ’06. 630w.

    + + =Quarterly R.= 204: 249. Ja. ’06. 3570w.

  “The book continues to be, as it has been for nearly a generation, the
  best English book on Russia.” C. D.

  + + + =Yale R.= 15: 331. N. ’06. 330w.


=Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general.= Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v.
**$5. Harper.

  At the time of General Lew Wallace’s death his autobiography was
  practically complete. It is written with the personal note
  individualizing and vitalizing a career which tho it began in
  uneventful commonplaces grew to distinction in letters, politics, war
  and diplomacy. A certain simplicity of life and creed pervades the
  sketch and a magnificent sense of justice. Wallace’s boyhood and
  youth, in which are set forth the struggles to find himself, his young
  manhood, full of patriotism and his maturity in which the lawyer and
  politician figure, all attest to a devotion to life for the purpose of
  finding working principles.

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  “No more frank and informal record of personal experience has ever
  been written. In a way, no higher compliment can be paid to his story
  than to say that it is one of those grownup books which a boy would
  read with understanding and enjoyment.”

  + + + =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 1866. D. 22, ’06. 1590w.

  “An intimate and entertaining narrative.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 120w.

  “Is interesting both for the career ... and for the light which it
  throws upon the conditions which made the writing of the first best
  seller possible.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 230w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 1330w.

  “General Wallace’s war experiences were full of romance, adventure and
  inspiration. He has not failed to let his kindly, mellow sense of
  humor play over his narrative.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 757. D. ’06. 150w.


=Waller, Mary Ella.= Through the gates of the Netherlands; with 24
photogravure pl. after Lanne, and others by A. A. Montferrand,
reproduced in photogravure. **$3. Little.

  An intimate sketch of Holland and its people which purports to be
  written by an architect’s wife during a sojourn with her husband in
  this land of dunes and dykes. It is a record, accompanied by various
  illustrations, of the essentials that have gone to make up the beauty,
  the glory, the struggle and the toil of this “brave little land.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Dial.= 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 220w.

  “The results of much close observation may be found in her account of
  the manner in which the Hollanders live, their habits of body and of
  thought, the picturesque details of the country, and the rest.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

  “An attractive book which in graphic and readable qualities is
  decidedly above the average of such works.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 120w.


=Wallis, Louis.= Egoism: a study in the social premises of religion. $1.
Univ. of Chicago press.

  Reviewed by A. W. Small and Charles Rufus Brown.

        =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 848. My. ’06. 1400w.

  “The line of argument is interesting and stimulating, and calls for
  more thorough work before we can feel quite satisfied that the case is
  proved.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.

    + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 326. Ap. ’06. 250w.

  “It is a sociological study of considerable value, the chief defect of
  which is the tendency to make assumed sociological conditions account
  for so much as to leave little for the religious genius of Israel to
  do.”

  + + – =Bib. World.= 27: 159. F. ’06. 60w.

  “The best part of the book is the terse rapid survey of Israel’s
  internal development; and the writer does good service in calling
  attention again to sociological facts conditioning prophetic teaching.
  However, his generalizations are too sweeping; but this fact may be
  due to the brevity of the book.” Milton G. Evans.

    + – =Bib. World.= 28: 288. O. ’06. 240w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 55. Ja. 13, ’06. 900w.


=Walpole, Horace.= Letters chronologically arranged and ed. with notes
and indices, by Mrs. Paget Toynbee. 16v. ea. *$2; set, *$32. Oxford.

  “In accuracy of text and diligence of annotation this edition
  satisfies a close criticism.”

  + + + =Acad.= 69: 1310. D. 16, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 13–15.)

  “As she began she went on, and the conclusion maintains her high level
  of editorial efficiency. It is certainly to be deplored that so
  important and laborious a work has not been crowned by a complete
  index. That supplied cannot be regarded as worthy of a great scheme.
  These volumes are his rosemary, and we cannot conceive that the world
  will ever forget them.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 69. Ja. 20. 1860w. (Review of v. 13–16.)

  “Mrs. Toynbee has done her author good service in other ways besides
  the collection of new letters. She has made many alterations in the
  chronology of Cunningham’s arrangement. She has also much amended the
  text. From every point of view Mrs. Paget Toynbee has done a
  monumental piece of work, creditable in the highest degree for
  accuracy and thoroughness.” Gamaliel Bradford, jr.

  + + + =Atlan.= 97: 330. Mr. ’06. 5560w.

  “On the whole, her text would seem to be more accurate and more nearly
  intact than any of its predecessors.” H. W. Boynton.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 320. My. 16, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 1–16.)

  “This edition can scarcely be said to add anything of importance to
  our knowledge of Horace Walpole or of his times. Nor is the editorial
  work, though well done, by any means remarkable. Further, as
  completeness seems to have been the special object of the edition, its
  appearance has been premature.” William Hunt.

  + + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 386. Ap. ’06. 1040w. (Review of v. 13–16.)

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 170w. (Review of v. 13–15.)

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 16.)

  “Fully as interesting, in some respects indeed almost more
  interesting, than any of those which preceded them. Indices compiled
  even by the very competent assistants called in at the eleventh hour
  cannot produce the same accurate minuteness as that which undoubtedly
  Mrs. Toynbee would have given her readers.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 110. Ja. 27, ’06. 2190w. (Review of v. 12–16.)


=Walsh, Walter.= Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.

  An “unsparing, detailed and specific arraignment of the war system.”
  The book is almost exclusively a résumé of the crimes and
  demoralization caused by the Boer war.

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        =Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 130w.


=Walters, F. Ruffenacht.= Sanatoria for consumptives. *$5. Dutton.

  An unofficial descriptive catalog of sanatoria in various countries
  for the open-air treatment of consumption.

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        =Nation.= 82: 300. Ap. 12, ’06. 100w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 552. Ag. 19, ’05. 230w.

  “The information has been carefully and intelligently compiled.”

    + + =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ’05. 40w.


=Walters, Henry Beauchamp.= Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.

  An informing treatment of all phases of Greek art including
  architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery, coins, gems, gold and
  silverware, presented in the light of recent archaeological discovery.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 380w.

  “The tale is well told and loaded with additions that recent years
  have brought. The excellent form and the well-nigh perfect and
  abundant illustrations will make the book extremely popular. One rises
  from a reading of the book with wonder that so much has been put into
  such little space. One might almost say ‘Infinite riches in a little
  room.’”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1289. N. 29, ’06. 1160w.

  “Recommends itself among books on art subjects at this season of gifts
  by its substantial worth and its attractive make-up.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 52. D. ’06. 340w.

    + – =Nation.= 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 1070w.

  “The book is written in a broad, dignified, and authoritative style,
  with a fine sense of suppression, which makes adverse criticism
  dangerous.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 350w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 200w.

  “An exhaustive handbook.”

    + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 377. D. ’06. 130w.


=Walters, Henry Beauchamp.= History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan,
and Roman; based on the work of Samuel Birch. 2v. *$15. Scribner.

  “This is a difficult book to estimate justly. Such a work was much
  needed; and this has great merits, and will probably be read and
  valued widely. But it has bad defects, both of plan and of
  workmanship.”

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 55. Ja. 20, ’06. 2210w.

  “Gives us after long waiting an adequate history of ancient pottery,
  of which vases are the chief item.” Rufus B. Richardson.

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 41. Ja. 4, ’06. 1770w.


=Waltz, Elizabeth Cherry.= Ancient landmark. †$1.50. McClure.

  “The prologue to this entertaining story is a mistake.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 140. F. 10, ’06. 280w.

  “On the whole, we find variety in the types depicted, sordid and
  unpleasing as they mostly are.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 130w.

  “As a ‘problem novel’ the book has no claim to originality, but the
  delicacy with which the subject is handled is unusual and refreshing.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 178. F. 10, ’06. 220w.


Wampum library of American literature; ed. by Brander Matthews. **$1.40.
Longmans.

  “Dr. Payne’s choice of critics and of critical work is admirable, and
  his characterization of our American contribution to criticism is, on
  the whole, exceptionally good.”

    + + =Ind.= 59: 215. Jl. 27, ’05. (Review of v. 2.)


War in the Far East, 1904–1905, by the military correspondent of the
London Times; with 34 maps especially prepared by Percy Fisher. **$5.
Dutton.

  This book is a compilation of the comments printed in The London Times
  from day to day during the war between Russia and Japan, contributed
  by its able military correspondent, Mr. Emery. “The military expert of
  the Times holds a high position in Europe as a critic and student of
  war, and his comments, criticisms, predictions on events, the lessons
  he drew from them, were read the world over with close attention. The
  republication of the daily comments, with certain purely personal
  remarks omitted, is then very acceptable to other students both of
  history and of the science of war, though the volume is not, and does
  not pretend to be, a history of war in the ordinary sense.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

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  “The maps are more complete than those in almost any book of military
  history.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 606. N. 4. 1590w.

  “This book is magnificent, but it is not a story. Read it for what it
  purports to express and actually is, and it will be found to have
  hardly a peer in its class of literature, and probably will have no
  equal or successor for many years.” William Eliot Griffis.

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 194. Mr. 16, ’06. 1440w.

  “Taken for what it professes to be, this book is of eminent value, but
  since each chapter was written within a short time after the battle it
  narrates ... the historian of the future, with the official records at
  his command, will doubtless find in it many errors of detail.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 300w.

  “As a contribution to the literature of scientific warfare the volume
  is of high value. We cannot commend it as a narrative of the
  particular war under review, for it retains altogether too much of the
  speculative comment of the original, so interesting at the time, but
  so tedious after the event.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 90w.

  “Embellished as they now are by an admirable series of maps, they form
  by far the most scientific study of the war that has yet been
  published. It is, however, unfortunate that the spelling of names in
  the letterpress should not have been brought into accord with that
  adopted by the map maker.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 353. O. 27, ’05. 2880w.

  “This book contains many remarks on matters of strategy and military
  science that are of permanent value.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 130w.

  “Apart from its technical interest, it is noteworthy as showing how
  well its author could prophesy.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 890. D. 16, ’06. 410w.

  “Whoever he may be, the ‘Times’ critic is a master of the art of
  warfare, and the possessor of a singularly vigorous and happy style,
  and his work is undoubtedly one of the most suggestive and
  illuminating battle-books in print.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 81: 943. D. 16, ’05. 250w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 130w.

  “Where military questions only are concerned fully bears out the
  expectations which other works of a similar nature would lead us to
  expect. And yet there is a good deal too much advertisement about it.
  We would add too that the comments on the military operations are in
  their broad features often excellent.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 100: 686. N. 25, ’05. 2030w.

  “It is a remarkable feat to have given us contemporary accounts of the
  battles themselves so accurate that when read in conjunction with the
  maps which show us each phase of these battles ... they may fitly
  serve as the best general introduction to closer and more detailed
  study. Even more remarkable still are the ‘appreciations’ which show
  us the workings of a mind wise before and not after the event.”

  + + + =Spec.= 96: 221. F. 10, ’06. 1110w.


=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward).= Man in the
case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.

  Joan Dare past the first flush of youth withdraws her promise to marry
  Douglas Ray the day following her betrothal. She enters upon a period
  of martyrdom which involves the mystery of the tale. “There is nothing
  sensational about the book but its title, although its theme is a
  village sensation. It contains some credible new New England
  villagers, and one old woman who is more than credible. It is,
  moreover, free from religious or erotic sentimentality.” (Nation).

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1116. N. 8, ’06. 380w.

  “The love-story in her new novel is told with such perfect art that it
  recalls the great ones of literature: yet the materials and the
  setting are of the simplest and the interest is dependent upon the
  writer’s art alone.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 230w.

  “Mrs. Ward is to be congratulated upon having, in this little tale,
  escaped from the morbidness and mawkishness which have made much of
  her work, especially her recent work, a thing popular and to be
  abhorred by the judicious.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 80w.

  “The book is written with Mrs. Ward’s usual elevation of feeling and
  dignity of manner. It shows the same tense quality of imagination,
  sometimes becoming almost exaggeration, which have always marked her
  work. There is perhaps less of care and detail in the drawing of her
  characters, which affect one like unfinished sketches, than one used
  to find in her work.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 619. O. 6, ’06. 300w.

  “She has never been more out of key with a wholesome way of dealing
  with life than in this story of a heroic and self-sacrificing woman.”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 120w.

  “Her best work next to ‘A singular life.’”

  + + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 140w.


=Ward, H. Snowden.= Canterbury pilgrimages. *$1.75. Lippincott.

      + =Dial.= 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 160w.

  “From the point of view of the historian, Mr. Ward has written a very
  minute and interesting description of the life and death of Thomas à
  Becket and of the cult of St. Thomas.”

    + + =Nation.= 81: 525. D. 28, ’05. 490w.


=Ward, Josephine Mary Hope-Scott (Mrs. Wilfrid Philip Ward).= Out of due
time. $1.50. Longmans.

  “The present novel is not of the sort likely to satisfy the ordinary
  appetite for fiction, but it is well thought out, and represents the
  mental and religious struggle of a strong mind. Two women sacrificed
  themselves to a man who, as his sister said, did not pray—he only
  thought. The inroads of scientific knowledge upon such a soul can be
  imagined from the Catholic standpoint. The story is one of contest
  between theological fervor and emotionless intellect; the effect is
  somber, and the style somewhat ponderous.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Here is the simple, direct style—the outcome of natural distinction
  under fine culture—the serene, benignant attitude towards matters of
  controversy; the loftiness of thought that marked her former work. The
  book is on a high plane.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 382. Ap. 21, ’06. 440w.

        =Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 220w.

  “As one is about to assign to this doubly fascinating volume a
  permanent place on the book shelf, embarrassment arises. We think its
  proper place is [in the useful apologetic literature of the day].”
  James J. Fox, D. D.

      + =Cath. World.= 83: 382. Je. ’06. 4720w.

  “[We] have regretted that a book with such excellent and penetrating
  work in it should drop from the high level on which it begins.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 125. Ap. 6, ’06. 500w.

  “The book is hampered by its argument, but it is, nevertheless, so
  full of humanity, of beauty, of literary value that to miss it would
  be to miss such a feast as does not come every day.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 338. My. 26, ’06. 1220w.

  “In spite of her special motive, the author handles her material with
  tact and delicacy.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 286. Je. 2, ’06. 100w.

  “The intense spirituality of the conception and the grace of the style
  render the book memorable.”

    + + =Sat. R.= 101: 760. Je. 16, ’06. 440w.

  “The main interest of the book has nothing to do with fiction.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 676. Ap. 28, ’06. 330w.


=Ward, Lester Frank.= Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious
improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.

  The central thought of this discussion is that of a true science of
  society, capable, in the measure that it approaches completeness, of
  being turned to the profit of mankind. Movement, Achievement, and
  Improvement are the three subdivisions of the treatment.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Right or wrong in its main contentions, the ‘Applied sociology’ is,
  together with the appropriate parts of the ‘Pure sociology,’ the most
  impressive treatment of the general principles of education since
  Spencer’s. Those who, like the writer, are puzzled to fit the facts to
  its doctrines and those who heartily accept it will equally enjoy it
  and equally admire it as a further example of the author’s great gifts
  as a thinker and as a writer.” Edward L. Thorndike.

  + + – =Bookm.= 24: 290. N. ’06. 3690w.

  “The clearness, brilliancy and vigorous defense of some pronounced
  doctrine which we have learned to expect from Professor Ward are
  characteristics of this book. It concerns real facts, not verbal
  distinctions; it delights by its cleverness of thought and style. The
  one failure in clearness of this volume is its failure to distinguish
  between absolute and relative achievement and to assign the proper
  social value to each.” Edward L. Thorndike.

  + + – =Science=, n.s. 24: 299. S. 7, ’06. 1130w.


=Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).= Fenwick’s
career; il. by Albert E. Sterner. *$1.50. Harper.

  Mrs. Ward’s latest novel is based upon the story of the painter George
  Romney, whose thirty years’ separation from his wife for the sake of
  his art is reduced to twelve in the present story. The hero, John
  Fenwick, from the Westmorland hills, possesses a great uncouth,
  untrained genius for painting which longs for expression. In
  satisfying his ambition to go to London he subordinates wife, child,
  all heart things to his one great art passion. Out of his hesitation
  to admit the existence of a wife to his uncertain London friends and
  patrons grows an estrangement which is unconsciously aided by Eugenie
  de Pastourelles, the Eleanor of the story, a woman of great strength,
  but unfortunate in her marriage. As Mrs. Ward’s art demands the
  shifting of moral and ethical values to the right focus, with sure
  steady touch she extricates and arrays in order the confused forces.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The criticism that one is almost compelled to pass upon the book
  is that the characters are somewhat wanting in life and
  full-bloodedness.”

    + – =Acad.= 70: 422. My. 5, ’06. 1470w.

  “As to Fenwick himself the portrait lacks outline. It is thoroughly
  enjoyable, with charm as well as an idea of its own.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 572. My. 11. 1330w.

  “You read her latest volume with a wish that, having conceived so
  vital and typical a character as Fenwick, she might have been inspired
  to treat him less conventionally.” Mary Moss.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 533. Jl. ’06. 2890w.

  “Mrs. Ward has certainly forgotten for the moment one of the prime
  principles of literary artistry—that sympathy can hardly be excited in
  the reader’s mind for unsympathetic characters.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 50. Jl. ’06. 580w.

  “Another positive merit of this novel is found in its comparative
  freedom from the prolixity that lies like a dead weight on most of its
  predecessors.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 36. Jl. 16, ’06. 710w.

  “If there is any fault to be found with the book it is the emphasis
  which the author places upon refinement, sensibility and the society
  which these elements create.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 1432. Je. 14, ’06. 1020w.

    – + =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 90w.

  “The book is justified by the artistic and well-rounded-out finale.”

  + + – =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 850w.

  “It shows all the old thoroughness, knowledge, good sense: a little
  more than the old tenderness and sympathy. It does not hit hard; it
  does not carry the reader on in a fever. It never surprises.”

    + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 1070w.

  “It is only in construction that ‘Fenwick’s career’ seems to us better
  than the preceding novel.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 15. Jl. 5, ’06. 630w.

  “While ‘Fenwick’s career’ may fail of an instant appeal to ‘the
  general,’ we think it attains a height hitherto unreached by its
  author. She has poured into it her deepest thought, her ripest wisdom,
  and it stands to-day the noblest expression of her genius.” M. Gordon
  Pryor. Rice.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. My. 5, ’06. 2330w.

  “Mrs. Ward handles each delicate situation with her characteristic
  skill.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.

  “Is full of talent, but stops short of being a work of genius.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 501. Je. 30, ’06. 240w.

  + + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 660. My. 26, 06. 1380w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 762. Je. ’06. 70w.

  “They should be set down as fundamentally inartistic and unedifying.”

      – =Sat. R.= 101: 725. Je. 9, ’06. 1500w.

    + + =Spec.= 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 1370w.

  “It is a piece of sincere writing, gripping the reader without appeal
  to literary tricks or falsetto sentiment.”

    + + =World To-Day.= 11: 765. Jl. ’06. 120w.


=Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).= Marriage of
William Ashe. †$1.50. Harper.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 55. Ja. ’06. 230w.


=Warden, Florence, pseud. (Mrs Florence Alice Price James).= House by
the river. $1. Ogilvie.

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 150w.

  “The lovers of sensational fiction ... no doubt will not be troubled
  by the utter improbability of the incidents and characters, nor
  annoyed by vulgarities of style, and crudities of description, and
  will be quite satisfied with the fare supplied by the ingenious
  author.”

      – =Sat. R.= 100: 345. S. 9. ’05. 130w.


=Wardman, Ervin.= Princess Olga, †$1.50. Harper.

  The invincible hero of Mr. Wardman’s story is an American who had
  received his hardy training in a Mexican mining district. He is sent
  by his New York company to further its interest in the Italian kingdom
  of Crevonia where plots and counterplots, conspiracies and
  assassinations, mark the riotous settlement of a disputed succession.
  Among the spies is Princess Olga whose charms the defiant American
  cannot resist. Her sense of duty to kingdom and her love for a bold
  man fight for mastery, with the world-old result that can eliminate
  the importance of kingdoms and courts.

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  “The story is compact of intrigue, adventure, and general nervous
  excitement; it is a capital production of its sort.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 240w.

  “For a first novel, his is a finished and striking production.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 610w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 520w.


=Warman, Cy.= Last spike, and other railroad stories. †$1.25. Scribner.

  “These short stories, by a well-known popular magazine writer, tell of
  adventures on railroad surveys, in railway locomotives and cars and
  elsewhere. Some of the best of the stories have the Canadian Northwest
  as their scene of action.” (Engin. N.).

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Engin. N.= 55: 313. Mr. 15, ’06. 40w.

  “Many of them are good of their kind, and all of them have a certain
  stamp of mechanic strength.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 280w.

  “The stories are readable and entertaining, but they lack that
  something which, for want of a better name is called ‘the literary
  touch.’”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 100w.

  “Breezy and realistic stories. Mr. Warman not only knows the language
  of railroading but he has also caught the spirit.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.


=Warne, Frank Julien.= Coal-mine workers: a study in labor organization.
**$1. Longmans.

  This little volume is the direct outgrowth of Dr. Warne’s sympathetic
  study of the coal-miners’ situation in periods of peace as well as in
  times of strikes. It is a “treatise on the anatomy of the trade
  union.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Warne has done a valuable service in placing in compact and
  readable form a study of the United mine workers of America, one of
  the strongest labor unions in the world.” E. S. Meade.

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 354. S. ’06. 550w.

  “It might also be described as a miniature encyclopedia, so full of
  information is it and so readily does it answer the questions that
  occur to one regarding the miners and their employers.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 930. Ap. 19. ’06. 200w.

  “The author’s attitude is sympathetic, but not partisan, and he has
  made a distinct contribution to the knowledge of the controversy which
  once convulsed the nation.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 65. F. 3, ’06. 450w.

  “In our judgment, this book deserves to be characterized as an
  authority, and, as far as we know, as the best authority, in the
  limited field of which it treats.”

  + + + =Outlook.= 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 150w.

  “The book is written in a scientific spirit, if one excepts a tendency
  at times to condone violence on the part of the union against nonunion
  men.”

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 567. S. ’06. 160w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 83: 254. F. ’06. 240w.


=Warner, Beverley Ellison.= Famous introductions to Shakespeare’s plays
by the notable editors of the eighteenth century, ed. with a critical
introd., biographical and explanatory notes. **$2.50. Dodd.

  A compilation of the best known introductions including those
  contributed by Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hamner, Warburton, Johnson,
  Stevens, Capell, Reed and Malone. A biographical sketch of each author
  prefaces his work, and the work is handsomely illustrated.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Warner’s idea though a good one, has been anticipated, and his
  labor is largely wasted.” William Allen Neilson.

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 701. My. ’06. 420w.

  “We note a few misprints.”

  + + – =Critic.= 48: 471. My. ’06. 200w.

  “His own editorial matter is not of great value and there is no index.
  The English, too, is not always irreproachable.”

    + – =Dial.= 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 420w.

  “On the whole the make-up of the book leaves something to be desired.
  The matter is not very clearly distinguished for easy reference.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 183. Ag. 30, ’06. 430w.

  “Without Dr. Warner’s own lucid and learned introductions, and his
  invaluable footnotes, the new book would have been esteemed a
  veritable treasure. Dr. Warner’s editorial work makes it only the more
  valuable.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 520w.

  “A very useful compilation.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 210w.


=Warner, George H.= Jewish spectre. **$1.50. Doubleday.

  “A remarkably brilliant book which will have decided influence upon
  all open-minded readers. In literary skill the author stands
  comparison with his better known brother, Charles Dudley Warner.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 241. Ja. ’06. 170w.


=Warren, F. D.= Handbook on reinforced concrete for architects,
engineers and contractors. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.

  A handbook “treating upon a general form of design rather than upon
  any one particular or patented system.... The book is divided into
  four parts: Part I gives a general but concise resume of the subject
  from a practical standpoint, bringing out some of the difficulties met
  with in practice, and suggesting remedies. Under Part II is compiled a
  series of tests justifying the use of various constants and
  coefficients in preparing the tables under Part III, as well as
  bearing out the theory of elasticity. Part III contains a series of
  tables from which it is hoped the designer may obtain all necessary
  information to meet the more common cases in practice. Part IV treats
  of the design of trussed roofs from a practical standpoint.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The reviewer regrets that it is his duty to give his opinion that
  this book is fundamentally in error in so many ways that it is not
  worthy of a place in the working library of an engineer.” Arthur N.
  Talbot.

    – – =Engin. N.= 55: 311. Mr. 15, ’06. 1780w.


=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Putting the most into life. **75c.
Crowell.

  A recent series of Sunday evening talks has been recast and enlarged
  for the general public. The discussion includes the physical, mental,
  spiritual and racial aspects of the case.


=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Tuskegee and its people: their ideals
and achievements. *$2. Appleton.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’06. 250w.


=Washington, George.= Letters and recollections of George Washington;
being letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing
the first American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs
with a diary of Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare
old portraits, photographs, and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.

  Washington is portrayed in the light of a “domestic man managing his
  own affairs; as a planter looking over crops, cattle, and overseers;
  and as a business man driving bargains, suing for bad debts,
  collecting rents, and making investments.” (Dial.)

      + =Acad.= 71: 416. O. 27, ’06. 1660w.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The chief attraction of the present volume is manifestly meant to be
  Lear’s account of Washington’s death.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 434. O. 13. 1850w.

  “Of editing there is practically none; and to the lack of it, as well
  as to careless proofreading, is due the perpetuation of the copyist’s
  misreadings of Washington’s spelling. The reviewer has been unable to
  find anything in the book that will justify the word ‘Recollections’
  in the title. There is no index.” Walter L. Fleming.

    – + =Dial.= 41: 237. O. 16, ’06. 1300w.

  “They are valuable historically as showing the genius for detail which
  must have formed one of the strongest characteristics of Washington.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 220w.

  “On the whole, then, these letters, though telling us little that is
  new, are full of interest, as any letters unfolding for us the
  intimate thoughts and workaday occupations of such a man must be.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 374. N. 9, ’06. 1440w.

  “The work could have been rendered more readable by a few explanatory
  foot-notes, and more useful to the student by brief introductions
  stating where the originals of other than the Lear letters are to be
  found, and how far they have been used before.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 285. O. 4, ’06. 1200w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 70w.


=Washington, George.= Washington and the West. **$2. Century.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 70w.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 93. F. 1, ’06. 480w.


=Watanna, Onoto (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand Babcock).=
Japanese blossom. **$2. Harper.

  The dainty marginal drawings upon each page of this volume add much to
  the Japanese effect of the story of the strangely assorted family of
  Mr. Kurukawa. To retrieve his shattered fortunes this descendant of
  the Samurai goes to America leaving behind him four children and his
  wife, to whom shortly after his departure a baby boy is born. Later
  his wife dies and her father and mother care for the children while
  Mr. Kurukawa marries an American widow with two children and, after
  the birth of another baby, brings his new family back to Japan to
  unite it with his old family. The difficulties are easily seen but all
  are surmounted. The eldest son has rebelled against his new mother and
  joined the Japanese army, the father follows him, wins glory in the
  war and all ends happily.

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      + =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 130w.

        =Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

  “A charming idyl of Japanese home life in war times.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 50w.

  “This story is a particularly pleasing one, with certain elements of
  novelty.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 70w.


=Waters, N. McGee.= Young man’s religion and his father’s faith. **90c.
Crowell.

  “This book, written with the eloquence of the man who is speaking
  instead of writing, will unquestionably help many readers over
  perplexities that now stand in the way of a practical application of
  religion to life.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 523. Mr. 3, ’06. 180w.

  “These topics are handled without any trace of cant or bias.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 60w.


=Watson, Edward Willard.= Old lamps and new, and other verse; also, By
Gaza’s gate, a cantata. $1. Fisher.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

        =Dial.= 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 160w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 330w.


=Watson, Esther.= All the year in the garden: a nature calendar. $1.
Crowell.

  An apt quotation for every day in the year selected from out of door
  sentiments of our great poets and teachers.


=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50.
Appleton.

  “A delightful bit of romantic foolery.... The sketch is a record of
  certain amorous adventures contingent upon an out-of-doors amateur
  rendering of the ‘Midsummer night’s dream.’ The principal motive is a
  mystery connected with the finding and trailing of a woman’s shoe. In
  the course of his search the hero is constrained to make love
  pleasantly if somewhat indiscriminately; and there is plenty of chance
  in ‘Titania’s glade’ for comfortable philandering. Titania is married
  and therefore immune from his attentions, which wander among Hermia,
  Helena, and several of the fairies.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The whimsical tone of the book is so well maintained that all its
  absurdities of situation and incident take on an amiable glamour.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 210w.

  “In addition to being amusing and cleverly done, the story is written
  very gracefully, with a touch of poetic imagination, that, like
  everything else in the book is not more than half serious.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 460w.

  “The chief criticism that one is inclined to make is that the
  situation is dwelt upon a little too long and that the story would
  have left a better impression if it had been considerably shortened.”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 100w.


=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Twisted eglantine. †$1.50. Appleton.

  “Whatever its success may be, this book puts him in the front rank of
  living romancers.”

    + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 330. S. 9. 590w.

  “Mr. Marriott Watson has never given us a finer character-study than
  this of Sir Piers.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 300w.


=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= Inspiration of our faith:
sermons. **$1.25. Armstrong.

  “Somewhat of the same idea, that of ascending in personal Christ-like
  life to fellowship with the Father, and thence deriving the help
  necessary for the fulfillment of duty, runs thru a series of
  twenty-nine sermons by the Rev. John Watson, better known as ‘Ian
  Maclaren.’ Each sermon breathes that practical Christianity which has
  characterized Ian Maclaren’s fiction and theological writings
  alike.”—Ind.

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  “They have the supreme merit (rare in sermons) of being interesting.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 297. Mr. 10. 90w.

  “Strikingly beautiful as the language is, the volume will be prized by
  those who desire inspiring and helpful words for their devotional
  reading.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 80w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 370. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.

  “Here the ethical and the inspirational are happily blended, as
  elsewhere in his writings.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 190w.


=Watson, William.= Poems; ed. by J. A. Spender. 2v. *$2.50. Lane.

  “It constitutes, for the present at least, a definitive edition of Mr.
  Watson’s work.”

  + + + =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 60w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

  + + + =North American.= 182: 756. My. ’06. 290w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 80w.


=Wayne, Charles Stokes.= Prince to order. †$1.50. Lane.

  “To fiction readers, who do not care for the element of probability,
  and to whom artificiality is not objectionable, this book will be
  enjoyable as it is bright and full of action and excitement if one can
  become deeply interested in a story that is wanting in the important
  element of probability.”

    + – =Arena.= 35: 331. Mr. ’06. 630w.


=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Re-shaping of the Far East; with numerous il.
from photographs. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.

  The author “tells us just as much of the history of the subject as we
  need to know, sketching the annals of China in particular from the
  earliest times, and then describing in greater detail the commercial
  relations of Europe and America not only with China, but also with
  Korea and Japan. Relations of journeys into the interior and along the
  coasts give a picturesque glimpse of present Far Eastern conditions.
  We are shown Sir Robert Hart’s Service at work, the Germans
  introducing their characteristic methods at Kiao-chau, Dr. Morrison
  watching the Legations through a glass door at Peking, and the Marconi
  mast standing ready to signal for help to Ta-ku. There follows a
  fairly elaborate history of the Russo-Japanese war, and a severe
  criticism of its operations; and we are told finally what the Chinese
  are thinking and intending, what Mr. Weale expects the future to bring
  forth, and what policy seems to him most likely to serve British
  interests. In fact, we have an embarrassing choice of topics which
  equally invite discussion.”—Lond. Times.

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  “Despite some loose history, exaggerated statements, and rather wild
  speculations, the work is the best account of twentieth-century China
  in existence, and affords useful, though far from infallible hints as
  to the possibilities of the next decade in the Far East.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 193. F. 17. 1070w.

  “One of the most readable and valuable books which have appeared in
  recent years.” John W. Foster.

    + + =Atlan.= 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 180w.

  “For a work of undoubted weight, in the sense that it shows throughout
  a remarkably intimate acquaintance with the affairs of the East ...
  the style is a delight, though style is altogether too big a word to
  describe the absolutely nonchalant, personal, pungent way of the
  author with his book.” S. S. Trunsky.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 656. Ag. ’06. 1120w.

  “Is by no means a perfect work of its kind, but its indisputable
  merits far outweigh the faults which even the most captious critic
  could ascribe to it.” Frederick Austin Ogg.

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 317. My. 16, ’06. 2600w.

  “Thruout, he shows a lamentable ignorance of American history and
  policy.”

    + – =Ind.= 60: 400. F. 15, ’06. 840w.

  “Mr. Putnam Weale’s new book is hardly so interesting as his ‘Manchu
  and Muscovite.’ It is burdened by a belated account of the early
  months of the Russo-Japanese war, is somewhat discursive and would ...
  be improved by elimination and condensation.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 640w.

  “The author, combining the knowledge of the student with the knowledge
  of the man on the spot, presents the Far Eastern question exhaustively
  in almost every imaginable aspect. In spite of the manner in which the
  Russian ‘débâcle’ has upset some of his calculations, his book is the
  most valuable of recent contributions to the elucidation of Far
  Eastern problems.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 438. D. 15, ’05. 1640w.

  “In other words, Mr. Weale approaches the Chinese question from a
  strictly insular point of view. Yet his books may be highly
  recommended. All reserves made, there is nothing better on the Far
  Eastern question as it stands at this moment.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 1180w.

  “Comprehensive and luminous discussion of the development of Far
  Eastern affairs.” George R. Bishop.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 80. F. 10, ’06. 3230w.

        =Outlook.= 84: 40. S. 1, ’06. 310w.

  “Mr. Weale has given a complete and yet concise survey of the
  situation. His introduction is a historical prologue giving in a few
  score pages one of the best ideas of Chinese history that has ever
  been presented.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 670w.

  “By far the most valuable book that has appeared on the East for a
  number of years. Nowhere else can so much valuable information be
  found in so compact a form.”

  + + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 270w.

  “An absorbingly interesting work, including both description and
  history.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 240w.

  “Mr. Weale has unquestionably collected and marshalled a mass of
  information with ability and lucidity, and the result is a
  comprehensive survey of the situation outlined with a vigorous but
  light, albeit sharply-pointed, pen.”

  + + – =Sat. R.= 101: 174. F. 10, ’06. 2020w.


=Webster, Jean.= Wheat princess. †$1.50. Century.

  “The conversations are realistic, and the characters individual.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.


=Wedmore, Frederick.= National gallery, London: the Flemish school.
*$1.25. Warne.

  This is the initial volume of a new series to be called the “Art
  galleries of Europe.” Mr. Wedmore gives a brief sketch of Flemish art,
  and emphasizes its two phases: the Mediæval phase dominated by Jan Van
  Eyck and Hans Menlinc, the Renaissance phase, by Rubens and Vandyke.
  There are fifty-five reproductions from Haufstaengl photographs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

    + + =Acad.= 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.

  “Mr. Wedmore’s introduction is not an altogether favourable specimen
  of his power as a writer on art. True, it contains some very apposite
  criticisms, but these are interspersed with somewhat captious
  digressions.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 370w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 110w.

        =Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 240w.

  “Taken all in all, however, Mr. Wedmore’s paper is not a coherent
  dissertation on the Flemish school; it is too itemized, too scrappy,
  and too diversified to be of much value as a serious study. As a
  collection of notes, however, appended to artists’ names, it will save
  the student of the National gallery with Flemish proclivities much
  toil and trouble among art encyclopædias.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 508. Ag. 18, ’06. 350w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 31, ’06. 50w.


=Wedmore, Frederick.= Whistler and others. *$1.50. Scribner.

  Mr. Wedmore’s volume of essays is prefaced by a chapter entitled “A
  candid word to the English reader” in which he makes serious charge
  against the Englishman as an art critic. Some observations on Venetian
  art, Goya, Richard Wilson, Romney, Laurence, Watts, Etty, and others
  may be passed over to find the real worth of the book in the papers on
  Whistler, Fantin and Boudin, English watercolour, The print collector.
  Constable’s English landscapes, and The Norwich school.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His critical method is not exhaustive but suggestive, and no
  inventory of qualities could so stimulate the imagination as one of
  his pregnant summaries.”

    + + =Acad.= 71: 31. Jl. 14, ’06. 970w.

  “The essays and fragments that make up the volume are in part
  reprinted from various periodicals. Some of them seem hardly of
  sufficient importance to warrant the more permanent form.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “Perhaps the best piece in the book is the study of Fantin and Boudin.
  We wish that some of the other articles had been undertaken in a like
  spirit of respect for his subject and respect for his reader.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 202. Je. 1, ’06. 1000w.

  “It was, however, an error of taste to pad the volume out with
  trifling notes which may have served well enough to introduce a
  temporary exhibition or to characterize a single painting.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 220w.

  “The critic’s survey is characteristically candid and suggestive.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 60w.

  “If you want the final word upon Whistler, Wedmore has not said it or
  thought it.”

    – + =Putnam’s.= 1: 226. N. ’06. 670w.


=Weeden, William Babcock.= War government: federal and state, in
Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861–1865. **$2.50.
Houghton.

  Using Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania. and Indiana as typical
  states, this study of the civil war period shows that “war government,
  federal and state, accomplished most potent and far-reaching results
  in the readjustment of the relations between states and nation, and
  between the people and the governing body.”

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  “The style, sometimes eccentric and inclined to digression, is always
  keen, pungent and fearless. The characterization of Lincoln is
  refreshingly free from conventionality either in praise or blame, and,
  with all its partisanship, the book has distinct value.” Theodore
  Clarke Smith.

    + – =Atlan.= 98: 705. N. ’06. 380w.

  “With his conclusions many will disagree. In some places a
  rearrangement of the material might have made the book easier reading;
  but the vigorous style and independent judgment of the author are
  calculated to enlist one’s interest to the end.”

    + – =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 240w.

  “The author’s dislike of those on the other side and his failure to
  appreciate their position, his inability to recognize and understand
  the principle of evolution in human affairs, and his twentieth century
  criticism of nineteenth century deeds, are defects that mar a work
  which otherwise might have been of considerable interest and value.”

    – + =Dial.= 41: 167. S. 16. ’06. 530w.

  “It is entertainingly written, and only the most ‘blasé’ of readers of
  Civil war matters can fall to find an engaging interest in its pages.
  It reveals moreover, a vast deal of research. But it can hardly be
  called a critical study of the relation of federal to state government
  during the Civil war.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 639. S. 13. ’06. 210w.

  “The subject is one deserving exhaustive exploration and it is
  therefore the more to be regretted that Mr. Weeden has not treated it
  with a firmer grasp and an unprejudiced mind.”

    – + =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 150w.

  “The narrative, well fortified by references, is marred by a good deal
  of feeble and confused rhetoric.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 280w.

  “It is an interesting and able work.” Wm. E. Dodd.

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 505. Ag. 18, ’06. 1320w.

  “He has undertaken a most interesting task; but his spirit is so
  partisan and his style so turgid, discursive, and inaccurate that his
  book is of only very limited value.”

    – + =Outlook.= 83: 288. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.

  “Mr. Weeden’s book should do much to put needed emphasis on a somewhat
  neglected aspect of the war.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 280w.


=Weedon, L. L.= Child characters from Dickens. $2.50. Dutton.

  There are eighteen stories in this group, including many of the
  children’s favorites, among them are those of Harvey and Norah, of
  “The holly tree,” Paul Dombey, Johnny and the Boofer Lady, Little
  Nell, the Marchioness, Polly, Little Dorrit, etc. Six colored plates
  and seventy half-tones “tell their part of the story so well that
  every character in the book can be told offhand.” (N. Y. Times.) “His
  illustrator, Mr. A. A. Dixon, has distributed good looks to everybody
  with the facility of a fairy of the olden time at a christening.”
  (Ath.)

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        =Ath.= 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 60w.

      – =Nation.= 81: 489. D. 14, ’05. 250w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ’05. 180w.

  “This is a charming book. The tales are skillfully managed. A better
  introduction to Dickens could not be.”

    + + =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 50w.


=Weikel, Anna Hamlin.= Betty Baird: a boarding-school story; il. †$1.50.
Little.

  Betty Baird is the daughter of a scholarly Presbyterian minister who
  had trained his daughter thru her fourteen years on rather
  oldfashioned but thoro lines. Betty is sent to boarding school and,
  bright, nimble witted tho she is, she has many trying experiences
  among her snobbish, fashionable mates. The story follows her thru her
  three years of victories terminating in first honor at graduation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 120w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 50w.


=Weinel, Heinrich.= St. Paul, the man and his work; tr. by Rev. G. A.
Bienemann and ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$2.50. Putnam.

  Professor Weinel of the University of Jena says in his preface: “This
  book forms a necessary supplement to my ‘Jesus in the nineteenth
  century,’ for it shows how the Gospel came to make that concordat with
  the ‘world’ i. e., with the ancient state and its religion and
  morality, which we call ‘church.’ I have tried to show how necessary,
  and how solitary this compromise was, by what pure motives it was
  animated, but also with what dangers it was pregnant for the Gospel
  itself.” Further the author says: “I have wanted to make our people
  understand and love Paul.”

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  “He is a scholar who does not intrude his scholarship but is competent
  to speak on St. Paul.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 154. Ag. 11. 840w.

  “It is a work of careful thought and thoro scholarship.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1433. Je. 14, ’06. 1050w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 140w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 618. Ap. 21, ’06. 890w.

  “His translator, the Rev. G. A. Bienemann, has rendered him into lucid
  and finished English form.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 400w.

  “His biography does not add very much to our knowledge of the apostle
  and his time; it is vigorously written. fairly interesting, drastic in
  its criticism, and very anti-Catholic.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 400w.


=Weininger, Otto.= Sex and character; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ.
ed. *$3. Putnam.

  Six editions in the German are to the credit of this volume. There is
  a two-fold treatment of the subject, the first dealing with the
  physical phase, the second with the psychological. “In his view woman
  ‘is merely non-moral. She is characterized by shamelessness and
  heartlessness.’ Only man has a ‘share, in ontological reality.’ ‘Women
  have no existence; and no essence; they are not, they are nothing.’ It
  does not surprise us to be told that such a philosopher died by his
  own hand at the age of twenty three.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is exhibited the most acute and subtle mental play throughout,
  but the whole argument is characterized by downright unreasonableness.
  There are parts so poor, obscure, illogical, and stupid that they
  would not be accepted in a college boy’s essay, and other parts worthy
  of Kant or Schopenhauer.” W. I. Thomas.

  – – + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 843. My. ’06. 1250w.

  “Never before in all our literature has the ultra-masculine view of
  woman been so logically carried out, so unsparingly forced to its
  conclusion.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

  – – + =Critic.= 48: 414. My. ’06. 3030w.

      – =Lond. Times.= 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 270w.

  “Preposterous charlatanry.”

      – =Outlook.= 82: 764. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.

  “It is thus ... as a human document, one unconsciously illustrating
  the pathology of adolescent sex and character, even more than
  consciously investigating their nature, that this tragic book will
  survive, if at all.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 557. My. 5, ’06. 1830w.


=Weir, Irene.= Greek painters’ art. *$3. Ginn.

      – =Ath.= 1906. 2: 743. D. 8. 160w.

  “Unpretending but most interesting little volume.”

      + =Int. Studio.= 27: 373. F. ’06. 150w.


=Weiss, Bernhard.= Commentary on the New Testament; tr. by George H.
Schodde, and Epiphanius Wilson; with an introd. by James S. Riggs. 4v.
ea. *$3. Funk.

  In these four volumes we have the results of the work of a great
  scholar, who has spent over half a century in a study of his subject
  which while scientific was tempered by true spiritual insight. The
  work is intended not only for students but for those who have not time
  for study and desire a better understanding of the scriptures as they
  read them. Volume 1, contains the commentary upon Matthew and Mark;
  Volume 2, Luke, John and The Acts; Vol. 3, Romans, Corinthians,
  Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians; Volume 4,
  Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrew, James, Peter, John,
  Jude and Revelation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Professor Weiss’s concise commentary exhibits his well-known
  learning, thoroughness, and conservatism. It is unfortunate that its
  English dress was not more carefully prepared.”

  + + – =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 20w.


=Weiss, Bernhard.= Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by
G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.

  “It must, however, be said with frankness that the work of translation
  has not been well done. The book is a very clear presentation of the
  general idea which is represented in Harnack’s ‘What is Christianity?’
  and, in more extreme form, by Wernle’s ‘Beginnings of Christianity.’”
  Irving F. Wood.

    + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 130. Jl. ’06. 490w.


=Wells, Amos R.= Tuxedo avenue to Water street: the story of a
transplanted church. $1. Funk.

  The author calls his story a parable, and also, the story of a
  possibility, which the united action of God and the people may make a
  reality. He tells of a fashionable church which was mysteriously
  transplanted in a single night and set up stone on stone among the
  poor of Water street. He depicts most vividly the scorn with which the
  fashionable members of the old church regard the poor with whom they
  are thus brought in contact, and he shows the great good which came of
  it all. It is a story so true to human nature that it makes one pause
  to think. The author’s character drawing is excellent and he has
  softened his moral by introducing into his parable the love story of
  the young minister and Irene, the flower of his flock.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Arena.= 36: 222. Ag. ’06. 310w.

  “His little book is of more than passing interest as a well-developed
  piece of fiction, and it is profoundly significant as a Parable and an
  indictment.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w.

  “The little book is effective in its way.”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 817. Ag. 4, ’06. 150w.


=Wells, Amos Russel.= Donald Barton and the doings of the Ajax club.
†$1.50. Little.

  The “Ajax club” is composed of lusty boys who meet in “The glen” and
  plan adventures worthy of their honored Greek hero. They do battle
  against a band of disreputable village boys and win the commendation
  of the townspeople.

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  “Though there is the highest intent in this, the author has somehow
  missed the mark.”

      – =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 170w.


=Wells, Carolyn.= At the sign of the sphinx. $1. Duffield.

  Miss Wells’ fancy-juggling has produced one hundred and twenty rhymed
  riddles to which are appended answers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 30w.

  “Is marked by the same cleverness that is always characteristic of
  this writer.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1399. D. 13, ’06. 210w.

      + =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 90w.

  “Generally her mood is playful and her ingenuity is always equal to
  the task she sets for it. As a general thing, her touch is becomingly
  light and she treats her syllables with respect. Sometimes the enigma
  is still a bit enigmatical after one knows the answer.”

  + + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 190w.


=Wells, Carolyn.= Dorrance doings; il. †$1.50. Wilde.

  Another chapter in the lives of the wide-awake Dorrances which is
  really a sequel to the “Dorrance domain.” The inventive ability of the
  quartette and their energy in executing have suffered no diminution
  since they first made their bow to young readers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 120w.

  “Written in a rather perfunctory manner—lacking in charm and
  freshness.”

    – + =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 50w.


=Wells, Carolyn.= Whimsey anthology. **$1.25. Scribner.

  “A whimsey, Miss Wells explains, is ‘a whim, a freak, a capricious
  notion, an odd device.’ Her new book contains nearly 300 selections
  from the poets old and new.... Here we have famous wheezes touching
  the eccentricities of the English language, typographical frenzies in
  which the compositor shapes the poem as nearly as possible like the
  object it treats of.... Alphabetical nonsense ... acrostics and
  lipograms, alliterative efforts, enigmas and charades, macaronic
  poetry, travesties, certomes, (which are made up of assorted lines
  from divers poems,) and palindromes are here in rich profusion.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Ind.= 61: 756. S. 27, ’06. 410w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 580. S. 22, ’06. 740w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, 06. 140w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 338. O. 6. ’06. 50w.

        =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 50w.


=Wells, Herbert George.= Future in America: a search after realities.
**$2. Harper.

  America’s social, economic, and material phases furnish conditions for
  objective scrutiny which any American would do well to observe. Mr.
  Wells finds the note of a “fatal, gigantic, economic development, of
  large prevision and enormous pressures” uppermost and invincible. His
  range of observations is broad, covering the main representative
  cities of America, his insight ready to cope with the peculiarly
  American conditions, and his comments virile and convincing.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “‘When the sleeper wakes,’ for example, is an astonishing caricature
  of the inordinate individualism of the American sort. ‘The future in
  America,’ a sober study of the same subject, is, we think, below it in
  insight as well as in effectiveness. Mr. Wells’s book is written
  rather in a mood of despondency.”

      – =Acad.= 71: 544. D. 1, ’06. 1360w.

  “His lucid and discriminating description of the present in America is
  probably worth more than his intended prophecy of the future of
  America would have been, had he ventured to write it.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 370w.

  “His is a book which will be criticised, but it will be read, and no
  reader will fail to gain from it a broader view of the great
  world-power with its vast opportunities and inequalities, its
  contradictions and aspirations, its towering wealth, and its
  suffering, which Mr. Wells has analyzed in this book.” James Wellman.

    + – =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 1898. D. 29, ’06. 1810w.

  “He has brought to the study of the social, economical, and material
  problems now confronting us an insight rarely found in an Englishman,
  and has given lucid expressions to certain ideas concerning the future
  which have been vaguely stirring in the national consciousness.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 240w.

  “A volume, that more than any other book I know of picks out and
  co-ordinates the tendencies and conditions that are really shaping the
  American future, disencumbers them from the misleading obstruction of
  detail, and displays them with that spaciousness, that fervent
  clarity, which Mr. Wells commands so easily.” Sidney Brooks.

    + + =Living Age.= 251: 565. D. 1, ’06. 2590w.

  “He has struck some nails on the head that have, perhaps, never been
  struck before—at least with so emphatic a hammer.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 537. D. 20. ’06. 1540w.

  “To us, Mr. Wells’s hasty observations of American life seem only
  dull. It is frequently interesting. It is generally disparaging. It is
  often inaccurate.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 758. N. 17, ’06. 150w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 140w.

  “The prophesying is hedging, vague, indeterminate. Probably a fairer
  book about America has never been written.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 581. N. 10, ’06. 1630w.

  “The book is illuminating in the fullest sense, a criticism not only
  of America, but of all civilised society, and it is written in a style
  which is always attractive and rises now and then to uncommon beauty
  and power. Though we endorse his demand for reform in many directions,
  we are bound to condemn his frequent exaggerations, the shrillness,
  nay feverishness, of his criticism, and his want of a sense of
  proportion. He says many true things about the United States, but his
  picture as a whole is false.”

    + – =Spec.= 97: 683. N. 3, ’06. 2320w.


=Wells, Herbert George.= In the days of the comet. †$1.50. Century.

  A young middle-class Englishman loves a girl who elopes with the son
  of a landed proprietor. The outraged suitor pursues the couple, bent
  upon murder and suicide. Then the comet intervenes. It strikes the
  earth and diffuses a trance-producing vapor. When the world wakens
  there are no longer passions and rivalries. At this point the author
  works out a state of socialistic reform characterized by brotherhood
  principles. The hero finds love an impersonal thing with none of the
  old proprietary limitations. Woman to him becomes the “shape and color
  of the divine principle that lights the world,” and whether wife or
  friend he may love her without reproach.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An earnest and exceedingly interesting book.”

      + =Acad.= 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 180w.

  “Is far more than an interesting romance written in the fine literary
  style that marks the works of this popular imaginative novelist.”

      + =Arena.= 36: 683. D. ’06. 380w.

  “It remains as a whole a fine testimony to the imagination and
  intellect of one of the most original thinkers of the day.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 640w.

        =Current Literature.= 41: 700. D. 06. 880w.

  “Regarded as an argument for socialism ... it is a very weak one.”

      – =Ind.= 61: 1053. N. 1, ’06. 1080w.

  “Perhaps it is not the best book Mr. Wells has written. It is in
  reality no more than a brilliant piece of descriptive writing. But no
  reader can fail to be touched by the picture of the glorious life that
  awaits mankind after some great change.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 220w.

        =Lond. Times.= 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 580w.

      + =Nature.= 75: 124. D. 6, ’06. 440w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 200w.

  “As a story pure and simple, it falls far below his ‘War of the
  worlds.’”

      – =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 230w.

        =Sat. R.= 102: 365. S. 22, ’06. 1560w.

    + – =Spec.= 97: 496. O. 6, ’06. 1230w.


=Wells, Herbert George.= Kipps: the story of a simple soul. †$1.50.
Scribner.

  “Displaying an almost Dickens-like gift for the portrayal of eccentric
  traits and types of character.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1. ’06, 350w.

        =Edinburgh R.= 203: 66. Ja. ’06. 2920w.

        =Living Age.= 248: 726. Mr. 24, ’06. 2920w. (Reprinted from
          Edinburgh R.)


=Wells, Herbert George.= Modern Utopia. *$1.50. Scribner.

  “Culling over the literature of 1905, I should place at the head of
  works of the first-class ‘A modern utopia.’” Winthrop More Daniels.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 840. Je. ’06. 710w.

  Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 296. My. 1, ’06. 250w.

        =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 581. N. ’06. 270w.


=Wendell, Barrett.= Temper of the 17th century in English literature.
**$1.50. Scribner.

  “We must thank Professor Wendell for the pleasant, if slightly exotic,
  prose of this thoughtful and inspiring volume. The fly in the amber is
  the continual use of the word ‘elder.’”

    + – =Spec.= 97: sup. 468. O. 6, ’06. 860w.


=Wertheimer, Edward de.= Duke of Reichstadt. **$5. Lane.

  “The general reader, for whom this handsome volume is evidently
  intended, will find that the events and persons in the life of this
  son of Napoleon stand out sharp, clear, and interesting. Some errors
  have slipped into the translation. This book with its good index and
  illustrations is the best on the subject.” Sidney B. Fay.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 662. Ap. ’06. 860w.

        =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 120w.

  “Is essentially an historical study, not a mere collection of gossip
  and rumor.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 21. Ja. ’06. 360w.

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 113. Ja. 27, ’06. 1150w.


=Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster (Pope) (Lily F.).= Ready, the
reliable. †$1.50. Little.

  Thru the influence of a little child a wealthy, crusty, bachelor uncle
  learns the great lesson of love and opens his heart to the needs of an
  overworked mother and her three responsible little ones. Ready, a
  befriended street dog, is so important a factor in the tale that he
  has appropriated the title.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 90w.

  “When it comes to one part of a story dealing with humans and the
  other part giving us the thoughts and conversations of cats and dogs
  ... we think a literary license is taken that is not warranted by the
  results obtained.”

      – =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 50w.


=Westermarck, Edward Alexander.= Origin and development of the moral
ideas. 2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.

  “A multitude of curious facts concerning the crude institutions of
  early times and savage tribes awaits the general reader of these
  pages. About one-fourth of the volume is concerned with homicide, both
  in general and in its varying forms down to feticide. The philosophic
  student finds what he has a right to expect from such an investigator
  ... acute insight and discriminating judgment in tracing the evolution
  of moral ideas.”—Outlook.

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  “We have drawn attention to a few points in which Dr. Westermarck has
  seemed to us unconvincing. We have intended this only as the criticism
  which makes appreciation significant. And for the book as a whole—for
  its learning, its open-mindedness, its catholicity, of interest—we
  have the warmest appreciation.”

  + + – =Acad.= 70: 521, Je. 2, ’06. 2520w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Westermarck’s great strength ... consists in his ability to assemble
  materials, and if he has a weakness, it is on the psychological side.”
  W. I. Thomas.

  + + – =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 127. Jl. ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Even suppose, however, certain shortcomings on the side of pure
  theory, this book remains an achievement unsurpassed in its own kind,
  a perpetual monument of the courage, the versatility, and the amazing
  industry of its author.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 692. Je. 9. 1820w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “It may be partly owing to this special study, but largely no doubt
  also to a remarkably sympathetic and candid turn of mind that Dr.
  Westermarck presents this heterogeneous mass of evidence with so much
  understanding, and avoids those hasty generalizations and those
  uncomprehending judgments of alien races that so frequently
  characterize many writers, even among those who have dwelt long among
  the people they describe.”

  + + – =Ind.= 61: 997. O. 25, ’06. 1170w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The mass of information included in these chapters is wonderful. The
  use which Dr Westermarck makes of it, I have no pretensions to
  criticise. At any rate, everyone who reads this volume will look
  forward with impatience to the next.” J. Ellis McTaggart.

  + + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 125. O. ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Exceptionally wide reading and a faculty of lucid arrangement in
  dealing with masses of detail are the necessary equipment for such a
  task, and to these Dr. Westermarck adds a four years’ residence among
  the country population of Morocco.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)

  + + – =Nature.= 74: 377. Ag. 16, ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 1.)

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and
          2.)

  “Although this massive work is elaborately analytical and critical, it
  is none the less interesting.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, 06. 250w. (Review of v. 1.)

        =Sat. R.= 101: 821. Je. 30, ’06. 1260w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Westrup, Margaret.= Young O’Briens. †$1.50. Lane.

  “A family of undisciplined young people from the wilds of Ireland,
  thrust for many months upon the society of a Scotch spinster aunt in a
  squalid little house in London, suggests a situation which might well
  draw tears from a stone.” (Ath.) “The transplanting is a hard trial
  for all of them, and not less trying at times to the aunt. The humor
  of some of the episodes is delightful.” (Critic.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Makes an enjoyable afternoon’s reading, but from a literary point of
  view does not begin to compare with ‘Helen Alliston’” Amy C. Rich.

      + =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 330w.

  “The narrative ... is told with much humor and not a little pathos,
  but at too great length.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 180w.

  “Both young and old will enjoy this entertaining account of the doings
  of four Irish young folk.”

      + =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 100w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 830w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.

  “The book is too long, but the high spirits of the family carry the
  reader on.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 243. Ag. 25, ’06. 290w.


=Weyman, Stanley John.= Chippinge Borough. †$1.50. McClure.

  “Mr. Weyman’s latest romance has for its background the passing of the
  Reform bill of 1832. No novelist is more conscientious in his
  treatment of historical events, and the picture he presents of the
  fierce struggle between the old governing class and the advocates of
  the ‘People’s bill’ is singularly faithful and vivid.... Into this
  political struggle he has successfully woven a romantic story.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is wholesome, mediocre work, and will delight Mr. Stanley Weyman’s
  immense number of readers.”

      + =Acad.= 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 130w.

  “Is to be numbered among the best of Mr. Weyman’s books.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 180w.

  “Novels that urge you along with them as ‘Chippinge’ does are not so
  common that you can afford to quarrel with the means by which they do
  it.”

  + + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 377. N. 9, ’06. 440w.

  “The chief defect of the book is its length. Good as it all is, the
  temptation to skip, soon becomes overpowering.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 835. D. 1, ’06. 640w.

  “Rarely does one find a semi-historical subject treated so
  dramatically and with such intense personal interest.”

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 2, ’06. 150w.

  “It is not for its tale however that the book may be commended. The
  interest of the book is in its atmosphere. It renders admirably the
  spirit and sentiment.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 440w.

  “A most enjoyable story as well as a deeply interesting study of a
  great struggle.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 790w.


=Weyman, Stanley John.= Starvecrow farm. †$1.50. Longmans.

  “This is by no means the best of Mr. Weyman’s novels, but it has a
  considerable interest nevertheless.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “Mr. Weyman’s atmosphere is charmingly true; the story that he has to
  tell is more than ordinarily worth telling.”

      + =Reader.= 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 210w.


=Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones).= House of mirth. †$1.50. Scribner.

  “For all its brilliancy, ‘The house of mirth’ has a certain
  shallowness; it is thin. At best, Lily can only inspire interest and
  curiosity.” Mary Moss.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 52. Ja. ’06. 630w.

  “It is Mrs. Wharton’s great achievement, in a book where all is fine,
  that she makes us see and sympathize with the true distinction in a
  woman who on the surface has little else than beauty and charm.” E. E.
  Hale, jr.

  + + + =Bookm.= 22: 364. D. ’05. 1190w.

        =Critic.= 48: 463. My. ’06. 260w.

  “It is a story elaborated in every detail to a high degree of
  refinement, and evidently a product of the artistic conscience. Having
  paid this deserved tribute to its finer characteristics, we are bound
  to add that it is deficient in interest.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 15. Ja. 1, ’06. 720w.

  Reviewed by Charles Waldstein.

        =North American.= 182: 840. Je. ’06 and 183: 125. Jl. ’06. 5670
          + 4890w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + + =North American.= 182: 922. Je. ’06. 400w.

  “The book is one of the few novels which can claim to rank as
  literature.”

  + + + =Sat. R.= 101: 209. F. 17, ’06. 400w.


=Wharton, Henry Marvin.= White blood; a story of the South. $1.50.
Neale.

  The natural ingratitude and inability of the negro to rise to the
  level of the white man forms the motif of this story written for the
  purpose of proving that “white blood must rule.” A love story with a
  southern setting imparts an interest to the much mooted question.


What would one have?: a woman’s confession. *$1. West, J. H.

  “An essentially New England temperament is revealed in this
  ‘confession.’ ... The supposed author is a plain woman of the middle
  class, brought up on a farm with few opportunities. She has so many
  sorrows and by them she learns what seems to her the meaning of
  life.”—Critic.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The tone of the book is strongly religious; it is at least free from
  the morbid taint usually to be found in revelations of a similar
  character, and doubtless it will make a strong appeal to persons of a
  type of mind similar to that of the ‘woman’ supposed to make the
  ‘confession.’”

      + =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 130w.

  “There are doubtless countless readers who will find some sort of
  spiritual consolation in the book, and mental edification, too, in its
  appreciation of easily accessible literature.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 340. My. 26, ’06. 180w.

  “Is manifestly genuine and written with an earnest desire to help
  others.”

      – =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 90w.


=Whates, H. R.= Canada, the new nation. **$1.50. Dutton.

  “Mr. Whates ... went to Canada as a steerage passenger, posed as an
  emigrant, and made actual trial of the difficulties which confront an
  actual settler. In this way he met Canadians of every type and class
  and had every chance of learning their real views. He travelled over
  much of the continent, selected a homestead area in the wheatlands of
  the North-west, and returned after five well-spent months with a
  knowledge of the land which few could acquire in as many years. The
  result is a book which is partly a record of travel, partly a most
  practical guide to the intending settler, and partly a careful and
  sympathetic study of Canadian political thought.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Whates is a little wild in his emigration scheme, and appears in
  some passages to upset himself.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 699. Je. 9. 740w.

  Reviewed by Lawrence J. Burpee.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 278. N. 1, ’06. 690w.

  “The French element in Canadian life receives somewhat less attention
  than it deserves.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 313. O. 11, ’06. 450w.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 606. S. 29, ’06. 690w.

  “He has performed his task with a singularly open mind, utterly free
  from the bias which so often renders valueless the observations of
  traveling Englishmen.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 436. D. 15, ’06. 1200w.

  “An admirable book which we have read with keen enjoyment. Mr. Whates
  writes with grace and distinction, he has keen powers of observation,
  and the tolerant humorous outlook of the true traveller.”

    + + =Spec.= 97: 95. Jl. 21, ’06. 1460w.


=Wheat, Mrs. Lu.= Third daughter: a story of Chinese home life. $1.50.
Mrs. Lu Wheat, 910 W. 8th st., Los Angeles, Cal.

  “Ah Moy, the third daughter of a good family, is the central figure in
  an idyllic picture of a Chinese home. This is at length broken up by
  the dire calamities, which give occasion for the display of high
  qualities of character, but bring Ah Moy to a tragic end. Chinese
  customs, the position of women, foot-binding, sex-morality, the
  Boxers, the traffic in slave-girls, their importation hither, and the
  efforts of missionaries to thwart it, make up the rapidly shifting
  scene.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An extremely interesting and well-written picture of Chinese
  home-life in a high-caste family.” Amy C. Rich.

      + =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 250w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 80w.

  “Writes in large sympathy with whatever she has seen that is
  attractive and worthy. Concerning Christian missionaries there she has
  not taken equal pains to inform herself correctly.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 130w.


=Wheeler, Everett Pepperell.= Daniel Webster, the expounder of the
Constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.

  “A convenient manual for any one who wishes to get in a small compass
  a view of Webster’s career as expounder.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 340w.


=Wheeler, W. H.= Practical manual of tides and waves. *$2.80. Longmans.

  The principal part of Mr. Wheeler’s work is devoted to “as practical
  an account as possible, free from all mathematical demonstration of
  the action of the sun and moon in producing the tides: and of the
  physical causes by which the tides are affected after their
  generation, and of their propagation throughout the tidal waters of
  the earth.” (Nature.) He further deals with wave phenomena in a manner
  to be useful to practising engineers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A perusal of this work will convince any reader that the entire
  discussion of tides and tidal phenomena has been undertaken by one
  familiar with the subject, both practically and theoretically, and
  influenced by genuine love for the work. As a result the author has
  produced a valuable practical manual of tides and waves which should
  be found in the library of every one interested in these subjects.” D.
  D. Gaillard.

  + + + =Engin. N.= 56: 49. Jl. 12, ’06. 1620w.

  “On the whole, Mr. Wheeler has succeeded in the object he had in view,
  and has ‘produced a handbook that will be of interest and practical
  service to those who have neither the time nor the opportunity of
  investigating the subject for themselves.’”

    + + =Nature.= 74: 218. Jl. 5, ’06. 1400w.


=Whelpley, James Davenport.= Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.

  “A most convenient handbook for reference, supplying the student with
  a mass of materials not elsewhere available in one language or in any
  sort of connected form.” Frederic Austin Ogg.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 259. Ap. 16, ’06. 570w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 577. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.


=Whiffen, Edwin T.= Samson marrying, Samson at Timnah, Samson Hybistes,
Samson blinded: four dramatic poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

  “The poetic impulse is hardly sufficient in the dialogue to overcome
  its tedious length and there are few beautiful or splendid passages to
  break the monotony of the diction.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13. ’06. 210w.


=Whitcomb, Selden Lincoln.= Study of a novel. $1.25. Heath.

  It is not with the science of the novel but with certain fixed values
  of material and of form that Mr. Whitcomb’s analysis deals. He shows
  the laudable and practical work of novel dissection to be a necessary
  part of the teaching of literature. He discusses external structure,
  consecutive structure, plot, the settings, the “dramatis personae,”
  characterization, subject-matter, style, the process of composition,
  the shaping of forces, influence of a novel, comparative rhetoric and
  æsthetics, and general aesthetic interest.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As an attempt to break ground in a comparatively uncultivated field
  the book is commendable. The writer has got together a good deal of
  material where it can be found when wanted.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 150w.

  “In its own chosen field this book is exceedingly thorough and
  instructive.”

      + =Outlook.= 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 110w.

  “Is really a dissection, diagrammatically set forth, of a number of
  the great novels in English.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 60w.


=White, Frederick M.= Slave of silence. †$1.50. Little.

  The Royal Palace hotel, London, is in this complicated story made the
  center of a series of strange happenings which begin when Sir Charles,
  who is marrying his daughter to a rich brute to save his own financial
  honor, is found dead in his bed at the close of the ceremony. Then
  follows the disappearance of his body, and the series of adventures
  which his daughter, her old lover, and their friend Perington
  encounter when they trace the thieves to a house in Audley place which
  is full of electrical surprises. Diamonds of fabulous value and
  certain ruby mine concessions in Burmah complicate the plot, but at
  last Sir Charles reappears alive, his daughter is left a widow at an
  auspicious moment for her lover, and the slave of silence is released
  from allegiance to the crippled villain who is her brother, and
  marries the faithful Perrington.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is a suggestion of occultism from the East, which, serving no
  purpose in the plot, seems a little superfluous, but for genuine
  entertainment one cannot do better than to read this book.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 825. D. 1, ’06. 150w.


=White, Frederick M.= Weight of the crown. $1.50. Fenno.

  A story in which plots and counter plots run their brisk course as
  Russia makes a tool of the dissipated crowned head of Asturia and
  tries to force an abdication. There are two sets of doubles in the
  story introduced on the one hand to facilitate, on the other hand to
  retard and complicate the movement towards the dramatic climax.

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    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 220w.


=White, Stewart Edward.= The Pass. *$1.25. Outing pub.

  In which Mr. White tells the story of a journey across the high
  Sierras made by an explorer, his wife, his guide, their two dogs and
  four horses.

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  “It is the triumph of Mr. White’s enthusiasm and of his ability to put
  his facts and his impressions into the right words that what was
  encountered and what was seen on the trip is almost as plain on the
  printed page as it would have been to you or me had we taken the trip
  with him.” Churchill Williams.

    + + =Bookm.= 24: 376. D. ’06. 1270w.

  “It is told simply in a style as crisp as mountain air.” May Estelle
  Cook.

      + =Dial.= 41: 387. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 160w.

  “Like most of Mr. White’s books ‘The Pass’ is very agreeable reading
  indeed, soothing, but not exciting.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 685. O. 20, ’06. 770w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 80w.


=White, William Allen.= In our town. †$1.50. McClure.

  Thirteen stories made up from happenings observed by the editor of a
  Western newspaper. “He draws humorously convincing portraits of the
  people of the town, the town millionaire and the town drunkard, the
  smart set and those who try to be smart, the literary crowd that
  laughs at them and envies them for their superior culture. But it is
  not all humorous. The trail of Jim Nevison, the black sheep and
  ‘desert scorpion,’ is followed to the end and the career of Sampson, a
  good fellow ‘and yet a fool,’ is graphically outlined by Colonel
  Alphabetical Morrison.” (Pub. Opin.)

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  “Read at intervals it will be found quite entertaining, but it
  decidedly is not a book for steady perusal.”

    + – =Lit. D.= 83: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 90w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.

  “A good and wholesome book ... that may serve its best purpose in
  showing the American people themselves just what they are in this very
  hour.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 250w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 91. My. 12, ’06. 120w.

  “He may not have made great stories but he has put into his sketches
  the stuff out of which great stories are made.”

      + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 200w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 60w.

  “Every newspaper man has his recollections, but few of them can give
  them with such an artistic blending of pathos and humor as he has.”

    + + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 170w.


=Whiteing, Richard.= Ring in the new. †$1.50. Century.

  London and its awful problems of labor and poverty is the theme of
  this bitterly real study of “the other half,” thru which there ever
  runs a note of hope. Prue at twenty, penniless, unskilled, tho gently
  born and bred, casts herself into the maelstrom of London in a pitiful
  attempt to earn a living, and there realizes her own helplessness and
  all but goes down before the overwhelming fear of it, clinging for
  comfort to the mongrel dog she can ill afford to keep. The people whom
  she meets in the course of her plucky career as an incompetent working
  girl. Sarah the charwoman, Laura, a gem engraver, Leonard the young
  editor of The branding-iron, a journal of the back streets, and all
  the others, interest us not so much as individuals as parts of a
  struggling whole.

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  “This is the most important romance of recent months dealing with
  social progress. The author is a finished writer, a scholar skillful
  with the use of words. This is a work that we can heartily recommend
  to all lovers of human progress and social advance.”

    + + =Arena.= 36: 682. D. ’06. 950w.

  “The darker side of the picture, as seen by his heroine during her
  terrible initiation into the struggle for existence, is presented with
  power, but also with commendable sobriety and restraint.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 633. My. 26. 280w.

  “He is earnestly, even angrily intense with the sincerity of his
  motive. And his motive the noblest of all, is the brotherhood of man.”
  Richard Duffy.

      + =Bookm.= 24: 276. N. ’06. 670w.

  “The style is somewhat Meredithian—brilliant, suggestive, prismatic,
  but oftentimes blinding through an excess of nervous energy that
  entices its possessor from a consistent point of view. As a
  performance in fiction this book hardly ranks with the same author’s
  ‘No. 5 John street.’”

    + – =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 270w.

  “A story that flashes with wit, glows with indignation, and beams with
  the steady light of an unshakable hope.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 390w.

  “‘Ring in the new’ cannot but compel the absorbed interest of its
  readers, but more than this, it is worthy the writing and the reading,
  because it is a voice for the voiceless, because it needs must have
  its share in bringing about a social condition wherein at least no
  ‘evil is wrought by want of thought.’ Such a book deserves to be held
  high above the flood of ordinary fiction, in that its appeal is not to
  anything less than the noblest elements of character.” M. Gordon Pryor
  Rice.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 596. S. 29, ’06. 1930w.

  “The most vivid individual in the book is Sarah, the charwoman. The
  weakest parts of the story are the extracts from ‘The branding iron.’”

    + – =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 210w.

  “The charm of Mr. Whiteing’s narrative is greatly enhanced by his
  mastery of the art of presentation. He writes with a most engaging
  ease, preserving a happy mean between pedantry and looseness,—indeed,
  the impression created is curiously like that of listening to a
  brilliant talker.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 717. My. 5, ’06. 880w.


=Whiting, Lilian.= Florence of Landor. **$2.50. Little.

  “In this fascinating work Lillian Whiting is seen at her best.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 444. Ap. ’06. 600w.

  “So far as Landor is concerned, the more valuable parts of Miss
  Whiting’s volume are those containing the reminiscences of his young
  American friend Miss Kate Field, who saw a good deal of him during the
  last four or five years of his long life.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 886. D. 30. 1120w.

  “It contains some new and interesting anecdotes and a few good
  illustrations.”

    + – =Atlan.= 97: 558. Ap. ’06. 370w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 420w.

  “It is not, to be sure, one of those that invite perusal at a single
  sitting. On the contrary, the best enjoyment will be derived through
  desultory browsing.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 171, F. 3, ’06. 270w.

  “Without giving any but the barest details of the poet’s life, Miss
  Whiting brings vividly before us the brilliant circle of choice
  intellects, so attached to Landor and to Florence, who ministered to
  his later years.”

    + + =Nation.= 81: 527. D. 28, ’05. 1820w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 110w.


=Whiting, Lilian.= From dream to vision of life. *$1. Little.

  “Optimistic papers in which scientific knowledge and religious fervor
  are combined, compose this volume. They are entitled; Thine eyes shall
  behold the King in his beauty, The key of the secret, Live in harmony
  with the new forces, The incalculable power of the spirit, The
  spiritual illumination, All’s love and all’s law, The rose and flame
  of life, The glory of summers that are not yet, and To whom the
  eternal world speaks.”


=Whiting, Lilian.= Joy that no man taketh from you. **50c. Little.

  “It will appeal with special force to those saddened, discouraged,
  disappointed ones from which riches have taken wings, or who have been
  overcome by still greater calamities.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 103. Ja. ’06. 980w.


=Whiting, Lilian.= Land of enchantment: from Pike’s Peak to the Pacific.
**$2.50. Little.

  The grandeur and scenic marvels of the great Southwest with its
  resources and development of life fill Miss Whiting’s volume. The
  wonders of Colorado, both in the Pike’s Peak region and in Denver “the
  beautiful,” the surprises of New Mexico with its ruins, traditions and
  mines, the magic of Arizona with its petrified forest, and Grand
  cañon, and southern California, mild in its sunshine, all compel the
  reader to traverse the way under the spell of enchantment.

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      + =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 210w.

        =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 60w.

  “She makes proper copy of excellent material for such a purpose.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 150w.

  “The author has gone over well-known ground quite thoroughly, and has
  discovered much that is new and picturesque.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 70w.


=Whitney, Caspar.= Jungle trails and jungle people; travel, adventure
and observation in the Far East. **$3. Scribner.

  “The style, instead of being halting, has the rapid stride of an
  expert American journalist, and, in spite of occasional
  disfigurements, the author has produced a work of considerable
  interest to the general reader, and painted some pictures of Eastern
  manners and character unfamiliar to those who live in the smaller
  world of the West.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 669. Je. 2. 1180w.

  “What he saw and what he did are pleasantly set down with many
  illustrations in this handsome volume.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1536. D. 28, ’05. 270w.

  “Mr. Whitney conveys to the reader a good deal of the pleasure and
  excitement which he himself experienced.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 500w.


=Whitney, Helen Hay.= Sonnets and songs. **$1.20. Harper.

  “Gifted young debutante.” Edith M. Thomas.

      + =Critic.= 48: 271. Mr. ’06. 610w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 30w.


=Whitson, John H.= Justin Wingate, ranchman. †$1.50. Little.

  “It is a capital story of the West and well worth the reading.”

      + =Arena.= 35: 334. Mr. ’06. 220w.


=Whittier, John Greenleaf.= Poems; with a biographical sketch by Nathan
Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Thin paper poets” this volume becomes a student’s
  textbook thru its introduction and notes.


Who’s Who, 1906. *$2. Macmillan.

  The 1906 volume contains two thousand more biographies than its
  predecessor. It contains also the number of a man’s sons and
  daughters, his telegraphic address and telephone number and the
  registered number of his motor-car.

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  “The book seems to us to have entirely changed its character since its
  inception; but in its present form it is exceedingly useful as a book
  of reference.”

  – + + =Acad.= 69: 1341. D. 23, ’05. 70w.

  “The new detail tends to promote self-advertisement rather than public
  utility.”

  + + – =Ath.= 1905. 2: 863. D. 23. 40w.

  “The selection of American names is as capricious as ever.”

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 161. Mr. 1, ’06. 60w.

  – – – =Ind.= 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 50w.

  + + + =Int. Studio.= 28: 181. Ap. ’06. 40w.

  + + + =Nation.= 82: 117. F. 8, ’06. 60w.

  + + + =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 270w.

  + + + =Sat. R.= 100: 822. D. 23, ’05. 80w.

  + + + =Spec.= 95: 1092. D. 23. ’05. 100w.


=Whyte, Rev. Alexander.= Walk, conversation and character of Jesus
Christ our Lord. $1.50. Revell.

  “Permeated with this moral purpose, these addresses may be classified
  as devotional reflections upon the life of Jesus.” Llewellyn Phillips.

      + =Bib. World.= 27: 78. Ja. ’06. 240w.


=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs).= Rose o’ the river.
†$1.25. Houghton.

  “The vivid glimpses of life among the lumbermen are the best features
  of the book which surely must have made its way on the strength of its
  predecessor, ‘Rebecca,’ rather than on its own merits.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 200w.

  “Is as spontaneous and fascinating in its way as was her ‘Rebecca’ in
  another.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ’05. 50w.

      + =Reader.= 7: 227. Ja. ’06. 190w.


=Wilcox, Henry S.= Foibles of the bench. $1. Legal literature co.,
Chicago

  The various types found upon the bench in all lands and ages and here
  personified and analyzed under such chapter headings as; Egotism,
  Courtesy, Concentration, Courage, Decision, Vain display, Corruption,
  etc.; in which appear Judge Knowall, Judge Wasp, Judge Doall, Judge
  Fearful, Judge Wobbler, Judge Wind, Judge Graft and others, who are
  classed under the virtues which they fail to represent. The whole is
  breezy and amusing.

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  “It is excellent work of this character that makes one regret the
  carelessness and lack of skill that have ruined what might otherwise
  have been a valuable criticism of the Bench.” Frederick Trevor Hill.

    + – =Bookm.= 24: 54. S. ’06. 810w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 877. D. 15, ’06. 150w.


=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills.= De profundis. **$1.25. Putnam.

  “This last work of Oscar Wilde’s may be read with deep interest from
  many points of view; but it is perhaps most truly remarkable as a
  piece of introspective psychology.” Rafford Pyke.

      + =Bookm.= 22: 628. F. ’06. 600w.

  “Fantastic his utterances often are, but they are always shrewd,
  penetrating, suggestive.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 200w.


=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Willis.= Picture of Dorian Gray.
**$1.50. Brentano’s.

  A new edition of Oscar Wilde’s “psychological masterpiece”, containing
  chapters that have never before appeared in any American edition.
  Dorian Gray of the beautiful face and black soul presents just the
  antithesis of character that fascinated the author’s mind. Love, joy,
  sorrow all exist in the vesture of life—so they can be donned or
  doffed at pleasure.

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  “The book is more effective now than when first published because we
  know now how true it is.”

      + =Ind.= 61: 219. Jl. 26, ’06. 400w.


=Wildman, Murray Shipley.= Money inflation in the United States: a study
in social pathology. **$1.50. Putnam.

  A sociological study which “has nothing to do with individual morals,
  but is an attempt to explain certain incidents in our National life to
  which as a people we cannot point with pride. We are a people with a
  financial ‘past,’ and Mr. Wildman sets out to rehabilitate us by
  connecting financial vagaries little different from immoralities, with
  facts in our National history which show that we were not naturally
  bad, but yielded to stress of circumstances and most naturally.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is well worthy of commendation to the inquiring student.” Frank L.
  McVey.

    + + =Dial.= 41: 165. S. 16, ’06. 410w.

  “No one has hitherto treated with such detail the economic conditions
  underlying the successive movements in favor of cheap money.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 150w.

  “Although the book is far from controversial in its tone, its reading
  will certainly do much to create harmony of opinion on the subject of
  sound money. As a study of the formation of opinion on one question it
  is very suggestive.” Caroline M. Hill.

      + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 188. Mr. ’06. 760w.

  “Mr. Wildman has written a most ingenious and suggestive apologia for
  our financial heresies of the period he selected.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 78. F. 10. ’06. 660w.

  “Both his method and his reasoning are ingenious, and although it
  seems to us that he presses a hypothesis to an extreme, we have found
  his little treatise singularly stimulating.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 616. Mr. 17. ’06. 430w.


=Wiley, Sara King.= Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.

      + =Ind.= 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 150w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 7. Ja. 6, ’06. 360w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + + =North American.= 182: 753. My. ’06. 270w.


=Wilkins, William Henry.= Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. **$5.
Longmans.

  “There is no great addition to historical knowledge in Mr. Wilkins’s
  story of Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV.” A. G. Porritt.

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 659. Ap. ’06. 510w.

      + =Cath. World.= 82: 694. F. ’06. 2480w.

  “He is just to George IV., and gives besides an excellent picture of
  the period.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 140w.

      + =Dial.= 40: 202. Mr. 16, ’06. 300w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 640w.

  “It must be said that Mr. Wilkins, though a conscientious searcher and
  worker, is here rather an apologist than an historian.”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 350. Ap. 26, ’06. 1510w.

  “Mr. Wilkins is too much of an advocate to be a wholly convincing
  historian and there are signs that he has written in some haste. He
  deserves full credit for the tact, sensibility, and good taste with
  which he has performed it.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 310w.


=Wilkinson, Florence.= Far country: poems. **$1. McClure.

  “Miss Wilkinson ... is before all, a romanticist, the narrative and
  ballad are her predestined forms, and she handles them with all the
  freedom of a native gift.... In phrasing and imagery ‘The far country’
  ... shows a freshness and imaginative vision that bespeak the poet’s
  hand and eye, and above all a joy in the art.... Miss Wilkinson is not
  a sonneteer ... but to show that she knows wherein her strength lies,
  there are few sonnets in the volume. It is chiefly the human riddle
  which haunts her eager, questioning mind.”—N. Y. Times.

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  “A tendency toward forced forms of expression and an indulgence in
  mere emotional ejaculation appear to be the most noticeable fault of
  what is, on the whole, a volume of quite exceptional richness and
  strength.” Wm. M. Payne.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 68. Ag. 1, ’06. 470w.

  “A volume of uneven, but on the whole, singularly poetic verse. A
  little sharper discrimination between profusion and diffusion, a
  little sterner renunciation of unreal and extraneous adornment, a
  little firmer grasp of organic structure, and Miss Wilkinson will be a
  poet to reckon with.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.

  “Miss Wilkinson is so rarely unsure in metre, has indeed such command
  of herself in the most intricate forms, that when one comes upon a
  jarring line he knows it to be willful heresy rather than unconscious
  error.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 1230w.

  “An occasional bit of self-consciousness, an evident effort, mar some
  verses otherwise most pleasing.”

  + + – =Outlook.= 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 90w.


=Williams, C. F. Abdy.= Story of organ music. *$1.25. Scribner.

  “A recent volume in the “Music story series.” The author has outlined
  a history of the rise and development of organ music, in which the
  works of the leading composers are described. He is of the opinion
  that the history of organ music revolves around one gigantic
  personality, that of Bach, and that no organ composer of any eminence
  has existed who has not been largely influenced by him. The author has
  drawn considerably on Ritter’s ‘Geschichte des orgelspiels,’ and on
  the collections of Comer and others.” (Dial.) The book contains a
  number of musical illustrations including the whole of a toccata by
  Pasquini.

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  “Mr. William’s treatise is scholarly, clear, concise, and
  elucidative.”

    + + =Dial.= 40: 395. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.

  “Interesting as well as scholarly the book is one of the best in a
  series that has varied noticeably in merit.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 942. O. 18, ’06. 320w.

  “Cannot be commended too highly to all organists.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 474. Je. 7, ’06. 130w.

  “His book is brief but scholarly, and is the work of a man that knows
  his subject and knows how to present it interestingly—even the more
  abstruse historical portions of it. The book is one of the best of a
  series that has varied greatly in merit.” Richard Aldrich.

  + + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 660w.


=Williams, Egerton Ryerson, jr.= Ridolfo, the coming of the dawn, a tale
of the Renaissance. †$1.50. McClurg.

  Perugia, harassed as it was in the hundred and fifty years or more
  that the Baglioni ruled it by violence, is the scene of this story of
  Gismonda, the Florentine bride of Ridolfo Baglioni, then signore of
  Perugia. He marries her for her dowry and leaves her on her wedding
  day a prisoner in his castle to continue his career of crime and
  oppression; but she, by her faithfulness, her goodness, and her
  beauty, finally succeeds in awakening the soul of Ridolfo to a
  realization of his sins. He forthwith repents of his black deeds,
  inaugurates a new era for down-trodden Perugia and makes of himself a
  man worthy of his wife’s love.

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  “It leaves a strong and even valuable impression of an age which it is
  well to look back at, not only when modern puzzles seem petty, but
  when modern civilization seems defective.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 390w.

  “The book is eminently readable.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3. ’06. 190w.

  “The story is full of action and dramatic situations.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. ’06. 140w.


=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Five fair sisters: an Italian episode at the
court of Louis XIV. **$3.50. Putnam.

  The five sisters of this historical biography are Laure, Olympe,
  Marie, Hortense, and Marianne Mancini, the nieces of Cardinal Mazarin.
  All were taken from Rome to France as children and made brilliant
  marriages. With the exception of Laure, they all lived long and had
  romantic careers. Had not Mazarin been so obstinate, Marie Mancini
  would have been consort of Louis XIV. of France. Olympe became the
  Comtesse de Soissons; Marianne, Duchesse de Bouillon, who was
  implicated in the poison trials of 1680; Hortense the Duchesse de
  Mazarin, fled from her jealous, bigoted husband, and became a reigning
  beauty at the Court of Charles II. of England.

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  “He does not affect to have made any additions to historical
  knowledge, and shows no great fondness for discussing problems or
  unravelling mysteries; but the facts are stated fairly, and, as a
  rule, fully enough for the general reader.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 787. Je. 30. 2050w.

  Reviewed by Percy F. Bicknell.

        =Dial.= 41: 386. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “His volume looks well; his illustrations are interesting: his style,
  though it smacks a good deal too much of translation, is readable; his
  subject could hardly have been better chosen.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 288. O. 4. ’06. 800w.

  “The present author has put the facts together in a very satisfactory
  fashion.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 565. S. 15, ’06. 1010w.

  “Both entertaining and of interest as throwing light on the life of
  this great period in French history.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 210w.

  “Mr. Williams, however, has made a readable story out of material only
  too abundant. His book is quite as much a study of times and manners
  as a regular biography: with so many leading figures this was a
  foregone conclusion.”

      + =Spec.= 97: sup. 465. O. 6, ’06. 1700w.


=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Later queens of the French stage. Scribner.

  A less distinctive work for stage art has been wrought by the six
  women in this group than by the women who were sketched in the first
  book of the series, “Queens of the French stage.” This latter group
  includes Sophie Arnould, Mlle. Guimard, Mlle. Raucourt, Mme. Dugazon,
  Mlle. Contat, and Mme. Saint-Huberty, and “they were rather reapers
  than sowers and left few traces on their art.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To anyone who likes gossip, amusing stories, vivid descriptions of a
  very brilliant and heartless state of society, just before it toppled
  to its fall, we recommend Mr. Williams’s handsomely published book. He
  has spared no little trouble in research, and is thoroughly well up in
  his subject; and his book makes most agreeable reading.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 472. My. 19, ’06. 1200w.

  “Mr. Williams’s new book has all the faults of his ‘Queens of the
  French stage,’ and has them in an aggravated degree. His style is
  still more slovenly, his grammar still more faulty, his accuracy still
  more blemished ... his proofs still more carelessly read.”

    – – =Lond. Times.= 5: 171. My. 11, ’06. 930w.

  “It is a record of scandals.”

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 359. Je. 2, ’06. 870w.


=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Queens of the French stage. *$2.50. Scribner.

  “He tells his stories very well, and has a wide knowledge of the
  memoirs, letters, the epigrams and so forth which illustrate his
  subjects, and quotes them freely on his handsome pages.”

      + =Acad.= 70. 112. F. 3, ’06. 1500w.

        =Spec.= 95: 533. O. 7, ’05. 160w.


=Williams, Jesse Lynch.= Day-dreamer. †$1.50. Scribner.

  An unabridged rendering of “News and the man,” an amplified version of
  “The stolen story.” “There is a general stir in this novel which
  successfully stimulates the rush of a daily newspaper office when the
  presses are in motion and the ‘stories’ are coming in from every
  quarter. The reporter’s slang, which is a kind of dialect known only
  to the initiated, is freely used and the narrative bristles with
  expert knowledge of reportorial ways and speech.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A very plausible story and a splendid picture of newspaper life and
  newspaper men.” Stephen Chalmers.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

    + – =North American.= 182: 927. Je. ’06. 110w.

  “Among the entertaining stories of the season a first place must be
  given to ... ‘The day dreamer.’”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 90w.

  “But in spite of the well-seasoned character of the plot and the
  persons, ‘The day-dreamer’ is nevertheless a neatly articulated and
  very readable tale.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 140w.


=Williams, Leonard.= Granada: memories, adventures, studies and
impressions. **$2.50. Lippincott.

  “Here is a book that gives only one chapter to the Alhambra. ‘The
  Alhambra by moonlight,’ all the rest being devoted to pilgrimages
  within easy reach of the City of Granada.... Some lead into the snows
  of the splendid Sierra Nevada, but most of them are within the power
  of any one.” (N. Y. Times.) “To the systematic frauds connected with
  the famous sacred mountain, he devotes several chapters, in which he
  tells the whole story of the exploitation of the caves—‘a longish
  story,’ he says, ‘full of interest, social, national and
  psychological, the story of the most astounding, amazing and
  protracted swindle the world has ever heard of.’” (Int. Studio.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The chapters which make up this volume are much too disconnected in
  subject, and the author has not the art of interesting us in ...
  commonplace experiences.”

    – + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 470w.

  “It is unfortunate that a book so full of varied charm should not have
  better illustrations. The want of an index is also a considerable
  drawback to the value of the work.”

    + – =Int. Studio.= 29: 181. Ag. ’06. 290w.


=Williams, Neil Wynn.= Electric theft. †$1.50. Small.

  An unusual story with plenty of plot, action and romance has its
  setting in Athens, with the scene shifting to London. A young
  engineer, who is also an inventor, is sent to Athens to discover the
  cause of the theft of electricity from the Athenian electric power
  company. The closely guarded villainy is operated by a band of
  anarchists whose leader becomes the hero’s rival in affairs of heart
  as well as schemes in which cunning and skill abound.


=Williams, Rebecca R. (“Riddell,” pseud.).= Fireside fancies. *75c.
Jenkins.

  A poem in which the author’s fancy recalls a sequence of brave deeds
  long past and weaves them into verse at his own fireside.


=Williams, Sarah Stone (Hester E. Shipley).= Man from London town.
$1.50. Neale.

  There was a man from London town, and in this modern version of the
  old rhyme, having scratched out both his eyes as the result of an
  unfortunate love affair he becomes a cynic, is bored with life and
  loving. But at last he realizes that his eyes are out thru the
  influence of a young widow of high ideals and a charming personality,
  and she is the cause of his jumping once more into the bramble bush
  and scratching them in again. Unfortunately the man has become so
  embittered and, is so lacking in fine feeling that he handles too
  roughly the thing which gave him light. He is the type of a man whose
  vision is permanently distorted and even love could not make him see.


=Williams, Theodore C.= Elegies of Tibullus. $1.25. Badger, R. G.

  “Of this work the judgment must be that it is a paraphrase rather than
  a translation, and the frequent felicities in the rendering add to
  one’s regret at its defects.”

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 338. My. ’06. 760w.


=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel
(Livingston).= Lady Betty across the water. †$1.50. McClure.

  Lady Betty, the naive young sister of an impoverished duke, comes over
  from England to visit a Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox at Newport. The plans of
  her hostess for securing the sister of a duke as her brother’s wife
  are frustrated, and the plans of Betty’s mother of securing an
  American fortune seem, for a time, endangered by a young man who
  crosses in the steerage of Betty’s ship and who wins her young
  affection by heroic deeds before she discovers him to be a millionaire
  in disguise. The story is light and breezy and is full of social
  satire.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The interest is smartly whipped up, and kept spinning and humming
  gaily to the last page.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 550. Je. 9, ’06. 380w.

  “A little more of the handsome Californian, and a little less violet
  teas and cat lunches would have made it a better balanced book.”
  Frederick Taber Cooper.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 540. Jl. ’06. 310w.

  “A frothy sort of cleverness is the chief attribute of the story, but
  its thin vein of wit is exhausted long before the end is reached, and
  nothing more substantial is found to take its place.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16, ’06. 240w.

  “The intent is to present a friendly picture of real American life, to
  hold up the mirror to ‘society’, and to provide a sort of guide book
  of America’s typical institutions; but it’s all done British visitors
  must be warned not to take it upon such meagre knowledge of the facts
  that seriously.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 690w.

  “It is a pleasantly written narrative, very frothy.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 190w.

  “A lively and entertaining tale.”

      + =Outlook.= 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 50w.

  “A readable and entertaining story.”

      + =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.

        =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 190w.


=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel.= My
friend the chauffeur. †$1.50. McClure.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 10: 154. Mr. 1, 06. 290w.

  “The tale is amusing enough, but on the whole less good than other
  stories by the clever authors.”

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 60w.


=Willis, Henry Parker.= Our Philippine problem: a study of American
colonial policy. $1.50. Holt.

  Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.

        =Atlan.= 97: 848. Je. ’06. 470w.

  “So, while there is much in this book ... which is of very
  considerable import, it is so intermixed with errors, half-truths,
  misinformation of one sort and another, and political insinuation, as
  to make the book an altogether unsafe guide for him who is not already
  expert in Philippine matters.”

  + – – =Ind.= 59: 1538. D. 28, ’05. 1210w.

  Reviewed by Hugh Clifford.

        =Living Age.= 251: 515. D. 1, ’06. 5630w.


=Willoughby, William Franklin.= Territories and dependencies of the
United States: their government and administration. *$1.25. Century.

  Reviewed by F. J. Goodnow.

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 136. Mr. ’06. 1010w.


=Wilson, Alice.= Actaeon’s defense and other poems. $1. Badger, R: G.

  Half a hundred nature poems, love sonnets and lyrics.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 200w.


=Wilson, Rev. C. T.= Peasant life in the Holy Land. *$3.50. Putnam.

  “Peasant life in Palestine was cast in stereotype plates centuries
  ago, long before the Christian era, and the present life is printed
  from the old plates. Therefore to see how peasants live and what
  they think and feel now is to understand how they lived and what
  they thought in the time of Christ, not to say in the time of
  Abraham. That fact gives to a portrait of modern life by one who has
  been a long-time resident of the Holy Land value as well as
  interest.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is only when he quits his own subject to indulge in speculations
  or a general view that he stumbles.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 449. Ap. 14. 400w.

  “This interesting book is not so much, as the author claims, a
  contribution to the folklore of Palestine, altho some stories are
  given, as a description of the peasant life.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 941. O. 18, ’06. 200w.

  “It gives a picture of the better side of peasant life, and
  incidentally is of considerable value to the student of Oriental and
  Biblical archaeology, folklore, and religion.”

    + + =Nation.= 83: 129. Ag. 9, ’06. 640w.

  “The value of the book lies in a wealth of detail about the daily
  lives of the fellahin. This sharp definition of detail lends a special
  worth to Mr. Wilson’s work.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 649. O. 6, ’06. 940w.

  “It contains not a great deal which will be fresh to one who is
  familiar with Dr. Thomson’s ‘Land and the book’ or Professor Curtiss’s
  ‘Primitive Semitic religion to-day.’”

    + – =Outlook.= 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 160w.

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 211. Ag. 18, ’06. 810w.

  “Mr. Wilson’s book is full of interesting details about Palestinian
  life. He has extended his observations to natural objects, and has
  much that is curious to tell us.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 290w.


=Wilson, Calvin Dill.= Making the most of ourselves. **$1. McClurg.

  “For young men and women who are at a groping and impressionable age
  and who have not had ‘advantages,’ this book ought to be of far
  greater value than most of its kind.”

      + =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 60w.


=Wilson, Floyd Baker.= Through silence to realization; or, The human
awakening. $1. Fenno.

  Self-mastery is the keynote of this volume. Practical suggestions for
  the achievement of it along metaphysical lines are made by one who has
  proved that “thoughts are things,” and as entities can be implanted
  into consciousness and vitalized there.


=Wilson, Francis.= Joseph Jefferson. **$2. Scribner.

  A sketch of Mr. Jefferson by a close friend and fellow actor which
  pictures “what will be of inestimable value to future generations of
  playgoers—the personality of Joseph Jefferson.” (Ind.) “New light is
  thrown on the best qualities of Jefferson, his amiability, his genial
  humor, his sound artistry. The illustrations include reproductions of
  photographs of the actors, and some of Jefferson’s paintings.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

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  “Those who knew Mr. Jefferson personally and those who knew him only
  on the stage will be sorry to see him so belittled by an account
  which, meaning to exalt, succeeds only in debasing.”

      – =Acad.= 71: 370. O. 13, ’06. 380w.

  Reviewed by Louise Closser Hale.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 532. Jl. ’06. 930w.

    + + =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 410w.

  “A pleasing and worthy portrait.” Percy F. Bicknell.

    + + =Dial.= 40: 316. My. 16, ’06. 1770w.

  “His analysis of many of the elements of Jefferson’s success—as in
  “Rip Van Winkle”—is a good one, and the chief impressions are
  agreeable.” Wm. T. Brewster.

    + + =Forum.= 38: 96. Jl. ’06. 770w.

    + + =Ind.= 60: 987. Ap. 26, ’06. 560w.

  “There are few such nuggets in the book, and they can be found only by
  sifting a vast amount of rubbish.”

    – + =Nation.= 82: 516. Je. 21, ’06. 1160w.

  “The sketches of personalities are intimate and charmingly done.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 170w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.

  “A book as true to nature as it is entertaining.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 280w.

  “Mr. Wilson has done a careful piece of work in bringing together his
  reminiscences, and there is none of the feeling that he is holding
  something back to use later on.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 930w.

  “Is packed full of story, incident, and picturesque description.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 766. Je. ’06. 210w.


=Winchester, Caleb Thomas.= Life of John Wesley. **$1.50. Macmillan.

  Professor Winchester “points out that Wesley was the child of his age
  in his distrust of enthusiasm. He laid great stress upon an
  intelligent faith, and endeavored himself to be clear, candid, and
  logical. That he could have carried on his especial work within the
  Anglican church, had the bishops of his day held more statesmanlike
  ideas as to their duty is plain enough; in fact, he never abandoned
  that church nor did he desire his followers to do so. Yet the logic of
  events made the organization of a distinctive Methodist body
  inevitable.”—Critic.

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  Reviewed by H W. Boynton.

      + =Atlan.= 98: 278. Ag. ’06. 690w.

  “He brings out the character and personality of the man better, on the
  whole, than any of Wesley’s previous biographers have done.”

    + + =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 150w.

  “The last chapter on ‘John Wesley the man’ is an especially clear and
  satisfactory presentation of the great preacher’s mind and
  personality.”

    + + =Dial.= 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 300w.

  “It is written in excellent style, and is marked by thoroness of
  information, fairness of judgment, and that sanity and balance, which
  come only with extensive knowledge.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 1162. My. 17, ’06. 440w.

  “It is compact, bright, clear-sighted, a book in which an American
  writer seems to have achieved something of the lucidity, combined with
  accurate knowledge, of the best French work. There are a few slips
  here and there in it.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 247. Jl. 13, ’06. 1490w.

  “This writer has given us, in brief space, probably the clearest view
  of his hero.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 537. Je. 28, ’06. 940w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

  “He writes in a style which is luminous without being rhetorical, warm
  without being emotional, and simple without being commonplace.”

    + + =Outlook.= 83: 625. Jl. 14, ’06. 1750w.

  “Professor Winchester has dealt fairly with his subject, showing the
  dark as well as the light sides.”

    + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 370w.

  “Is not primarily a Methodist tribute to the founder of his church; it
  is the seasoned judgment of a man of literature and an historian of
  philosophic mind concerning a great divine.”

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 140w.

  “He is neither a worshipper nor an iconoclast.”

      + =Spec.= 96: 718: My. 5, ’06. 160w.

      + =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.


=Winslow, Helen Maria.= Woman of tomorrow. *$1. Pott.

  “The author points out the weak spots in the woman of to-day, and
  tells her what to do in order to become a more able woman of
  to-morrow.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The writer has made no attempt, in these discreet articles, to treat
  her subject profoundly or from an original point of view.”

    + – =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ’05. 120w.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 3. Ja. 6, ’06. 540w.


=Winter, Alice Ames.= Jewel weed. †$1.50. Bobbs.

  In the foreground of this story with a middle west setting is a
  quartette of young people composed of Dick Percival of substantial
  family connections, his college friend Ellery Norris who is striving
  to make good his heralded efficiency, Madeline Elton, a finely bred
  young woman, and Lena Quincy whose gilded vulgarity finds fit
  expression in the jewel weed. The “jewel weed” becomes Dick’s protege,
  later his wife, and as such a foreign element in the refined
  atmosphere of his mother’s home. In contrast to her selfishness which
  menaces her husband’s social, financial and political career is the
  fine loyalty of Madeline, which champions everybody’s cause—Ellery
  Norris more than all others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though not a great novel, this is an excellent love-story written in
  a bright and pleasing style and very rich in human interest. More than
  this, it is for the most part true to the life it depicts.”

      + =Arena.= 36: 687. D. ’05. 300w.


=Wise, John Sergeant.= Recollections of thirteen presidents. **$2.50.
Doubleday.

  From the political atmosphere surrounding him in boyhood, the author
  absorbed the personalities of the presidents of his father’s day,
  Tyler, Pierce and Buchanan; and of the men following down to the
  present day he is able to write out of the fulness of his intimate
  knowledge of them. The author is a Southerner, fought with the
  confederacy, and does not neglect to make prominent the just position
  from which to view the work of Jefferson Davis.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 210. O. ’06. 50w.

  “The taste displayed is often a bit more questionable. and there are
  many signs of hasty and ill-considered writing. It can, however, never
  be called a dull book, or one lacking in a fine sense of patriotism.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 780w.

  “Some wonderfully fresh and striking pen portraits.”

      + =Lit. D.= 32: 983. Je. 30, ’06. 1180w.

  “The book is confessedly partisan rather than judicial in its tone. It
  is an interesting series of political sketches from a personal point
  of view, and the intelligent reader will have no trouble in
  recognizing the point of view and making all necessary allowances. We
  have noticed few slips of fact.”

    + – =Nation.= 83: 103. Ag. 2, ’06. 1020w.

  “His estimates of the public men he discusses in his book are to a
  rather remarkable degree free from partisan, even though not always
  from personal bias. They are both interesting and entertaining.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 333. My. 26, ’06. 1250w.

  “His estimates of these historical characters, expressed with the
  utmost frankness and evident sincerity, make ‘readable footnotes to
  history.’”

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 250w.


=Wise, John Sergeant.= Treatise on American citizenship. $3. Thompson.

  A book dealing with the primary rights, duties, and privileges of the
  American citizen and analyzing the peculiar dual system—federal and
  state—under which he lives. There are seven parts to the treatise: Of
  citizenship generally; How American citizenship may be acquired; Of
  the obligations and duties of the citizens to the nation and the
  state; Of the rights, privileges and immunities of the citizen;
  Privileges and immunities under the war amendments; Of the protection
  of citizens abroad; Of expatriation, aliens and who may not become
  citizens.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While Mr. Wise has given us here a useful and valuable work, it must
  be said that it leaves much to be desired and that there is still room
  for a comprehensive text on the law of citizenship.” Frank Hamsher.

    + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 356. S. ’06. 670w.

  “As a popular summary of the more important features of our system,
  the book will be found useful. It is marked by great fairness and
  freedom from bias of any kind.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 451. My. 31, ’06. 310w.

  “It is a very useful book, showing a great deal of patient industry,
  and a clear and sound judgment in dealing with authorities.” Edward
  Cary.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 93. F. 17, ’06. 1150w.

  “He has made no use of treaty stipulations, diplomatic correspondence,
  rulings of the Department of state or decisions of arbitration
  commissions. He does not seem to have examined the excellent works of
  Van Dyne and Howard or the less valuable ones of Morse and Webster,
  from all of which he could have gained useful information both as to
  the law of citizenship and methods of treatment. Notwithstanding all
  that has been said above in criticism of Mr. Wise’s book as a treatise
  on the law of citizenship, it is a useful and interesting work. To the
  idea of state citizenship he makes a distinct contribution and his
  discussion of civil rights under the fourteenth and fifteenth
  amendments contains many original and valuable suggestions.” James
  Wilford Garner.

    + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 558. S. ’06. 1300w.


=Wishart, Alfred Wesley.= Primary facts in religious thought. *75c.
Univ. of Chicago press.

  “Dr. Wishart is a careful reasoner and the volume, on the whole, is an
  admirable work of the kind. As is so frequently the case in didactic
  theological works, however, the author, it seems to us, sometimes
  presumes too much, and therefore his premises are open to criticism.”

    + – =Arena.= 36: 440. O. ’06. 860w.

      + =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 50w.


=Wister, Owen.= Lady Baltimore. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  This story might be called the “Love affairs of a bachelor” in the
  objective sense of Lilian Bell’s “Love affairs of an old maid.” For
  the hero finds real life and other people’s matrimonial projects more
  fascinating than musty genealogical records that sufficiently searched
  will prove the blood of kings in his veins and admit him to the
  “Selected salic scions.” The setting is typically Southern and among
  the characters are a charming dispenser of cakes at a Woman’s
  exchange, a young man whose approaching marriage to a brilliant siren
  furnishes cause for a vast expenditure of the hero’s quixotic
  chivalry, and numerous old ladies of King’s Port. It would divulge too
  much of the whimsically clever story to reveal the meaning of so high
  sounding a title as “Lady Baltimore.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story is one of love, prettily conceived and executed, but it is,
  perhaps, a little longwinded and slow of development.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 603. My. 19. 280w.

  “But it is not merely for its adherence to an academic formula that
  ‘Lady Baltimore’ is to be praised. It is good to read because of its
  characterisation, its geniality and its ideas.” Edward Clark Marsh.

  + + – =Bookm.= 23: 296. My. ’06. 1180w.

      + =Critic.= 48: 509. Je. ’06. 980w.

  “Like Mr. Owen Wister’s other fiction, is defective on the side of
  construction, but the defect is atoned for by the author’s powers of
  characterization and his narrative charm.” Wm. M. Payne.

    + – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 410w.

  “It is doubtful if any other author has so accurately touched the
  keynote of the real South, or contrasted it so shrewdly with that of
  the North.”

  + + + =Ind.= 60: 1159. My. 17, ’06. 950w.

  “He has given us the most courteous, intelligent and veracious
  interpretation of Southern life ever published without losing a single
  man by violence out of the tale.”

    + + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 50w.

  “Mr. Wister brings to this new environment all the fine play and parry
  of style, all the insight, all the certainty of coloring, that carried
  the West before his compelling pen.”

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 420w.

    + + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

  “‘The Virginian’ can no longer be held to be the work of an
  impassioned tiro by any one who observes how in ‘Lady Baltimore’ the
  story is informed by the idea, how light and delicate the humour is
  for all the urgency of the pleading, how fragrant is that atmosphere
  of lavender which the whole story breathes.”

      + =Lond. Times.= 5: 142. Ap. 20, ’06. 530w.

  “Is marked by all the author’s cleverness and power of observation.
  What Mr. Wister has written might be called extravaganza with a
  purpose.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 430w.

  “The attraction of the book is in its hitting off things and people in
  little illuminating phrases which flash this and that characteristic
  home to you.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 680w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 250w.

  Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.

  + + – =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 100w.

  “It is a true American novel in subject, spirit, and atmosphere.”

  + + + =Outlook.= 83: 111. My. 19, ’06. 1490w.

    + + =Outlook.= 84: 707. N. 24, ’06. 100w.

  “There is little success in striking the deeper chords that might be
  set vibrating by a stronger hand and one less preoccupied with its own
  rather capable cleverness and its stylistic ingenuity.”

    + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 572. My. 5, ’06. 710w.

    + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 70w.

  “Owen Wister displays as before the delicacy of touch, the clear
  precise treatment of ideas, the felicity and grace of expression which
  make his writing distinguished and admirable, but his material is this
  time too scanty, and his dissertations seem tedious and complicated to
  the point of mystification.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 794. Je. 23, ’06. 250w.

  “Is a many-sided book, in which plot and incident, ingenious though
  they are, are of subsidiary importance, and serve the ulterior purpose
  of enabling the writer to liberate his mind on a number of burning
  questions. His satire is inspired not by malice, but by a genuine
  desire of reform.”

    + + =Spec.= 96: 675. Ap. 28, ’06. 820w.


=Witt, Robert Clermont.= How to look at pictures. **$1.40. Putnam.

  America finds this book published five years ago in England of such
  value that it deems it worth while to reprint it even tho there have
  appeared a number of works akin to it—books whose purpose is identical
  with it, viz. to direct laymen how to judge first class works of art,
  “Mr Witt speaks of the personal point of view, the point of view of
  the subject the picture represents, that of the artist, how to look at
  a portrait, a historical painting, a colored picture, a genre
  painting, a landscape and a drawing; how to note the light and shade
  in a painting, the composition of the picture, the treatment of the
  subject by the artist, and the methods and materials of a painter.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Several helpful books dealing with the general subject of looking at
  pictures have been published within the last year, but none of these
  has the breadth or scope of this admirable book by Mr Witt.”

    + + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 180w.

      + =Dial.= 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 310w.

      + =Ind.= 61: 518. Ag. 30, ’06. 270w.

        =Lit. D.= 32: 832. Je. 2, ’06. 1120w.

  “Its contents are marked by tranquil common sense. There is nothing in
  it which is not true, and nothing, perhaps, which may not still be
  novel to some part of the great public.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 468. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.

        =N. Y. Times.= 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 440w.

      + =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 80w.


=Wolfenstein, Martha.= Renegade, and other tales. $1.25. Jewish pub.

  “‘A renegade’ presents to us a number of Gentile sinners and Jewish
  saints in the setting of far-away Bohemia.” (Nation.) This story “is
  tragical, of course, and there are ten others. The prevailing
  atmospheric effect is gray, a dull sad gray, and there is always a
  sense of what may be called the joy of suffering, a sort of reveling
  in the luxury of woe.” (N. Y. Times.)

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  “We need not quarrel with the characterization if the stories were
  only interesting; but they are not.”

      – =Nation.= 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.

  “Many of them show a considerable dramatic power.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 113. F. 24, ’06. 430w.

  “Full of local color, race peculiarities treated with knowledge and
  skill, and withal broad human sympathy and delicate humor.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 70w.


=Wood, Eugene.= Back home. †$1.50. McClure.

  “The book itself is very like an apple: juicy, ripe and red with
  garnered sunshine. It is altogether wholesome and sweet to the core.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1345. D. 7, ’05. 230w.


=Wood, Henry.= Life more abundant: scriptural truth in modern
application. **$1.20. Lothrop.

  “It is an important contribution to the constructive religious thought
  of the day.”

    + + =Arena.= 35: 100. Ja. ’06. 370w.


=Wood, Theodore.= Natural history for young people. $2.50. Dutton.

  A survey of the animal world so copiously and realistically
  illustrated that it furnishes “zoological garden in a book.” “The
  writer has given a few original observations. Beyond a general
  classification, he has not attempted scientific methods of treatment.
  He has selected, from the various groups, the most interesting
  species, and has written about them with much entertaining detail.”
  (Nation.)

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  “On account of its sumptuous format, is for the library rather than
  for field and forest.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ’05. 30w.

      + =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ’05. 60w.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ’05. 60w.

  “The text is written simply and clearly and is kept free from
  super-scientific terminology. Decidedly a commendable work.”

      + =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ’06. 50w.


=Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward.= History of the Civil
war in the United States, 1861–1865. *$3.50. Putnam.

  “There is no lack of intelligent comprehension of the events
  described, and the presentment is simple and direct. Though one may
  here and there find fault with the work of Messrs. Wood and Edmonds,
  the book is nevertheless a good military account of our Civil
  war—impartial, painstaking, intelligent.” J. K. Hosmer.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 699. Ap. ’06. 1060w.

  “It is a useful condensation of the best military histories and is
  illuminated by much judicious comment.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 550w.

  “It is characterized by understanding, by impartial attitude and by
  thoroness of treatment.”

    + + =Ind.= 60: 341. F. 8, ’06. 260w.

  “It is readily admitted that for succinctness of statement, for
  saneness of judgment, for fairness of conclusion there is scarce a
  volume anywhere in all our war literature which equals this one.”
  William E. Dodd.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 34. Ja. 20, ’06. 1670w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 90w.


=Wood, William.= Fight for Canada; a sketch from the history of the
great Imperial war. *$2.50. Little.

  This history of England’s fight for Canada has been prepared in the
  light of recently discovered sources of original information and has
  been treated from a point of view both naval and military. Chapters
  are devoted to: Pitt’s imperial war; New France and New England;
  Vandreuil and Bigot; Montcalm; Anson and Saunders; Wolfe; The siege of
  Quebec; The Battle of the plains; The fall of Quebec; and The fall of
  New France. The text is both scholarly and interesting, the notes,
  bibliography, and index are full and satisfactory, and there are
  portraits and colored maps.

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  “Mr Wood has not Mr. Parkman’s command of resonant prose, but in
  simple language details the events hour by hour, describing the
  character of the ground as one familiar with every foot of it, and the
  movements of the men of each side as if at a review.” James Bain.

  + + – =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 398. Ja. ’05. 660w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 80w.

  “An interesting and praiseworthy book.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 280w.

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 50w.

        =Sat. R.= 99: 814. Je. 17, ’05. 70w.


=Woodberry, George Edward.= Swinburne. **75c. McClure.

  A recent volume in the “Contemporary men of letters series.” The
  sketch is not a biography but “a subtle and subjective study not so
  much of Swinburne’s poetry as of his poetic impulses.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Critic.= 48: 459. My. ’06. 320w.

    + + =Nation.= 82: 58. Ja. 18, ’06. 1080w.

  “The book is important not so much because of the accident of its
  being perhaps the first on the subject to be published in this country
  as because of an uncommon qualification of the author for his task. It
  is true that he has broad perspective and intimate knowledge, but of
  greater significance is the affinity of spirit between the poet and
  his critic.” Lewis N. Chase.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 889. D. 16, ’05. 2110w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 30w.


=Woodberry, George Edward.= Torch: eight lectures on race power in
literature, delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston. **$1.20.
McClure.

  Thru “The torch” “one increasing purpose runs. This purpose is the
  thought that there is a race-mind which slowly, unfalteringly,
  grandly, approaches through the centuries its final summation (if
  finality in this connection be conceivable) through a variety of
  channels, but chiefly through the treasure-stores of great
  literature.” (Reader.) “The work of the race-mind in literature, as it
  seems to Mr. Woodberry’s optimistic idealism, is not so much mere
  self-expression as self-conquest, liberation, racial euthanasia.”
  (Nation.) The title of the lectures are: Man and the race, The
  language of all the world, The Titan myth, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth
  and Shelley.

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  “There is no question of the author’s sincerity, and if but as a
  narrative of personal faith, the book possesses both charm and force.”
  H. B. Alexander.

      + =Bookm.= 23: 194. Ap. ’06. 1410w.

  “Mr. Woodberry has possibly read into the poets, ancient and modern,
  more than they intended to say. In dealing with the four ... he shows
  his finely critical sense, although some of his dicta are open to
  disagreement.” Edward Fuller.

    + – =Critic.= 48: 212. Mr. ’06. 620w.

  “The high note of idealism thus sounded at the outset is maintained to
  the last.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 236. Ap. 1, ’06. 350w.

  “Our author’s thought is less convincing in the retrospect than in the
  reading. It is clear that his choice of typical literature has been
  very strictly selective, and (though there is much admirable criticism
  by the way) poetically rather than critically selective. No writer in
  recent years has presented the cause of the Platonist with greater
  eloquence and devotion, or has made a more telling synthesis of old
  poetry and new science.”

    + – =Nation.= 81: 365. N. 2, ’05. 1220w.

  “When Prof. Woodberry leaves the field of theory, or, rather, when he
  imports into that field specific appreciation and criticism, he is
  often extremely instructive, and what is more important if he will
  pardon us for saying so, he is stimulating, satisfying, and quite
  delightful. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the sincerity, the
  pure-mindedness, the whole-hearted love of the best that shine in
  Prof. Woodberry’s pages.” E. C.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 721. O. 25, ’05. 640w.

  “The philosophy of these lectures—a product of the author’s studies in
  comparative literature—is profound, and in one aspect, despairing,
  since it is vitally and essentially sacrificial, and the very
  death-warrant to all personal egoism.”

      + =Reader.= 7: 225, Ja. ’06. 680w.


=Woodhull, Alfred Alexander.= Personal hygiene; designed for
undergraduates. *$1. Wiley.

  This treatise “embodies in the first place a short but practical and
  sufficient account of the anatomy and physiology of the different
  organs and functions of the body, and then considers one by one, the
  reasons that should guide us in exercise, in food, in bathing, in our
  choice of clothing, and in reference to stimulants and
  narcotics.”—Nation.

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  “On the whole, the book is admirable.”

      + =Engin. N.= 55: 560. My. 17, ’06. 130w.

      + =Nation.= 82: 280. Ap. 5. ’06. 130w.

    + + =Nature.= 74: 78. My. 24, ’06. 460w.

  “We think that its wide circulation would be a good thing for all
  concerned.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.

      + =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 70w.


=Woodruff, Anna Helena.= Pond in the marshy meadow. $1.50. Saalfield.

  A book to open the eyes of children. An “ordinary pond in an ordinary
  field, belonging to an ordinary farmer” furnishes the objects for
  lessons of observation and the author is guide and teacher.

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  “A book with plenty of entertainment in it and considerable
  instruction put so pleasantly as to be entertaining too.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 140w.

  “Has the indefinable touch which will commend it to the minds of
  children, but the little folks to whom it is dedicated will have to
  share their pleasure with every one who can remember brooks and
  pasture-lands, and all the sweet, lazy experiences of childhood in the
  country.”

      + =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 210w.


=Woods, David Walker, jr.= John Witherspoon. **$1.50. Revell.

  The great-grandson of John Witherspoon has written the first story of
  that able Scotsman, Presbyterian and American ever published, in which
  is given a full account of the part he played in the struggle for
  popular rights in the Church of Scotland, his administration as
  president of Princeton college, his work in the organization of the
  American Presbyterian church, and as an active man in the conduct of
  the revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 209. O. ’06. 60w.

  “A biography which will appeal to Princeton men and to students of
  church history, as well as to those interested in the Revolutionary
  period of our national life.”

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 380w.

  “Dr. Witherspoon’s career does not lend itself to lively narrative,
  and Mr. Woods is a dull biographer at best.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 550w.

      + =Outlook.= 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 190w.

        =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 80w.


=Woods, Frederick Adams.= Mental and moral heredity in royalty: a
statistical study in history and psychology. **$3. Holt.

  A scientific inquiry into the characteristics of royalty based upon a
  large and well chosen bibliography to which detailed references are
  given. The study of 832 characters forms the main body of the work,
  altho 3,312 distinct persons are mentioned. The members of the ruling
  families of England, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain,
  Portugal, Austria, Italy, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden are considered,
  each individual being graded mentally and morally according to a
  standard of 1 to 10, the period covered extending in general back to
  the 16th century. The object of the work is to give a fair estimate of
  the mental and moral status of royalty as compared with the world in
  general, and to throw light upon the old question of relative
  importance of environment and heredity. 104 portraits illustrate the
  text.

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  “The author has done his work with skill and good judgment and his
  book will be specially profitable for reproof and instruction to
  political doctrinaires of every school.”

    + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 110. O. ’06. 800w.

  “In arrangement and presentation the author has been very successful.”

    + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 180. Jl. ’06. 380w.

  Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.

        =Atlan.= 98: 423. S. ’06. 450w.

  “It would be easy to show the flaws in his system by which such
  extreme conclusions as his would be weakened.”

    + – =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 290w.

  “Dr. Woods rarely goes much beyond the statistical warrant of his
  evidence, and has at all events presented his case more strongly and
  more judicially, as well as scientifically, than any other
  contribution to this particular problem.”

  + + – =Dial.= 40: 299. My. 1, ’06. 430w.

  “There will be certain objections made by specialists to both the
  methods of measurement and the inferences of Dr. Woods. But every one
  should admire his zeal and fairmindedness and appreciate the
  importance of the investigation.”

  + + – =Ind.= 60: 1103. My. 10, ’06. 580w.

  “The choice of materials is singularly fortunate, and the method of
  treatment as far as possible fair and impersonal.”

    + + =Nation.= 82: 308. Ap. 12. ’06. 1240w.

  “The book would be the better for a good index.” I.

  + + – =Nature.= 74: 97. My. 31, ’06. 1230w.

  “The volume is well planned and well worked out.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 143. Mr. 10, ’06. 840w.

  “Is a work of the first class in its department of research.”

    + + =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 340w.

        =Pub. Opin.= 40: 480. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.

  “Dr. Woods’s work is an important contribution to psychology and a
  most admirable lesson to show that history may become a natural
  science.” Edward L. Thorndike.

    + + =Science=, n.s. 23: 693. My. 4, ’06. 840w.

  “Dr. Woods cannot be said to have produced a very readable book. The
  pageant of Regality is lost in mathematical formulae, in ‘grading by
  intellect’, and ‘in grading by virtue.’”

    + – =Spec.= 97: sup. 652. N. 3, ’06. 2170w.


=Woods, Margaret Louisa.= King’s revoke: an episode in the life of
Patrick Dillon. †$1.50. Dutton.

  “Patrick Dillon, Irishman as he was, served the King of Spain de jure
  during the usurpation of Joseph Bonaparte. Dillon, in combination with
  others and with the co-operation of England, designed to rescue
  Ferdinand VII. from his prison in Valencay, and this is the story of
  their failure. They failed because of the incredible cowardice of the
  King, who to curry favor with Napoleon, denounced his own
  partisans.... The story abounds with episode, and is a very taking
  piece of intrigue and adventure.”—Ath.

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  “Mrs. Woods has evidently taken the greatest pains to draw a true
  picture of Ferdinand, the last of those old-world Spanish monarchs.”

      + =Acad.= 69: 1229. N. 25, ’05. 510w.

  “It is, for all that, a sound, painstaking piece of work, deserving of
  high praise.”

      + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 793. D. 9. 320w.

  “We expect work of very high character from Mrs. Margaret Woods, and
  ‘The king’s revoke’ does not disappoint us.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 280w.

    + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 407. N. 24, ’05. 350w.

  “If the narrative paragraphs move ponderously, honorable amends are
  made in the ingenious conversation.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 240w.

  “She has written a well-considered, carefully wrought novel, but alas,
  it is undeniably heavy, and among its many good features intrudes the
  unalluring one of skipability.”

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 471. Jl. 28. ’06. 190w.

  “The theme strikes us as of too rough-and-tumble a character for Mrs.
  Woods’ delicate talent. The workmanship is skilful, but smugglers,
  brigands, and the like are a little beyond her control, though the
  several women of the drama are excellent. As a novel of incident, ‘The
  king’s revoke’ falls below ‘Sons of the sword.’”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.

  “In spite, therefore, of sundry misprints and a frequently faulty
  punctuation, the book is a delight to read for the charm of its
  characterisation, for its fine historic sense of the glory and
  weakness of Spain, and for a genuine distinction of style unsurpassed
  by contemporary writers of this class of fiction.”

      + =Spec.= 95: 1129. D. 30, ’05. 630w.


=Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge, pseud.).= Last verses; with an
introd. by her sister, Mrs. Daniel C. Gilman. *$1. Little.

  Mrs. Gilman has collected her sister’s poems which had not appeared in
  book form and has added some hitherto unpublished in magazines,
  prefacing the volume with a short sketch of Susan Coolidge’s life and
  literary work. It is uniform with “Verses” and “More Verses” by the
  same author.

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  “The easily-won, temperamental optimism, the gentle if somewhat thin
  piety, which marked the poetic work of Susan Coolidge and won many
  readers, is the most notable trait in her ‘Last verses.’”

      + =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 300w.


=Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge, pseud.).= Sheaf of stories;
il. by J. W. F. Kennedy. †$1.25. Little.

  The author who delighted the children of the past generation with her
  “What Katy did,” “What Katy did at school” and other stories, offers
  here twelve sketches of child character which teach happy, wholesome,
  livable lessons.

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  “Full of the habitual good sense and good English of that lamented
  writer.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’08. 20w.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 50w.


=Woolson, Grace A.= Ferns and how to grow them. **$1. Doubleday.

  The second volume in the “Garden Library.” It is a practical cultural
  guide to fern-growing with a definite botanical atmosphere.

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  + + – =Ind.= 60: 575. Mr. 8, ’06. 230w.

  “The volume is practical without being dull.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 430w.


=Wordsworth, William.= Literary criticism; ed. with an introd. by Nowell
C. Smith. *90c. Oxford.

  A volume which “contains all of his prose writings of a critical
  nature, his prefaces, his essays upon epitaphs, certain familiar
  letters touching on literary matters, and his ‘opinions expressed in
  conversation with his nephew and biographer.’” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 70: 29. Ja. 15, ’06. 1570w.

  “Admirably lucid introduction.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 326. Mr. 17. 570w.

        =Lond. Times.= 5: 110. Mr. 30, ’06. 900w.

  “The selections are interesting, as showing a subtlety as well as a
  shrewdness of critical faculty. Read consecutively, they convey a
  peculiar impression of independence, fresh air, and wholesomeness.”

      + =Nation.= 82: 74. Ja. 25, ’06. 80w.

  “Of the two dozen pieces of which the volume is made up there is not
  one that is not worth reading by interested students of the subject,
  which, in various phases, is always essentially the same—that of
  literary and specifically of poetical criticism, and no other readers
  are likely to be attracted by the volume.” Montgomery Schuyler.

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 29. Ja. 20, ’06. 670w.

  “Mr. Nowell Smith has collected from the prefaces and appendices to
  Wordsworth’s poems a good deal of interesting critical matter.”

      + =Sat. R.= 100: 852. D. 30, ’05. 200w.


=Wordsworth, William.= Poems and extracts; chosen by W. Wordsworth for
an album presented to Lady Mary Lowther. Christmas, 1819; printed
literally from the original album with facsimiles. *90c. Oxford.

  The contributors to this album are Anne, Countess of Winchelsea, and
  about twenty-three other poets ranging from Webster to William Mickle,
  and from Shakespeare to Lætitia Pilkington.

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  “Lovers of Wordsworth all the world over must be grateful to Mr. John
  Rogers Rees for his generosity in sharing with them this long-hidden
  treasure, and to Prof. Littledale for enriching the gift with his
  scholarly introduction and accurate notes.”

    + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 325. Mr. 17, 990w.

  “Diverse as the sources are, the poems are homogeneous in a certain
  intensity of moral inspiration: and in their choice and arrangement a
  very sensitive taste is displayed.”

      – =Nation.= 82: 74. Ja. 25, ’06. 120w.

  Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 29. Ja. 20, ’06. 510w.


=Wright, Carroll Davidson.= Battles of labor: being the William Levi
Bull lectures for the year 1906. **$1. Jacobs.

  Four lectures which show that industrial, social and political
  problems can be met only with a new application of religion, a new
  political economy “which looks first ‘to the care and culture of
  men,’” and with Drummond’s “other selfishness.” The lectures are The
  background, In mediæval and modern industry, Great modern battles, and
  How modern battles of labor are treated.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Interesting and well worth reading.”

    + + =Engin. N.= 55: 675. Je. 14, ’06. 180w.

  “The chief merit of these four lectures is that accuracy, especially
  in statistical presentation, which Mr. Wright always attains. But they
  contain nothing new either in fact or philosophy.”

      + =Ind.= 51: 758. S. 27, ’06. 330w.

  “‘Battles of labor’ gives evidence, not of scientific research
  extended, but rather of fulness of experience, reminiscence, and
  common knowledge regarding labor troubles of all times.” J. C.

      + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 577. N. ’06. 360w.

  “The style of the book is colloquial, for reasons sufficiently
  indicated above, and it conveys not a little information to the credit
  of the recent generations which have ameliorated the condition of
  labor.” Edward A. Bradford.

      – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 505. Ag. 18, ’06. 1120w.

  + + – =Outlook.= 84: 89. S. 8, ’06. 480w.

      – =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 90w.


=Wright, Mabel Osgood. (Mrs. James Osborne Wright) (Barbara, pseud.).=
The Garden, you and I. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  The reappearance of some of the most delightful members of Mrs.
  Wright’s gardening fraternity gives an old-friend atmosphere to her
  new book. The story is mainly in the form of letters. “The purpose of
  the correspondence is to afford opportunity for the experienced
  Barbara to give of her more abundant knowledge to Mary Penrose, who
  with her husband is having a ‘garden vacation,’ camping in an old open
  barn in their own grounds.... A thread of romance runs through the
  letters, and the same spirit of sympathy with nature that has informed
  the writer’s other volumes is evident in the present one. For the sake
  of the garden-lover who reads to learn, it should be said that there
  are several excellent and suggestive lists of perennials, annuals, and
  roses, with explanatory notes: but there is no index.” (Dial.)

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  “A book from Mrs. Wright’s pen is always welcome, for her really
  reliable information about gardens is sure to be interwoven with the
  thread of a story which, however slight, has both interest and charm.”
  Mary K. Ford.

    + + =Bookm.= 23: 631. Ag. ’06. 770w.

  “Somewhat is lacking of the freshness and spontaneity of Barbara’s
  first appearance.”

    + – =Dial.= 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 500w.

      + =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.

  “Her book is an intensely practical one.”

      + =Lit. D.= 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 260w.

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 1770w.

      + =Putnam’s.= 1: 110. O. ’06. 340w.

  “Those who read Barbara’s earlier book and perhaps wished for more
  specific guidance on many subjects should not fall to consult this new
  and attractive epitome of garden knowledge.”

      + =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 90w.

  “We have also quiet humor in the way of putting things, and some
  pleasant sketches of character.”

      + =Sat. R.= 102: 337. S. 15, ’06. 210w.

      + =Spec.= 97: 99. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w.


=Wright, Mary Tappan (Mrs. John Henry Wright).= Tower: a novel. †$1.50.
Scribner.

  In her story of the faculty side of college life, Mrs. Wright presents
  a “masterful president and bishop, several young professors, a few
  pathetically overworked and underpaid old ones with their wives,
  children and personal friends.” (Ind.) Eighteen years separate Silvia
  Langdon, the bishop’s daughter and her lover who parted without
  pledging of vows. Upon his return to the faculty temporarily he finds
  her “young and fascinating” at thirty-eight. There is a pathetic side
  to the renewed love-making which, however, ends triumphantly.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is obvious merit in ‘The tower’, but its plot is extremely
  slight, and lacks movement and interest.”

    + – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 695. Je. 9. 130w.

  “In these final pages Mrs. Wright has cleared herself of the charge of
  being incapable of creating real human beings.” Edward Clark Marsh.

    + – =Bookm.= 23: 628. Ag. ’06. 1080w.

  “There is plenty of clever characterization in the book, and the
  people are sufficiently differentiated to be interesting. They
  invariably talk well.”

      + =Ind.= 60: 1223. My. 24. ’06. 390w.

  “The author has somewhat of the insight and delicacy of touch that
  might have turned out a bit of Cranford-like description of the
  dullness and narrowness of faculty life in a small college town; but
  the many pages of uninteresting detail and conversation rob the book
  of real charm.”

    – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 500w.

  “If the characters were only a little more real and the motives for
  their action a little more obvious, the book would be something to be
  reckoned with.”

      – =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 110w.


=Wright, Thomas.= Life of Sir Richard Burton. 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.

  “The life of Sir Richard Burton leaves the reader in a kind of a
  stupor; the record is almost incredibly romantic. He was a soldier, a
  traveler, an explorer, a linguist, an anthropologist an ethnologist,
  an official. His published works extend to over a hundred volumes. He
  was a kind of amiable demon; he was a born romancer and boaster, a
  superstitious atheist; he thanked God that he had committed every sin
  in the Decalogue, and there seems to be little reason to doubt it; yet
  he was tender-hearted, loyal, a philanthropist, a devoted friend, a
  lover of liberty.... As for Mr. Thomas Wright’s book it does more
  credit to his industry than his literary skill. He has worked in the
  Boswellian manner, and has amassed a rich harvest of detail, anecdotes
  and gossip.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Acad.= 70: 277. Mr. 24, ’06. 2290w.

      + =Acad.= 70: 303. Mr. 31, ’06. 1120w.

  “Mr. Wright’s ideas of taste differ so widely from our own that we
  cannot view his work with pleasure.”

      – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 210w.

        =Current Literature.= 41: 638. D. ’06. 860w.

  “Self-confidence and self-praise, notwithstanding, the author has
  turned out a creditable piece of book-making.” Percy F. Bicknell.

  + + – =Dial.= 41: 29. Jl. 16, ’06. 1870w.

  “He is so incredibly rude to Sir Richard and Lady Burton that one
  wonders why he should have concerned himself at all with persons of
  whom he has, in spite of intermittent adulation, so bad an opinion.”

    – – =Ind.= 61: 98. Jl. 12, ’06. 880w.

  “The most interesting and by far the best done part of the present
  ‘Life’ is concerned with Burton’s work as a translator.”

    + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 82. Mr. 9, ’06. 3090w.

  “Of all the five preceding books about Burton, its only real rival is
  that of Mr. Wilkins, which dealt with Burton only indirectly.”

      + =Nation.= 83: 205. S. 6, ’06. 2380w.

  “Mr. Wright has ... achieved an extremely well-balanced, candid, and
  fully detailed biography of Burton, just in its estimate alike of the
  man and his works and leaving us finally with a strong and vivid
  impression of that extraordinary character and a definite idea of his
  remarkable adventures.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 408. Je. 23, ’06. 2310w.

  “The present biography, while everywhere interesting and certainly
  good, is assuredly not supremely good. The author writes well, in an
  easy, racy, idiomatic, and humorously allusive style, that makes the
  book extremely good reading.” Horatio S. Krans.

      + =Outlook.= 84: 84. S. 8, ’06. 2580w.

  “Would be very useful to anyone who undertook to write a life of
  Burton; but there is no attempt at portraiture, and no artistic
  selection of material.”

    + – =Sat. R.= 101: 429. Ap. 7, ’06. 1690w.

  “His manner is always that of the curiosity hunter, to whom Burton is
  primarily material for anecdotes.”

    – + =Spec.= 96: 833. My. 26, ’06. 1520w.


=Wright, William Burnet.= Cities of Paul: beacons of the past rekindled
for the present. **$1.10. Houghton.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

      + =Atlan.= 97: 414. Mr. ’06. 160w.

  “The reader may learn something from Mr. Wright, who sees many things
  in the books which he studies—sometimes more than there really are—and
  has a way of putting them forcibly.”

    + – =Spec.= 96: 677. Ap. 28, ’06. 250w.


=Wylie, Edna Edwards.= Ward of the sewing-circle. †$1. Little.

  “This is no book for grown-ups, who have lost the ability to get the
  child’s point of view, for herein lies its real charm.”

      + =Ind.= 59: 1541. D. 28, ’05. 350w.


=Wyllie, William Lionel.= J. M. W. Turner. $3. Macmillan.

  “This volume is illustrated in tint and color, with reproductions of
  most of Turner’s well-known paintings. The author has tried, he says,
  to look at Turner’s life and work from a non-literary point of view,
  ‘as they appear to a fellow-painter traveling, however remotely, along
  the same road.’”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An artist’s history of an artist’s life and work, which is
  interesting and informing on every page.”

      + =Acad.= 70: 617. Je. 30, ’06. 310w.

  “Mr. Wyllie’s style is somewhat crude, and there may be even an
  occasional lapse in grammar, but he succeeds in sketching graphically
  the course of Turner’s artistic development.”

    + – =Ind.= 61: 817. O. 4, ’06. 280w.

  “Marked throughout by the insight of true sympathy. The numerous
  illustrations form a very practical commentary on the fascinating
  text.”

    + + =Int. Studio.= 28: 277. My. ’06. 70w.

  “The book as a whole is rambling, ill-constructed, and inconsequent.”

      – =Nation.= 81: 500. D. 21, ’05. 210w.

  “However sympathetic Mr. Wyllie’s attitude, he may well envy the
  literary man’s style.”

    + – =Outlook.= 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 150w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 70w.


=Wyllie, William Lionel, and Wyllie, M. A.= London to the Nore; painted
and described by W. L. and M. A. Wyllie. *$6. Macmillan.

  “The narrative seems to have been written for the most part ‘on the
  spot,’ and it is no injustice to say that it smells very little of the
  lamp. There is, of course, a considerable historical spice. After all
  the pictures are the thing.”

      + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 335. Mr. 17. 520w.


                                   Y


=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Sands of pleasure. †$1.50. Estes.

  A young engineer is the hero of this tale, busy in the first part with
  constructing a light house on the Cornish coast. The scene shifts to
  Paris when the reaction after work is of the pleasure seeking sort and
  deadly. The third part of the book presents the hero back from the
  scene of infatuations hard at work, effacing stains and memories.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He is a photographer, not a painter, and his photographs will be
  merely unpleasant to some of his readers and frankly disappointing to
  others.”

      – =Acad.= 69: 1263. D. 2, ’05. 430w.

  “Mr. Filson Young has a better sense of style than sense of life. His
  work bears the hallmark of youth and inexperience.”

      – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 330w.

  “A book that from first to last is stamped by a rare sanity and subtle
  wisdom. The scene of their dramatic parting and its petty, sordid
  cause is ... one of those little miracles of intuition which are the
  hallmarks of genius.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

  + + – =Bookm.= 34: 385. D. ’06. 710w.

  “It is not a book for the young to read, but it is one that will work
  no harm to mature and balanced minds.” Wm. M. Payne.

      + =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 340w.

  “In our opinion, his book—lacking any moral idea or the forcible
  enunciation of any moral idea—is by no means suitable for mixed
  reading, and should be kept strictly to adults.”

      – =Lond. Times.= 4: 421. D. 1, 05. 560w.

  “All through the book there is somehow a sense of strain, of tension,
  as if the author were trying to materialise some inspiration that kept
  ever evading him. Some of the descriptions are excellent and the book
  abounds in happy phrases. But the final impression is disappointment.”

    – + =Sat. R.= 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 1000w.


=Young, Egerton Ryerson.= Hector my dog. $1.50. Wilde.

  “Is that rare thing, a book about dogs with which even those who love
  and understand dog nature will find no fault.”

    + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 630w.


=Yulee, C. Wickliffe.= Awakening: a Washington novel. $1.25. Neale.

  Here is a picture of Washington projected on a screen, with the
  city,—its ideals, its types, and its institutions,—as a background.
  Well to the fore are the intrigues, political and social, which are
  intended to prevent the Honorable Arthur Montresor from securing a
  charming American wife whose “character had that froufrou which is
  inevitable with gay vivacity or fashion, but about which there was
  nothing tawdry—it was as graceful and refined as some exquisite lace.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.

  “The local color of the Capital of a few years ago is well given.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 210w.


                                   Z


=Zacher, Albert.= Rome as an art city. *$1. Scribner.

        =N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 90w.


=Zedtwitz, Baroness von.= Double doctrine of the church of Rome. 35c.
Revell.

  The author has prepared this repudiation of the two-fold system of the
  Romish church with a view of proclaiming her final renunciation of
  papacy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        =Arena.= 36: 442. O. ’06. 1430w.

        =Ind.= 60: 1227. My. 24, ’06. 100w.

        =R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 110w.


=Ziémssen, Ludwig.= Johann Sebastian Bach; tr. from the German by George
P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.

  “While it is in the main accurate as to the facts it is not entirely
  so.” Richard Aldrich.

    + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 230w.


=Zilliacus, Konni.= Russian revolutionary movement: a history of the
various uprisings from the beginning. *$2.50. Dutton.

  “With the exception of occasional slips, very few in number, the
  translation is entirely adequate.”

  + + – =Nation.= 82: 411. My. 17, ’06. 2840w.

  “M. Zilliacus merely repeats what has already been given in some dozen
  books during the last few months. The one merit of the book is the
  author’s confession of bias.”

      – =Sat. R.= 100: 219. Ag. 12, ’05. 140w.


=Zimmern, Alice.= Old tales from Rome. †$1.25. McClurg.

  A three part story book whose tales are founded upon legends and
  fables of Rome as related by Virgil. Part I. gives the story of Aeneas
  and his comrades from the fall of Troy to the founding of Lavinium;
  part II. carries the date thru the early years of Rome to the period
  when fable is merged in history; part III. consists of a group of
  stories partly Italian in origin, partly Greek, yet “essentially are
  Latin in spirit and treatment.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

      + =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 100w.

        =Dial.= 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 50w.

  “The author would have done better, we think, to have kept her book
  free from any dependence upon the previous reading of her ‘Old tales
  from Greece.’”

    + – =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 170w.

  “If a comparison were to be made between Alice Zimmern and other
  authors who have been moved to do similar things, it is that the
  former is conspicuous for the tactful respect she pays juvenile
  intelligence.”

      + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 330w.

  “It would not be easy to conceive of a better or more gracefully
  written book of the kind, which is in every respect an admirable
  companion volume to ‘Tales of old Greece.’”

    + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ’05. 90w.


=Zueblin, Charles.= Decade of civic development. *$1.25. Univ. of
Chicago press.

  A sketch of the “civic renascence” in America “is not merely a
  chronicle of civic development for the last decade. Its tone is
  hortatory and also prophetic.” (School R.) Under the following chapter
  headings, there is material for teachers to use in awakening the
  “civic consciousness” in pupils: The new civic spirit, The training of
  the citizen, The making of the city, “The White city” and after,
  Metropolitan Boston, Greater New York, The Harrisburg plan,
  Washington, old and new, The return to nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The well-founded optimism of the book, the attractive record of fact,
  the revelation of correlation and co-ordination, and the fascinating
  glimpses of realizable possibility give this little volume a place of
  unusual value.” E. G. Routzahn.

    + + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 188. Jl. ’06. 290w.

  “The book is optimistic in tone, and is well worth the perusal of
  those who have bewailed the failure of American municipal government.”

      + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 424. Mr. ’06. 110w.

  “Refreshingly interesting.”

      + =Dial.= 40: 200. Mr. 16, ’06. 370w.

  “In mechanical execution and in subject-matter the book is exceedingly
  attractive. It is a book for the student of society, the teacher, and
  the general reader.” Nathaniel Butler.

    + + =School R.= 14: 67. Ja. ’06. 370w.

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                          TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES


 1. P. 32, changed “experiences in contain” to “experiences and
      contain”.
 2. P. 79, changed “Socialpolitik” to “Sozialpolitik”.
 3. P. 120, “The style is excellent, the spirit earnest, the” was
      truncated in source.
 4. P. 138, “This is a compilation of explicit and prac-” was truncated
      in source.
 5. P. 183, “criticism of three current conceptions of” was truncated in
      source.
 6. P. 243, changed “Instituto Italiano d’arts grafichi” to “Istituto
      Italiano d’arts grafiche”.
 7. P. 253, “to Cardinal Newman, with his re-” was truncated in source.
 8. P. 332, “day for him against the deep treachery that a” was
      truncated in source.
 9. 336, “and fascinating—he gives a most at-” was truncated in source.
10. Table of Contents added by transcriber.
11. Please note that the publisher split hyphenated surnames. The
      portion after the hyphen was listed before the forename. The
      portion before the split was listed after the forenames with a
      hyphen. E.g. E. Burton-Brown was listed as =Brown, E. Burton-.=
12. Removed the bold markup from book titles with no author listed. This
      is to be consistent with book titles with authors listed. Also the
      publisher was inconsistent in the book title markup—usually only
      the first word but sometimes the entire title.
13. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
14. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as
      printed.
15. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
16. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.
17. Did not use a hanging indent in book description in text version.
      This is to aid with electronic processing.





End of Project Gutenberg's The Book Review Digest, Volume II, 1906, by Various